Parenting For.The.Loss.

A life for a life: Devil Mom Debra Jeter Sentenced

Friday, 28 May 2010 06:37

Written by Joeprah

Debra Jeter AP Photo

HILLSBORO, TX -- Debra Jeter, convicted for a brutal act she committed June 5th, 2009, will receive life in prison for slaughtering her youngest daughter and attempting to murder her oldest. On Tuesday, May 25th, 2010, Debra

Per the plea agreement, Jeter pleaded guilty to a life sentence on the attempted capital murder charge and life without parole on the capital murder charge. Debra told her lawyer, "the most compassionate thing she could do for her surviving daughter would be to plead guilty."

All murders are chilling, but what Debra Jeter purportrated that day almost a year ago was simply evil. The two girls were greeted by their mother that fateful afternoon as she asked, "Wanna have some fun?" Luring her girls, Kiersten (13) and Kelsey (12), by telling them she had a surprise for them, Debra picked them up from her estranged husband, Lee Jeter. Her daughters were prepared to spend the weekend with mom. She told them they would be singing American Idol songs and reading books together...

Tuesday, 18 May 2010 10:09

Written by WeaselMomma

A 24 year old man in Massachusetts has tried to exchange his 3 month old daughter for two 40 ounce bottles of beer at a gas station/mini mart. He has not been arrested but will be summoned to court on a reckless endangerment charge.

We are all saying and thinking the same thing. I hope so anyway. A beautiful 3 month old baby girl is worth waaaayyyy for than two 40 ouncers on the open market. How far does this guy have his head up his butt? He definitely just blew any chance that he ever had at being Father of the Year, even in his own child's eyes. This guy must be one giant, walking character flaw. I think we can all agree on that. One can only imagine the mental defect that makes anyone believe that this was a good idea.

The child was taken into protective custody and I can only hope that she will be kept far away from the destructive force that are her parents.

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Extreme Parenting Fail

Tuesday, 23 March 2010 13:21

Written by WeaselMomma

(2 votes, average 5.00 out of 5)

Lost Girl Last week sometime there was a news story in Michigan about divorced parents who had thrown a birthday party for their 3 year old son and inadvertantly left the child there FOR TWO DAYS!

A confusion about who the child would be going home with was blamed for the extreme parenting fail. Mom thought Dad was taking the child home and visa versa.

According to the Warren MI Police Commissioner:

“The mother had apparently called the father Sunday and asked if he had the 3-year-old. He said, ‘I don't have him.' She calls the grandmother and she said she didn't have him. She does nothing.”

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Parenting FTL: Mom uses Chuck E. Cheese/Police Station as free childcare

Sunday, 28 February 2010 21:39

Written by Joeprah

(1 vote, average 3.00 out of 5)

2668764917_f1b77bdc27 Chicago, IL -- Apparently one mom though that Chuck E. Cheese offered more than just skee-ball, pizza that tastes like cardboard and creepy looking costumed characters that try to hug kids too much.

Late Sunday morning, ‘mom’ called into police after seeing coverage of her daughter on TV. Her alleged two year old daughter was found at the Chicago area Chuck E. Cheese at 1830 W. Fullerton Ave. around 10:30 PM the night before. Mom’s excuse for leaving her daughter at a police station over night? Confusion. She said there was some disconnect between herself and the child’s aunt on who would take the girl home.

Seriously--that’s not confusion, that’s stupidity or a full out lie. As a parent, you watch your kid until you have solid confirmation that someone else is taking over. Normal people don’t just leave their kids at home and assume a sitter will come over because they have good intuition. Nor do we go to Chuck E. Cheese and leave our kids behind for the scary mouse to watch over.

So far none of the ‘mom’s’ story is confirmed—if there was an aunt, if she is the mom or if she was apologetic for the entire debacle.

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Vigilante Parenting: Judge, Jury…and Executioner?

Friday, 20 November 2009 10:33

Written by peteej

When my kids do something wrong, I’m quick to respond by pointing out the problem and doling out the appropriate punishment. As a parent and a dad, I am the judge and jury. No habeas corpus, no fair trial, no jury of your peers. Discipline and punishment pretty much goes like this: you mess up, you accept responsibility, now carry on.

Take that a step further where someone harms your child in some way. Would you feel an urge to extend your vigilantism and deliver the verdict on your own? Personally, I don’t know how I would restrain myself if I was put in the situation, even knowing that the results of my vigilante behavior might ultimately put me in jail. Crimes of passion may seem unreasonable from the outside, but they begin to appear almost logical if placed in a personal and subjective context. Even then, it doesn’t excuse the crime or the offender.

What if a heinous crime occurs within the family among your own children? Like a page taken from Steinbeck’s classic novel, Of Mice and Men, Jamar Pinkney, Sr. decided to play the role of executioner after learning that his 15-year-old son had been molesting his 3-year-old half-sister. Pinkney, who has no previous criminal history, learned of the confession from the boy’s mother, Lazette Cherry, who stated that the confession wasn’t “something you sweep under the rug.”

Unfortunately, Pinkney agreed too much.

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