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Disability

NCDem777

(458 posts) Sat Sep 16, 2017, 02:21 PM Sep 2017

Forgive mom who killed disabled child? [View all]

Not only no but helllll no.

http://time.com/4941576/harvard-nyu-michelle-jones/

If this "mother" killed her child for being a POC or LGBT, this call for forgiveness would have appeared in InfoWars or DailyStormer. Not Time.

Hell, I doubt she would have gotten paroled at all.

Thinking that a mother who kills a disabled child should be forgiven if she has a good sob story is bigotry.

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Forgive mom who killed disabled child? [View all] NCDem777 Sep 2017 OP

I agree that she should not be paroled for killing her child, but I disagree Squinch Sep 2017 #1

She had options NCDem777 Sep 2017 #5

Where does it say he was "profundely disabled" The link only says he had a disability lunamagica Sep 2017 #6

I'm okay with the parole (which is not in question at this point) janterry Sep 2017 #2

I seriously doubt that she got any preferential treatment or that anyone Arkansas Granny Sep 2017 #3

I'm not sure parole comes into this matt819 Sep 2017 #4

my uncle had a daughter w/ severe CP. his wife was a nurse. it was hard for the TWO of them. pansypoo53219 Sep 2017 #7

The baby's father and grandmother had custody of him and raised him for four years. Then lunamagica Sep 2017 #8

maybe she had no idea til after. shit happens. pansypoo53219 Sep 2017 #9

She could have returned him to the people who loved him lunamagica Sep 2017 #10

It's always easy to judge... TeeYiYi Jan 2018 #11

Would you ask LGBT people to "walk a mile in their shoes" NCDem777 Jan 2018 #12