This sort of sadistic child murder has become commonplace in a country that devalues parenting and honors self-indulgence -- the latter being exactly what parenting does not allow.
I paid attention to the story, not because I have any desire to, but because it keeps popping up on the news station I listen to in my car. Just now I heard this follow-up tidbit (not included in the main story linked above) (emphasis added):
Shamekia Chambers said Friday that she launched the online effort to help her cousin Shawn Beckford, father of 14-month-old Cameron Beckford [the toddler who was killed]....His mother, Dainesha Stevens, has been charged with endangering children and tampering with evidence. Her attorney says Stevens made up a story about leaving Cameron on a doorstep because she couldn't care for him and that was her way of asking for help.
My point here is not that the defense lawyer is vile, but that he's brain-dead. If his client knew enough to make up a story that she left her kid on a doorstep "as her way of asking for help," it's 100% obvious that she knew enough to actually leave him on a doorstep rather than kill him.
P.S. Obligatory disclaimer: Most defense lawyers are nowhere near either this vile or this stupid. But even one is enough.
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