Lesbian couple found guilty of abusing and murdering 2-year-old boy

[Revoltingest]

It's the same reason why we always hear about black crime in the United States and whenever there is an African-American suspect they will plaster his face all over the place but if the criminal is white or Asian they do everything to censor the face or the name.

This is not always true.
If a black cop behaves badly, race isn't even mentioned in the news.
And the media had to invent the "White Hispanic" in order to paint Zimmerman as a non-minority.

 

[Quetzal]

It's odd the significance attached to the lesbian aspect.
In child murders by hetero couples, this status never
makes it into the headlines.

This was my first thought as well.

 

[Quetzal]

My sentence.....
Life imprisonment in solitary.
Forced to endlessly listen to Trump, Hillary, Obama & Bush speeches.

I mean, what they did was horrible, but this... this... this is perfect. >=)

 

[Revoltingest]

This was my first thought as well.

It's like we share one brain!

 

[SomeRandom]

Only within our borders.
These gals are Limeys.

Oh well that's different then.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

It's not the worst thing for people to be aware that all types of people are capable of criminal and heinous acts. Sometimes black cops beat up white kids, sometimes gay men are bullies, and sometimes lesbians beat or murder kids.

 

[NewGuyOnTheBlock]

However, given that the State takes away children for far lesser offenses, there is obviously some sort of political correctness at play here.

You are oversimplifying a very complex issue. While it is true that the State takes away children for far lesser offenses, it is also true that the State errors in not taking away children from straight parents, often leading to disastrous results perpetrated on a defenseless child.

there is obviously some sort of political correctness at play here.

This small write-up by a reporter who may (or may not be) biased hardly constitutes evidence of "some sort of political correctness at play" let alone this being "obviously".

I ask only for evidence to substantiate the claim. We don't want children to be yanked from the arms of loving, good lesbian parents based on fearmongering any more than we want children left in the arms of abusive and cruel lesbian parents because we're afraid to act.

I didn't say that. Obviously people of all orientations have the capacity to be good parents.

And the reverse is true: People of all orientations have the capacity to be terrible parents.

 

[NewGuyOnTheBlock]

There are many, many unanswered questions in the article which does not constitute a conclusion of "they got away with it, society turned a blind eye because the couple was lesbian".

Unanswered questions like:

1. Were the authorities alerted to signs of abuse prior to the death of the child?
2. Did other members of society come forward indicating they saw signs of the abuse but were hesitant to act?
3. Were the authorities ever called to the residence prior to the incident; and if so, how did they respond?
4. If any of the above are answered "yes", are there similar incidents involving parents of different orientation where the authorities reacted differently; and if so, is there enough of these incidents to indicate a pattern?
5. Were the authorities involved prior to the death of the child?
6. Are there similar incidents involving children of straight parents; and are there similarities between those cases and this case of the authorities making the same mistakes?

In short, this article does not substantiate the conclusions suggested by the alarmists. The alarmists may actually be correct; that the Crown is hesitant to act due to "political correctness"; and if the alarmists are correct in their conclusion, I would suggest that it falls upon the alarmists to prove their case an change the system. If the alarmists, however, can not prove their case, then it stands to reason that the alarmists are nothing more than fearmongers; and it benefits both children and families to ignore them until such time as they can prove their allegation.

 

[NewGuyOnTheBlock]

... besides, referring to "The Sun" for daily news is akin to referring to the "Star Trek Encyclopedia" for references to astronomy ...

 

[RRex]

Two women who don't like men.

Is this really such a big surprise?

I don't think so.

They abused his privates. That says a whole lot right there.

 

[Milton Platt]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...cted-to-heartless-cruelty-before-he-died.html



People who testified in court also stated that Rachel and Nyomi Fee would tie Liam up on a chair in a dark room where snakes and rats were kept.

What kind of people do this to a harmless two-year old kid? Why weren't claims of abuse taken seriously when there are at the same time cases of children being taken away over minute offenses because the foster parents were supposedly 'homophobic'? Yet, in a case where there was actual evidence of something egregious going on, the Fee case was pre-maturely dropped, against standard operation protocol, and this was almost certainly for fear of being politically incorrect.

How is the fact that they are lesbian relevant to the death?