| Disabled Woman Death
Posted: 10/24/2007 4:33:29 PM | Sad story. Stories like these remind me of my travelling days when it wasn't uncommon to go buy a bag of groceries for someone and leave it outside their door rather than try and sell some sh1t-ass pproduct to someone disadvantaged. Reminds me of something we used to preach to our salespeople when they'd get uppitty a bit with their success and become a bit self-righteous after recieving a few bonus cheques, about those less fortunate than them. This usually after I'd usually have to buy them their first suits, or lend them money to get their car on the road in order for them to work for us .
"There, but for the grace of God go I."" If one of my men would laff at a street beggar or a guy laying on a park bench with a newspaper for a blanket, or even not getting into a home that stank to high heaven from outside the step. I always gave them a week off to think about things a bit more. Anyway, that's my comment on this sad story.
Disabled Woman Death
Christine Baxter, 30, who was blind, and deaf, was found dead after dying in filthy home
Augusta, Ga. -- EMT's were called to the home on Sunday Evening. That's where they found Christina Baxter. She had been carried out of the home, and laid on the ground. Investigators say, they became suspicious when they were not allowed inside. Authorities say, Baxter starved to death, and had been living in filth for years
Over the last 3 years, investigators say Christina Baxter had lost over 100 pounds. At her death, the 30-year-old woman weighed 46 pounds. She was blind, deaf, and unable to feed herself. Today, the people who were her caregivers, the victim's sister and brother-in-law, were indicted by the richmond County Grand Jury on Involuntary Manslaughter.
From wall to wall...and floor to ceiling...filth, and stench, cover everything. Pig, dog and cat feces is everywhere...investigators say, the animals lived and roamed, freely, in the home...2- to 3-year-old cob webs covered the ceilings...trash and food lined the floor, and roaches were too many to count. Investigators say, it's the worst they've ever seen.
And, they say, for several years, 30-year-old Christina Baxter lived here, unable to fend for herself.
Sergeant Richard Roundtree, Richmond County Sheriff's Office, "Our last known report of the victim, we can see that she's lost approximately 100 pounds, within that time period."
Investigators, armed with a search warrant...and code enforcement workers, with boots and gloves, searched, and immediately condemned, the home.
Sgt. Roundtree, "We feel this house is unfit to, even, be in this neighborhood."
Believe it, or not, investigators say the home was much worse...they moved things around, so they could make their way through.
Sgt. Roundtree, "Once we entered the residence, we saw what tragic, horrible conditions that the subject had spent the remainder of her life...in one of the histories of homicide investigations, this is one of the worst scenes, of living arrangements, that we have run across."
Baxter's preliminary cause of death was Complications Due to Malnutrition.
The 200-pound pig, and a dog, have been euthanized...four other dogs are in quarantine, at the animal control shelter.
Code enforcement officials say the house is extremely hazardous, and needs to be torn down. No one is allowed inside the home.
http://www.wjbf.com/midatlantic/jbf/news_index.apx.-content-articles-JBF-2007-10-23-0041.html
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=7147
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Some folks in the blogs figure the caregivers deserve first degree murder charges or even the death penalty. Sad story. Crazy world.
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| Disabled Woman Death
Posted: 10/24/2007 5:09:34 PM | hmm...ok....first off....anyone who would put another out of work for a week "just to think things over" for not being "christian and charitable" definitly is in the wrong job. You can be charged for that kind of thing, and it is not right. You do not hold the keys to anyones conciousness, although your jackbooted attempts to install such feelings within your employees is commendable...the ends do not justify the means.
Ok...the story....guess nobody bothered checking on this woman for two years? There was nobody came over to see her? It truely seems odd to me.
Sometimes families feel it is a bit too much to keep a disabled person at home, yet can't afford to get them into a home or get more help for them. They don't realize or know about help programs within the community, or, more often than not, they don't qualify for one reason or another. They come to the sad conclusion that the person would be better off gone, rather than be a burden to the family. Helping them to the grave slowly isn't right...but they had their reasons. We might not agree with them, and may, in fact, abhor the whole idea. But, in their minds, it may have been the right thing to do, as far as they were concerned. Yes, selfish motivations that cost a fmaily member their life. The filth...well...some folks live like that...nothing to be done about that kind of thing. Many people the world over have their animals in the home wiht them, usually to protect the animals. Our own ancestors lived like this too. So, it really isn't anything new....but we do know better now. This is why we invented barns and stables!
tossing her body outside to lie on the ground....I mean holy crap! To these people, she was just more garbage, somewhat like some of us are being treated as by our own gov't. {shrug}...hey...if the gov't can do it to people, they why not the individual? I don't like the idea at all....but I can see how they could become so indifferent to human life.
