Last weekend I was (unfortunately) exposed to the "news" - which is actually nothing more than advertising, propaganda, outright lies and a control mechanism - and heard a story about a local couple in my city who...well, seem like total fucken assholes.
They have a six year old son and figured it would be a good idea to tell him he had cancer. They shaved his head, put a bandage around it to emulate what happens after chemotherapy, placed him in a wheelchair took photos and put up a request for donations to help with his condition on one of those (idiotic) crowd funding sites. This is what I call fucken human garbage!
They raised $60,000.
Let's put aside the fact these people shitbags defrauded people out of money for their own gain and focus on the emotional impact upon the kid who was actually told he had cancer!
I can't imagine it's something that the kid would forget, especially considering his parents were arrested and charged, and my understanding of it is that the kid is now with the child protection agency for safekeeping; that's something he's not likely to forget anytime soon. What the fuck huh?
There's so many bad actors out there, people human garbage trying to take advantage of others and getting away with it too, but what sort of parent does something like this to their own kid? That's a rhetorical question because I know the answer.
I know some of you may think, maybe they were desperate, - and that may actually be the case - but I don't think that's an excuse to possibly permanently damage the kids' emotional state and what about those they defrauded, maybe some of them were not in a position to donate but did so anyway out of the kindness of their hearts. Some people shouldn't be parents I think, and everyone donating to crowd funding sites should be wary. I guess another example of how people's charity doesn't always end up where it should.
Have you ever heard of a similar story in your location?
I know there's countries where children are purposely (and permanently) maimed to gain a better effectiveness when begging - more pity I guess - and that there's a healthy industry based around child trafficking (people trafficking generally) but have you heard of something like this story I write about? What about crowd funding sites, do you think they're legitimate or do you feel so many people are faking situations to take advantage?
Feel free to state your opinions and thoughts or tell a story of such things in your location if you'd like. Also, if you've maimed your child to help them beg more effectively I'd like to hear from you too...not that you're likely to admit it I suppose, but I'd be happy to know so I could report you because, like the couple I mention in this post, you're human garbage.
Now, to lighten mood here's a legit song from 2002 by Garbage...with no human garbage in sight.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard was a similar case, though the mother simply wanted attention and to be 'caregiver', I'm guessing so she wouldn't have to work. I can't remember if she had any charity fundraisers going. In any case, she made up illnesses that her daughter had, made her sit in a wheelchair, ate through a feeding tube, went through several surgeries. After her teeth rotted from either medications or the lack of saliva glands (which the mother had removed), those teeth were pulled. The fact was, she was maimed permanently by her own mother for purely selfish reasons. Gypsy finally had a boyfriend that she persuaded to kill her mother and I believe they even married.
You're right....some people are just shit and shouldn't be parents. It really is too bad that that girl's mother didn't have to spend time in jail with all those women who actually loved their kids but were denied them due to incarceration. She
I remember the Blanchard thing, disgusting piece of work. This sort of thing happens all over the place and probably more than we hear about...humans huh? Disgusting creatures.
Today the courts in UK sentenced a dad for 40 years and his wife for 33 years for killing his 10 year old daughter (her step daughter). The girl was tortured for two years and after she died, they fled UK with their other five kids back to Pakistan leaving the body in their home. When the girl's body was found by the police it had "six probable human bite marks, an iron burn and scalding from hot water, more than 70 new external injuries, including 11 fractures to her spine and signs of a traumatic brain injury."
The girl had been in foster care before, father had violence history and social services were involved but the whole system failed her. The whole situation is so sickening
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Was this in the local news? The 5 kids are still with their grandparents I think
I remembered replying to this with a dawn news link. I am not sure why my comment is not showing.Found it in your other reply
Only 40 years and 33 respectively? I'd have peeled their skin off with a carrot peeler before staking them out on an ant hill...would save the tax payers money by not having to pay for their accommodation in prison. That's just me though, there's many who would disagree with my idea of justice.
