chaotic_idealism
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Father charged in suspicious death of his child
The mother doesn't have her face on camera (I don't blame her), but I noticed she was wearing a wrist brace. I wonder how she hurt her wrist.
One thing I noticed was that photo of another girl's bedroom, a neat little space with decorations and a bed with blankets on it, meaning that at least one child had the material comforts that her brother didn't get. This happens sometimes in abuse cases, where one child gets targeted for everything and the other children are relatively safe (though their life isn't a picnic either--physically safe, they still live in fear and guilt, and are vulnerable to emotional problems later on just like the targeted child is). When the targeted child has a disability, the disability often gets much worse because they aren't getting therapy for it, and because the abuse makes it even harder for them to cope than it normally would be. Even a typical child, when abused, may regress, losing language or potty training or acting much younger. A disabled child who holds on to those advanced skills much more tenuously will lose them much sooner and much more dramatically. It's cruelly ironic that disabled children, who suffer more from abuse than typical children, are also abused more often.
The environment Jarrod Jr. was living in, and his social isolation, says "emotional abuse and neglect" to me. The absolute most charitable explanation I can think of is that the father, guilty over having mistreated his son, thought that he had caused what was actually a natural death and hid the body until it was no longer feasible to do so. But more likely, the child died due to neglect, abuse, or a combination of both.
Father charged in suspicious death of his child
The mother doesn't have her face on camera (I don't blame her), but I noticed she was wearing a wrist brace. I wonder how she hurt her wrist.
Okay, fair enough; I can agree with you on that. Having to live alone, hardly ever seeing anyone but a father who cares so little that he doesn't bother to inform his family when the boy has died--I can describe that as "horrible".when I was talking about horrible I was speaking to the life these folks appear to have been living. The room, the boy isolated on third floor, the father solely responsible for this child per the mother. the motehr claiming it was not uncommon for her not to lay eyes on her son. The whole of it is horrible to me.
One thing I noticed was that photo of another girl's bedroom, a neat little space with decorations and a bed with blankets on it, meaning that at least one child had the material comforts that her brother didn't get. This happens sometimes in abuse cases, where one child gets targeted for everything and the other children are relatively safe (though their life isn't a picnic either--physically safe, they still live in fear and guilt, and are vulnerable to emotional problems later on just like the targeted child is). When the targeted child has a disability, the disability often gets much worse because they aren't getting therapy for it, and because the abuse makes it even harder for them to cope than it normally would be. Even a typical child, when abused, may regress, losing language or potty training or acting much younger. A disabled child who holds on to those advanced skills much more tenuously will lose them much sooner and much more dramatically. It's cruelly ironic that disabled children, who suffer more from abuse than typical children, are also abused more often.
The environment Jarrod Jr. was living in, and his social isolation, says "emotional abuse and neglect" to me. The absolute most charitable explanation I can think of is that the father, guilty over having mistreated his son, thought that he had caused what was actually a natural death and hid the body until it was no longer feasible to do so. But more likely, the child died due to neglect, abuse, or a combination of both.