Add this to the list of things that make just leaving your house sound absolutely terrifying. Police say Kenisha Thomas somehow managed to sneak a kitchen knife past metal detectors at a government building in Baltimore yesterday. And then she allegedly used it to stab her 8-month-old baby! In the face and neck!
If there is any good news to be found in this little horror story, it's that getting that knife into the Department of Social Services building means there were witnesses when the infant was stabbed. Rushed to Johns Hopkins Medical Center, police say she is going to make it.
Pheww!
While she's convalescing thanks to some fast acting workers in that building, can we talk about why this story has grabbed national attention?
First, and foremost, of course, is the fact that someone actually stabbed a baby. An innocent little baby! You have to be 50 shades of sick and twisted to do something like that.
Second is that security measures in a government building failed so miserably that someone that sick and twisted made it inside with a deadly weapon. Disturbing as it was, that mother's alleged violence was an isolated incident. Arrested and charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder, child abuse, and assault, it seems like the only one at risk here was the child. But knowing crazies can make it into a government building with weapons doesn't exactly make me want to go visit the DMV anytime soon, you know what I'm saying? Eek.
And of course, there's the biggie here folks. A baby was stabbed. A baby! And mom is now in jail. Which leaves, who, exactly to parent this child? This is the hardest part of parent on kid crimes for me ... knowing that the person a kid needs most is the problem to begin with.
What do you think about when you hear the person who committed a crime on a child was their own parent?
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It makes me sick that people who can have kids do this bleep to their own babies and there are those who can't have babies on their own, would be loving parents and this kind of crap happens. WRONG on all levels. I wish that poor baby well!!!!]
this is sick and twisted, and i hope the mother burns for this, but i am not surprised at all, and by that i am speaking of the social service building up there in Baltimore. 9 years ago, my kids were in foster care in that city. i used to go there once a week to visit them, and i was scared to death of that place!! first of all, it is right in the middle of the projects, and second of all, the medical detector didn't even work when i went there, and there was not even a security guard in the lobby!!!! the case with my kids finally got closed because of so many mistakes made by DCF. I would have hoped it improved by now, but I guess not, and another child suffered because of it...smdh
did anyone else catch that she went into the board of social services... my guess would be that they had taken her baby away from her for some reason or another.. and she was having some type of visitation when this happened. im just saying i definitely think this is how that happened. maybe they shouldnt have given her that much leeway
lets see who the child has to parent the kid, its father, its grandparents, aunts, uncles? Come on. Also why was the baby alone, as suggested by this article, in a building anyways? Or is there more to this that isnt shared also i doubt its grabed national headlines as this is the first time i've heard of it and the news isnt reporting it here.