"If I'm not mistaken, though, when kids are abused or something, usually a family member or a close family friend is at fault. The cops just follow the statistics..."
you must consider the difference between hard factual evidence (murder weapon, blood, fingerprint, a confession not brought on by coersion etc.) and circumstantial evidence (no verifiable aliby) where it is one person's word against another, someone's opinion or gut instinct.
There at least has to be some evidence of abuse in order to even make that assumption. the preemie in question was three months premature... I was born preemie (only a few weeks at most) and I wasn't allowed to leave the hospital until I was a certain weight. If this is still the case, then the infant should never have left the hospital and should've remained under constant care until those kidneys were functioning normally or something.
as for my son, he was a well-fed chubby b/c he was just about to have a growth spurt baby who loved his wind up swing to watch me read and stuff and smiled a lot... but more importantly: there was no indication at all that there was any abuse whatsoever yet they still took that tack. and this was way before postpartum depression was an immediate assumed diagnosis of women having just given birth or of the much publicized string of children and infants being killed by their mothers.
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Not jumping all over you here
Date: 2006-10-27 11:01 pm (UTC)you must consider the difference between hard factual evidence (murder weapon, blood, fingerprint, a confession not brought on by coersion etc.) and circumstantial evidence (no verifiable aliby) where it is one person's word against another, someone's opinion or gut instinct.
There at least has to be some evidence of abuse in order to even make that assumption. the preemie in question was three months premature... I was born preemie (only a few weeks at most) and I wasn't allowed to leave the hospital until I was a certain weight. If this is still the case, then the infant should never have left the hospital and should've remained under constant care until those kidneys were functioning normally or something.
as for my son, he was a well-fed chubby b/c he was just about to have a growth spurt baby who loved his wind up swing to watch me read and stuff and smiled a lot... but more importantly: there was no indication at all that there was any abuse whatsoever yet they still took that tack. and this was way before postpartum depression was an immediate assumed diagnosis of women having just given birth or of the much publicized string of children and infants being killed by their mothers.