Some People Shouldn't Breed.

sara1998 · #1 01-04-2007, 08:09 AM

I can't believe this made national news... This is just about 10 minutes from me, if even that. I hope they put her away for a long time.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/01/03/hi....ap/index.html

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AP) -- A mother was charged with neglect Wednesday after prosecutors said she allowed her 3-year-old son to wander away from home and play along a busy interstate.

Stunned motorists found Damon Dyer, barefoot and wearing only a diaper and T-shirt, early Saturday while his mother slept in a nearby apartment on Indianapolis' west side, police said.

At least half a dozen cars and a semitrailer swerved into other lanes on Interstate 465 to avoid the child, who was not hurt, authorities said.

Drivers pulled over and took care of him until officers arrived. (Watch how a motorist plucked the boy from traffic )

Nancy Dyer, 30, whose son and a 2-year-old daughter were taken into protective custody, was charged with four counts of felony neglect.

"A couple of the charges are related to the condition of the home and another child that was still in the apartment," said Helen Marchal, a deputy Marion County prosecutor.

Investigators said the boy left the second-story apartment about 9 a.m. and walked down the stairs, around a fence and onto the highway about 200 yards away.

Dyer told police that she had recently moved to Indiana from Florida and said the apartment was messy because she had not finished unpacking.

Dyer was scheduled to appear Thursday for an initial hearing in Marion Superior Court.

She was being held at the county jail Wednesday night after a judge set bail at $3,500

BlackWidow · #2 01-04-2007, 08:13 AM

That makes me so angry!!!

michelle2677 · #3 01-04-2007, 08:28 AM

Absolutely disgusting

sasja · #4 01-04-2007, 10:45 AM

HOLY MOLEY!

It makes me shudder!
~goes to hug Quinlan in his bed~

Sasja

gldstwmn · #5 01-04-2007, 12:28 PM

It's sick but it happens every day. There's plenty of blame to go around, from absentee fathers, to the lack of social services to drug abuse, etc.

DavidMn · #6 01-04-2007, 12:48 PM

I can about garauntee that this lady was a crackhead or something along those lines.

ragandbone · #7 01-04-2007, 01:55 PM

It's disgusting that they had to live 200 yards from an Interstate highway!

She sounds neglectful, and should have had a chain on the door (to make it impossible for the preschooler to get out) but we don't know anything about her. Was she exhausted, up all night by herself with a sick 2 year old? Does she have two jobs? Is she running away from an abusive relationship, and up all night worrying over it?
She probably shouldn't have two kids, and there are a lot of people who shouldn't.
Contraception helps. How else could we help?

amber · #8 01-04-2007, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by ragandbone

It's disgusting that they had to live 200 yards from an Interstate highway!

DrummerDeanna · #9 01-04-2007, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by ragandbone

It's disgusting that they had to live 200 yards from an Interstate highway!

She sounds neglectful, and should have had a chain on the door (to make it impossible for the preschooler to get out) but we don't know anything about her. Was she exhausted, up all night by herself with a sick 2 year old? Does she have two jobs? Is she running away from an abusive relationship, and up all night worrying over it?
She probably shouldn't have two kids, and there are a lot of people who shouldn't.
Contraception helps. How else could we help?

Very true. We only know the details that the media feed us - and they're main agenda is to make this woman look like a horrible mother.

Still - she should have taken precautions against this...but people make mistakes...this was a pretty damn BIG mistake and it's a miracle the kid wasn't hit by a car....

Sadly for every wonderful, good attentive parent there are probably two neglectful bad parents...at least that's how it seems nowadays

sara1998 · #10 01-04-2007, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by ragandbone

It's disgusting that they had to live 200 yards from an Interstate highway!

She sounds neglectful, and should have had a chain on the door (to make it impossible for the preschooler to get out) but we don't know anything about her. Was she exhausted, up all night by herself with a sick 2 year old? Does she have two jobs? Is she running away from an abusive relationship, and up all night worrying over it?
She probably shouldn't have two kids, and there are a lot of people who shouldn't.
Contraception helps. How else could we help?

