Wednesday, April 13, 2005

More insanity from Florida

Why, oh why, does it seem that ALL the craziness in the country eminate from Florida? Must be all the sun, sand and water.
Now comes a story from Okeechobee about a woman arrested for allegedly forcing her 12-year-old daughter into becoming a prostitute and attempting to sell her 14-year-old daughter ... for a Mercury Cougar! (Don't think Alan Jackson had THAT in mind while singing the praises of Mercuries).
This idiot, all of 39, has been charged with aggravated child abuse (you think?!?) and sexual performance by a child for selling her youngest child for sex in order to get food and an occasional shower at the home sof the various men involved. And how low are these schmucks to have sex with a 12-year-old????????
The 14-year-old girl refused to go along with Mommy when she traded her for a Cougar. The guy who "bought" the girl WAS arrested but no word on these men who had illegal and illicit sex with a child.
The little girl was an A-B student when Mom yanked her out of school at 11, forcing her to hit the streets. She wants to go back to school but that might be difficult. It seems she is 3 months pregnant.
The dilemma is compounded. Do you force a child to have children? Isn't this, in effect, rape? Or do morals of other force her to be an incubator and go through labor at the age of 12?
The girls are in the "protection" of Florida Department of Children and Families, with its own dubious track record.
You need a license to drive a car, you need to register in order to vote and you have to apply for a credit card. But you don't have to take any kind of competency test to have a child. You have have to be fertile.
It seems so ridiculous as to make you cry. But apparently it happens time and again. Stupid parents hurting little children. When will it end?

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