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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father…

posted by on April 15 at 9:05 AM

I don’t like to post more than one or two “Every Child…” posts a week—I know they traumatize folks (I find them traumatizing myself)—but I feel compelled to toss this one up.

The boyfriend of an 18-year-old Massachusetts woman shot and killed over the weekend on the side of a Bronx road was charged Tuesday morning in connection with her murder, accused of recruiting his cousin to kill the woman in a staged robbery of the couple, the police said.

Investigators believe that Carlos Cruz, 36, arranged with his cousin to meet him and his girlfriend, Chelsea M. Frazier, also of Massachusetts, in a secluded section of the Castle Hill neighborhood in the Bronx on Sunday afternoon to murder Ms. Frazier, as Mr. Cruz sat beside her in their car and the couple’s infant son sat in the back seat.

I shall now give “Every Child…” a rest, demonstrating my typical restraint. Yes, my restraint—I could fill Slog every day with dozens of posts like this one.

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Is it really any more warped, crazy, shocking, etc. that a guy who plotted to get his girlfriend killed would allow his infant son to witness it? Did we expect him to have some sort of shame?

Posted by Fiend | April 15, 2008 9:14 AM
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"I shall now give “Every Child…” a rest"

Please make it a permanent rest. We all understand what you're trying to say here but you're beating a dead horse and it does absolutely nothing to make Slog more interesting or enjoyable.

Posted by Burgin99 | April 15, 2008 10:07 AM
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may i suggest a weekly digest?

Posted by some dude | April 15, 2008 10:26 AM
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These guys were from Massachusetts, they should have known that plot was a way-old meme.

Posted by K | April 15, 2008 11:50 AM
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@3: Or a new blog! Slog, Line Out, and Killer Parents.

Probably should add a Pedo Priests blog too.

Posted by K | April 15, 2008 11:58 AM
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I could fill Slog every day with dozens of posts like this one.

I know. Ages ago, before the World Wide Web and sites like this one, I used to argue with anti-gay bigots on an unmoderated Usenet forum called alt.politics.homosexuality. One of their favorite pastimes was posting news stories about men sexually abusing boys, or as though that was some sort of proof that gay men were all predators. I took to responding by posting news stories of heterosexual violence toward children, chillingly often committed parents themselves. What I found was I could post one or more of these nearly every day, just by searching some news wire sources I had access to back then. After a while it became too horrible to keep up and I just stopped.

That was back in the 1990s.

Posted by Bruce Garrett | April 15, 2008 12:26 PM
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"This Week on Every Child . . ."

Posted by feom | April 15, 2008 5:24 PM
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"This Week on Youth Pastor Watch"

"This Week on Pedo Priests"

Posted by feom | April 15, 2008 5:26 PM

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