I'm all about true crime podcasts, and you're not wrong.
However, the giveaway here is "they had to cut the brace off," especially with "they got out quickly" following quickly behind.
If such a thing required cutting off - a process that would be much more dangerous to the child than disassembling it - it would have had to be designed to be permanently installed without cutting. That means welded or padlocked as opposed to bolted or latched. Besides which, building such a thing in that way requires a serious amount of effort and planning. Not to mention this is right on the heels of having had repercussions for doing that exact thing. The steel and fabric one would have had to be designed and built before normal visitation was resumed.
All that indicates an incredibly sick perpetrator, who also lied to a judge when he said he'd learned his lesson - because the thought and design and construction of the second one had to have already been going on. I find it unlikely that, in 2016, in Florida, someone who so grossly abuses a nine year old, and who is found out by their neighbor, a police officer, when said nine year old shows up at the door with the thing needing to be cut off, would be quickly released on bail.
Edit: @Speculater rightly points out that a brace, worn for such a short amount of time, could not dislocate a shoulder.
Rage-inducing stories on reddit are famously fake, and this is one of them.
Also if they had alternating custody what was the plan exactly when custody switched? Especially given that they already got prosecuted for the first time they did it....
Like it required planning and not planning at the same time
It is amazingly uncommon for custody to be shared in that way. Moving house every week, back and forth, is incredibly stressful and disruptive for a child.
And then in the update, it's referring to how that "visitation" schedule was reinstated after the first incident. One, that's not visitation, that's true joint custody - a thing which is also rare in custody cases. Normally, you have one parent who has custody, and the other has visitation. Visitation usually means something like "every other weekend," so the non-custodial parent gets the child two days out of every fourteen. If it was true joint custody, the switchovers would be more like "every other weekend, and all summer," especially with an elementary school aged child.
That's not even addressing the fact that, in the story, the court just went back to that ridiculous arrangement after one parent was shown to have abused the child.
I agree with this take. 99% of those top ranking AITA or RelationshipAdvice posts were fake if you knew what to look for. This has all the rage bait marks.
That is a very detailed explanation. Of course, I hope it is not true and you made it seem plausible that it is not true (which is more difficult than proving that it is). So, that is a good thing.
I think I was responding a bit to the tone in which it was said that it was imaginary. I guess it seemed it was mocking the person who made the comment it replied to. So, I was trying to soften that, I guess.
@holycrap - I absolutely apologize; I intended no mockery of you personally, but I can totally see how my response could have been received that way. It's all too easy to forget that I'm interacting with real human people sometimes, even if I try really hard to remember.
Thank you, @Shelena, for bringing this to my attention. Your responses have been necessarily corrective and gently condsiderate at the same time.
Thanks for your response. I think it shows you have great character. I think it is easy to forget you are interacting with humans. I think we all do it sometimes.
I should have been more directly why I was responding to you in that way. However, it was sort of automatic and I only thought about why I did it later. That would have made an easier discussion.
Wow just wow… I can’t understand how people can be so incompetent at parenting. The girl at least has her mother but the baby of the couple who was taking by CPS will be suffering the consequences.
I don’t think I’ve ever read of a positive outcome when one married partner suggests they open the relationship out of the blue. The lack of foresight is astounding!
OOP is Original OP, so the original author of the thread. It is common in repost-subreddit like “Best of updates” to specify that “I”, “me” and so on in the post do not refer to the person posting, but to the original author
OP is Original Poster. So, it’s kinda redundant to call it original original poster, but thats what stuck.
I also dont like all of the bots copying reddit posts to Lemmy, however it might help with search engine results. People dont want to go to Reddit because of the stupid update to the API terms, which is why a lot of them flock to Lemmy, because whether we like it or not - Lemmy is basically the same thing as reddit, except federated. If it grows, the community of Lemmy will be near identical to that of Reddit, or at least that of Reddit some years ago, and not just fediverse and OSS enthusiasts.
Seriously, if you don’t like it nobody is forcing you to look at it. It’s a federated network, stop gatekeeping like you have a claim to the whole fediverse. Sorry, but it’s fucking obnoxious.
If you don’t like me not liking it, then entertain the idea that you’re not forced to interact with me in any way whatsoever. It’s free world, so stop being an obnoxious gatekeeper, dude.
I hope these federated instances get to a point where we get such wonderful posts. These are the things that brought reddit value in the first place, hopefully we see a similar thing happen!
Man, thank goodness he didn’t drop out of school and let a relationship derail his life like that. It sounds like she wasn’t who he thought she was at all. Thank goodness they’re both young and she has time to grow up, and they both have time to find their true partners.
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