Comments on: ECSO: Couple Charged After Child Found Living In Deplorable Conditions

By: Charlie Mike

Charlie Mike — Sun, 13 May 2018 02:19:16 +0000

I know plenty of alcoholics that got their start on beer. Should we outlaw beer as well? The fact of the matter is some folks are just screwed up, and unless they want and seek help, nothing is going to change without outside intervention. At what point should intervention occur? I think passing out at 7 11, then swerving erratically as you leave, with the child in the car, is a reasonable point for intervention to occur. While I agree we have gotten very judgmental as a society, we also have a collective responsibility to ensure children are cared for and not put into danger by parental negligence. Marijuana isn’t the problem here. It is parents who place their own needs and desires above the needs of their children who are the problem.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sat, 12 May 2018 15:44:19 +0000

REGARDING:
“No I don’t agree with alcohol or drugs but sometimes people don’t have money laying around to buy air conditioners.”

Especially if they spent the money on drugs.

People who do not know the officer call him Barney, as in Fife, when his report includes “it would have taken more than two days for the trailer to end up in the poor state.” Condemn the one trying to protect the children and the public?

David for priorities

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sat, 12 May 2018 15:34:46 +0000

REGARDING:
“My mother did the best she could but she was an alcoholic and women simply could not get the same jobs to support their family as there was not job opportunities like today for women. Our house was a mess.”

OR:
My mother did the best she could but she was an alcoholic and alcoholics simply could not get the same jobs to support their family.

Also, children can and should be part of cleaning the house. It isn’t hard and is good training for the future.

AND
“Let the first person who has no human failings throw the first rock”

I keep my rocks, but those who condemn others for not helping the druggies continue to put their addictions ahead of the safety of their children must have plenty of number one gravel to toss. Calling evil evil is not the same as executing. Jesus was not speaking metaphorically, he was speaking of a real action used to execute people. Afterward, He instructed her “Go, and sin no more.” He didn’t pretend wrongdoing was rightdoing.

CONSIDER:
“man and woman who were passed out in their vehicle with a small child inside. The caller said couple then left the gas station and were swerving into oncoming traffic”

You really don’t think this should be considered criminal? What if they had driven into and killed someone you actually cared about? Maybe you’re mad at the snitch who reported them?

David for safe children

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Sat, 12 May 2018 12:21:49 +0000

These people have problems that should not be hung on pot.

Some consumers are quite the opposite, very meticulous regarding hygiene and environmental sanitation.

By: Judicial over reach

Judicial over reach — Sat, 12 May 2018 05:26:55 +0000

@ Grand Locust…. Thank you for articulating what many of us are hopefully thinking… Why always the need for government intervention… Where’s the peer, family, community support in many instances… Hopefully the grandmother has the means to help while this,situation is being sorted out… Does DCF have moral ground here… Abuse or Abandonment… As bad as the report was intended to look i see neither of the two… No we don’t know the whole story so i refrain from judgment and just wish the family a wholesome outcome from whatever circumstances they may be dwelling in…

By: A Momma

A Momma — Sat, 12 May 2018 00:38:57 +0000

Well said Grand Locust. We need more people with those words you just spoke. People cocoon themselves and their families because of what others may do or say. I’m glad your mom got on a better path. When people lose their kids, who knows if it makes the cases worse especially if they actually love & want their kids & are doing the best with what they have. No I don’t agree with alcohol or drugs but sometimes people don’t have money laying around to buy air conditioners. The little bit of food may have been what was left of their groceries from 2 weeks ago. People just want families split up & people hurt in general. They don’t want to understand anyone because they think they’re better. They want to judge & compare apples to oranges. It seems like I was raised on the standards you might’ve been raised on. People aren’t as compassionate as they used to be. They’ve gotten downright ugly. The mattress could have been what the kid was sleeping on, I’m thinking without knowing the age of the kid but the kid might’ve had an accident & it might’ve been cleaned & airing out. I’m sick & tired of people acting like they’re better and could raise someone else’s kid better & love them more.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 12 May 2018 00:13:45 +0000

Grand Locust, i agree.
our judicial system is extremely flawed. “you’re going to ruin your’s and your kid’s life by smoking pot and living in these conditions, so we’re gonna through you in jain and ruin your life”.

By: area resident

area resident — Fri, 11 May 2018 20:46:21 +0000

I agree, there is more to this story than pot. But, most likely, these druggies got their start on pot. We are being overrun by a society of worthless junkies. We take our lives into our own hands when we have to share the roads with these “people.” And, yes, alcohol is legal, but that doesn’t mean we have to drink it and make ourselves into blithering idiots.

You cannot rationalize stupid.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Fri, 11 May 2018 19:29:40 +0000

I nominate Grand Locust for post of the century and would also like to suggest you run for political office.

By: Grand Locust

Grand Locust — Fri, 11 May 2018 18:46:25 +0000

I was born in 1951. My father died when I was ten from a stroke. My mother did the best she could but she was an alcoholic and women simply could not get the same jobs to support their family as there was not job opportunities like today for women. Our house was a mess. My clothing was not taken care of and many a night my mother was out working and we had limited food. People today would have cried that my brother and I should be taken away from my mother.and that she was an evil person because of Alcohol…..you see alcohol was the drug of choice in the sixties.

Now people blame pot, or meth. They blame the character of these parents. They blame the lack of god in families lives. However, the one thing different was that back then we did not criminalize bad parents. Church and neighbors would bring groceries to families in need, and people were not cocooning in their homes but were connected. Let the first person who has no human failings throw the first rock, but my brother built a 26 million a year contracting company, and I became a professional as my mother lived to 90 and found a better path in her life. The biggest problem in America today is criminalizing everything and having no common sense. These folks and any children need help, not a jail cell or judgment of their human failings. We live in a world of Barnies, and where has Andy gone?