Up on my Soap Box
April 18, 2008 I am not eloquent when I write, but I am passionate the way I feel. And I normally do not post such heavy topics but today I came across an article today that left me enraged. In Ohio, teenagers Melvin Blevins and Angel Dailey, were arrested for forcing a two year old toddler to smoke pot, which they filmed on tape. The cops were called after the camcorder was found in a pawn shop with the tape still inside.
The whole article and video is over on LiveLeak.com.
Let’s put aside the fact that the father is up on federal drug and weapons charges from last month. Let’s also try to put aside that the parents are to blame for leaving their toddler home with Blevins who was arrested a month earlier for a drug bust.
But what if it was meth? Crack? A drug that could have killed the baby on the spot. This is a baby, a sweet innocent baby. It is disgusting that she was forced to do drugs for these scumbag teenager's amusement. I will never understand harm inflicted on children for malicious reasons.
I pray that this little girl is in protective custody and that she will have an opportunity to be adopted by a family that can bring her joy. I pray that she will know what it feels like to put her head down in a home with stability and love.
It makes me want to run to my babies and never let them out of my sight.
I hope that those two teenagers pay for what they have done, but because they are minors it is unlikely they will spend the rest of their life in jail (which I believe they should).
What comes around goes around Melvin Blevins and Angel Dailey. I hope you get yours.
Reader Comments (34)
That chokes me up. Poor little girl!
Oh my god, I was so disturbed by the video that I couldn't even finish watching it. I give dirty looks to people who are smoking and walking by us when I'm strolling my daughter in the park, so this is too much! I hope they get what they deserve.
That is unbelieveable. I can't imagine what goes through someone's head when they do something this stupid, this heinous. I cannot wrap my brain around it. Karma is a bitch!
OMG...I couldn't watch more than 15 seconds of that video. I'm in tears over here. My heart breaks for this child. Those teenagers need to be charged as adults and left to rot in jail getting pummeled by gang members and harrassed by the guards on a daily basis. No sentence is too harsh for them. No penalty too severe.
I get in trouble when I see stuff like this. It makes me want to save the kids myself (adopt them or start some huge movement). Have you seen Blood Diamonds? All I could think through that whole movie was "that's really happening..those innocent kids!"
I saw this on the news and was so pissed and disgusted I broke into a pacing fit in the living room. It was the 11 o'clock news so I was allowed to let the obscenities fly. I hope they get more than what they deserve 'cause the courts aren't gonna be hard enough.
Our stupid need to sensationalize EVERYTHING news, showed this video two nights ago at 10:15 PM. Granted most kids should be in bed then, but this Mama had turned on the news to see the weather. Instead, at 10:15 PM I see this. I tell you I was so pissed! What the HELL! It is bad enough reading it, but watching it right before I go to bed. Everyone is to blame in that situation besides the baby who is one month younger than my little Anya.
Ay yi yi! I swear I am not watching the news again. It is BEYOND terrible what happened to her, but why put the video out there. What can I do to stop it?
Sorry, I have been thinking of the horror of this for the past couple days and need to get it out of my head!!
I agree, I hope those two boys are beat up beyong beat up in jail. Where their butts belong.
Sorry to rant and rave negativity today.
i literally just threw up a little.
This kind of stuff bothers me SO much that I usually just avoid reading it or watching it. I can't stand it.
It is becoming a sick world...
I'm not even going to watch it because I know I can't bear to. I don't understand how there are so many monsters out in the world. Doing something like this or sexually abusing a child or whatever. How can anyone want to cause harm to sweet innocent babies?!
I saw the video link to this yesterday on a news website but I couldn't make myself watch it. It made my skin crawl just seeing the still photo of the video. It really breaks my heart to hear about stuff like this. That poor, innocent child. I'm glad that those boys got caught. I hope they get punished to the severest degree!!
This is one of the reasons I don't have TV and very rarely even read the news anymore-becuase it hurts too much to see stuff like this. I can sit there and read something and just cry. It is a terrible thing, and my heart breaks a little more every time. And then I go home and lecture the kids, or try to talk to them about different issues or events, and just hope and pary I can teach them better, help make a difference by raising my kids right.
Cannot. Discuss. May. Murder.
I heard of some people in the town I grew up in that got all cracked out and then fed their baby crack and killed the poor thing. Turns out, I GREW UP WITH THE MOM. Like, best friends. Sleepovers. Family Dinners. I have never felt so dirty in my whole life.
I saw a tape of the exact same thing a few years ago - a few teenagers somewhere had a toddler smoke pot. I bawled my eyes out and it stayed with me for ages...
i gotta tell ya, i'm not going to watch the video! just hearing about it was enough! when people hurt little children in any way...emotionally, physically, mentally...it kills me! and like you, it makes me want to put a cocoon around my kids, in hopes of keeping them safe!!
xoxo
That is disgusting. I too hope they pay for what they've done, and I hope they NEVER have children.
(just wanted to let you know that there is a little prize for you over at my blog when you get a free moment!)
This is just disgusting!
I can shake my head and just blame our "crazy world" when I read about the sick stuff that goes on in our society today... EXCEPT when it is sick stuff done to children. I get enraged when I see or hear stuff like this. Jail would be too light a sentence for these two sick bastards. Getting medieval on their asses is much more appropriate a response.
OMG! My heart is racing and I'm near tears. I can't bear to hear or see things like this anymore (now that I'm a parent.) It just makes my stomach turn. Obviously everyone has the right to have children, but, when I see things like this... it really makes me question that right. It's sickening. AB-SO-LUTELY SICKENING!!!
This sickened me when I saw it. Morons.
ooooh that is soooo not cool [to say the least!]. Would have thought the little girl would have been put in protective custody already after the father was charged with drug and weapons possession.
it's tough to read baby stories like this.
I couldn't watch it. It is so disgusting to think that those kids have such little morals as to force a toddler to do drugs. It gets under my skin like nothing else does....to harm a child is ruthless. Harming in any way whether it be sexually, physically, mentally, and with elements like drugs. What's wrong with people??? Can't the owner of that vid be tracked down or turned over to the authorities???
ugh! ugh!
This sort of thing makes me sick It's not funny and I do hope they serve some time and that the child is taken away.
The Judge that should be hearing this case is
Federal Judge Michael H. Watson
c/o Joseph P. Kinneary US Courthouse
Room 260
85 Marconi Boulevard
Columbus ,Ohio 43215
As parents I hope we will all write letters letting him now that as US citizens we don’t want any plea bargains for these scumbags. That what ever the maxim sentence that he can give by law should be upheld . These laws have been put in place to protect are children. Personally if the Judge could give the death penalty to these two I would be reviled to now that wouldn’t be around to do this to another child
That's so disgusting. As much angry as I feel towards those teenagers, I can't help but to feel sad for them. What could have possibly happened to them when they were young to make them the way they are?
It makes me feel completely justified at keeping my baby at home with me all the time. I just don't trust many people with her.
It seems like people get more sick and demented all the time. Makes me want to hurl.
We cannot stop these people from being evil, but I think the best thing we can do is not watch these videos. Not watch them online, not watch them on the news, etc. And then maybe they will quit being made. Like the teenagers who beat up the other girl to post on YouTube, followed shortly thereafter by the 12 year olds who beat up a girl and taped it. If no one watches, will that help stop this need for notoriety?
I just want to hug and kiss that baby!