Nine-year-old forced to run off a chocolate bar for 3 hours is dead.

[CrusaderPi]

I would, but I wouldn't post them. Right away, at least.

[Pizza]

Originally Posted by flameswin

**** no. You seriously think if there was death of a child that was later found out to be related to a CP member, that everyone would keep cracking jokes?! Come the F on.

and yet we all still think the jokes are funny if that 9 year old girl and her family still remains as a stranger

funny how that all works

[CrusaderPi]

It's not funny at all. It's obvious and predictable.

[kirant]

Originally Posted by CrusaderPi

It's not funny at all. It's obvious and predictable.

Yup. There's an entire theory on it invlolving Dunbar's Number. Outside a certain number of individuals close to you (generally on the side of 200-250 as the uppoer limit), you really don't view individuals as an individual and instead as just another face.

Here, since nobody is close to the child or the family, none of us greatly see the child as an individual...a human, yes, but not an individual like a friend's dog, which opens her up to more socially accepted joking. Whether it's right or wrong is an entirely different matter though.

[Voodooman]

I have to admit I was surprised at the photos when I opened the link. My first thoughts after reading the summary were that at least one of the two accused was going to be some 300 lb tub of lard. But they are just dumb, dumb, hillbilly trash.

My gut reaction is to just release the two of them into the general population of the prison and have the guards take a stroll. Let them get what they deserve from the rest of the population. I predict they'd last about 2 minutes outside of protective custody.

After careful consideration, I believe they should get the same treatment as people who abuse animals, i.e. the punishment mirrors the crime. Let these two run under constant abuse (and preferably someone with an itchy whip hand) for 3 hours, and if they survive that, then 20-25 years in the slammer.

If nothing else, the state should sterilize the stepmom. That kind of stupid can't be allowed to propogate any further. And you know that if she gets off/out, she'll have about 6 more poor inbred kids with flippers.