Monday, May 18, 2009
Crime ''Daddy ate my eyes.''
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:58 PM
This story is not for the soft of heart. About a million people have sent the link my way, thinking it qualifies for ECDAMAAF. It doesn't, as there's no indication that this child was being raised in one of those "ideal" one-mother-one-father homes before this incident. It is proof, however, that there is no God. And who knew that people were still get fucked up on PCP?
UPDATE: This story qualifies as an "Every Child..." post. Slog commenter Take It All In points us at the latest news:
Mendoza had custody of the boy at the time, but the boy's mother was partially a witness to the incident. She said Friday that she was delivering pizza to the apartment when she heard her son screaming for help and decided to leave."My son was just crying, 'Mommy, mommy, I want to go with you. I'm scared,'" said the boy's mother, calling herself Desirae but not disclosing her last name. "(I'm) just like 'Should I take him or leave him?'" Desirae said she left, thinking the boy was safe with his father.
A witness to the incident? No. The word you're looking for, Bakersfield Now, is "accomplice."
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Yeah, not only is there no proof that this is not one of those "ideal" situations ... but another source shows that the mother of the boy stopped by to drop off a pizza, heard the boys calls for help and just WALKED AWAY!!! What?!?! She left thinking that he was safer with his father? The one that was in the process of eating his eyes out btw ... fucking world we live in.
http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local…
http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local…
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I should have given "this story is not for the soft of heart" more notice. I'm having difficulty keeping my (just consumed) lunch down after having read that article. Absolutely horrific.
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@3: What part of "Daddy Ate My Eyes" gave you the impression that this was going to be a warm and fuzzy story?
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How the hell did the father wind up with custody of the kid? Especially since:
"More than 20 prior criminal cases can be found for the father in court records, including a no contest plea in April 2006 on misdemeanor willful cruelty to a child. He was placed on probation at that time."
If in light of all that the father got to keep the kid, it begs the question just how much worse the mother possibly is - as evidenced by her leaving the frightened, crying child to be horribly maimed - it would seem, pretty bad.
"More than 20 prior criminal cases can be found for the father in court records, including a no contest plea in April 2006 on misdemeanor willful cruelty to a child. He was placed on probation at that time."
If in light of all that the father got to keep the kid, it begs the question just how much worse the mother possibly is - as evidenced by her leaving the frightened, crying child to be horribly maimed - it would seem, pretty bad.
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it makes you wonder what exactly the mother believed she was capable of that could have been worse
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Fucking christ! Seriously, just shoot the guy, put him out of everyone's misery, including his own.
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People are animals. Some animals are completely bonkers. What to do? Make sure they don't have children.
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maybe if she'd been a little quicker with that pizza he wouldn't have had to eat the eyes. oh I just made myself sad.
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One is required by law to get a license to have and care for a dog or cat. One is required by law to get a license to own and operate legally 2000 pounds of fast moving steel on a public road. One is required by law to get a license to carry a firearm. One is required by law to get a license (for some Americans anyway) to marry the person one loves and receive state and federal benefits. But one is not required to have any knowledge, receive any training, read any books, get any license, talk to any social worker, or do anything other than have sex to obtain a child; something far more complex and demanding than a dog or cat, car, gun, or relationship with an adult. I think this MUST change.
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@15
I just finished laughing so hard that people at other tables stopped talking to stare at me. So thanks for that.
More generally:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: in situations where the perpetrator has obviously left the concept of punishment behind (murder/suicides and so on) we should seriously consider reviving the practice of gibbeting. Now, obviously the father in this case isn't dead (yet), but I think we can all agree that this particular case clearly calls for an exception to the general rule, slippery slope be damned.
I just finished laughing so hard that people at other tables stopped talking to stare at me. So thanks for that.
More generally:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: in situations where the perpetrator has obviously left the concept of punishment behind (murder/suicides and so on) we should seriously consider reviving the practice of gibbeting. Now, obviously the father in this case isn't dead (yet), but I think we can all agree that this particular case clearly calls for an exception to the general rule, slippery slope be damned.
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@18 Good luck with that.
Only the people we think are smart enough are allowed to breed? Humanity would be extinct in a 100 years.
Only the people we think are smart enough are allowed to breed? Humanity would be extinct in a 100 years.
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@7, my dad was hardly ever there, so I thought maybe it was an age-old expression for sharing a loving moment with one's dad. What of it? Now who looks the fool?
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@17 stop blaming drugs. Yes they are fucked up, messed up, scary, whatever, but it is the people that abuse substances and the society that allows them to have and attempt to RAISE CHILDREN that need help.
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I wish I could unread that.I also wish they had let that fucker hack himself apart with the ax...
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Acquiring and maintaining those licenses isn't particularly hard. You can be convicted of vehicular manslaughter and be allowed on the road once you get out of prison.
You seem to think that would be a bad thing.
One is required by law to get a license to have and care for a dog or cat. One is required by law to get a license to own and operate legally 2000 pounds of fast moving steel on a public road.
Acquiring and maintaining those licenses isn't particularly hard. You can be convicted of vehicular manslaughter and be allowed on the road once you get out of prison.
Only the people we think are smart enough are allowed to breed? Humanity would be extinct in a 100 years.
You seem to think that would be a bad thing.
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Everybody should have the opportunity to breed ... they should just have to pass a test first ... you know, before taking a life into their own hands. Just because you were given the right parts doesn't mean you should use them. Sheesh.
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If people were required to pass the same stringent background checks and such necessary to adopt a child before having their own children, this shit would happen a lot less often. I'm not saying everyone who's smart enough to pass an adoption qualification is automatically going to be a good parent, just better than the fuckers who have kids because they weren't smart enough to use a condom or get an abortion.
Good case for forced sterilization of the poor and clinically insane.
Good case for forced sterilization of the poor and clinically insane.
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Christ, this is the one of the most horrific things I've ever heard of. That poor little boy.
@15 - Thanks for the gallows humor. I snickered and then felt so ashamed, but at least that was better than how I felt before reading your joke.
@15 - Thanks for the gallows humor. I snickered and then felt so ashamed, but at least that was better than how I felt before reading your joke.
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No. We didn't need to know this. I always cry a little at these posts, but this one left me horrified, and sobbing. Some stories just don't need to be out there.
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Can we agree on some kind of graduated system for breeding? You start off with a goldfish, then move up to a turtle, then maybe a cat/dog, then finally, if you haven't maimed or starved anything yet, when you hit your teens, you're admitted into a program where you volunteer for a daycare and figure out (1) whether you're a psycho kid-killer or (2) whether you really want one of these screaming brats living off you for the next 20 years.
It's so tragic that it takes something this brutal for people to realize that parenting is one of the important things anyone can do, and yet we let anyone do it. Maybe not a licensing system, but Jesus Christ, we need to keep our eyes open and speak up. How the hell did this guy, with his history, get to do this? How did his wife let him? How did his neighbours, his relatives? How did the police? Who thought this little boy was SAFE with him?
It's so tragic that it takes something this brutal for people to realize that parenting is one of the important things anyone can do, and yet we let anyone do it. Maybe not a licensing system, but Jesus Christ, we need to keep our eyes open and speak up. How the hell did this guy, with his history, get to do this? How did his wife let him? How did his neighbours, his relatives? How did the police? Who thought this little boy was SAFE with him?
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I'm horrified I grew up three miles from there.
For what it's worth, Bakersfield is a town (mostly) full of uneducated, radically religious bigots.
For what it's worth, Bakersfield is a town (mostly) full of uneducated, radically religious bigots.
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