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RantHorrific case of child abuse yet no mention of father
Edit: here’s the story: https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104300622
This is a devastatingly horrific case of child abuse and neglect, resulting in the tragic death of a young baby girl.
The media are solely focussed on the STEP-mother’s role in this with nearly no mention of the father. I had to search for ages to find any mention of him. He’s been charged with the babies murder as well, but the uneven coverage from our media is shocking.
The story seems to go that they both lived with the baby (aside from the fact that HIS responsibility for the baby is not mentioned). A Daily Mail article even mentions the step mother’s adult daughters before they mention the father.
I have no sympathy for this woman but it is appalling how by default this woman bears the almost sole responsibility for this death even though the child wasn’t biologically hers and the baby was in the care of the biological father.
He needs to be dragged over the media coals with the same vitriol she is.
Another reason to be wary of getting involved with fathers.
I remember a couple of yrs ago seeing a news story about a toddler who tragically drowned in a river because no one was supervising him. The fathers gf was at risk of facing charges even though she wasnt babysitting him and the father was there. I wish I could find some articles online.
Another reason to be wary of getting involved with fathers.
If he goes down for child abuse or murder, he will 100% throw the new GF/wife under the bus to save his ass.
WTF?
Child neglect is the one thing where men really have zero excuse.
I might (might) believe a man that he didn't notice his new wife treating his daughter cruelly while he wasn't looking, but if HE had cared for the baby, as was his duty, then the stepmother could have ignored her all day without it having any negative impact at all - plenty of baby girls grow into healthy adults with only one parent.
One could argue that any normal person would have reported him for this severe neglect, even if they were only a neighbour, so yeah, she is to blame, but I'd actually blame him more.
The stepmother just got this child as addition when marrying the guy.
(The article mentions that she was scared to get care for the kid because she might lose custody of her own kids - where the fuck was the male?)
Yes. Why was the father allowing the abuse to go on?
I mean, it was a case of leaving a baby in a cot and not caring for her. The father was the perpetrator of the abuse - it’s not like he was standing by watching the woman abuse the child. The woman should have not allowed this - ie taken the kid to hospital, called child services when the father wasn’t looking after the child…. but it was 100% on him to look after HIS child.
Can't wait for him to weaponize incompetence as his defense
If he tries that, they should sentence him to life in an assisted living facility.
I'm as incompetent with kids as it gets, but any adult able to feed themselves is able to feed a four year old. (Even with Down syndrome, I am assuming she was able to grab some food and put it into her mouth. Just put food in the general vicinity of the child, it's not hard.)
The thing is if it was a stepfather doing this everyone would be blaming the bio mom
Should have chosen better... this is why single moms are the bane of hunanity. /s