It’s a fact: mothers usually get the children when a couple splits up.
After all, mothers have that (appropriately named) maternal instinct. Mothers have usually bonded better with the child than the father. Mothers are usually more interested in what the child is doing.
Sometimes, however, that’s not the way it is.
Sometimes, there are complicating factors.
22-year-old Ashly Duchene and Clayton Gallagher weren’t doing so well together. As many experienced couples can relate, having a baby doesn’t usually bring the two parents together, it doesn’t “fix” a relationship already in trouble - the event usually adds stress to a relationship and makes things worse.
When Ryan Gallagher was born, I’m sure that Ashly, a relatively young and immature mother, thought things would be better.
It didn’t turn out that way.
Things were pretty bad between Ashly Duchene and Clayton Gallagher. Neighbors have mentioned that Clayton would slap her around and physically abuse her.
44-year-old Carol Thomas has said:
I’m angry at myself because I haven’t gotten involved. I often heard Clayton yelling that he was going to kill her and cursing at her. I never heard the baby cry, just the sound of Clayton hitting Ashly Duchene.
Carol Thomas also said that she and a maintenance worker had seen Clayton Gallagher punch Ashly on the head and throw her to the ground.
Not exactly a Hallmark moment.
Ashly and Clayton broke up, and Ashly hooked up with an unemployed loser who had hurt himself in a motorcycle accident. She worked long hours to support him.
Motherhood is tough, and Ashly, a troubled young woman, was having second thoughts about if she wanted to be a mom or not.
Ashly Duchene had, in the past, attempted suicide at least once and family members and her close friends knew that she wasn’t happy being a mother. She wanted her freedom and didn’t like being saddled with a baby.
It’s not as if Clayton was much of a help. Frustration on Ashly’s part is understandable.
On Monday, the 29th of October, 2007, Ashly almost left Ryan in her vehicle while she was on her way to work. Since the boy had been in his grandfather’s care for a few weeks, she had gotten out of the habit of taking him to daycare. Fortunately, she remembered that he was in the car and dropped him off at the appropriate location.
On that day, during a one-and-a-half hour phone conversation, Ashly told Clayton Gallagher that she couldn’t take it anymore, that she couldn’t do it anymore. She complained about how much Ryan cried and said that she didn’t want him around. When Clayton asked to take the boy, she refused to let him, saying that she couldn’t stand not seeing Clayton every day.
On Tuesday, the 30th of October, Ashly drove to work her 7-hour shift at Hooters, where she had been a waitress for 2-and-a-half years. She arrived at 10 in the morning.
When she was done with her shift, at 5 in the evening, she came back to her car and sat in the front seat.
Then she realized something.
She realized that Ryan Gallagher was in the back of the SUV, sitting in his car seat.
He was dead.
The car had gotten over 100 degrees that day. Ryan was cooked to death after watching his mother walk away, after watching people walk around the car - at least until he finally fell unconscious.
Police and emergency crews arrived at the scene. Ashly explained that she had forgotten to drop Ryan off at daycare.
Ashly related to police that she remembered glancing at her son in the rear view mirror on her way to work that morning, and that Ryan was smiling at her and happy.
Ashly Duchene was arrested after midnight and charged with a felony count of negligent homicide.
Evidently Monday had been a rehearsal. Tuesday was a take.
17-month-old Ryan Gallagher, the only child of Ashly and Clayton, suffered and died because his parents couldn’t work together. He died because his parents wanted to snipe and pick at each other and hurt each other.
He died for no reason at all.
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How can she just “forget” he’s in the car? 17 month olds babble, talk…usually can say mama etc. How did she just leave him in there?!
Somebody should strap her into a car and lock the doors with no way out!
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this is tough… i can definately relate with this girl- she was young and dumb… but that is NO EXCUSE for killing your baby… if she didn’t want him anymore she should have let the father have him..she didnt want to do that becuase then she wouldn’t see the father anymore— well now in prison you DEFINATELY aint seeing him, good job idiot!! good job! next time you have a baby- make sure you WANT him so another poor child doesnt end up dead…. i am getting soooo sick of reading about mothers killing their children IT RIDICULOUS!
