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What are People Thinking :(

by discrat
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Police: Girl, 5, dies after being thrown from Florida bridge | KSL.com
  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    WOW, that is BAD! HOW MUCH trouble could you have had from a 5yo? She was at about the age where things should have started to get BETTER! She was STILL young enough that she was likely adoptable if he wanted to get rid of her.

    That is UNBELIEVABLE!

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    • Profile picture of the author Cali16
      I heard about that earlier today, and it just made me sick to think a father (or anyone) could do that to a child. Here's an article that gives a bit more information, though. It sounds like he has some serious mental health issues, and his behavior was likely due to psychosis. Very, very sad.

      Dad Accused of Tossing Girl off Bridge Called Lawyer 'God' - ABC News
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      • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
        Groan another one, we had a nutso father throw his around 5 year old daughter out of the car window off the West Gate Bridge, (probably 20 storys high) a few years ago.

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    That's bad parenting!
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  • Profile picture of the author WalkingCarpet
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    Yeah that was horrible.
    Some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids.

    Plus that guy looks like a total psycho. He should never have been let out of the asylum let alone have kids. Plus his woman must've been crazy blind to have kids with a total psycho like that.
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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
      Just seem him as well, jeez, if ever a bloke looked like the nut job he is, it's him.

      That must have been one Mother of a desperate women to go on a date with him, let alone have kids with him.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        How many warnings do they need?

        His lawyer called to say she thought the child was in danger - six instances of domestic abuse but no charges filed - several other people had reported him as unstable.

        The system - child services and police - let this child fall through the cracks.
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        • Profile picture of the author onSubie
          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          How many warnings do they need?

          His lawyer called to say she thought the child was in danger - six instances of domestic abuse but no charges filed - several other people had reported him as unstable.

          The system - child services and police - let this child fall through the cracks.

          The more I read about this the more it is apparent that the father was in a mental health crisis and nobody intervened.

          He called his lawyer "God" and asked her to translate a Swedish Bible. When his lawyer advised him about paperwork she was going to file in his custody case he said "It's not going to matter any more". Which the lawyer said "really scared her" and she called emergency dispatchers.

          Police interviewed him and he said he was fine and had "a new clarity" in his life.

          The Florida department of Children and Families said they had received a call Wednesday saying the father was "depressed and delusional".

          It was a crisis situation screaming for intervention and nobody cared enough to actually intervene.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    He was fighting for custody? They should have said "FORGET IT! She now has a RESTRAINING ORDER, and you are not to come within 1000 feet of her!" They should have locked him up. In any event, the other person should have gotten custody, unless THEY were incompetent. Failing that, she should be put up for adoption. It isn't fair to the kid, but it IS in her best interest.

    The florida department of "children and families" is saying they were told he was depressed and delusional? So effectively they KNEW that there was a chance he could view her as some demonic or rabid animal and feel an INTENSE desire to KILL her!!!!!!!!!!! I mean DELUSION means that he may view something as something quite different, and truly believe it! That is generally viewing the person as something BAD, ESPECIALLY when the person is depressed. Depression, in such cases, can lead to an aggressive action AGAINST such an object. Depression and delusions are RARELY good!

    They should have had the police out there ASAP to investigate, and likely take the daughter into protective custody.

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    • Profile picture of the author onSubie
      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      He was fighting for custody?
      He wasn't fighting for custody. He had custody.

      The mother was deemed an unsuitable parent because "(she) had an arrest record consisting of child neglect, petty theft and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, among other charges".

      The father had custody and they lived with his parents.
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by onSubie View Post

        He wasn't fighting for custody. He had custody.

        The mother was deemed an unsuitable parent because "(she) had an arrest record consisting of child neglect, petty theft and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, among other charges".

        The father had custody and they lived with his parents.
        WOW! Where did they meet? That little girl had VERY bad luck! The fact that the father had a child and was living with his parents is a bad sign ALSO! You would HOPE, though, that he could have simply let the child stay with his parents, and not have to worry. But I guess THEY are sorry ALSO.

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