2 accused in toddler’s dehydration death:
Reason to Blow Up the World...
MERIDEN, Conn. - Two family friends accused of depriving a toddler of fluid for a week as punishment for bed-wetting appeared in court Wednesday to face charges in his death.
Police said 23-month-old Amari Jackson died of dehydration while Sharon Patterson and her brother Robert Patterson were caring for him in February.
Investigators said glasses around the house were laced with hot sauce to keep the boy from drinking.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Robert Patterson told police that the boy cried for his mother when he began staying with him and his sister, but "towards the end of his stay Amari was crying for something to drink."
Amari was pronounced dead at to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where medical records indicate that he "appeared wasted" and had "sunken eyes."
Sharon Patterson, 39, was charged with manslaughter, cruelty to persons and risk of injury to a minor. Her 31-year-old brother was charged with cruelty to persons and risk of injury to a minor.
Amari's mother, Sara Hicks, said she has been friends with Sharon Patterson's daughter since they were 8. She said Sharon Patterson offered to care for her son for about a week because she was sick with a fever and caring for her 8-month-old daughter.
Sharon Patterson told police she had been drinking and smoking marijuana the day before Amari died, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. She also told them she had previously lost custody of four children because of drug addiction. Attorneys said in court Wednesday that she has mental health issues.
Even when you try to get help with your kids you're fucked. Damned if you do damned if you don't. But who in the hell doesn't know that dehydration can kill someone. Not only that but who the hell gets mad at 2-year-old kid for wetting the bed. He's two. That's what they do. Dehydration is one of the most horrible ways to go too.
One point for for the murder, another for putting hot sauce on the glasses, who the hell thinks of shit like that, one more point for being a drunk addict, another point for losing your own damn kids, and one last point for just being an all around stupid twat. That's five.
Nod of Doom to Rob Taylor from Red Alerts.
my god, I know people who smoke marijuana
and if anything it makes them giving and
caring almost to the point of nausea, I can't believe that poor baby