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Officials: Mom gave missing Fla. infant to sitter

Retired Grandparent | 7:58 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

Oh how I wish that all people blessed with children deserved them. I would love to require classes and testing before anyone is allowed to procreate.

Only If 375 | 8:45 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

"Court records released Wednesday said investigators frequently went to the infant's home from August to late September and reported that both parents used marijuana and kept a messy home."

Why, why, why did they leave the baby in that home? Thank heavens they found her, I shudder to think what could have happened if they didn't.

jeannine | 8:57 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

i think people should be required to have a license to be a parent. you have to be 18 to vote, 21 to drink, but ANYONE can have children?!?! as a parent myself, i know it's not easy. but come on!!!
i child in her care disappears 20 years ago and NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING??? and we let her have another one? children are our most precious resource!!! they are worth more than any nameable object on the planet!and protective services are a joke! they did nothing when they were first involved, even though they knew the parents were drug addicts. it's a miracle that the story turned out like it did. thank god little shannon was alive and well. maybe now she can be placed with someone who actually cares about her.

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We should make.... | 9:18 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

....reliable birth control easier to get, and quit trying to make it a religious issue.

You may think your son or daughter is living a moral life, but you really don't know.

jm | 9:45 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

I want to puke! I want to cry!That poor little child.

Anonymous | 9:46 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

The angel is alive, and now she will be taken care of by someone who truly loves her, and does not abuse her. The police officers all cried when they found her alive. that's how invested they were with this case.

Anonymous | 9:47 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

READ MY PROVERBIAL LIPS: Take all the children away from these people and do not allow them to have or be near children any more.

Again | 11:10 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

with Florida.. what is it with people in that state? Everything you hear that is happening now a days happens in Florida! The sun must be making them all nuts. I'm so glad to hear they found the little one. Those parents should have their tubes tied and sent to jail.

@ Anonymous 9:46 | 11:39 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

"The angel is alive, and now she will be taken care of by someone who truly loves her, and does not abuse her."

Unfortunately, being in the foster care program does not guarantee any of that.

M | 12:42 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

Foster care program? Why in the world would you put this child in foster care when there's a perfectly good father to take care of the poor thing?

city girl | 1:29 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

The world seems to be full of sick people! However, the angel baby is alive!!!

to M | 1:55 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

M, have you read the entire article? The father has been alleged to have shaken her--sounds abusive to me, not to mention the drugs.

Anonymous | 2:09 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

Hopefully with this story and others like it in FL, Shannon will be adopted before too long and taken care of by a good family. The more attention she gets by the media teh better the chances of that are.

M | 2:35 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

A lot of women use false domestic violence reports as a way of getting back at their husbands/boyfriends. It seems pretty obvious to me she's a gatekeeping mother who wants the father out of the child's life, and decided to accuse him of abuse and then kidnap the child and blame him.

Unfortunately, women are starting to realize that they can accuse any man in their life of any sort of heinous crime, and everyone will assume they're telling the truth (case in point: you). There's no presumption of innocence if you're a man, especially if you're a father. The police released the man, and the woman is an obvious threat, so there's no reason to assume the accusations she made are true.

Keep the child in temporary care while the claims against the father are investigated (if they haven't been already). When it comes out that this was just another case of false accusation, let him have his child back and let them get on with their lives.

What about | 3:53 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

The grandmother? She looks like she's very relieved to have Shannon back. I think this baby will have love and someone to take care of her without the foster care system.

Anonymous | 9:35 a.m. Nov. 6, 2009

Look at the expression on the poor baby's face. She has seen and experienced far too much abuse and terror already in her short life. Looks like she is having a tough time even trusting her grandmother. Heartbreaking.

Nice. | 2:28 p.m. Nov. 9, 2009

Oh, but the GAYS shouldn't have children.

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