Sometimes I see/read about cases that just go so far beyond terrible and this is one of them:
WAYNESVILLE, NC - Police arrested Tabitha Ann Rich, 21, of Waynesville, on five felony charges, including the maiming without malice and first-degree sex offense. She is in jail on a $110,000 bond.
Investigators allege she put her 2-and-a-half-year-old son Zachary in boiling water on Oct. 20, according to court papers, causing second- and third-degree burns on his buttocks and scrotum. Those burns prompted the child abuse and maiming charges.
Rich beat her son and sexually abused him between Oct. 17 and Oct. 20, causing bruising to his head and a black eye, according to arrest warrants. She also burned the bottom of his left foot with a cigarette, authorities said. - Read the entire article here
Other reports indicate that prior to putting the baby into boiling water she had placed something inside the baby's rectum which required surgery to remove it and a colostomy bag to be put in place. Children's Services had recently been at the home to check on a report that the baby had bruises on him but they apparently dismissed it as he got them falling off his trike.
So when someone comes along and tells you that a woman or a mother is more nurturing, caring, understanding, protective, or any other number of stereotypes just think of this story to remember that women are just as capable of the same range of violence, hate and autonomous behavior as men. People are people.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
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