Update 2 yr old missing in Orlando

The news did a report a few minutes ago that a new concrete pad had been put down recently at the house where Casey was staying - they determined it was around the time the Caylee went missing.  It did not say if they were digging it up but I would assume that they are already in the process of doing so.

This whole story has continued to draw interest because there can be no closure until the little girl’s body is found.  It also continues to haunt millions of us who look at that sweet child’s face wondering how this mother could hurt such a beautiful child.  No matter what a person is going through, there are always options available and killing should never be one of them.

It brings tears to my eyes every time I hear or read an update.  I wish I could hold this little girl in my arms and protect her from the evil that befell her.  Again I find myself wishing that there was some tell tall signs of evilness so that we could identify them and keep the innocent safe.

Latest update on missing FL girl

I just finished reading an update on the missing child in FL.  I am more disturbed now then I was before because police found possible decomposition smells, dirt and hair in the defendant’s car that match the child.

Casey lied to her own parents about having a job, about the babysitter, and where she was staying.  Maybe part of the key to finding the daughter will be to figure out where they had been staying the past month prior to the report of the missing child.

Now, I have a big problem with the fact that her mother, Cindy, seems so willing to believe her.  Could this blind way of acting be one of the reason’s Casey felt the need to lie to her parents to begin with?  Children who feel a lot of pressure to always be perfect and exceed often lie to parents rather then risk disappointing them or asking them for help.

I don’t believe the child is alive.  I believe Casey killed her and buried her somewhere that makes sense to her - someplace accessible by her car and not far from a roadway.  Maybe she’d bury her in a favorite place of the child.  Maybe the mother fell on hard times and reached the end of her rope - killing the child rather then trying to continue to support her.  I’ve read stories of people who lock their children in cages, closets and basements because they can’t afford to pay a babysitter when they go to work.  Maybe this is something like that which ended up getting out of control causing the child’s death.  Maybe Casey didn’t want to admit to her mother that she couldn’t take care of the little girl - after all, she lied to her about having a job.

Unable to face her parents or the consequences of the death, Casey may have thought she could just get rid of the child’s body and no one would be the wiser.  She might have gotten away with it if family hadn’t started asking about her.

Maybe she drove around with the body in the car until the parents started pressuring her - that would account for the smell of decomp.  At this point, I think Casey really needs to come clean about what happened, tell the police where the body is, and deal with the consequences.  The longer it drags on, the guiltier she looks and the more sane because she is working so hard to cover it up…which would blow her chance at an insanity plea.

I don’t think her mother is helping her any by declaring the girl’s innocence.  She should be demanding her daughter tell the truth rather then making excuses for her to lie.  Quit telling her what a good mother she was - instead tell her that she needs to tell them what happened and that, whatever it is, as her mother she would forgive her.  That would give Casey the emotional and mental support she needed to tell the truth and get it all off her chest.

Of course, that is all my opinion which doesn’t count for much in this day and age.

Missing 2 yr old in Florida

I don’t know how many people are following this story, but I continue to be infuriated over how this mother, Casey Anthony, can be so distant and uncaring about where her daughter is.  If she knows who has her daughter, as her mother contends she does, then why isn’t she telling authorities so they can follow up on the child?

Why is Casey’s mother, Cindy Anthony, so ridiculously blind when it comes to her daughter’s lies? And, as one of my reader’s asked, where is the father of this child?

I read tonight that Casey borrowed a shovel around the time the child went missing.  Now, sure, she could have been planting flowers but why wouldn’t she just admit where the child is so she wouldn’t be suspected in her disappearance? An innocent person does not act this way.

It makes me wonder how much Cindy Anthony knows about the disappearance.  Does she know her daughter killed the little girl and now, in a desperate attempt to save her daughter (since her grand daughter is beyond help) she is covering for her? Parents can turn blind eyes to their children but murder? I suppose Casey could have told her mother it was a terrible accident but that she is afraid she wouldn’t receive a fair trail so Cindy is trying to protect her child.  I don’t know but Cindy’s vehement defending of Casey and professing her innocence, it makes them both look all the more guilty.

I hope they do find this child alive and well but I would say that, with all the lies Casey has been spouting, it is getting pretty evident that the child met with foul play.

2 Year Old Missing in Florida

Cadaver dogs have begun a search for the body of a 2 year old girl in Orlando Florida who has been missing for more then a month.

The girl’s 22 year old mother was arrested on charges of child neglect and criminal obstruction because she told investigators she dropped the child off at a babysitter last month but hadn’t seen her since.  The woman did not contact police until this week and then only because relatives were becoming concerned that they hadn’t seen the child in awhile.

While the authorities hope the child is still alive, they are not overly optimistic.  They fear the child was murdered by the mother who then came up with this fantastic story after family started severely questioning her about the child’s whereabouts.

