Florida mother jailed for caging son
"A Florida mother has been jailed for 20 years for keeping her teenage adopted son in a cage.
The 17-year-old weighed 22kg (3st 7lb) when child welfare workers found him in 2005".
I think this is called making the sentence fit the crime. Imprisonment for the mother who imprisoned her son. I just wonder whether 20 years in jail is too excessive?
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They would have been better placed using this case/example to highlight this is a type of neurotic mental ill health that many many mothers suffer from. This is an extreme case/example - as is the dungeon/incest Austrian case.
ReplyDeleteBut the World is full of 'children' who spend their entire lives, till the day they die trapped inside invisible cages/prisons resultant of psychological incest and emotional and spiritual starvation by either or both genders of paternity or neurotic womans desire to own something to 'love'/control, of their own - forever more.
These people, who are psychologically, rather than physically abused and caged, tend not to get out of the cages at all because they do not know they are in one in the first place - generally - or why.
The parents who inflict invisible cages are seen as the norm too when it is nothing less than decidedly sick!
I think this is an MH issue, not one a prison cell is going to cure.
People getting honest about neurotic human psyches and the precise same mindset/behaviours operating on mass and recognising it for the sickness it is, instead of calling it 'parenting' - might - go some way to avoid more of it all round.
Id' also rather see them focusing on the victims needs after this experience because if that is all he knows 'love or security' to be - its not improbable that he will end up spending more time behind bars than the perpetrator will.
Infact, caging her, given the height of toxic bond that will be in place means he might just break his neck to get behind bars...
Seems a bit of a throwaway [of the key] as an easy solution here...punishment required, but....
That's just terrible. I don't even understand what the motivation was to adopt the children in the first place if she didn't really want to raise them. If she was a foster mother, she'd be getting payment - I can at least understand (although not condone) an economic motive. Maybe she was mentally ill herself. The American child welfare system is a disgrace.
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