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It’s very sad that this happened to the little boy, but everyone must realize it was NOT done on purpose. The Mother made a terrible mistake in forgetting he was still with her when she pulled into her work that morning. Zealous police, DA offices and especially reporters tend to jump to conclusions. They can charge someone of a crime when no crime has been committed, and reporters slander and ruin reputations trying to claw their way to the top. They want to sensationalize their articles and very very often leave out or deminish the most outstanding truth, of the facts of a case, and report speculation as if it were fact, to rouse the most trepidation possible. This is what is giong on here in 90% of these articles.
Although Ashly was OVERWHELMED with her life, and life as a mother, (honestly we all have our days) I don’t see anywhere where she intended to harm her baby on purpose. Not AT All. As an extremely abused girl, trying to work extra hard to make ends meet, in the turmoil of trying to save face and keep it all together, given what she was going through in her private life, it IS I repeat IS, possible for her, or anyone, to have unexplained lapses in short term memory, especially if there is a lack of sleep involved. It’s evident that someone older in the family realized she was overwhelmed or needed help and took the baby for a couple of weeks in an attempt to lighten her load, which to a degree played a part to her forgetting to take him to daycare, since she had recently been out of the habbit. She apparently had a lot to think about, was in a lot of turmoli regarding the abusive X-boyfriend trying to get the baby from her. What loving Mother irregardless of her delima, would let her baby go to a person who had been beating the crap out of her? She told him she had to see her baby every day, most likely not only because she loved and missed him when he was gone from her for the 2 weeks just before, but also because she was afraid to tell her abuser she didn’t trust that the child would be safe with him, because of the violence she knew he was capable of, but she does mentiion to him that the baby cries a lot, a subtle way of her disclosing to him that she feels the crying would be a problem for him with the child also. Further that she didn’t feel the child would be safe with him. (Who would?) I see that she it was hard for her to take care of the baby alone,(she may not have had great parenting skills in dealing with a toddler or a fussy baby, and happened to voice her frustration the day before, which her X may now be using out of context, but that doesn’t mean she didn’t love him or want him). I see that she worked extra hard to make ends meet, and that because she was young, she wanted a fun social life like everyone else she worked with. I see that she was faced with a possible fight with the X b/f over the baby’s custody, and was probably worried sick over how that would go and maybe even feared for her life as he had threatened, even in public, to kill her, while beating her, according to witnesses. Even though an older family member helped her with the baby, members of her own family may have been threatening her to take the baby, if they didn’t like her choice in men, for instance, and she may have felt attacked by all sides, and felt overwhelmed enough to make the statements she made the day before, regarding not being able to do it any more. Deep down she may have felt helpless because maybe noone was giving her any credit for, or help in, all her struggles. What little help she had, had just ended. She was on her own again. She tried her best to do what was expected of her, and was barely holding it all together. She loved her son very much and wanted the best for him, and found herself between a rock and a hard place, I’m sure she was worried sick at times, about her delima. She is a yound mom, who was leading a busy, tension filled life on the surface, but had so much more turmoil going on in her life below the surface that she had to try to keep under wraps, from her public life. She had a lot on her plate and a lot on her mind, but from what I see, she was very concerned for the wellbeing of her son and never wanted any harm to come to him. For instance, you don’t see ANY reports coming out about her having EVER abused her son in any way. Throughout her frustration, she had never hurt him in any way, because she loved him, and I believe she tried her best to take good care of him. She made one terrible mistake, she forgot to drop him off at daycare. Like EVERYBODY forgets this or that important thing from time to time, she forgot that day. She made a terrible mistake that cost the babies life, and she will never get over that as long as she lives. To me, this is no diffenent than a child accidentally dieing b/c of being hit by a car in the driveway, geting into medicine not secured, drowning in a swimming pool, or any other way of accidental death, while in the care and control of a parent. Terrible, and sometimes unexplainable, accidents happen, and can happen to any of us. I do not believe the mother should be charged with a crime because I do not believe there was any intent to hurt the child. No punishment could ever be worse than living with loosing her baby like this. I just pray that she is allowed to plan for, and go to her babies funeral, and not be confined from him in any way. She needs and deserves to be able to say goodbye to her precious baby and mourn his death without being worried and afraid about what the news reports, the legal system or the general public, or anyone else will do to her, or think about her, or say to her or about her, to tarnish her. She did not committ any crime and should not be charged with one. I pray she gets a good lawyer and the help and support that she will need to get through this!! Keep in mind, this could have happened to any one out there, and does every day. Don’t be so fast to judge, because you never ever know. The condecending hateful remarks are so callous and hurtful in so many ways. Have you ever forgotten anything important? How would you want to be treated if this were you? Because it really could be.
