Remember the dad who shoved his six-year-old off the skate ramp with a 13-foot drop? Well, karma caught up with him. Marcus Crossland claims his "bonehead decision" has impacted his entire family, forcing them to move and start afresh.
“It was an effort to help him, but it didn’t come out that way,” Crossland said via an article in Global. “I’m sorry that I made that decision to use that tactic as opposed to another. I’m sorry for the outcome. Because of a decision I made, my wife and my children and everybody has got to deal with it.”
Unfortunately, a Phonenix father must have skipped over that story, because he threw his 23-month-old daughter into a pool in an attempt to "teach her that water is dangerous."
Apparently, toddler Mia threw a five-week-old puppy in the pool, and it drowned. McCarthy then seized his teachable moment, and threw his daughter into the pool—twice—leaving his girlfriend to frantically pull her out.
According to an article in Gawker, Corey McCarthy has since been charged with child abuse. He has already been beaten in jail.
As for Crossland, the last-ditch repentance smacks as an attempt to gain public sympathy (and get the press monkeys off his back).
There are parenting mistakes, then there is outright abuse.
Do you think these dads got their just desserts, or was the backlash—particularly in Crossland's case—excessive?
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