Nice 'parents'
 

ONTARIO, Calif. — An 8-month-old boy has died after his mother told police she accidentally cleaned his nose with a cotton swab used earlier to clean a methamphetamine pipe.

Samuel Reta of Ontario was declared dead Friday at Loma Linda University Medical Center, according to the San Bernardino County Coroner's office.

Reta had been in a coma since police responding to a child-not-breathing emergency call early Thursday found him in full cardiac arrest. The baby also has a fractured skull, broken arm and pneumonia, police said.

Elizabeth Reta, 27, was arrested Thursday and booked for investigation of felony child abuse.

Her boyfriend Juan Antonio Sanchez Jr., who surrendered to police later that night, was also arrested on suspicion of abusing the child, officials said.

It was not immediately known if Reta and Sanchez faced additional charges now that they boy had died, police Sgt. Joseph Giallo said Monday.

Reta had told police she gave the baby a bath, and then used the cotton swab to clean his nose because it was itching, police said. She said she didn't know the swab had been used to clean a methamphetamine pipe.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295585,00.html

I read about that.

There's a couple of seats reserved in the front row of Hell for Ms. Reta and Mr. Sanchez.

Or this guy:

Fox News link

Real nice.

A$$hole.

Unfortunately these types of parents will continue to have more kids. I may come off as extreme here but I feel parents convicted of this type of child endangerment should be sterilized.

Keep in mind I'm the new father of a 9 month old who is my life.

How is it only child abuse when the baby is dead? It's really sad to read stories like these.

If memory serves me correctly, there was a country where they once passed laws similar to what you suggest. Care to guess which one and when? :popcorn:

ummm, I guess, BarterTown, in the land after the big kaboom.

Two man enter, one man leave.
Two man enter, one man leave.

From the wiki:

The most infamous sterilization program of the 20th century took place under the most infamous regime of the 20th century: the Third Reich. One of the first acts by Adolf Hitler after achieving total control over the German state was to pass the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring (Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses) in July 1933. The law was signed in by Hitler himself, and over 200 eugenic courts were created specifically as a result of the law. Under the German law, any doctor in the Reich was required to report patients of theirs who were mentally retarded, mentally ill (including schizophrenia and manic depression), epileptic, blind, deaf, or physically deformed, and a steep monetary penalty was imposed for any patients who were not properly reported. Individuals suffering from alcoholism or Huntington's Chorea could also be sterilized. The individual's case was then presented in front of a court of Nazi officials and public health officers who would review their medical records, take testimony from friends and colleagues, and eventually decide whether or not to order a sterilization operation performed on the individual, using force if necessary. Though not explicitly covered by the law, 400 mixed-race "Rhineland Bastards" were also sterilized beginning in 1937.

By the end of World War II, over 400,000 individuals were sterilized under the German law and its revisions, most within its first four years of being enacted. When the issue of compulsory sterilization was brought up at the Nuremberg trials after the war, many Nazis defended their actions on the matter by indicating that it was the United States itself from whom they had taken inspiration. The Nazis had many other eugenics-inspired racial policies, including their "euthanasia" program in which around 70,000 people institutionalized or suffering from birth defects were put to death.

I know my history Eric...

I for one am not in favor of a mother and father convicted of multiple counts of child endangerment especially where abuse and drugs are present having another child.

For heavens sake...The mother admitted to cleaning out his nose with a swab used in her crack pipe not to mention the boy had a broken arm, multiple contusions and eventually died.

We know the system won't keep them behind bars for long and I can't see any reason these parents should be allowed to have more kids to abuse and kill.

I'm glad you feel comfortable with crack addicts popping out crack babies as a result of hooking.

Your world would be a wonderful place where syringes are handed out on street corners and the drug store really sells drugs.

Instead of proposing that we do forced sterilization on people, perhaps you should be proposing that we keep such people behind bars longer. ;)