All in all...a sad story. | |
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| Disabled Woman Death
Posted: 10/24/2007 5:33:10 PM | """...hmm...ok....first off..."""
you're right yna, but we were all independent contractors, so if they didn't like it, they could shove off just as easily. It was all commission position with leads supplied by myself. i invested pretty substantial sums personally to get their careers off the ground and many throughout the years, lived at my homes free of charge while i also paid them out of my own pocket 5 and 600 dollars per week. When times were tuff for them, I picked up their hotel costs while we were out of town some 35 weeks of the year and paid their gas for them.
So like i say, if they thought the grass was greener elsewhere, they were free to move on. If they didn't like the taste of a bit of humble pie after tasting some success, I was just as happy if they didn't stick around. Oddly enough, over 18+ years, they all came back the next week ready to rock n roll again. And it was only maybe three of four times it happened all those years anyway. And they didn't crap on potential clients, or anyone in the general public, within earshot of me again as far as i can recall, but then again, I'm half deaf half the time to whinyness...lol. But your points are well taken in a conventional employer/employee relationship. Absolutely. | |
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| Disabled Woman Death
Posted: 10/25/2007 5:15:18 AM | | Was deaf and blindness her only disability? She could have got help for herself with just those twos,unless she was locked in the house. Helen Keller is a good example of a person with these two disabilities. Blind learn to see with their hands, and deaf learn to hear with sound vibrations,etc. unless she was never tought how.But if she was dependent on her care givers, the caregivers should be prosecuted. I work in a hospital for people with mental illnesses. We once got an patient that was also deaf and blind, along with her mental illness. She was able to move, run, scream out, feed herself when we put her hands on the meal tray.She knew how to open doors, because she tried., but she was locked it. I think this women could have got out to get herself some help, unless there were other disabilities not mentioned. | |
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| Disabled Woman Death
Posted: 10/25/2007 9:59:41 AM |
hmm...ok....first off....anyone who would put another out of work for a week "just to think things over" for not being "christian and charitable" definitly is in the wrong job. You can be charged for that kind of thing, and it is not right. You do not hold the keys to anyones conciousness, although your jackbooted attempts to install such feelings within your employees is commendable...the ends do not justify the means.
Actually, he can't be charged if it is considered harmful conduct towards the company...
Its his company and he sets the rules, kinda like the companies that state an employee cannot use tobacco products ever, even when off the job, and who give urine test to detect and if they do, fire the employee... | |
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| Disabled Woman Death
Posted: 10/25/2007 10:08:53 AM |
If one of my men would laff at a street beggar or a guy laying on a park bench with a newspaper for a blanket, or even not getting into a home that stank to high heaven from outside the step. I always gave them a week off to think about things a bit more. I extend my admiration and commend you for not simply taking this horrible behaviour for granted.
It's true that each one's conscience is one's own responsibility, but to accept it as part of our world only perpetuates that, as does insisting "it's none of my business". I concur with your sentiment that such cold, heartless and ignorant attitudes are NOT welcome to associate with me.
I feel the same way when I see teenagers snickering at a mentally disabled person, which has happened on the bus a few times and is DISGRACEFUL.
Thanks slysterling for being a champion who chose to rise above the level of pack animals who prey on the weak & less fortunate. | |
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| Disabled Woman Death
Posted: 10/25/2007 10:52:44 AM | | OK, back to caregivers abusing and neglecting patients, clients, family, I think its so, so wrong. I am a caregiver and I have so much empathy for my patients. I am not saying I have never been at wits end with them.I once had to keep a 7 year old boy in arms length of me at all times, (CO 1:1 precaution status). I was kicked in my head by this boy, he urinated on the floor, shook is penis at me, tore up my paperwork on him, and was constantly attacking other patients. I requested to be put on another assignment after 6 hours of his behavior. No one is forced to give care,so if it becomes to overwhelming, get someone else to do it. I am not totally innocent, I have lost my temper (only verbally)in a non-professionally way,I have cussed at patients. I am not proud of this, but no one is always perfect on their job. I have been a caregiver for about 22 years. During this time, I have never purposely neglected or hit a patient. Caregivers can get overwhelmed, but starving them is not abuse from being overwhelmed, its from being mean as hell. | |
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