I heard child abusers never have a good time in jail, sounds like even criminals have a sense of justice when it comes to kids. Not sure if it's true, hope it is.
Some well known channels covered the news. But I listen news on HIVE FIRST by monitoring "Pakistan" using friday bot. After that I verify it on news channels if needed.
Yeah, that's apparently true, I've heard the same. I'm pretty black and white on the matter; people taking advantage of those who can't take care of themselves is not something I'm tolerant of.
What I can't possibly fathom is how these people feel after scamming all those people and then, obviously, hurting a child. I mean, it's not even human anymore.
It's all a bit odd and, like you say, one wonders how these people live with themselves day to day.
They are estimating 350k or more missing border human traffic kids. Many snatched and used to border cross easier. Like it could get any easier. It is a frikkin nightmare in this country.
Most countries are a nightmare, not many good ones left, if any.
Almost two years ago a co-worker told me that there was a mother in a hospital giving away a child, and that I should please go see her to see if I could adopt him....
The thing is that the lady had alcoholism problems and mistreated her baby, and by that time she had already given away a girl too...but on many occasions she harassed the lady who picked up her little girl.... with that situation I could do nothing, because the state ignores the situation of the minor and does not remove those children from the danger that their mother represents for them...... and that is a crime on the part of the state as well.
It is terrible the things that happen in the world with the responsibility that corresponds to the society about these abused children.
And the lower down the social ladder the cases can be worse.
Yes you're right, it's often those at the lower end of the socio-economic ladder who do such things but it's not exclusive to that group. That aside, I think it's important to remember that this is parents doing these things to their own children. It's disgusting.
People who are capable of harming their own children do not deserve to live...death penalty with them, but life imprisonment.
But crimes like that still happen in many places because societies should be more zealous and careful with children.
I'm not a fan of life imprisonment...too costly, thrown off a high cliff is a better option.
Not a bad idea.
And to make things worse, many who claim social benefits in UK seem to pump out kids quicker than making a loaf of bread, and then rely on the state to look after them, whereas many couples from good backgrounds struggle to have kids to give them a loving life
I've seen that as a very common phenomenon in the U.S., it's like it's a family business....triste.
They should subsidize couples who try to have children, at least one, and put limits on those who believe that having children is a millionaire sport.
So much madness in this world.
I feel like this kid is going to leash out on them like Matilda.
Yeah, or sue them for bullying.
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Hi Galen, I recall at least two cases of farude and also related to false childhood cancer cases. If I remember correctly, one was related to a false case of a child with marrow cancer, and the other to a girl with false leukemia. All these cases are an aberration, I think the adjective human garbage is very appropriate. There is no justification for this.
As for the NGOs or similar, I prefer to directly control my help without the need of intermediaries.
I thought about this situation when writing my post trying to put myself in the position of being a parent who did such a thing and I simply couldn't, my mind wouldn't accept it. I can't imagine how a parent could do such a thing. It's reprehensible...and yet many such cases occur all over the world.
Nor can I justify, or put myself in the place of people who do this kind of thing, it is abhorrent. And, as you say, there are many cases in the world. There are too many perverse people.
I had to press stop on my current song which was Taurus by Glass Beams. The Cherry Lips video seemed like the coolest special effects at the time.
Yeah, I know there are horrible people on this planet like the couple in your post. Definitely. But there are also some pretty amazing humans who do good quietly. Lots actually.
Human garbage get what they deserve though. Sooner or later.
If you aren't capable of being a mentor and emotional support for another less evolved human, or for any human for that matter, you shouldn't reproduce.
It's a great track by Garbage right?
There's god people for sure, but this post is about the extreme opposite. If I ruled the land I'd have them strung up and flogged then hung from a tree. But that's just my opinion.
Amen brother - it’s tragic to witness the depths of human depravity deepening before our very eyes
All for a few bucks. Filthy low down fuckers.
Locally, the biggest stories are panhandlers using hidden speakers to pretend they are performing while trying to get donations from drivers who can't hear the music well enough over traffic to recognize the scam. The allegations are people who follow these beggars find them driving nice cars. Not sure how much is rumor and prejudice, and how much is real scam.