I get really tired of this topic - I wish that God restricted child birth to mother’s he knows will be worthy of the honor.  That may be harsh but it would put an end to child abuse, child endangerment and murders.

Baby Snatchers

What is up with the current rash of baby snatchers? Not only are people snatching babies, but they are cutting them out of the womb.  Kind of disgusting.

The first case takes us to PA where a woman’s body was found at a suspected baby snatcher’s house.  The baby snatcher, who stabbed a woman in 1990 in a plot to steal her unborn infant and tried to snatch an infant out of a hospital days later, showed up at a hospital with a newborn baby who still had the umbilical cord attached.

The woman, Andrea Curry-Demus, tried to pass the baby off as her own but tests revealed the baby was not.  She then claimed she bought the baby for $1000.  A search of the subject’s home revealed a black woman’s body bound with duct tape.  As of yet, they are unable to discern whether the dead woman is the mother of the newborn but there was enough blood at the scene to make them lean in that direction.

According to reports, she pleaded guilty in 1991 to various charges stemming from both incidents then and received 3 to 10 years in prison.  She was paroled in 1998 and began serving a probation.  Guess she should have had to stay a bit longer in jail or been paroled to a mental facility.

Two pregnant black women had been reported missing lately so families were waiting for the body to be identified.  That still leaves one missing…makes you wonder if Curry-Demus has been busier then they think.

The next story derives from Missouri where a woman pleaded guilty to kidnapping a pregnant teenager she met online.  She convinced the girl that she would take her to buy baby clothes but then bound and gagged the girl.  Officer’s responded to the hotel the pair were at for a welfare check only to find the teenager.

They believe, though the kidnapper denies it, that she intended to cut the baby from the teenager’s womb because they found tools to do so in the room.  The kidnapper, Lauren Gash, had registered at “Babies R Us” and had even held a baby shower where friends said she appeared to be pregnant.  She then told relatives a few days later that she had given birth to a baby boy.

The victim gave birth to a healthy baby boy two days after being rescued.  I assume that, during their correspondence online, the victim had mentioned to Gash that she was having a baby boy.

Then I read about a case where a woman tried to snatch a baby right out of the nursery at the hospital.  She actually got away with the baby but authorities caught up with her at her home.

Doesn’t it seem this world is getting stranger and stranger?  Maybe it is just me but between girls throwing their babies away like they are trash, and others kidnapping pregnant women to take their babies…it seems like things in this world are just way too out of whack.

Second Four

The second four have started out with a bang - just what I wasn’t hoping for.  First there was an alarm at one of our facilities, then a vehicle accident with injuries, and trying to scramble to get all the paperwork finished for the evening shift.

The night shift guys are much more patient and more laid back - most of them are veterans though whereas the evening shift has newer people.  We just hired three new officers so don’t know what shift they’ll get going on.  One of the new officer’s is one of our dispatchers so here we are short again.  That really is going to stink once students come back full time and football starts.

Hopefully the rain will keep it quieter then last night - the guards are pretty much finding buildings to wait out the rain so they shouldn’t be calling in every five minutes.

It’s Friday Night in Iowa City

Ohmygod! What a night so far!  We have had traffic stops, a couple of fights, several drunks, a naked man running through downtown, a man who was hit in the head who had a concussion, two people struck while in the crosswalks right outside our building, and a suspicious guy hanging out down by the river.  City has called us several times to back them up because they were so busy that they couldn’t handle it all either.  What a mess!

I really don’t know what the city is coming too.  I guess it is a sign that things are returning to normal after being so repressed by the flooding.  Students are out in force living it up on a Friday night but if they could use a little common sense, that would be nice.

It is after 3am now and the bars should be getting the last of their customers out.  The streets have cleared, the rain has stopped, and one would hope it means things will slow down now.  Our campus has become a non-smoking campus - meaning people can’t even smoke outside anymore.  It isn’t overly enforced and we haven’t had time tonight to even think about dealing with people violating the policy.  The City has also gone smoke free but they are not writing citations for people who still want to smoke.  Guess most people feel about it the way I do, if the smokers are outside, who cares?  I get tired of “big brother” always out there trying to dictate our civil liberties.

No, I don’t smoke either - never have.  The policy makes me angry because, as I said, it is just one more thing government thinks they can force on us as if we are not capable of making decisions for ourselves.  It is reminiscent of Sarasota trying to enforce a “no cussing in public” ruling.  If I want to cuss in public, then damn it, I’m going to.  It is ridiculous.  I feel like lighting a cigarette and walking around just to rebel against the idiots who think they have the right to dictate my rights.

Whew, I’ll climb down off my soap box.  Just irritates me.

Assisted Colonization

Well, we knew it would all come down to this eventually. Afterall, we humans are the smartest of all God’s creatures and thus, colonizing the animal world in our own way should be how it was meant to be right?

