http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/09/30/toddler.alone.ap/index.html

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Toddler survives three weeks alone on ketchup, dry pasta
Tuesday, September 30, 2003

JACKSONVILLE, Florida (AP) -- A 2-year-old left alone for nearly three weeks while her mother was behind bars survived by eating mustard, ketchup, rice and raw pasta, police said.

The toddler was watching cartoons when found by her father, police said Monday. She was suffering from malnutrition and was being treated at Wolfson Children's Hospital, police said.

Dakeysha Lee, 22, was charged Monday with child abuse because she didn't let anyone know that her daughter was alone in her apartment, police said. She was jailed Sept. 10 on unrelated charges.

Ogden Lee, who is separated from the girl's mother, said he talked to her by telephone at the jail Sunday and she said their daughter was with neighbors.

When he got into the apartment, the youngster had dragged food and toys into her mother's bedroom and was lying in a baby's bathtub. She was covered with dried ketchup, Lee said.

"She grabbed me and wouldn't let go of me," Lee said. "It is really a miracle how good a shape my daughter is in. I don't know how she did it."

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Makes me wish we didn't have an amendment outlawing cruel and unusual punishment.



"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike." - Oscar Wilde

No crap CTZip

Let's see on how many levels this is so wrong!

If Ogden had been a man, knowing that Dakeysha was in jail, he would have gotten his child instead of leaving her with neighbors as Dakeysha had told him.
If Ogden had been a man and visiting his child regularly, even at 'the neighbors', like maybe once or twice a week, this wouldn't have been so bad.
If Ogden and Dakeysha had been responsible and bothered to get married to provide a two parent family for their child, perhaps Dakeysha wouldn't have been doing crimes.
If Dakeysha hadn't been doing crimes, she would be at home with her child.
If Dakeysha and Ogden hadn't been ****ing, they wouldn't have a child in the first place.
I could go on...............

I just about had to vomit reading this. Double-tap mom in the dome and put that child into a loving home. These sacks of garbage obviously don't deserve the gift of a child.