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Originally Posted by Heart
A different perspective on "Caylee's Law:" I worked with a survivor of horrific intimate partner violence whose husband suffocated their 2-month old under a mattress and forced the mother to bury the child. Because they were poor immigrants the authorities didn't know or care about what was happening in this family. When the mother was finally able to flee the house in which she had been literally imprisoned and hop a bus to escape, she was so traumatized, she could barely speak. Eventually, with help, she alerted authorities who arrested her husband.
How do you think Casey's Law would affect this mother?
(And I hope no one thinks that prosecutors wouldn't use such a law against a poor battered immigrant victim of domestic violence -- because I can assure you they would. There are hundreds of such victims imprisoned all across the U.S. right now).
Heart
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Thank you Heart! EXACTLY what I've been saying. Making blanket laws about this is very very dangerous. Typical Governmental move though. They do it about everything. Making blanket type laws is invasive to my personal rights! (I'm still traumatized about seat belt laws....like my flying body is such a lethal weapon).
Seriously though. There will be no "common sense" when it comes to this law. There will be a simple blanket law, you don't do it, yer arrested. They won't care about circumstances because you can't possibly think up all the circumstances that could arise to hold someone up from notifying them. Isn't anyone outraged by these type laws and how they could be used against us? too much government in my life I tell ya! Ugh! Calm down people, and stop the mob mentality! I know of two other situations that happened RIGHT NOW where children were killed by caretakers/parents. Happens all the time somewhere on this earth. It is sad but knee jerk reactions aren't helping!!
rant rant sorry!