Comments on: Oregon Mom Arrested In Son's Drowning

Mother Faces Charges After 4-Year-Old Son Dies In River; 7-Year-Old Sister Survives

[voxpopulus]

". I'm converting to heterosexuality" Well, as you're giving people an excuse to be as homophobic as you are heterophobic I'm not sure what ti advise.

[voxpopulus]

"Here is a woman, who is suicidal, " Suicidal is her affair. It's being homicidal that is the key issue.

[hamiltongrad]

Evil must be confronted. There must be harsh punishment.

But, we need to know too why people snap. Is that a contradiction, erasmus ?

[debinok1]

you are right that it's definitely better to err on the side of caution, but don't you think it odd she had her children on a bridge at 1 in the morning, didn't request help form anyone then threatened to jump to her death from 9 stories when they tried to arrest her?
Posted by sbbm-2009

She threatened to jump nine stories from a "parking garage in downton portland" not from the bridge. At this point nobody has come forward as an eyewitness saying she was on that bridge at 1 am, with or without her children. It is just as possible that she left the children home, went to the parking garage with the intention of committing suicide, the children woke up, found her gone and went to find her, in the dark wandered onto the bank of the river, where one or both slipped into the river and were caught by the current. Until that little girl wakes up and tells the police what happened, everything is speculation.

[vielmann]

CBS you need to do a better job on your writing. This is the worst article I have ever seen. A fourth grader could have done it better.

[voxpopulus]

Ah, it took just six posts before someone blamed a man for a woman committing a murder. What strange worlds some of you live in.

[erasmus111]

This may have been a cry for help. what abuse did the mom suffer either as a child or at the hands of men in society ?
Posted by hamiltongrad at 1:14 PM : May 24, 2009

Stop it.

This woman could have been born with a screw loose. And maybe her mommy had a screw loose too.

[hamiltongrad]

TO set the record straight, any person, man or female who could do this, for any "reason" is evil, and deserves harsh punishment.

[Solarrays247]

Swingset,right on I too fought for my son and raised him with the help of my "new wife of 33 years", he's now 37 yrs.
Posted by mike18881 at 2:03 PM : May 24, 2009


mike18881, during his divorce, my son fought for custody of his son, also. He won his case,and at the time, my grandson was only two years old. He is now fourteen years old, and doing great. He gained a wonderful stepmother ten years ago, and now has two younger brothers! Luckily, his birth mother realized that she was not yet ready for motherhood. She does stay in touch, and that is as it should be.

[Solarrays247]

By the way I am a single DADDY raising his son. I am happy to report I didn't let his mother kill him so she could be with her boyfriend 11 years her junior. ... FYI, my son is NOW 18 years old. Yeah I did a DAMN good job.
Posted by swingset4u at 11:20 AM : May 24, 2009

swingset4u, my brother raised his three children alone also, and he also did a damn good job. I am of the firm belief that parenting is not really gender specific. Neither is love.

My previous post, by the way, was meant in a cynical tone for those specific posters who jumped to ridiculous assumptions based on very few facts. I was hoping to point out how simplistic their posts actually were.

You can be very proud of yourself. I am convinced that it doesn't always take two parents to raise a great kid.....it simply takes a lot of love, caring, and our time!

Peace!