Child negligence is a crime. I will not be surprised if he ends up being charged.
I'm curious - are you a parent?
Are a married parent?
Have you ever been a single parent?
You don't actually need to answer any of my questions, and I'm not really picking on you. I'm just responding to your post directly, even though I see the same theme over and over.
As a single mom - I would be terribly dishonest if I didn't admit there were times that I would have fallen on the floor in gratitude if the deadbeat would have shown just a little interest in being a dad to THIS child.
Relationships and "hook ups" that turn into children are complicated and ugly, there are always issues and dishonesty that continues. Mine was not quite a one night stand but not a relationship either - he always did just enough that it made me think he cared for almost 2 years. Now I know it was just to protect what he had, and the lies he had spun.
I guess I can totally see how BL would have thought - OK I have done the right thing, Shaniya is now in school, there's enough people that even though it may not be ideal, she'll be ok, my sister can check on her - it's about time for AD to step up." You will never convince me he knowingly put her in this type of harm's way. There's no way he knew she had it in her to sell her child, or make her child available for this type of ravaging.
He may say that the Lord is in control and will handle it - but I don't believe for a second that he wouldn't take matters into his own hands if McNeil was right next to him.
There's no evidence of so many rumors that have been floated by - I think we just have a hard time wrapping our head around that a mom could do that and we have to hold someone else accountable too. I think there's plenty of room to go around, with BL being out of town though - I think it falls on other adults who should have called the police and CPS and kept calling.
The blame squarely belongs to AD, McNeil, and I believe any adult who has been in that trailer in the last 6 weeks or so.
