I didn't think the story about the little boy whose father bit out his eyes could get worse but:

[Are_grits_groceries]

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Mendoza had custody of the boy at the time, but the boy's mother was partially a witness to the incident. She said Friday that she was delivering pizza to the apartment when she heard her son screaming for help and decided to leave."My son was just crying, 'Mommy, mommy, I want to go with you. I'm scared,'" said the boy's mother, calling herself Desirae but not disclosing her last name. "(I'm) just like 'Should I take him or leave him?'"Desirae said she left, thinking the boy was safe with his father.

The father reportedly struck himself in the ankle and foot area with an ax. He's currently listed in stable condition at Kern Medical Center.The boy is staying with his mother's sister in foster care. His mother said the boy is doing well.
http://www.kval.com/news/national/45297687.html

She didn't even call for help.........

[Dogtown]

1. Sometimes they just don't care...

Some people just assume that motherhood/fatherhood is sacred. It isn't.

[YOY]

2. That just makes me want to hug my baby.

I wish I could but she's far away now.

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. I just put my head down on my desk

for a long, long time.

[Javaman]

4. THAT is one sick fuck.

bit out his eyes???? there is something totally off balance with that thing called the father.

I mean, what the fuck????

[YOY]

5. Sounds like some serious mental illness IMHO.

Like, locked up forever in a sanitarium with orderlies scared to come to close serious.

[ismnotwasm]

6. God that's horrible

And so incredibly sad, that poor little boy.

If anyone have the stomach for it, here's a book I had to read in nursing school a number of years ago. It tells the tale of abuse from the child's point of view. The little girls death led to changes in Florida law. It's a horrid story but I never doubted the reasons it was required reading.

The story has stayed with me and will, I suspect, for the rest of my life


http://www.childadvocacy.com/books/1720/

[get the red out]

7. Both parents in this case are a waste of oxygen.

I cannot rid myself of rage at people like this.

I hope the wretched excuse for a father goes to prison for a very long time, and I hope the other prisoners know EXACTLY why he is there.

[Mojo_electro]

8. Unreal...

I can't even that level of savagery. To bite out the eyes of a young child? As horrifying as the incident is, it's equally horrifying knowing that people exist who could exhibit such cruelty.

[Riley18]

9. It is hard to comprehend how someone could be so cruel. The man needs to

be put in jail just long enough for the other guys to "meet" him.

[Spike89]

10. Not enough info to demonize the Mom

Granted, it looks bad in hindsight, but we don't know so very much. As for the screaming "Mommy, mommy, I want to go with you. I'm scared." Well, that is not damning at all. Anyone with a young kid that has to be dropped off has likely dealt with the situation. My son would cry bloody murder every once in while when dropped off at day care, then according to the staff, he'd be playing happily 30 seconds after we were gone.

The story isn't clear that the Dad had ever hurt this kid, but obviously he had either hurt or was suspected of hurting some kid in the past. However, we don't know if the Mother was under court order to provide visitation rights, or really anything about the situation other than the Dad was a brutal jerk.

[old mark]

11. There was a local boy I believe about 4 years old who was

beaten to death by his mother and her boyfriend.

They were having a contest to see who could hit him harder.

Not all of us are fortunate enough to be born to decent human beings, or even mildly disfunctional ones.

mark