Complicity in the death of an Innocent - the rationalizing begins.

First - Check out a great comment string on this topic, at Glass City Jungle.

Second - POVERTY IS NOW AN EXUSE FOR THE EVIL BEHAVIOR OF THESE PEOPLE????!!

We must (I include myself in the we) remember the core principles of the criminal justice system which protect us all, presumption of innocence, proof beyond a reasonble doubt, evidence over emotion; BUT to start my making excuses for the lack of intervention of the relatives, or the lack of “common sense” of the mother is ABHORRENT.

Poverty, educational level, culture, and lifestyle are not valid exuses to minimize the brutality, and evil nature of the event, or the complicity of the participants. Poor, uneducated people recognize torture and depravity across the globe. The death of this child is not a racial, cultural or socioeconmic issue. It is the death of child at the hands of those who’s duty it was to protect him.

We spend thousands of dollars prosecuting cases of “permitting drug abuse” where the owner or occupant of a house or vehicle is guilty of the drug use/abuse of a resident/passenger - yet we will not likey see prosecution of this child’s grandmother, aunt, or other extended family who lived with, ignored, and validated this abuse with their failure to act or intervene.

As I said before, the mother’s duty was to protect her childe to the death, and preceed him in death if necessary. The extended family had no less a duty, and can not aruge the same level of abuse, fear, or rationalization. I would rather be reading in the blade.

“Family charged in the death of an abusive boyfriend - baby saved”

The A-Hole.