Boy tied to tree by parents dies

[lilsensa]

WTFuck???

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/06/nc-boy-dies-aft.html

[Funky Dredd]

Re: Boy tied to tree by parents dies

Tragic! I was/am pissed off when I read this earlier. How can you take a child and do something like that. Who gives a crap if they are misbehaving, that's your child and you signed up take care of them. Not kill them! In my opinion they should be tied up to a tree as well, and just left there.

[day_for_night]

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here's one that made me stop eating my lunch.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/16/toddler.killed.ap/index.html

[88Mariner]

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there must be something else to the story. ok. so he was tied to a tree. fine. for two days? ok. so what. it still takes five days without water to die of thirst, and another seven of hunger.

i've gone 36 hours without food once, and while i wasn't tied to a tree, i still can't see how this results in death. and it wasn't even a consecutive 48 hours either.

i'm wondering what else was involved.

[AntonyM]

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here's one that made me stop eating my lunch.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06....ap/index.html

Yeah I do not get how they could not stop the guy at first, it just does not seem it would take much to get work up over an adult beating a child in broad daylight.
Makes you want to stomp the f'er into a vegatative state. Just another reason
to introduce mandatory sterlization.

[88Mariner]

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Yeah I do not get how they could not stop the guy at first, it just does not seem it would take much to get work up over an adult beating a child in broad daylight.
Makes you want to stomp the f'er into a vegatative state. Just another reason
to introduce mandatory sterlization.

mandatory sterilization: also called jail.

[day_for_night]

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there must be something else to the story. ok. so he was tied to a tree. fine. for two days? ok. so what. it still takes five days without water to die of thirst, and another seven of hunger.

i've gone 36 hours without food once, and while i wasn't tied to a tree, i still can't see how this results in death. and it wasn't even a consecutive 48 hours either.

i'm wondering what else was involved.

in 90 degree heat, death can come alot quicker than 5 days. and the figure is more like 3 days without water. a child's ability to last is alot less than an adult's as well.

and SO WHAT? tie yourself to a tree for a day in the hot sun and see if you're saying "so what" after the experience.

[AntonyM]

Re: Boy tied to tree by parents dies

there must be something else to the story. ok. so he was tied to a tree. fine. for two days? ok. so what. it still takes five days without water to die of thirst, and another seven of hunger.

i've gone 36 hours without food once, and while i wasn't tied to a tree, i still can't see how this results in death. and it wasn't even a consecutive 48 hours either.

i'm wondering what else was involved.

Gurning on e does not count.

[88Mariner]

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in 90 degree heat, death can come alot quicker than 5 days. and the figure is more like 3 days without water. a child's ability to last is alot less than an adult's as well.

and SO WHAT? tie yourself to a tree for a day in the hot sun and see if you're saying "so what" after the experience.

right. but i'm still seein the loophole. quit suggesting that i'm cool with tying kids to the tree. i'm not. but i'm also not certain that tying the kid to the tree overnight. then letting him go. then tying him to a tree again for presumably 24 hours, will result in death.

if the kid was untied, and let go, which allowed him to misbehave again, would not the kid get some water and food in between? do you know see what i'm saying? it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that being tied to a tree will result in death in such a short time period. and i'm also thinking something else was involved.

from reading other reports, some religious belief was at play.

[88Mariner]

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^ to continue...if you read the comments section, it takes the commenters 9 full pages to make this inquiry.

also, i'm wondering if the parents even had the intent to be calling this a murder. perhaps, in some way, this does not even amount to a reasonable degree of certainty that tying the kid to a tree would result in death. dehydration. yes. but murder 1? No. i would definitely call this felony child abuse, but of course if the state applies the felony murder rule, then yeah first degree. hmm.

[|Thrax|]

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jesus, fuck..

i dont want to read this shit, horrible, but it happens....

[day_for_night]

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right. but i'm still seein the loophole. quit suggesting that i'm cool with tying kids to the tree. i'm not. but i'm also not certain that tying the kid to the tree overnight. then letting him go. then tying him to a tree again for presumably 24 hours, will result in death.

if the kid was untied, and let go, which allowed him to misbehave again, would not the kid get some water and food in between? do you know see what i'm saying? it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that being tied to a tree will result in death in such a short time period. and i'm also thinking something else was involved.

from reading other reports, some religious belief was at play.

pretty sure you can die of sunstroke long before you die of thirst. and was just doing a bit of googling. people can die in the desert (probably 20 degrees F hotter than the temp that kid experience) in a matter of hours, not days. no stretch of the imagination then to see someone die in 24 hours.

a note regarding sunstroke:

"Heat illness most seriously affects the poor, urban-dwellers, young children, those with chronic physical and mental illnesses, substance abusers, the elderly, and people who engage in excessive physical activity under harsh conditions."

[lilsensa]

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^^He might have had a medical condition that needed immediate attention, such as diabetes...Maybe he went into insulin shock..Or maybe something else that I have never heard of....

[Garrick]

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with day_for_night on this... not only is two days more than enough, who knows if the kid was already malnourished before he was tied to the tree. obviously the parents have a fucked up way of taking care of their child. he's dead now so whatever they did to him beforehand doesn't really matter anyhow. wow, that is fucking mean.

[88Mariner]

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^^He might have had a medical condition that needed immediate attention, such as diabetes...Maybe he went into insulin shock..Or maybe something else that I have never heard of....

actually yeah that's what i was beginning to think to. or perhaps some internal bleeding? i can't reiterate how absurd it is for people to say that he was tied to a tree for two straight days when the text of the article says the complete opposite.