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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Re: pardon me

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Maybe I would be more willing to sympathize with this woman if she had shown any remorse before she got caught. And I do feel sorry for her. But I do not understand the rush to vindicate her and to take her at her word. My parents lost their temper with my brother and me. They didn't punch us in the face.

I admit freely that I don't have children and I don't know what kind of parent would be. Maybe I'd be worse. But that doesn't mean I can't recognize when a parent crosses the line.

Re: pardon me

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

how do you know she didn't show remorse? Because she didn't rush into a police department five minutes later and demand to be taken in?

You don't know what she did before she was taken in, you only know what you've been told by the media. I'm sorry but when the media makes such a blatent emotionally appealing "mistake" as saying "pleading innocent" I'm going to be VERY suspicious.

No one is rushing to vindicate her, we are simply not ready to execute her until we've heard more. I am amazed that she has publicly admitting to being in the wrong, wanting to get help and describing her appalled reaction when seeing what she had done.

After this, I can begin to understand why people hide themselves and especially their mistakes... there's no pacifying some people.

What I am seeing more than anything is a country being appalingly manipulated by the media. I think what she did was wrong too... but that doesn't mean she doesn't have the right to a fair trial. It doesn't mean she can't mend her ways. It doesn't mean her daughter doesn't love her. It doesn't even mean she can't turn around and have a happy family. So far as I can see, this ONE incident doesn't even mean she's a horrible abusive parent. Maybe she is, and maybe she isn't... I'm not getting out the tar and feathers until I've seen evidence that goes beyond ONE incident that she admits to doing wrong.

Isn't there supposed to be something about "christian charity" and maybe "forgiveness with contrition" and oh yeah, how about "innocent until proven guilty"

...and I'm not even a christian
???

Re: pardon me

[darkerdays.livejournal.com]

i guess then you just have better parents than the most of us.