There are so many housing editions and apartments backed up to 465 it's rediculous. You have valid points, it just disgusts me to think this child was out alone and the possibility of him being hit makes me cringe.

estranged4life · #11 01-04-2007, 02:04 PM

Phhhfffff...I've seen worse than that. How about the woman in OKC who in a drugged heroin daze, tossed her 3 month infant from a moving SUV at 40MPH into traffic? How about the Kauffman kid whose Mother didnt step in to stop her boyfriend from beating the kid, until it was too late and the lil' boy died, to only be found buried in a empty freezer? How about lil' 2 year old Kelsey Briggs suffering 2 'mysterious' broken legs (She may have been possibly sexually abused) then when DHS decided to investigate the little girl died from a major blow to her head that basically removed her spinal cord from her brain stem?

A child wandering in traffic happens all the time in OKC...But the above examples happen more often in this hellhole of a state (For the record, DHS is a joke!)

Sick f**ks-Stupid people shouldnt breed...or BREATHE for that matter!!!!

Here's a link about Kelsey Briggs:

http://www.kelseyspurpose.org/

A more recent case of child neglect:

http://newsok.com/article/keyword/2987746/

A couple more from the hellhole known as my hometown:

http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/siteS...346004450.html

http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/siteS...362001025.html

ragandbone · #12 01-04-2007, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by sara1998

There are so many housing editions and apartments backed up to 465 it's rediculous. You have valid points, it just disgusts me to think this child was out alone and the possibility of him being hit makes me cringe.

I am totally with you there: it is horrifying to imagine a little vulnernable child in diapers near the cars—makes me ill.
It might have seemed like I was attacking you—didn't mean to.
It is possible for me to imagine a mom, not safeguarding the house, and oversleeping while a resourceful (but, oddly, unafraid of cars) preshcooler figured out how to escape, and that scenario could mean the loss of her children, and foster care for them.
There have been a lot of child neglect case in the news here, lately.
WE seem to have advanced far enough to start noticing neglect, but there aren't very many safety nets, to avoid neglect, or help the children after the neglect is identified.
I am not sure what to do about that.

gldstwmn · #13 01-04-2007, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by ragandbone

It's disgusting that they had to live 200 yards from an Interstate highway!

Agreed. It was probably some of the more affordable housing for the area.

sara1998 · #14 01-04-2007, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ragandbone

I am totally with you there: it is horrifying to imagine a little vulnernable child in diapers near the cars—makes me ill.
It might have seemed like I was attacking you—didn't mean to.
It is possible for me to imagine a mom, not safeguarding the house, and oversleeping while a resourceful (but, oddly, unafraid of cars) preshcooler figured out how to escape, and that scenario could mean the loss of her children, and foster care for them.
There have been a lot of child neglect case in the news here, lately.
WE seem to have advanced far enough to start noticing neglect, but there aren't very many safety nets, to avoid neglect, or help the children after the neglect is identified.
I am not sure what to do about that.

I didn't think you were attacking me. You're good. I'm just saying you have valid points. I am a single mom, and should understand exactly how it can be, and how it may seem on the outside looking in. There are times when you do your damndest, and nothing seems to work right, or looks bad to others. In a life threatening situation such as this, I tend to jump and think the worst possible thing, which isn't always right. I just hope it all works out in the end. I still hope social services keeps an eye out on them for a while afterwords, which I'm sure they will...

ragandbone · #15 01-04-2007, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by sara1998

In a life threatening situation such as this, I tend to jump and think the worst possible thing, which isn't always right. I just hope it all works out in the end. I still hope social services keeps an eye out on them for a while afterwords, which I'm sure they will...

All signs that *you* have superior mom-skills: you care, you are on alert for danger, and worrying about the kids welfare.

But I knew that.
And, I do agree with the title of your thread.