Please keep these babies in your T&Ps

[erin2903]

A woman down the street from me (on base) was arrested yesterday And has been charged with 3 counts of felony Injury to a child. Her 22 month old daughter was Found unresponsive and later pronounced deceased at the hospital. Her other two babies were cared flighted to a children's hospital and are being treated for injuries relating to abuse and neglect. The husband is on his way home from a deployment.

I am just shocked and heartbroken. I can't wrap my head around how these things happen. Please pray for recovery of the two surviving girls and for the sweet baby that was lost. I can't imagine what their family is feeling right now.

[JakJak]

Oh my gosh, that's horrible. I hope those girls make a full recovery, and prayers for the poor father.

[erin2903]

I do not know her and don't know anyone else who does well (aside from people whose husbands work with hers). I can only speculate. She is very young and had three children very close in age. The youngest is 6 months old. Add in a deployed husband and I can imagine there was a lot of stress. Possible mental illness (maybe post partum?). Like I said, that is purely my own speculation.

Era: sorry the oldest is 3, youngest is 6 months. Not as close in age as I thought.

[bettydraper]

That's just heartbreaking. I am definitely praying for them.

[sookie]

I've been thinking about this all day and wondered if you knew her, but didn't want to text you and bug you seeing as how I knew you were probably hearing from all sorts of people who knew what street you lived on. The whole thing is sick and so heartbreakingly sad.

[prettyinpink]

Oh my, that's horrible. Many thoughts and prayers for those sweet babies.

[erin2903]

Oh Sookie I wouldn't have cared. It has been all I can think about. Couldn't sleep last night.

The newest update is that it was not physical abuse. It was severe neglect as in malnutrition, lack of hygiene and just a total lack of care. This breaks my heart even more. How did no one notice these poor babies were being starved?? I am just sick about it.

[blueshirt2003]

Wow, that is so awful.

[sookie]

Aug 29, 2012 20:35:29 GMT -5 erin2903 said:

Oh Sookie I wouldn't have cared. It has been all I can think about. Couldn't sleep last night.

The newest update is that it was not physical abuse. It was severe neglect as in malnutrition, lack of hygiene and just a total lack of care. This breaks my heart even more. How did no one notice these poor babies were being starved?? I am just sick about it.

Their neighbor has already said she's never seen all 3 kids. She thought it was just the one because that's the only one she'd ever seen. The mom would leave with one kid and come home with one kid, which means that the 3 year old had to have been left home along with the 6 month old. Hopefully that story is incorrect, but who knows. She also said the kids were never outside to play or anything, no one knew the mom.

[brandienee]

This is absolutely heartbreaking. I will be praying for sure.

[Smurfette]

This is so sad. I will be praying for the family

[booyah]

bigcountryhomepage.com/fulltext?nxd_id=527402

A picture of the mom plus article.

[bettydraper]

The comments paint an interesting picture.

Those poor babies. Did her husband have any idea?

[sookie]

She gave an interview last night and basically said this is the military's fault. Her husband had been gone for FOUR WEEKS.

[bigmamma]

Oh no.... heartbreaking. Praying for their Daddy as well.

[softspot]

[bettydraper]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2197037/Military-mom-Tiffany-Klapheke-let-toddler-die-depressed-husbands-deployment.html

Might be a lot of the same info, but I saw this posted to fb this am.

[NomadicMama]

OMG. Girlfriend needs the following: a psychiatrist, a counselor, a giant pair of Big Girl Panties and birth control.

I get being depressed. Hell, I'm feeling more than a twinge of it this very moment, but damn. She left her toddler laying in her own waste. She was 22 months old. If the mom wasn't up to the task of potty training, wait a while.

She has no family nearby to help with her kids. Duh. She married a service member (presumably when our military was involved in two conflicts) and had three babies in rapid succession. If she needed family nearby, she should have married somebody else or not have three babies.

My heart breaks for those children. Her neglect of those precious children had to have started the moment her DH left. He's been gone four effing weeks.

Did her husband not notice a change in her demeaner when they talked? I wonder if they did Skype.

What a sad and avoidable situation.

[ilovelamp]

And in her interview she doesn't even seem sad about her dead daughter. She is just trying to justify her actions and is only regretful because "I will have to pay for this for the rest of my life." WTF.

[basilosaurus]

Sept 3, 2012 10:28:55 GMT -5 ilovelamp said:

And in her interview she doesn't even seem sad about her dead daughter. She is just trying to justify her actions and is only regretful because "I will have to pay for this for the rest of my life." WTF.

Actually, I think that lends to credibility to thinking she was suffering from incapacitating depression.

[brandienee]

This makes me irrationally (or rationally?) angry.

[blueshirt2003]

Ugh, it is all so effed up.

[MrsAggie]

I facebook stalked the mom. Look at her post from April.

[booyah]

www.myspecialks.com/2012/09/in-news.html
interesting info....

[basilosaurus]

I just posted a conversation starter (I hope, it's slow!) about what should be done to prevent this from happening.

[basilosaurus]

Sept 4, 2012 18:21:36 GMT -5 @booyah said:

www.myspecialks.com/2012/09/in-news.html
interesting info....

I think someone who asks why you don't just pick up the phone and call your mom to say I need help doesn't understand what deep depression does to your thought process and ability to act.

[NomadicMama]

Sept 4, 2012 18:25:14 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

Sept 4, 2012 18:21:36 GMT -5 @booyah said:

www.myspecialks.com/2012/09/in-news.html
interesting info....

I think someone who asks why you don't just pick up the phone and call your mom to say I need help doesn't understand what deep depression does to your thought process and ability to act.

I have not read the link, but to add to Sibil's comment--her mom (or grandma or whomever) might not be in a position to drop everything and fly from Kentucky to Texas. The mother in custody is young--her mother likely works. There could be younger siblings still at home who need to be cared for.