Talk about getting the last laugh. Children who were abused at the hands of their mother penned a most hateful obituary to mark her death. Published in a local Nevada newspaper, the far-from-fond farewell went viral.
But it begs the question: if you can't write anything nice, isn't it better to write no obit at all?
“On behalf of her children who she abrasively exposed to her evil and violent life, we celebrate her passing from this earth and hope she lives in the after-life reliving each gesture of violence, cruelty and shame that she delivered on her children.”
And that was just the opening of the obituary for 78-year-old Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick, whose six (of eight) children were removed from her home and placed in foster care after years of relentless neglect and abuse.
According to an article in the National Post, her children were the first to secure legislation in the state to terminate a parent's legal rights over a child, and had been estranged from her for 30 years.
A Toronto woman was caught trying to smuggle a load of cocaine out of Colombia in a prosthetic baby bump.
According to an article in the National Post, 28-year-old Tabitha Leah Ritchie was pulled aside in Bogota after an inspector found her bump "unusually cold and hard." She was found concealing 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of cocaine in the latex belly.
Leah Ritchie had been attempting to board an Air Canada flight when she was approached. She will now be one of the whopping 874 foreigners currently held in the South American country, primarily on drug-related charges.
Give her points for creativity—those latex bumps looks pretty convincing. Would you have spotted the fake?
Who is this woman, and what in Gaga's name she doing aiming a gun at a child's head? An anti-domestic violence blog is trying to get at the truth behind the viral photo by mass-sharing the distressing image, which originally was posted on an Argentinian Facebook page.
According to an article in the Huffington Post, that page has since disappeared, but the speculation and concern surrounding the image continues. While it could be a sick hoax, it could be that the child pictured is genuinely at risk.
"Apparently there is no Facebook account that it came from so I've no idea as to how we find this little baby," reads a post on the No More Victims blog. "But if there is anybody on here or any of the pages that can help us to find this child please please do so."
The woman is likely to be in her her late teens to early 20s, while the child is thought to be between one and two years old.
Even if the gun in the photo is not real, the threat is, as anyone immature and irresponsible enough to strike that pose certainly warrants investigation.
The internet has turned the world into a very tight-knit community. And at times like these, that's a definite upshot. So let's band together to track down and identify this young woman and child...
I realize it's virtually impossible to police social media sites. But it seems mindboggling that while Facebook races to block images of breastfeeding mothers, it allows pictures as distrubing as this one and pages like this to exist on its site.
Since personal data is stored long after users delete their accounts, doesn't Facebook shoulder a responsibility to work with authorities to trace users who post pictures like this?
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