Ugh. I've been trying SO hard to not jump on the "blame DCF for everything that happens" bandwagon, and keep in perspective that it's these evil so-called parental units that are responsible for these tragedies, but it's getting to be more and more difficult to ignore the connection they all have.
Well we knew where this was going from the first articles covering this dear child...
There was a child abuse investigation conducted at the home in October of 2017, but there was not sufficient evidence for charges, Lt. Gilmore said."
"Sara Eli dated Lucas Diel for a year in 2015, but says she broke it off due to Diel's frequent drug use and controlling behavior.
When she heard that he and Woolheater were booked in the Sedgwick County Jail, she was initially shocked.
But she says after recalling the time she brought her friend's son around, that feeling changed.
"Then whenever he was playing, he played with him like he was an adult," Eli said."
"Neighbor Nicholas Yokom went to high school with both Elizabeth and Lucas, and they can't believe what happened. Yokom says Woolheater seemed like a good mom and doesn't believe she'd hurt her son.
'Maybe she knows something and is just not cooperating because she likes Lucas too much'."
Too much: More than her child.
It's an ugly truth these young parents don't think about the future at all, or the ramifications of their choices.
Others are not facing the facts and warning them to knock it off either.
Shortsighted or selfish, poor, poor Elizabeth can rot in prison as a wake up call/reality check to the rest of us.