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Friday, February 8, 2008

Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father…

posted by on February 8 at 9:42 AM

Investigators say a man has been charged with child abuse in Caldwell County for circumcising his two infant sons with a utility knife. Authorities said 32-year-old Johnny Eric Marlowe, a self-admitted polygamist, fathered children with his legal wife and another woman who lives in their home.

One gave birth to a boy at their home in the rural Kings Creek community in November 2005, and the other gave birth to a boy there four months later…. Detective Shelly Hartley said Marlowe doesn’t like hospitals and denied the women prenatal care in both cases, then circumcised the boys when they were 8 days old.

A doctor from Queens was arrested on Thursday night in the killing of her estranged husband, a dentist who was gunned down in October at a playground in front of their 4-year-old daughter, the police said.

The doctor, Mazoltuv Borukhova, 34, who was a suspect from the beginning, was taken into custody at her home without incident, the police said…. The couple had been involved in a bitter divorce and custody battle of the girl—a feud that relatives continued after the killing.


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1

these are about as boring as stories about thwarted terrorist attacks or changes to the threat level "CODE ORANGE!!!! omg!"

it IS possible to beat a dead horse to death a second time.

Posted by some dude | February 8, 2008 9:45 AM
2

I like the Every Child series; not only does it take up the Last Days mantle of reporting horrible things that happen to, or around, children, I still think the point - that differently-sexed parents are not inherently better than same-sex ones - is valid, and something I don't mind being reminded of nearly every day.

Posted by Aislinn | February 8, 2008 9:56 AM
3

Then skip 'em, some dude. They're pretty clearly labeled, and you have the power to scroll right past 'em.

Posted by Dan Savage | February 8, 2008 10:06 AM
4

Well, at least he didn't use a flint like in the bible story and fling the 4skin at his wives in front of God (the ultimate 'dis).

Posted by subwlf | February 8, 2008 10:11 AM
5

that's my point. it is a valid issue, like comment 2 said, but it gets so overdone it just gets skipped over and ignored. desensitizing people to this shit doesn't help make some kind of point, it just makes people tune it out.

Posted by some dude | February 8, 2008 10:52 AM
6

This guy must have something going for him if he's got two wives who let him pull this kind of crap. No clue what, but must be something.

Posted by Greg | February 8, 2008 12:12 PM
7

subwlf--You got a chapter and verse for that flint claim? Not that the bible is anything approaching historical in a modern sense, but even in 1900 BCE (the time of Abraham and Sarah) there were definitely knives around.

Posted by lymerae | February 8, 2008 1:50 PM
8

That second one just supports my theory that most dentists are evil.

Posted by Mike of Renton | February 8, 2008 2:10 PM
9

And once again they bring up polygamy as if it is somehow the cause for an idiot's actions. That always annoys me to no end.

Posted by Sven | February 8, 2008 2:46 PM

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