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BONITA-ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!DID YOU MISS THE PART WHERE SHE SAID THAT SHE DID NOT WANT HIM AROUND ANYMORE!?!WHERE ARE YOU FROM?YOU CERTAINLY ARE NOT FROM REALITY!!!
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Mandy, do you not realize that this previously disturbed (to put it nicely) X boyfriend who apparently despises her enough to beat her and threaten to kill her before this happened, may hate her even more now that, in his eyes, their baby died because of her her? I’m sure he and all their families and friends and community are hurting terribly over this.
Do you not think that he may be making this allegation to cause her to look like she did it on purpose b/c he wants to see her destroyed? We already know he had thoughts of that before this happened because he acted on them often, by pyhsically and verbally attacking her, by beating her up privately and publically on several occasions and became so brazen that he, at least once, while beating her, declared to kill her, in the public eye, as stated by 2 witnesses. That is not in dispute.
Now that this has happened to the baby, the X supposedly says, according to those affore mentioned however true reporters articles, that she supposedly said, (according to HIS intrepretation of one sentence in an hour and a half conversation) that she didn’t want the baby around any more. “Around any more” doesn’t mean dead. Durring this long conversation, IF she said that, THAT supposed statement could now be taken out of context in 100 different ways, and can easily comes across completely different than she meant it, when made standing alone.
For instance, and this is partly hypothetical of course; as we’ve seen, this guy will go to any length’s to manipulate and control her,(beatings and threats.) Did he want her back, and had she spurned his demands and advances, for someone else? We know leaving your abuser is the most dangerous time for a spouse, and most often when the abuser will kill. We know this has been happening lately between them. If that is true, could he also believe that if he could manage to take the baby away from her,( in court) he knows that she would come back to him to stay with her child, and he would have her back too? We know he is brazen and apparently fearless of his breaking the law, but brazen enough to think that he can hoodwink a judge? Yes, I would say so.
On the other hand, if they were never married, they never divorced, and the matter of custody and visitation as well as child support, probably had never been made legal. Up until that point, I believe the parent who has physical custody could refuse to return the child to the other parent and could petition the court for legal custody, stating that the child was living with him and that he was providing a home for the child. Especially if that parent claimed the child on his taxes the previous year, which he probably did, and she could have agreed to, if they were together at the time. Good reason for a mother, in a seperating couple, to feel the urgency to make the childs arrangements legal asap.
Did she hide the child out with another family member those 2 weeks while she waited for a court date so he wouldn’t or couldn’t steel the child from her? In that case maybe SHE was the one to bring the case to court, changing the whole “court story” completely. Then there’s the matter of him having to pay child support unless he got custody, and maybe he was trying to take the child because of that, in court the day before, as it suggests in those famous reports, however he failed, still putting her through probably weeks or months of worry and hell. I believe this guy really knows she has been in a fragile state, he helped to put her there. She loved him once, and he is the father of her precious baby. With this, I believe he knows how to manipulate her, and spent a lot of time with her on the phone doing just that the evening before, and could have even been recording this conversation to pick up her saying something negative like this to take to a judge. If this is true It makes sense that she feels that this childs father is bringing so much grief and agony and worry into her life and is tieing her to her tormenter forever, that she may say in despair, anger, fear, or fatigue that she doesn’t want him any more. If she said anything like this, I personally do not believe she truly meant it. I do not believe she wanted her son dead, or planned to kill him. I believe she forgot he was back there and didn’t notice him in the rear view mirror when she arrived at work. With all due respect, Your entitled to your opinion and me, mine. Thanks….
Who knows, Apparently, no matter what the X tried to bring up against her, the judge felt she was a fine mother the day before this happened or he would have given him custody of the child, if that was what he was really asking for, or put some kind of stipulations, qualifications and monitoring system in place for the Mom, or more. I haven’t heard of any such requirements. IF the case was about her poor parenting, after reviewing the evidence and talking to both parents and any witnesses, the judge left the child with the mother. He decided the child was with the right parent, and she was doing a fine job, apparently.
