Kellie ParkI just read a detailed list of the content of child abuse videos that cops in Connecticut are saying a mother sent via text message to her baby daughter's biological father. I'm shaking. The allegations are so cruel and twisted, I can only think of one reason they would have happened. Kellie Park was trying to get caught.
She allegedly sent 50-some text messages to Erick Vece, and eight videos showing her physically and verbally abusing her 10-month-old baby. If it's true, the act of texting could be the best thing that could have happened to her daughter. Not the abuse. Of COURSE not the abuse.
Having someone tilt a 10-month-old child's pack and play so they fall out on the floor, pour food over a baby girl's head, or any of the other horrific things police say they saw in eight abuse videos Park allegedly sent to Vece is not GOOD. But if even one of those videos represents what life was like for that child while living with Park, it's good that police now have the power to get that poor kid out of there.
How many times have you turned on the TV news or powered up your web browser and come across a story of a child who was subjected to unspeakable horrors over years and years? When I see that, I always wonder, what if someone had stopped this at the beginning? What if there was a way to snatch a child from their abuser at the very first sign of abuse?
In that sense, I can't help but wonder: could the texting, the thing that got Kellie Park arrested, be the thing that saved this child?
We don't know how long the abuse might have been going on in Park's home. The videos cops say she sent to Vece might have simply represented the tip of the iceberg. But now Park is facing charges of risk of injury to a minor, cruelty to persons, threatening in the second the degree, and assault in the third degree. And perhaps more importantly, Vece and Park's little girl is SAFE. She's out of that home, been observed at a hospital and released, and she's living with her maternal grandmother while the court system deals with her mom.
The best situation would have been if this little girl was never hurt at all.
But sadly, we live in a country where there are too many adults who do not understand the immense privilege they have when they become parents. I'd like to think that as many of them can be arrested and their children rescued sooner rather than later.
What do you think of this whole twisted tale?
Image via West Haven Police
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why would you give the poor baby the mothers parents...how do you think she got this messed up to begin with to do something like this a child...
Come now, who are we to judge? She's just doing the best that she can. She probably had a terrible upbringing too. She just needs some therapy and parenting classes. The last thing we want to do is split up a family. It takes a village - so everyone else in the community needs to step in and help.
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@cynthia not this opinion atrical the news artical you have to click on. You know the one were it goes into deatail about what she did to that poor little girl.
so the mother knew she was suicidal, postpartum, and bi-polar, but left the baby with her?
I think she's not being charged with enough. If you read the actual article, it details each video. She put her foot on the baby's chest, she is verbally abusing the baby and threatening her, shoving a baby gate over on her.. and that's all she's being charged with?
"Desireesmom2011 No where in the article does it say anything about his phone being in the car."
Yes it does, in the original article it says he was in the store and left his phone in the car. When he came out there were 50+ texts that he looked at when he got to his dads house, and when he saw the abusive videos he showed him to his dad who called police.
She has numerous mental diagnosis, not just bi-polar, and it sounds like she has some psychosis issues. This is NOT an excuses in any way, but she might have no clue what she was doing. And for the people who knew about her diagnosis and left her alone with children, THEY have much more responsibility then she does.
LOL HER MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER. Her mom is all over facebok saying her daughter did nothing wrong and blah blah, this child is going to go right back to being abused. The system really failed this time. Poor baby :(
I wish people like her got the death penalty, and that the dealth penalty for people like her was still the electric chair.