Authorities identify Deer Island girl, make arrests

has hit me hard--after all these months and now I can't stop crying. Maybe it's seeing her real face, which is somehow much more the way I imagined her than the composite. Or knowing that there are people who did this and concealed it all this time. I don't know. It's just so heartbreaking and awful.

and we are at 87

:( aw man..

yeah time to step away from the computer before I totally lose it.

*heads to empty office to go weep some more*

Hypocritical twat. Reminds me of that woman from Blackstone who kept posting photos on Facebook of all the wonderful meals she was making and school shopping she was doing for her children while living in a dump heap with her rotting infants and dead pets.

Unfortunately, she isn't British royalty so I doubt there will be a peep out of People.

Let the trial run it's course - THEN release all the petty details after that. I'd rather see the guy be found guilty and go to jail instead of giving his lawyer idiotic excuses to appeal the verdict just because the media is greedy for information that is relatively pointless.

...for all we know- we simply don't know otherwise. I personally faced a situation in which a friendly, active, outgoing nine year old neighbor boy abruptly disappeared in 2003. The family depended on public aid and faced obvious mental health and drug abuse problems, and each time I asked the boy's mother about the boy's sudden absence, her slurred comments left me increasingly alarmed. She made bizarre, vague comments referencing another young boy who had been murdered nearby a few years previously, and she claimed DSS (now DCF) had taken the child.

That DSS might have taken this particular child did not seem particularly shocking; but what alarmed us most was our inability to confirm the mother's story. No one at DSS would speak with us initially because we were neighbors rather than family. It took many hours of calls to that agency to identify the worker who had been involved with him previously; after several conversations, it was only after I calmly explained that I would be filing a formal report with the police about this missing child that they would admit that they had custody of him and he was safe.

for drug, prostitution, receiving stolen property etc. charges along with probation violations. Also cases where she sought child support against fathers of her two older children whom she lost custody of.

They interviewed her sister, who seems very nice and said Rachelle should never have been a mother and had a volatile personality.

That's pretty much all that DCF would care about - were there any reports in the time that her daughter was around. They would only be involved if a medical professional or caregiver or neighbor or family member raised concerns.

Keep in mind that Bella was considerably younger than the 4 years she was estimated to be - born in August, 2012.

If anything, the medical people who cared for this woman during her pregnancy, delivery or provided care to the girl in infancy would have something to answer for if there were concerns over her care.

WWJD?

Wrap that mother in his arms and whisper softly, "God loves you."

I do. I know a whole lot of people who have gotten their shit together and are great parents of wonderful kids.

Yet you all would call them "junkie scumbags" the moment the least little thing went wrong and blame them for it. Even common stuff like strep throat leading to an ER visit on a weekend or a playground accident.

Lovely lot of you, really.

But what am I?

a piece of shit. Just like you

shut it. No reason to throw the insults around.

That's because it seems pretty clear that you would have seen something and said something if you did.

for a dead daughter without a death certificate or the child's SSN on the social security death list. Well, that assumes the state is competent, so maybe not.

And that, friends, lies the problem. Swirls is right on point.

None is aimed at the innocent girl who died.