Then again, could this really have been simply one of those routine hearings to establish legal custody, visitation and support: business that needed to be taken care of? Meaning now, since he didn’t get the child as he maybe threatened, and now that this has happened, he is madder than ever, that he may be trying to put the word out, sans all the true details, leaving us all to “imagine” that the hearing was about her poor parenting and he was trying to save the child from her, so the comment about her not wanting the child falls into damning place perfectally for his purpose.
There are so many variables that we don’t know about, and so many slants and spins put on a story like this, that it’s so damaging to jump to concluisions and quickly condemn this poor girl. If this case goes forward, the jury pool, if there is one, comes from, we the people. Let’s wait for the facts and temper our judgement with a little understanding. I myself believe this was an accident, an oversight, a terrible mistake. If I’m right I hope they drop these charges and leave this girl alone, to try to come to terms with the fact that her precious baby is now gone from her arms. She may wonder herself for the rest of her life how this could have posssible happened. Had he fallen asleep? Wonder how she could have forgotten to drop him off, and why the daycare didn’t call when he didn’t show up that morning.
Her mind was somewhere else, like so many of us these days. Too too much going on. She got out of the habbit of driving to his daycare b/c she hadn’t been taking him for the past two weeks. But I don’t see any criminal intent here.
You speak to me about reality? As I attempted to show, there is a lot we don’t know. Decisions we make, because of what we think we know, because of what we read and hear, is often based only on half truth’s. That is the first caveat of this reality. Someones version of a piece of the story. There are a lot of possibilites as to how this could have happened, to be learned by the authorities now I suppose, regarding this case.
This forum asks about people’s opinions. You have yours, and this is mine. I emplore you all to withhold judgement. This is happening more and more in cars. Most of them are good and responsible parents who would be the first to pass judgement on someone else, until it happens to them. It is so hard to believe because it defies our imagination.
Concerning solutions, while I see that there are some suggestions and precautions in place regarding this, nothing is across the board or fool proof. No warning device, as when you leave your keys in the ignition. Necessity is the mother of invention. I challenge you all to come up with a fool proof idea that can be easily implemented in all automobiles, better yet durring manufacturing, so that this never has to happen to another baby, and parent again, and act on your idea. Who knows, if you patent your idea, and can sell it, you may become rich at the same time. Saving lives and becoming waalthy at the same time. What could be better.
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you know, bummer that she got her ass whooped all the time by what’s his face, but shit, how do you forget your son in the car? Not cool. Even worse, that she complained about having a child.
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I am a long-time family friend of Clayton Gallagher. You have your facts WRONG! Clayton is not the current boyfriend who slapped Ashly around. They have been separated since right after Ryan was born. He has tried since the child was born to get custody, but Ashley has refused to cooperate. He filed papers with the courts last week to get heard in court to gain custody.
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Mother, thank goodness you are speaking up on this young man’s behalf. Because just as I am pointing out, the reports offer, (purposely or mistakenly) info that leaves or points to him as being her abuser, not only by what they say but also by what they conveniently don’t say. God knows these families are in no shape to defend themselves while they are being crucified. The 2nd guy in her life is mentioned only as being her current boyfriend, who is recouperating from a motorcycle accident while she supports him, and whom her family also doesn’t like, leaving the impression that she just plain stinks at picking boyfriends. It is a breath of fresh air to know the father hasn’t been responsible for her abuse that we know of. My point has been for us all to please reserve harsh judgement on this young lady, and everyone involved, until the facts are sorted out, and we get to the REAL truth. I personally, am very very sorry that this has happened to your friend’s son, and offer my deepest condolences to the father and his family, and feel for them all durring this most difficult time while their lives are being scrutinized and ripped apart under a microscope by the unknowiing general public.
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Clayton was an outstanding father! I didn’t realize that anyone on earth had the power to condemn people to hell! He loved his son very much and was trying everything in his power to obtain full custody of his son. I can’t even remember one time while Clayton and I were out that he didn’t mention something about Ryan. He was his entire life. As far as the abusing part, that’s hysterical, he would never hurt anyone EVER! Yeah, they didn’t get along all the time, but who does anymore? He would never use a bad argument as an excuse to hurt her. Despite their problems he did care for her. He cared enough that when her current boyfriend would yell and scream and hit she would call and confide in him (I was present several times). What she did was wrong and she should be punished, no questions asked. But to drag the father into it is poor judgment on the writer’s part! You have few facts, many guesses and quotes from people who kind of knew them…his father is going through a very tough time…. shame on you!!!
