Nanny Suspected In Stabbing Deaths Of 2 Children Remains Hospitalized

[Phillip V]

How does getting a new future nanny = blaming mother for murder

Oh bullshit. Your comment was made as a jab at Mom for not being home with her kids, and instead hiring a nanny. Don't try to play it off now that you've been called on it.

Garbon wrote "That child is going to be smothered with maternal protection now." I replied she may get a new nanny. This is future, not past.

[merithyn]

I replied to Garbon's "That child is going to be smothered with maternal protection now." She may get a new nanny. This is future, not past.

Does mother have time? Maybe she will get a new nanny.

And the point of the bolded?

You know, a grown up would own up that it was a joke in poor taste, apologize, and move on.

[Phillip V]

I own that I mean what I asked. You can answer or continue to take offense. Garbon mentioned that she is no longer a stay-at-home mom since last year, perhaps working.

[merithyn]

I own that I mean what I asked. You can answer or continue to take offense. Garbon mentioned that she is no longer a stay-at-home mom since last year, perhaps working.

Oh, so not offensive, just stupid?

Do honestly believe that Mom could even consider such a thing right now? That she can even dream of such a thing?

I knew I should have stayed out of this thread. Goddamn it. 

[DGuller]

Meri, I don't think Philip had the thought you ascribe to him.  In fact, I don't think he's even capable of forming such complex thoughts.  He just made an extremely tasteless joke, and is trying to back away from it without owning up to it.

[Malthus]

Ahh, Meri on the warpath. The Boudicca of Languish flamers, wielding a keyboard like a  scythed chariot of vengence. 

[Phillip V]

I can't see how a joke would even be funny in this case.

And if I were trying to impart wisdom, I would make it clear and forceful so as to benefit the world.

[Barrister]

What an unbelievably sad story.   

You know, I can understand some cases of child abuse - when you have a couple of screaming kids for several hours it can cause you to question your sanity.  But to repeatedly stab them?  What. The. Fuck.

[Phillip V]

Some details emerge:
- mother was a homemaker and did not work outside the home
- nanny had financial and psychological problems; worked other jobs on the side
- nanny was hired through a referral by another family; may not have undergone background check/vetting
- family took some interest in the nanny, even visiting her native Dominican Republic

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/nyregion/motive-for-stabbings-a-mystery-as-a-portrait-of-a-troubled-nanny-emerges.html

[Eddie Teach]

If Tamas wants to argue over believing in the existence of God, it's stories like this that are a much better starting point.

Nah, it just shows that God is a prick.

[Caliga]

The nanny is very lucky that when the mother discovered all of this, she didn't take the knife out of her hands and finish her the fuck off.  If I was the parent in this situation, I think there's a good chance that's what I would have done.

[Eddie Teach]

The nanny is very lucky that when the mother discovered all of this, she didn't take the knife out of her hands and finish her the fuck off. 

Disagree, she'd have been better off.

[garbon]

The nanny is very lucky that when the mother discovered all of this, she didn't take the knife out of her hands and finish her the fuck off. 

Disagree, she'd have been better off.

Yeah death would be too good for her.

[Darth Wagtaros]

She really gonna suffer worse?  She'll be tossed in the crazy-person house and pretty much forgotten by everyone but that family. 

[garbon]

I think being trapped in a mental hospital for decades would be worse.