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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 12:46 AM
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Why would there be shock that a girl in Europe might have been killed by her mother

and or father. Isn't it often that the parents are the killers of their children? There was a blurb on our local news about it, I don't get the shock.
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StarryNite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 12:47 AM
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1. I don't understand all the media
coverage of this particular case.
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 12:49 AM
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2. Oh is it one of those like the Alabama girl that went missing?
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StarryNite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 12:51 AM
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3. I don't know.
It's like they pick just one of these missing/murdered children stories to be in the news for days and weeks on end and they ignore the thousands of others.
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canetoad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 12:55 AM
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4. Combination of circumstances I think
Brits abroad. Portugal - we don't know much about it. Professional parents. Vanished child.

It's a classic mystery.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 01:28 AM
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11. Diversion from real news. nt
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StarryNite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 01:30 AM
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12. I thought that was what the young woman
in the miniskirt on Southwest Airlines was for. :shrug: Everything is so bad I guess they need more than one diversion.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 01:30 AM
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13. I think many would disagree that missing & exploited children are not real news.
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StarryNite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 02:36 AM
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18. That's true but
when they just pick certain children to bring up for weeks on end and ignore the rest it's almost as if they are exploiting the exploited.
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whoneedstickets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 12:58 AM
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5. Rich, educated, white, slim, attractive,....
...it goes against our stereotypes. Only poor, trash, fat, illiterate types kill their children, well, except Patsy Ramsey.....
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Colorado Progressive Donating Member (980 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 01:03 AM
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7. Wow. I really dont think Patsy did it. nt
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whoneedstickets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 01:08 AM
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9. It was just a zinger at the end, i have no clue what happened to JBR..
...but Occam's Razor and all that...
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Colorado Progressive Donating Member (980 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 01:31 AM
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14. as a mom, I could never find a way to make that happen. Its too sick
I dont think they will ever solve the JBR case, but I cant imagine a mom doing that.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 01:01 AM
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6. Media, man. That old lady wasn't news 'til she was found.
It's all about erectile dysfunction.

Apply it to your forehead.

The Revolution will not be televised.
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Suich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 01:51 AM
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15. LOL!
Hey, Tom....:yourock:

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 02:18 AM
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17. Well, thank ya', ma'am.
I have just about had it, tonight.

Been reading crap such as Pitt's "I am not really going to jump off the bridge" and such...

Sometimes I feel as if I am in a Junior High School Cafeteria.

I must have better things to do with my time.

But I find this place somehow somewhat fascinating.
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Suich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 03:02 AM
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19. Oh, thank goodness!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels like you do about Pitt.

I went to a Catholic grade school (grades 1 thru 8) and an all girls Catholic high school...I don't know what this "Junior High School Cafeteria" is.

I'm kind of watching a show on Discovery called "Lobster Wars", but it's more fun to cruise around DU...there are so many forums to visit and so little time...

:)
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canetoad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 01:07 AM
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8. Examine the source
I think you'd find there is no more or less shock in Europe or elsewhere about the disappearance of this child. You will also find much evidence to support parents often being child killers.

A lot of this so-called evidence has been thrown out in the last 8 or 10 years. Much of its credibility was laid at the feet of forensic and/or psychological 'experts' who failed the test of close scrutiny.

The tragedy of a mother killing her child is one so intense, so inscrutable that it offends me to see it taken lightly on a board, so I repeat: LINDY CHAMBERLAIN
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Suich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 02:07 AM
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16. Wow...thanks for the reminder.
I had forgotten about Lindy Chamberlain. I had been thinking more about Patsy Ramsey...
tragic in both cases.
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Hoof Hearted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-08-07 01:12 AM
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10. If it turns out to be the fact of the matter it will fly in the face of many dearly held
stereotypes.

The parents were both highly educated.
They were not overtly religious. They were:

White.
Slim.
Attractive.
Rich.

Their children were clean and all accounts say they were happy.


I'm not sure what the hell happened but infants and toddlers must never be left alone. The girl is a victim of negligence at the very, very least.
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