Most disgusting woman -involves child murder

No words.

That's horrific!

What a damn monster.

That poor little boy, dying by his mother's hands. And the second graders in the car, hearing him scream, knowing their brother was left, wondering what was next for them.

Sick.

We had a somewhat similar case with a fifth grade boy last January. The major difference was that she was the step mom. She murdered him in their home, disposed of the body, dug it back up and then hid it in a suitcase in another state. She is currently awaiting trial.

This is so heartbreaking.

I have a lot of questions after reading the story, but the main question is why did cps remove one child (prior to the murder) but not the rest?

I've seen it happen before. 

Stories like this just break me. 

In most states you can’t remove all the children based on something going on with just one of the children. You have to prove harm or imminent risk of harm to every child that’s being removed.

Just horrifying.

That is always the problem in these situations. Most people have no clue how to reach out to cps agencies for help or even that they can help. Agencies and governments need to do a better job of publicizing that help is available. Even if they know help is available, people capable of committing such an act would likely not reach out for help. I would be very suprised if the “boyfriend” wasn’t involved.

Yes! They have this in many areas for newborns, so why not kids under 10? 

OP, could you please change your subject line to warn people the subject is child murder?

This is local news to me. I have been so upset today over this poor baby.
They are searching for his body in the Ohio river along with searching for 3 year old Nylo Lattimore whose mother was murdered and Nylo was thrown in the river alive. Little Nylo was killed by his mother's boyfriend.
I am so saddened at the fate of these 2 poor little boys. Some adults are just down right evil.

This just hurts my heart. 

I agree with everyone who says that we need a better way for people to give up custody of their kids. Parenthood shouldn't be a punishment for having sex. Women shouldn't be forced to have kids and do all the childcare with no support. Caylee Anthony might still be alive if her grandparents hadn't tried to force their daughter to raise a child she didn't want. 

Mothers are also judged harshly for everything they do or don't do. Sometimes they deserve to be judged like in this case. But there's a lot of judgment of mothers, especially by other mothers. Which means a lot of people keeping kids they don't want and aren't qualified to raise because they don't want to be ostracized by the community and gosspied about mercilessly. 

A girl my husband and I went to school fostered to adopt a little boy with her husband. The boy had a lot of issues, and the girl gave the boy back after the adoption was finalized. My MIL gossipped about her and told everyone that the girl was awful. All while being "friends" with the girl's mother. From what my MIL said, the boy had oppositional defiance disorder, and the girl didn't have the right resources to help. Especially since they went to a church that didn't believe in mental health care.

For some reason that makes no sense to me, parents are looked down on for getting help like going to parenting classes. Mother message boards are incredibly toxic. There's this belief that parents, especially mothers should automatically know what to do. That mothering is instinct, and then new mothers feel like they're failures when that "instinct" doesn't kick in. 

There's also no mental health services for people who don't have private insurance, and it's often shitty even if you do.

Everyone was calling Andrea Yates a horrible person who deserved to roast in hell, but later her mental health struggles and abuse by her husband and family were made public. My knee jerk reaction is to say that this mother is a monster, but we don't have the whole story. I wonder about her mental health because she just left her child in the middle of the road instead of immediately trying to hide the body. Which a sane person would do.

I'm not saying that what she did wasn't horrible, because it was. I'm just pointing out that like a lot of other women who have done awful things to their children, there's often underlying mental health problems. When we judge people harshly, we hurt other people who are struggling with similar problems. They feel embarrassed and are afraid that they're also horrible people. Which means they don't seek help because they're afraid of being judged by the people who should be helping them. 

That might be the case in some other situations, but in this situation there was already one child in cps custody. So mom would have known who to contact. That doesn’t mean that we don’t try to do things that could help someone else, but there have to be other factors here as well (mental health, substance abuse, some other factors relating to the other child that was removed, etc).

I find it interesting that in several states it is common to remove one child and not the others. I work with a lot of families who are involved with cps and the only time I can remember only one child being removed is in the case of a teenager where there isn’t necessarily abuse or neglect but maybe truancy or other delinquent behaviors. But that is rare. Clearly in this case there was imminent danger to the other kids as well.