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I think the blaming game is the first step in really messing up these people’s lives. Honestly, Ashley and God are the only two souls who know what was going on in her head. I’m also, not above saying that anyone who plays judge and jury is putting themselves in a very sticky situation. “Judge not, less the worse temptation fall upon you”. For an article and the author of the above, to allow us as humans to think we should determine who should go to Hell?!?!? What have we become?…Maybe we as a society should take a step back from the “Reality TV” world we live and realize that we don’t REALLY get to vote on everything to get the outcome we want. We should also make sure that all of our facts are just that, FACTS, before publishing something that can ruin peoples lives. These individuals and their families are going through enough. Clayton and his family will mourn a life taken from them too soon, the life of a child. Ashley and her family will live with the “what if’s” and wishing they could rewind time to fix what has gone so horribly wrong. I don’t think slamming eithers character, or taking the words of people who don’t know that take for granted that they do by the “voice”, aren’t the people you should quote in an article that is already full of misrepresentation.
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Wow! There are some very long-winded people on this blog. I couldn’t even attempt to read half of it!
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No one in particular,
In my eyes, You are absolutely positively right. Couldn’t agree with you more. Wish there were more people like you in this world! Although I don’t particularly appreciate the name of this website, (to say the least) it does what is intended and gets people’s attention, for varios reasons, I’m sure. So here we are… Thank goodness, I think almost all of us are here to defend this girl and now her X also, from hateful hurtful comments, irregardless of what this site or the press intends to encourage. My very point, to some people, at this hurtful site, was to display an example of how dreadfully skewed the news we hear can be, and how easily and quickly, we the people, can be, to jump to conclusions, often very WRONG ones. Yet that is all we have to go on. Some may think that the news they hear is the complete truth, and that the facts are all there. Not so. WE must realize this and try to reserve judgement. Knowing this, I would greatly encourage this RESERVE in judgement and hate. Noone has said it better than you, No One In Particular. I pray, My God be with, and somehow comfort, these parents and their families and lead them, and us all, not to hate.
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Girlfriend, Don’t be so fast to condemn Ashly, Miss “no questions asked”. I guess you and your boyfriend don’t have any children…. yet, however, if your’re not careful this could be you in a couple of years. Oh, by the way, did the father leave Ashey and his baby for you???
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Bonita for someone who doesnt know of this situation personally u sure think u know everything!!! Not once did I say she should go to hell I simply said what she did was wrong and that punishment, whatever it may be, is necessary. Ashley is a nice girl but she was troubled and didn’t take the appropriate actions. I met Clayton when I was 16 and he was VERY single when I saw him again for the first time!! This situation is difficult for all the people involved especially Ashley and Clayton….I guess I didn’t want to write defending what she did I wanted to defend the father for being slammed so this persons article would make some sense. U maybe shoulnt be so quick to defend someone u don’t know!!!! And my sister(no one in particular) did have it right….but guess what she has FACTS something of which u (bonita) lack!!!
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So I think you all need to get a life and stop writing on this dumbass website! Girlfriend and No one in particular obviously know what is going on and actually know what is happening! As for this website you can go to hell…have a nice day
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I friggin love the bag lady!!!!
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@Bonita: tl;dr.
Long story short, intentional or not she still neglected to care for her child properly. Once you become a parent you can’t afford to make these kinda mistakes, the child depends on you to live. She failed, and so it died. Saying sorry or “I forgot” doesn’t change the fact that the baby died.
As they always told me in school, “Ignorance is not an excuse” and neither is forgetfulness.
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bonita..you are not all there…first you are bashing the guy for beating her now you are kissing mother of 5 butt by then talking all nice about him…no offence to mother of 5…i really do not think you are all there…and bonita ..how can you compare forgetting your child in the car for seven hours to forgetting other thing.that its just plane wrong stupid!!!
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bag lady…if you dont like this dumb ass website, then stop comming to this dumbass website
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i wasnt talking about you mother of 5 when i said…you really are not all there…
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Mandy you cant really comment about people not all been there…. your the self confessed nutter after all!!!!
