Free Hannah!!!

I think I only saw the beginning, where the foster mom and dad were explaining that the boy would eat anything and everything. They had even discussed this with the officials, who only told them “Foster children have problems and it will pass.” But, they said, it only got worse over time. I didn’t see the trial part, and this is pretty shocking to read. That is just crazy.

I have not followed this at all but I am not surprised — authorities always want someone to blame and it is wrong. Very frustrating and sad to say the least.

I hate things like this because it leaves me so…..affected, you know? I think part of the problem is that states have more money in the system and they get X amount per year and if they dont use it, its gone. Its the same way w/ the military…so at the end, they blow it all at once. No, you cant just NOT use it, you have to find a way. I spent 7.5 years married to a military officer and he would come home and tell me since budgets were coming up, they were spending. WTF! LOL

SOmetimes also there are over zealous prosectuers, ready to make an “example”…and for what?

I hardly ever bring charlotte to the dr. If she is running a fever or throwing up, i take care of her. I would not drag her out in the car just for a dr to say…she is sick. KWIM? Heck, drs anymore cant even give cough medicine.

Let me know if i can help you in any way

trisha
momdot.com

Wow, I didn’t see this, but this is SHOCKING. I am so sad for this woman and wondering how the people who have so aggressively prosectued her can sleep at night.

We can turn our eye to such cases, but if we do, we could be next

Sooooo…. anytime a child dies due to accident, the parent has committed murder by omission? Anytime some strange illness THAT WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT manifests in our children, we are to be medical encyclopedias so that we can diagnose and SAVE them?!?

Life is MESSY. Bad things happen. I don’t claim to know all of the facts in this particular case, but, if it is as simple as the little boy got sick, and they eventually drove him to the doctor, (which is more than I generally do for the “Basic Flu” which is what vomitting and chills sounds like to me) HOW was she omitting care?!?

Another thing that makes me furious about this? The bad press it gives for parents who may have been considering foster care or adoption of an older child. Older kids have different issues than babies. And when you are fostering a child, you are under closer scrutiny. Was this matter brought to such high extremes simply because he wasn’t their biological child?

I am heading over to the website now. Thank you for bringing it to our attention…

I watched this last night and could not believe what I was hearing. I was fuming when I went in to my husband to explain what happened. He’s a nurse, so he helped explain a little more. With salt poisoning, once the symptoms finally show up, it’s already too late. And with a 4 year old, even if they had gotten him to the hospital immediately, there wouldn’t much that the doctors could do. Even hooking him up to an IV and giving him the fluids to flush his system would cause a cardiac problem and he would most likely die anyway.

The ADA was making me SO mad. She still believes that Hannah poured salt water down the boys throat. Even the doctor from the ER said that wouldn’t have caused the salt poisoning.

Wow. Good grief. This really is totally shameful. We all knew our justice system didn’t work; this is proof. I am going to visit the site and see what I can do.

I regularly watch 20/20 because I like John Stossel’s segments. I believe this is the first time that I have seen a story about a convicted killer and believed they were innocent. It broke my heart when they showed her family packing up to go visit her and the fact that she was given life. I believe it was the ADA…She reminds me of a person who, regardless of the truth, has a mission and won’t be deterred. It’s as if she was blinded to any real evidence except what would support a conviction. God, please protect others from her growing career.

Thank you for the support site information because, also a first, I was wondering what I could do to assist in her appeal efforts. I just see her as a loving mother and this could possibly happen to any one of us.

For crying out loud. You know this just paves the way for further persecution of Christians.

I too watched this and felt she was wrongly convicted. And it isn’t often that I feel that way when they profile a story like this. Usually there is another side of the story that sways me into believing she really did it. Not this one. I really believe that she didn’t kill him nor did she know he was going to die from delaying treatment.

I remember when my 2 year old fell off the table. I was worried but called my husband and Mother and we all felt that if we just watched for signs he was injured it would be fine. And it was fine. Nothing bad happened. But what if it had? Would I be sitting in prison because I waited a couple hours to see if he was showing signs?

It’s so hard being a parent and deciding what to do when a child is running a fever or fell or whatever. I do believe she is innocent and needs to be released to her 5 kids.

How horrible!!

I also have never seen a more fairly presented story on 20/20. In the past, I was given to believe taking things out of context was the norm. What a shock! Or, more likely, what a way for God to show His mighty, righteous hand. It doens’t take a high degree of discernment to see that even 20/20 wants Hannah to receive justice. I was a member of Hannah’s church and an acquaintance. I marveled at her godliness then and now. Pray for justice for Hannah, not just freedom. Those in authority must be made to see God’s truth and recognize that it is God’s doing.
One thing, though of lessor importance, is that 20/20 did not make mention of the chief investigator’s connection to child welfare through his own wife. It gives a possible reason for his prejudgement and narrow investigation of the facts. Any one reading this ever been influenced by their spouse’s opinion? (The wife has since been fired.) Now things take on a new perspective. May God be glorified.

I did see that story and was horrified that a jury could make such an assinine decision! I was most angered at the two jurors who spoke up. Forgive me, but my impression was that they were too stupid to be jurors! They don’t know what “reasonable doubt” even means, let alone the actual charges against her.

I served on a drunk driving case once and there wasn’t any actual evidence on which to convict the guy, so we had to acquit even though we didn’t want to (because who doesn’t want to see drunk drivers locked up). We had a couple of hold-outs on that jury that kept saying “But what if….” But we don’t get to convict people (most of the time) on “what if’s.” It’s supposed to be on actual evidence that they DID what they are being tried for.

Even before they reached the end of the story I told DH that I’d never even heard of “salt poisoning.” And while we know it’s not good to ingest a lot of salt, I didn’t know it could kill you. And wouldn’t have known that the symptoms that the boy exhibited were signs that he was dying or even that he needed immediate medical care.

Yes, a child died and YES that’s a tragedy any time it happens. But sometimes you can’t blame someone for something they never intended to have happen! Next thing you know, parents will be convicted of negligent homicide when a child wraps a blind cord around their neck or some other equally horrible, preventable but not always foreseeable tragedy!

Thank you for posting the information about how to help. Stories like that make me fear for the future of our justice system. This is not how it was intended to work.

this is just so sad, and unfair. i agree that it makes us all lose faith in our justice system.

That is so terribly unfair and incredibly sad!