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I found this site while searching for a picture of precious Ben. There are 2 pictures of this little angel and 1 picture of the parents with the little girl Natalie.
Not to offend anyone but....this site (to me) has creepy/scary avatars
Maybe someone can bring the photos here.
First - about the legal services the father is receiving - private attorneys are often on a pro bono list with the bar association to take cases that the public defenders' office can not handle. Because both parents are charged, the public defenders office may have a conflict of interest (meaning they don't feel they can represent one or both or the clients because of another client they have whose interest they could not fairly represent while representing the best interest of the parent(s)) Since each parent is blaming the other, no single law office could represent both.
This just breaks my heart. Have we heard what state the older child was in when taken from the parents? The fact that there was an older child who was alive and not apparently neglected per reports was why I was earlier willing to wait for the autopsy results on the cause of death. Had they released to info that the infant was found in eight days worth of urine and feces, well, I wouldn't have been willing to wait for the results. Cases where one child is cared for while another is neglected do happen, but they are exceedingly rare.
This does sound like a case of parents on crystal meth. I say that because this is a recent pic of the starved infant. This baby was being fed until recently:
I just keep praying there will be an explanation that I can stomach.
I don't know. I just find it hard to believe anyone could just ignore the baby. Surely they must not have realized he was there!
I know, I know.
But an actual HUMAN?? Your newborn? Nopey nope....If you think your BABY is not home then you harass the person who took him, (grandparent or other babysitter) and if they won't answer you drive over calling 911 all the way.
I keep churning this case around in my head, trying to figure out some logical way this could happen... so far I haven't come up with much.
I think the grandmother's story of the house being clean and neat and the father being doting sets off my hinky meter. It makes me wonder if she dropped the baby off without telling anyone. If Ben was asleep and the roommate moved the sleeping baby to the crib, would it be possible neither parent knew he was home? Then the mom comes upon him and gives him a bottle but realizes something is wrong...causing her to walk around outside a lot without a coat for a few days before skipping town like the neighbors are saying?
I had a friend whose ex-girlfriend was dog-sitting for him and she didn't want to see him in the drop off, so she put the dog in the mud room at the far back end of the house on the day of his return. It was winter and he had no cause to go back there, and for two days he was calling the ex saying please bring me my dog... Finally on the third day she answered the phone and basically said "da**it, I brought your dog back 3 days ago!" and hung up. The dog was FINE, but it had been in the mud room, no doubt crying and whining, for THREE DAYS. There was water, but no food and no way to get out. The dog tore up the place but my friend never heard a thing. He was so devastated and kept trying to figure out how he hadn't heard anything.... I keep wondering if something like this could have happened, especially if the grandmother kept him a lot and for extended periods.
I don't know. I just find it hard to believe anyone could just ignore the baby. Surely they must not have realized he was there!
I know, I know.
