Things have been interesting in Omaha of late.
There’s a desperate push by the Mayor to spend 120 million dollars or so on a baseball stadium that will be used four weeks out of the year.
Shootings are going on all over the place, if you consider North Omaha all over the place. On the bright side, drive-by shootings are down because of gas hitting $3.50. The downside of that is that the high price of gas just means Omaha is getting more walk-by or jog-by shootings.
And then of course you have your new mothers fracturing their newborn baby’s skulls. Well, just one of them, really, but one is enough.
29-year-old Jennifer Strong of Waterloo, Nebraska, delivered a baby boy on Monday the 21st of April, 2008 in the Lakeside Health Center - an almost brand-new, very well-appointed hospital in West Omaha that caters to mothers who want to give birth in a nice environment.
Jennifer Strong was delivering this baby so it could be adopted by another family, who had to wait for two days before they could take delivery of the child. According to policy, a birth mother has to wait for two days before relinquishing parental rights of a child - and until that happens, the mother can see as much or as little of the newborn baby as the mother wants to.
Well, Jennifer Strong got tired of the baby. Or something. Two days after delivering the baby, the baby was discovered with some strange injuries. When Jennifer Strong was asked what had happened, she said that she had fallen asleep with the baby and that it had somehow slipped off her chest, out of her arms and landed on the floor.
The hospital staff disagrees with Jennifer Strong, however. According to the doctors, the baby had both sides of his head fractured in what is called a bilateral skull fracture - which is a serious injury that could cause brain damage. It would take a considerable amount of power and force behind a blow or series of blows to create a bilateral skull fracture, even when you’re talking about a baby’s thin little skull.
Jennifer Strong has been arrested and put into jail where she will likely face felony child abuse charges.
The baby’s adoptive parents now have custody of the child. Presumably they will be nicer to the baby than Jennifer Strong. Hopefully they will not eat it, because that would be bad.
Don’t eat babies, folks. It’s just wrong.
Someone needs to make that into a t-shirt or bumper sticker. Get to it.
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Hey Miwist - where are ya?
You called this one a few days ago.
I was waiting for you to get the first shout.
Miwist wrote:
“I trust someone will write about the Jennifer Strong from Wahoo, NE. She gave her newborn baby a bilateral skull fracture while still in the maternity ward. Both sides of the skull squished.”
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Hey TurtleMania - I’m at home. Where else would I be?
This kind of reminds me of a ‘72 Chevy BelAir I once had. The whole time I had it listed “For Sale” in the Thrifty Nickel, I just beat the piss out of it. For some reason, 2 days after I got rid of it, the transmission blew up.
It was my car, I’ll drive it any goddam way I want.
Fucked up transmission? Not my problem. You bought it and it ain’t got no fuckin’ warranty. Buyer beware.
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Where else would you be?
You better be here posting about these POS assholes! Ha
Ok, here is my take on this.
Ms. Jennifer Strong looks hungry.
I’ve given her a new name – Jennifer Hungry.
Why on Earth would JH do that to the baby?
Hmmm. Ok, I’ve thought of three reasons – in no particular order.
Here goes:
1. Damaged goods. Perhaps she was thinking that the family wiling to adopt the child wouldn’t want a baby with a caved in head.
2. Postpartum depression - a psychiatric disorder consisting of severe depression that can affect a woman soon after giving birth to a baby.
3. SHE WAS HUNGRY! Look at that improvised look on her ugly mug.
I hope she will go to hell for ruining the baby’s life.
That baby didn’t ask to be here and that baby as sure as hell couldn’t choose a mom.
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TurtleMania reply on April 28, 2008:
Good perception. She does have an impoverished look about her, yes.
One can only imagine the diabolical thoughts brewing in her mind…
“How can I damage this baby?”
“I’m not at home, so I don’t have access to construction tools.”
“Scissors will do, but I’m sure that’ll provoke the nurse’s curiosity.”
“Maybe, if I just squeeze its head a little?”
“I’ll do it now! No one is watching.”
JH – please see my questions below:
Did you look at the baby struggle and squirm?
Did you hear the baby cry?
Did you even care?
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heather reply on April 30, 2008:
Jennifer always looks like that. I know her from attending the same college.
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TurtleMania reply on April 30, 2008:
Heather -
Did you see any warning signs?
Was she a loner?
Did she have caring friends/family?
Did she ever smile, for Christ sake?
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I hope the baby turns out to be okay. I’m so glad it was already going to be adopted and so there’s no chance that it will ever have to do court-ordered visits to its POS bio-mom in prison. My god. What did a newborn ever do to anybody?
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Baby’s got 1 strike against it - 1/2 of its DNA came from this POS.
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ok i really don’t get this one. so, she had a family lined up to take the baby in a matter of days, so he wasn’t really even her baby anymore, in terms of her responsibility in caring for the child. she was “off the hook” if you will (know it sounds awful, but some people look at it that way.) so i don’t understand why she wanted to injure/kill the baby. it’s not like she panicked and made a really bad decision because she was faced with a baby she didnt want or wasn’t ready for. does anyone think maybe post-partum had anything to do with this? maybe she didn’t want the baby to exist at all? or just didnt want to live with the fact that a stranger was going to raise her child?
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PantalonesDeDios reply on April 28, 2008:
I’m sorry. Does she not look batshit crazy to you? I mean just look at her. Thats a face only a prozac drug rep could love. I’m sure somewhere down the line she’ll be covered in feces and talking to herselves. Speculating what she was thinking is a stretch. It probably sounded something along the lines of Jim Carrey talking with his ass and the teacher’s voice from the Peanuts cartoons.
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This is just sad any way you look at it. I had to do several fertility treatments to become pregnant before becoming pregnant we finished our homestudy to become foster/adoptive parents it’s just sad what some children go through. My child isn’t even here yet but it’s already an overwhelming bond this woman really needs help!
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This one is for Jennifer called:
“The Darkness”
The darkness conceals what I do.
I’m lonely and empty.
I don’t have it good like you.
I wish my slumber would killed me.
I have no self-esteem.
In strange eyes I’m pitied.
People lied to me.
I’m made to feel guilty.
Smiles seem painted on.
Their kind words mask,
the loathe they harbor inside
As I lay here my wish is to die.
The darkness finds comfort here.
Many emotions consume my energy.
A haunted vessel docks in the pier.
Disdain for hope I can recall bleakly.
The lamp of light will soon betray.
Should I be proud of what I made?
For this agreement I am used.
I won’t share the light, I shall refuse.
The lantern of light now in my hands,
is my chance to end despair.
The agreement has it’s demands.
So I’ll extinguish the light - I don’t care.
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