The trials of Gabriel Fernandez (Netflix)

[underEJ]

Originally Posted by Why Not?

2. I will never, never, ever come close to fathoming how a mother does shit like that to her own child. My wife and all the moms I know would fight you to the death for treating their babies that way. Some people really should not be eligible for 8th amendment protection.

On occasion, I used to visit a woman in prison in Topeka and I was always shocked by the visitors room there. Most people are in a large room with their guests and then there are a couple of side rooms with some books and toys for kids visiting their moms. BUT, right outside these rooms in the corner of the larger visiting room is where the church groups come to visit the mothers who killed their own kids. Right there, 10 feet from moms just trying to make it right for their kids and atone for whatever terrible decisions got them in there (after asking, that is mostly thefts or frauds of some sort.) How can you find a way to be comfortable knowing your kids are 10 feet from monsters? I even made a suggestion to the prison to reverse that and have the kids out in the larger room and stick the child killers in the rooms or have a different visiting time for the church people. It was really unpleasant to watch that dynamic.

[Why Not?]

Originally Posted by underEJ

On occasion, I used to visit a woman in prison in Topeka and I was always shocked by the visitors room there. Most people are in a large room with their guests and then there are a couple of side rooms with some books and toys for kids visiting their moms. BUT, right outside these rooms in the corner of the larger visiting room is where the church groups come to visit the mothers who killed their own kids. Right there, 10 feet from moms just trying to make it right for their kids and atone for whatever terrible decisions got them in there (after asking, that is mostly thefts or frauds of some sort.) How can you find a way to be comfortable knowing your kids are 10 feet from monsters? I even made a suggestion to the prison to reverse that and have the kids out in the larger room and stick the child killers in the rooms or have a different visiting time for the church people. It was really unpleasant to watch that dynamic.

Yeah, **** that.