Not only should we colonize the creatures how we see fit, we should also decide in an animal kingdom triage sort of way, what species we should let become extinct in favor of keeping other species around in this world of shortening animal habitats. Doesn’t that seem normal to everyone?

Scientists have advised that the species of Sky Island in Arizona is basically “toast” because they don’t know where they would move them so might as well let them go extinct. Who needs them anyway?

“When deciding which species to save and which to watch die, Root said one key is uniqueness. That’s why she said she’d save the odd-looking Tuatara of New Zealand, a lizard-like creature with almost no living relatives, over the common sparrow.”

“The risk of extinction has to be balanced by the potential hazard to the community where a species is relocated as well as the time and cost of making the move, Parmesan says.”

“Ultimately, the decision about whether to actively assist the movement of a species into new territories will rest on ethical and aesthetic grounds as much as on hard science,” she said in a statement.

“Passively assisting coral reef migration may be acceptable, but transplanting polar bears to Antarctica, where they would likely drive native penguins to extinction, would not be acceptable,” she said.

“Conservation has never been an exact science, but preserving biodiversity in the face of climate change is likely to require a fundamental rethinking of what it means to preserve biodiversity,” Parmesan said.

Wow, doesn’t it just make you proud to be a human? And, by the way, whose to say penguins are more unique then the polar bears? I think that is subjective and totally unfair. Let’s relocate the penguins to Alaska or Canada - let the bears have the Antarctica.

Somewhere I’m sure someone has a nice little chart with nice little diagrams of how every thing would benefit if we took over nature. Let’s make the world one big zoo. Does it irk anyone else as much as it does me??

I understand that some species are endanger of becoming extinct but is moving species around a good idea? Shouldn’t we let Mother Nature handle, well, Mother Nature? Have we done much good when we have “accidentally” relocated things in the past? Fire ants spring to mind - they came over from Africa or some such place - now look at how they’ve become an epidemic in the south.

Pretty soon I won’t have to watch the Sci-Fi channel to get my “b” movie horror fix - the reality of what we’ve done to our world will far out due what they can come up with on TV.

Dishes

By the way, I’m most happy to report that since moving into my apartment - my dish obsession has completely vanished.  Don’t know what it was all about but I’m glad it is gone.  Now I don’t care what kind of dishes I end up with - just as long as they don’t break or chip and a person can eat on them.  {sigh}

I must also say, I don’t want to have anymore obsessions like that again because it was truly mind-boggling.  No, maybe mind-numbing would be a better description.  But, thankfully, I’m back from the edge of the abyss pretty much none the worse for wear. 

Bonkers

This is the set

I must admit I think I’ve gone over the edge mentally. That deep, dark abyss is waiting to lay claim to my mind - it’s only a matter of time before the men in white come with that straight jacket to escort me to a padded cell. I really can’t explain what happened - I think my brain just snapped.

Why do I think so? Because I just spent almost four hours looking at dishes…again. This must be the fifth or sixth time I have spent an extensive amount of time looking at them and I really have no idea why.

Dishes have never been a big deal with me. If I can eat off them then that is a big plus. However, since renting an apartment, suddenly picking out the “perfect” dishes has become an obsession. Seriously, I can’t seem to stop myself from pouring over the dishes offered by Walmart, Target, Kohls, and Bed, Bath and Beyond.

Each time I come back to the same set of dishes - confident that they are the ones I want. So why can’t I just let it go??? I don’t know.

It seems to be very important to me that I have a matching set of creamer, sugar bowl, salt/pepper shaker, serving bowls, serving platters, baking dishes, and glasses. WHY??? What is this obsession and WHY do I have it? I’ve never had this before in my life! It certainly perturbs me.

Even now, I feel this need to start looking at them again. The set I have picked out numerous times does not come with a matching anything. I don’t know why as it is a newly released set from Corelle - you’d think it would come with that stuff. So I have had to surf the net trying to find something that would work with the set - look good and be functional. {sigh}

My wrists hurt from all the typing I’ve done on the keyboard just searching for those perfect matches. I don’t even want to venture a guess at what is wrong with my brain. I know it has something to do with the move and not being settled into my own place yet - but why dishes???

Why not shower curtains, bookcases, bed sheets, towels, pictures for the wall…or a countless other things I have to think about buying?? Like the bedroom I’ve decided to do in butterflies - why aren’t I obsessing about that? The living room I thought I would do in woodland animals so you’d think I’d be looking at things to decorate that way.

But no, I’m stuck on dishes for the kitchen. I have looked at so many different salt/pepper shakers, tea sets, platters, and oh, don’t forget the butter dish!!! It makes me want to just buy the one I want so I can stop thinking about it but I don’t because I don’t want to spend any money until I find out what moving in is going to cost me.