The ingenuity humans go to with the intention of scamming other humans is boundless. So shameful.
A few days ago I saw the news that a newborn baby, a few hours old, was found alive in a garbage can.
Mother monster!
Someone struggles for years with sterility, artificial insemination, someone never succeeds in starting a family, and someone makes it, gives birth and throws it in the bin.
I feel sick.
There are certain nationalities in our area that are leading in the business of begging and I know that there were some cases of mutilation... For prison immediately!
The country where I live is in a poor state, stolen, impoverished, and there are frequent cases of collecting funds for the treatment of children and young people (I recently donated to a colleague for the surgery of two children who have serious complications).
There are several foundations, and we have confidence in them.
One such, which collects funds for children's education, is run by Novak and Jelena Djokovic. I think they have no need to abuse the funds they have 🙂
Sometimes I wonder why humans can be so terrible then I remember it's because humans are such greedy, entitled assholes.
Excessive egos (human garbage)they are merchants of human life, sick with very low self-esteem and absence of limits that destroy others, Galen,, as they do with that child and there will be others on the way who will continue to do so.
I am so sorry for the damage to that child's mental and emotional health.
Yep, for parents to do that to their own child? Terrible parents and terrible humans.
Words can't describe how bad those parents were. They definitely deserve a reward for how evil they are. I think that at least part of that ,,reward'' should be throwing shit at them every day.
stones every other day...But seriously these parents are as bad as a certain fathers from Berserk. And one of those parents sold his adopted son to a rap... and later tried to kill his adopted son as well. It is sad that real parents can rival the evil of fictional parents...
It's pretty difficult to understand it right?
I don't think that the money for example that is raised by certain organisations that are supposed to protect children... goes to the children, it goes into their pockets.
It's a terrible story! The worst of all is the emotional damage to the child and yes, I know of a terrible story... but it is already due to psychological trauma, a mother who keeps her daughter prostrate for not doing a medical examination... the daughter is at serious risk, she doesn't even feed herself, but by a blood connection... she hasn't eaten for years!
Human beings can be despicable creatures.
I don't know what human beings evolved for.... pure horrible thing.
Oh my God, I can't imagine why there are parents like them.sick people
Yep, it's pretty disgusting.
As a parent I can't imagine using my kids for the sake of money
Haha 😠 I can't even talk gentle when someone nickname my child wrongly, not to talk of this kind of emotional injury. The authorities should punish those shitbags very well
Yep, well said. It's terrible behaviour and difficult to understand how a parent could do something like this.
There was just a court case a while ago in the US that dealt with a Munchausen by proxy sort of thing and in the end the girl ended up killing the mom. It was something like that. Sadly, we see these crowd funding things all the time. It's ridiculous and it really drives me nuts because no one bothers to prepare. Why do I need insurance? Someone will just start a gofundme and I will be set. People don't want to put in the work and they want the easy lazy way out. Sorry for the mini rant there....
Nah man, I get the rant and it's valid. People are lazy and are so entitled these day; why bother to take care of themselves when they can put their hand out and have a chunk of cash land on it. Pathetic.
And there's the garbage like this couple...I hope they lose access to their kid, but the law will probably be as weak as always and they'll be left to do this stuff again. Assholes.
Yeah, unfortunately the goal of most agencies like that is reunification, so in this case as long as there is some semblance of regret and the child's needs are being met they will likely get them back assuming one of them takes the fall and the other stays out of jail.
Imagine being that kid and having to live with what's happened? I feel sorry for the lad.
Yeah, I do too. It's horrible. Talk about trauma!
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Quite a crazy story..
It's smart and stupid at the same time. Did they think they wouldn't be caught?
Like was it just a test?
The child would have been so confused.
Last week you were probably saying at the park with friends or something next week your hairs been shaved and you're posing for a picture after being told by your parents who you're meant to always trust that you have an incurable disease..
You think it was smart? I disagree.
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