{"id":9844,"date":"2013-09-11T00:46:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T08:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=9844"},"modified":"2013-09-11T00:46:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T08:46:30","slug":"a-terrible-story-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/a-terrible-story-weigh-in\/","title":{"rendered":"A Terrible Story: Weigh In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sjCwRPfh9nE?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelli Stapleton<\/strong> is in jail without bond, for the attempted murder of her daughter <strong>Issy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Kelli has documented her challenges as Issy&#8217;s mom in a blog called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/thestatuswoe.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Status Woe<\/em><\/a>.&#8217; Issy is a lovely blonde 14 year old who is autistic. I&#8217;m not sure about Issy&#8217;s complete diagnosis but clearly the main problem has been her aggression. And her aggression is aimed primarily at her mother.<\/p>\n<p>Kelli has been hospitalized twice following attacks by her daughter. Watch the video above to see what it looks like when there is an aggressive outburst.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Issy came home from 20 days at a treatment center whose complete program was too costly for her family to afford. They were hopeful about a new behavioral plan for Issy. But it didn&#8217;t work out.<\/p>\n<p>Kelli managed to get her daughter into the family van, and then tried to kill herself and Issy via carbon monoxide poisoning. When they were found, both were unconscious. Kelli recovered quickly but Issy remained in a coma. Issy&#8217;s prognosis was not good.<\/p>\n<p>But miraculously, Issy has recovered without brain damage.<\/p>\n<p>Now what?<\/p>\n<p>Is Kelli a monster? Is murdering your child ever anything but a capital crime and a mortal sin? Is sympathizing with Kelli tantamount to approving her actions? Should Issy&#8217;s parents have kept her at home, despite the obvious inherent danger? What if you love your child and can&#8217;t bear to have them institutionalized?<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t the attempted murder of a disabled person the same as the attempted murder of any person? If not, why not?<\/p>\n<p>Can you forgive Kelli?<\/p>\n<p>I want to know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelli Stapleton is in jail without bond, for the attempted murder of her daughter Issy. Kelli has documented her challenges as Issy&#8217;s mom in a blog called &#8216;The Status Woe.&#8217; Issy is a lovely blonde 14 year old who is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/a-terrible-story-weigh-in\/\">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":[9,5,8],"tags":[47,270,65],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-2yM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9844"}],"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=9844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}