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#41278 - 06/21/06 01:26 AM Re: Remembering Katie McCarron
ParaDude
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All Children are beautiful, encourage people to realize what special gifts they are.
Yes they are, and it's a shame so many AB children are left out of the equation when it comes to advcating for them. Why do only disabled children get the press?

G'nite.
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#41279 - 06/21/06 02:29 AM Re: Remembering Katie McCarron
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Loc: WA 		they usually don't. and, if not for NDY, katie wouldn't have.
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#41280 - 06/21/06 08:18 AM Re: Remembering Katie McCarron
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Loc: a box on the table 		you think? here in my (NY/NJ) area there have been two relatively high profile cases reported of parents killing their (a/b) children in the local news, just this year. as PD said, these sorts of stories rarely make it outside the local news.

ps. hi PD!
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#41281 - 06/21/06 08:58 AM Re: Remembering Katie McCarron
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Decide what? She admitted it. You don't think she should be condemned? Exactly what the hell do people have to do to earn your condemnation, if killing an innocent child doesn't qualify??

And why did you put autistic in quotes?

If everyone supports Karen's right to PAD, how about supporting Katie's right to LIVE?

and how qualitatively different would it be from dumping the kid in an institution and never coming back ?


Umm, real different. Being alive and being dead are REAL different.

As one who was institutionalized and managed to figure out how to free myself... I say life is better than death. (Isn't that a forgone conclusion? )

Give the kid a fighting chance, Jesus H.
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#41282 - 06/21/06 09:16 AM Re: Remembering Katie McCarron
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they usually don't. and, if not for NDY, katie wouldn't have.
Funny, social workers have case load after case load of AB children being abused, neglected, and yes even killed, yet we rarely hear anything about it, unless of course there is some sensational aspect to it.

Sad, but true.
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#41284 - 06/21/06 11:37 AM Re: Remembering Katie McCarron
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Loc: United Provinces of America 		For everyone you hear about Xuxan there are probably 100 more that never make the local papers, much less the national news.
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#41286 - 06/21/06 11:52 AM Re: Remembering Katie McCarron
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And so does that mean we should be silent about the ones we do hear about because there are others we don't know about?
No, but you only hear what you want. It's easy enough to look at the bigger picture and step up and speak for ALL the kids, not just the disabled ones.
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#41288 - 06/21/06 12:16 PM Re: Remembering Katie McCarron
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But Katie wasn't "all kids". Katie's murder is being considered something understandable.
Just because you keep saying it doesn't mean it is true. Her defense may make it out to be "understandable", some in the media may do the same. But so far, I have seen not one single person here suggest it was "understandable".
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#41290 - 06/21/06 12:37 PM Re: Remembering Katie McCarron
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Loc: Tennessee 		Susan, you are fussing at the wrong people - Katie's murder was not in any way shape or form justified. She was murdered and her mother should rot in jail.
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#41291 - 06/21/06 12:40 PM Re: Remembering Katie McCarron
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First, this is an adults with disabilities focused message board and doesn't include many parents of kids with disabilities so the majority of people who are finding her actions excusable are not represented here.

And second, Candra did defend her, even though she ended her litany of reasons her actions were understandable with saying she was not defending her.
Like Merry said, then you are preaching to the choir here. If this Mother's guilt was as certain as you seem to think then there would be no need for a trial, take her out and hang her. Luckily we live in a civilized society that allows an accuesed person to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Candra's one sentence is hardly cause to moan, the other 6 pages here seem to indicate those sentiments are not exactly universal.
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