Wake-up Call Wednesday

There is no secondary title up there.  And it's because I can't think of one.  There are no words to express my anger, frustration, disgust and sadness regarding this situation. 

I have some interesting views on...things.  I consider myself on the liberal side, but there are parts of me that want to REALLY crack down on certain groups of people out there.  ENEMY NUMBER ONE is the person who has a child, learns that they haven't the means, brains, patience or self-control to raise said child and then...wait for it...CONTINUES TO HAVE MORE CHILDREN.  Oh, and then does something horrific like this:  Mother in Court over Children's Neglect Deaths. 

I told myself I wouldn't blog about this.

I PROMISED myself.

But I just have to.

How can a mother be capable of this??  Was she drugged out?  Does she have a severe mental illness?  Is she just an EFFING IDIOT?? 

Seriously.  If you are a fully functioning, sober and otherwise healthy (mentally and physically) and things get so bad that you feel the need to lock up your kids and not feed them, don't you think you'd want to get some help?

Or is that just me?

I've been frustrated with my kid before. 

I worked with school-aged children for 3 years and got so frustrated that I locked myself in the classroom bathroom for 10 minutes (don't worry-other people were there).  But I've never even THOUGHT of locking up the kids.

I am curious to see how this story pans out.  On one hand I want to ignore it.  On the other, I want to read and watch everything I can about it to make sure this idiot gets what's coming to her.

Baffling.

Infuriating.

Heartbreaking.

I've cried over this story SEVERAL times already.  Like when the pregnant-with-twins bank teller was shot a few years back. 

I just can't stop thinking about it.  About how the other kids were locked in that closet with their dead siblings...and didn't even know it.  How they will never celebrate another birthday, Christmas, etc. with their siblings.  And about how they now have to go through the hell of being in the care of the state because their mother couldn't take care of them.  And about how TWO children died because of utter stupidity.

I can only hope that justice will be served.