{"id":929,"date":"2008-06-18T00:05:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T08:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2008-06-18T00:06:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T08:06:44","slug":"report-child-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/report-child-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Child Abuse!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childhelp.org\/donate_home\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-930\" title=\"childhelp\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/childhelp.gif?resize=200%2C261\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"261\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The name &#8216;Starkeisha&#8217; was what caught my eye while I was reading the Los Angeles Times tonight. I&#8217;m sorry that I read about her and her girlfriend, Kristal.<\/p>\n<p>Even with those optomistic names, the two young women have been torturing Starkeisha Brown&#8217;s 5 year old son for around two years. They burned him with cigarettes, and starved him. They are in jail tonight, but that doesn&#8217;t solve anything.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these women have fancy <a href=\"http:\/\/pysih.com\/2008\/06\/15\/starkeisha-brown-and-krystal-matthews\/\" target=\"_blank\">Myspace profiles<\/a>, with slide shows no less. Even I don&#8217;t know how to make a Myspace slide-show. So no one can excuse these women on the basis of mental illness&#8230;at least, not in the usual sense of the term.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t really bear thinking about this too much and I&#8217;m even sorry to bring it up. But I&#8217;m trying to turn it into something useful. Someone in their neighborhood must have known what was going on. Some neighbor or relative or friend of a friend. But no one wanted to get involved.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever have a suspicion that a child is being neglected or abused, call 1-800-4-A-CHILD (in the US)<\/p>\n<p>Let us pray for a better world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name &#8216;Starkeisha&#8217; was what caught my eye while I was reading the Los Angeles Times tonight. I&#8217;m sorry that I read about her and her girlfriend, Kristal. Even with those optomistic names, the two young women have been torturing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/report-child-abuse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-eZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}