How fucking far can you abdicate responsibility?!

[kellinator]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Midwest/09/23/video.child.beating/index.html

"The woman caught on videotape repeatedly striking her 4-year-old daughter in the rear of a sport utility vehicle is due in court this afternoon. Despite admitting the beating and saying there was 'no excuse' for it, she's expected to plead not guilty to felony child battery charges."

Is the state of society so bad that this moron thinks she can admit to a heinous crime on NATIONAL FUCKING TELEVISION and STILL claim she is innocent in a court of law?

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[atomicnumber51.livejournal.com]

Right now she's pleading not guilty to fellony battery, and once medical evidence is presented in the courtroom, a decision will be made as to the extent of the crime. Gut feeling is that the charge will be reduced to a misdemeanor, and the family will come under the eye of Child Protective Services who will arange for counseling and assign a social worker, and so forth.

Foster care routenely spits out psychologically damaged children with no family or support structure, who get dropped out of the system at 18 with no future. Children outside of infancy have abysmal adoption rates.

If she can be taught to be a competent care giver, it is in the child's best interest to do so. but a criminal court's jurisdiction extends only to the scope of this incident.