I'm long past tired of reading stories like this.From DailyNews.com:
"Monster" nanny Noella Allick, jailed for allegedly shaking a Manhattan newborn and leaving her with brain damage, will soon be charged with breaking another infant's bones, the Daily News has learned.
Allick will be formally accused of injuring the Nassau County baby shortly after the girl's April birth.
The injuries - a fractured arm, leg and collarbone, and two broken ribs - were discovered at a routine doctor's visit in mid-June.
The nanny is soon expected to be taken from Rikers Island to a Nassau County courtroom to be arraigned on second-degree assault punishable by up to seven years in prison, according to the Nassau County district attorney's office.
"There are two stages in life where people are the most vulnerable: when they are newborns, and extremely frail and elderly," said top prosecutor Joy Watson, chief of the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Bureau. "People who commit crimes against these two groups are the most heinous."
So it's not enough that children have to worry about strangers or sexual predators, or getting good grades, or peer pressure, etc., add to the list of worries violent women entrusted to take care of them. And while it's easy to point the blame at illegal immigrants and a judicial system that keeps finding excuses to allow these women to do very little jail time, more blame needs to be pointed at parents as well.
Ask parents and they'll talk about the cost of childcare, lack of a family friendly workplace or in the case of single, working mothers . . . having to do everything on their own. But none of that excuses the fact that parents themselves need to make serious improvements concerning who they leave their child alone with on a regular basis.
The case of killer nannies has reached epidemic proportions what with parents failing to do proper background checks on their caregiver, people like Allick calling themselves "nurses" without even having a nursing license and child complaints not being taken seriously.
Stories about home-alone children and killer nannies are proof that parents can no longer be trusted. And that should serve as a starting point for new family policies which set out to hold parents to stricter standards, including being arrested for criminal negligence when you leave your child with a woman with a record of abusing children in the past.
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11 08 05
ReplyDeleteOMG Mr. Grey Ghost!What a heavy, heavy post! And you know this is the major issue that I have been grappling with for a while; how do we balance liberty and freedom with governmental regulation. I comepletly agree that the government needs to step in and punish parents who abuse children, but idealistically I wish that the COMMUNITY would do something about this type of crap! I am utterly enraged and feel a deep twang in my soul when I think about those who abuse children and the wake of filth and moral terpetude that they leave in their wake! If you don't mind, I will hilight this article for tomorrow. I think it is highly important to balance these issues. And I also think that this goes hand in hand with the post that I did today about the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling! Tenuous footing when we involve government and family, although it is sometimes necessary!