I got in trouble about a month or so ago after I commented on a story about a mother who dropped her newborn infant in a trashcan then went back to a party. I said that women who kill their children should have their uterus removed. I was jumped on by feminist who claimed I was being insensitive to “forced pregnancies” and eugenics and blah blah blah. My response was that I was giving my raw emotion response to such a horrible crime. Not only that, but that I am also fair about my disdain for adults that harm children. Take this story about a father who punched his 7 month old, killing him:
Jealous that his son “preferred his mother,” a Queens dad fatally beat his 7-month-old, the latest in a rash of violence against small children in the borough, officials said Wednesday.
“Toughen up!” Larry Greene yelled at the crying child before punching him in the chest, prosecutors charged.
Xiah stopped breathing moments later, and died Tuesday night at Queens Hospital Center, the fourth child in the borough to die at the hands of a guardian in five weeks.
“We’re grieving right now,” Pierre Nady, 47, the victim’s maternal grandfather, said Wednesday. “Xiah was only 7 months old – he was a cute, little boy [and] he was loved.”
Xiah had a bruise on his scalp, two bruises on the neck and five bruises on the chest that showed imprints of an adult’s knuckles, officials said.
The child’s mother, Cassandra Nady, asked Greene, 20, who lives nearby, to watch Xiah at her St. Albans home.
“He said the baby fell when he was feeding him but it wasn’t even close to the truth,” said Nady.
Prosecutors said they have a videotaped confession from Greene, who admits hitting his son – and told them he was upset the boy “preferred his mother.” (Source)
Larry Greene should have his nuts removed. He should never be allowed to father another child every again in life. Hell, truth be told…I think fathers that kill their children should automatically get the death penalty. Women can suffer from chemical imbalances and other emotion stresses due to giving birth, men don’t. Therefore men should absolutely get harsher penalties when they commit such an egregious crime. I mean just look at this case. A SEVEN month old. Punched in the chest because the little boy “preferred his mother.” He’s 7 MONTHS old. What 7 month old DOESN’T prefer his mother? She has the milk. Of course she’s preferred. And yelling ‘Toughen up” to a 7 month old? Dude should have his nuts cut off with a rusty dull blade. That’s just ridiculous. And of course his family is claiming he couldn’t have done it.
Greene’s shocked sister refused to believe he could be such a monster. “Larry is a good person, he wouldn’t do anything like this,” said Laquana Greene, 25. “It’s a misunderstanding.”
A “misunderstanding”? What part of “bruises in the shape of knuckles” is a misunderstanding?
Here’s one thing I want to make clear. Disgusting stories like this have nothing to do with spanking or corporal punishment. Some people will point to stories like this and the new study out on spanking and say “See, this is all child abuse.” No, this is not true. Spanking when done right is not child abuse. The study conducted seems to prove that most people don’t understand the circumstances of applying spanking. Spanking is a last result, a “nuclear option” if you will. If your first reaction to discipline your child is to hit them, you’re doing something wrong and you need help. The study conducted said that children spanked more than 2 times a month at the age of 3 are more likely to show aggression. Umm…if you’re spanking a 3 year old 2 times a month….YOU’RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG. Now some kids don’t need to be spanked and some parents can get away with never having to raise a hand to their child. That’s not a problem and I support that. But don’t try to link the occasional spanking to horrendous cases of child abuse. We have parents that don’t know how to be parents. That should be the focus. Not trying to make the parents who don’t spare the rod look like monsters like Larry Greene.
I read this story yesterday and felt exactly the same way. Castration, death penalty, whatever…this was an infant! If I heard my brother did something like this to his baby, I’d be the one to hand out justice. Lock me up! I don’t care! I love him dearly but my brother would have to go. And I’m sorry but there is no excuse for mothers either. I’ve witnessed mothers with chemical imbalances after child birth. They didn’t kill their kids. Some wanted to kill themselves, but the children have not been harmed. I give no free pass to anyone who thinks their life would be easier by killing an innocent baby. You want easy? WEAR A FREAKING CONDOM!! This whole thing is just disgusting. That poor baby…
More and more these days, I’m thinking that rather than jail time, if we fought crime under the punishment of castration (for felonies and up), we could more effectively police our streets/communities/country than is currently being done now.
It’s not a well thought-out plan at this point and I think it’d get a lot of human rights’ protests, but if someone was like “Don’t do that, you’ll get your nuts cut off!” I think a lot of guys might think twice about crime.
Sidenote: I think we’d see a lot more females studying to be judges who would just want to pass along sentences of “Castration”
this post sums up how i feel about physical punishment, child abuse, and motherfuckers who should never have been allowed to procreate to begin with. i appreciate the fact that you were able to write about this without there being a huge, flaming stream of expletives that made no sense.
This is a such a disgrace, and a strong argument for a lot easier access to abortions. You know that some people simply aren’t fit for parents, you know that they will hurt and neglect their children – so why make it so hard for them to avoid being parents then?
They clearly aren’t up for the task and if abortions were free and handed out to anyone that didn’t want a kid, leaving the good parents to be with getting kids – then you’d see that cases such as these would decrease.
I agree….mostly. But I do disagree that men should have harsher punishments…women should have punishments just as harsh. If a woman were to beat her child like that, then she never had maternal instint, therefore, she should have kept her legs closed. i think ALL baby killers should be put to death. Casey Anthony (if she truly did do it) which I believe she did, but others may argue. Here is also a link to a site where a step dad kicked his 2 year old step daughter so hard in the stomach that she was killed. The mother was put away for 27 years for letting it happen while the step dad was put away for 30 with no parole for 25 years. The baby’s daddy came home from war to see her, only to find that his baby had been murdered. Instead of coming to have hugs and kisses, this poor man had to bury his baby. But where was the system?? What could the system have done better to save this little girl…or other murdered children? We have a broken system, and if it doesn’t change quickly, the “War on Women” will not be the most popular topic. There will be a new war: “The War on Children.” I Hat Baby Killers too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWow42TCwzg