Cases like this are kind of hard to wonder what's right... was the kid just crazy, and the parents were trying to deal with it in the only way they could? Also, having to be "good" for two days in a row isn't that fucking hard. God damn just sleep the entire day or something.
the whole urine stained mattress thing makes me think she's crazy and can't control her bladder very well
not that they are cruel.
i can't believe you can be charged with mentaly harming a child, that's a crazy charge. I can think of like 50,000 people who should be charged with that crime. I mean shit, not punishing and teaching your child ethics and life skills could be said to be mentally harming a child.
I've known of people who practically raise their children to be criminals and drug addicts by reinforcing their behaviors in various ways -- is that mentally harming? A good example is a story of these police arresting a kid (16 or so) for robbing a place (and they have pretty damn good evidence for KNOWING it was him), and his mom is out there fighting the cops telling them they can't arrest him and shit. What the fuck?
Also, if i remember the story right there was some other adult in the picture who was talking him into robbing places -- can't remember if it was the mom or not though. Isn't that all mentally harming a child, getting him to rob, then telling the police that they can't arrest him for commiting crimes?
What kind of mental harm does this cover exactly