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Now, I took care of Ryan at his daycare. So I know the family…and I was very close to Ryan. However, I did not know them outside of work. And I’m a bit curious, how exactly did you find the witness to Ashly and Clayton’s home life, and the media did not? Because from the second that I received the phone call the night that he died, I have been watching the news religiously, just to hear anything else they have to say. And that was NEVER mentioned. Also, Ashly’s boyfriend is not unemployed, and has in fact had a job since I met them almost a year ago. So, I’d really like to know where exactly it is that you are getting your information.
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This isn’t to anybody in particular, but, by coming to this website and voting, it really isn’t going to send that person to hell.
You know that, right?
And to whoever keeps promoting the “Hey, we all forget things…don’t you forget things? I sure forget things…hey, don’t judge her because she forgot something…” I have just one thing to say:
UMMMMM. No. I have absolutely, never, ever, forgotten my baby in the car. Now, I’ve forgotten where I put my car keys, and where I’ve stashed a bottle of vodka (kidding) but never, ever, a living, breathing something.
And to say that hey, it could happen, is ridiculous. But, I guess she gets points for strapping him into his car seat…
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someone-having depression doesnt make some 1 a nut you idiot.
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to Darby: You are completely right! It is absolutely unbelievable that she could forget her child in the car. This child was breathing, was moving. When I take my child to daycare I have always the same routine. Same procedure as every day: I take his jacket, put on his shoes, take the key, strap him into his seat, look at the watch….go by car the same way as always to the daycare facility… But she has left the daycare facility behind her. Without any notice??? You turn the truth upside down Bonita by saying :”…but everyone must realize it was NOT done on purpose” You have neither an excuse nor an explanation.
Are you having me on?
When you are going to work you are not running head over heels out of your car without notice your child in it. NEVER!
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Ok this girl has serious issues I don’t believe you could just forget a 17 month old in the car I have a daughter who IS 17 MONTHS OLD, I can’t get her to be quiet in the car, people want to blame it on her age I just turned 22 on the 12th, I’m younger than her and have a 3 year old and and 17 month old and loving it. PLEASE don’t become parents if you can’t handle it. it’s tough work, but it’s worth it.
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Whoever wrote this article is a complete moron. I know both clayton and asley very well and the fact that the neighbor heard JEFF beating ashley not CLAYTON makes a big difference to the fact that CLAYTON is the father who was there for his son. Ryan was the sweetest little boy and was at my house and I got to hold and feed him just 48 hours before he died. He was always here and never heard him cry except for when he was tired. Yes, Ashley did have issues but who doesnt we all do and now that this happens all of a sudden she is under a microscope. THATS NOT FAIR She was a good mother and loved her son. Second of all this author is lucky we don’t sue for defamation and slander because in a story like this you need to get your info right its very important. In addition the media was very over zealous and disrespectful of the family during this time of loss and need to observe some compassion. The phoenix police were very professional and courtous in this time of grief and we thank them very much. Thank You
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Good mothers who love their children don’t forget them in a car. A HOT car. Sorry, that’s just the way it is. I have 4 kids, never forgot one in the car.
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Fozzy reply on March 14, 2008:
Good countries should have a free healthcare and free totlers groups for lowpaid people. fix this and fix these problems
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Ok I’m from the Netherlands and I was in the area a week before the incident. I spent the Saturday or Sunday evening with Ashley (new Boyfriend) and Ryan. I played with him for hours and we walked around the Bike show which was in the baseball field.
We all had a great time.
I am very sorry for what has happened. But as again with the news papers or reports it is not investigated and reported well.
The boy friend at the time was getting over an accident which had almost crippled him for life. So he couldn’t work due to the GREAT AMERICAN health service which means that Ashley need to work double shifts.
This still doesn’t not excuse her for forgetting Ryan in the car. However I know that she will regret this for the rest of her life, she loved Ryan she loved being with him. However as a young single mother with all the strains and pressures of doing this at 22 with double shifts and a bad relationship with the natural father. Things get missed.
And unfortunately Ryan paid the price.
I was contacted a day later and told about this, I felt sorry for all concerned. However at the end f the day it was a mistake.
I read several articles in the south of America all on the same subject. It happens.
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Well I take pride in the type of mother I am. I would call myself a good mom. The minute I leave one of mykids in the car and it results in their death, is when I become a bad mom. Plain and simple. Doesnt matter how great you are or how much you love your child, all it takes is that one mistake. And she should be punished for that!
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