This incident took place in Dayton, OH and I saw it on TV last night. What concerns me is that some other sick people will see this on tv and copy it.

Thanks Chatty. I was afraid to come back having said all I said, and there you were, supporting me. Daisy, it's inconceivable to think of copy cats. Who thinks of these things? How? Oh well, I was told by a counselor a long time ago not to try to make sense of senseless acts. It's too hard to wrap the mind around this child abuse.

daisy, I always think of the copy cat issue too. If one person is nutty enough, I'm sure there's a nuttier one out there too. It's such a rotten way to think, but it's the truth.

Lynnie, do you think it would be better if stories like that weren't publicised? I would think so. These sensation stories are just in the media to make money. I see no sense or reason to inform the public about such sick acts, especially because of the even sicker copycats.

They have a show here in Germany, (maybe they have something like it in the US), where they play skits of true crimes. They then show some mug shot of the criminal, and it is amazing how many have been caught this way. The problem I have with the program is that they show how the criminals perform their crimes in all detail. Some of the ideas, even I have to admit are extremely clever. But I think how stupid to give other criminals these ideas.

It hit the little Daytona paper - saw it at the laundromat. It happened in Ohio and the death penalty is on the way. Sometimes I wish the death penalty happens sooner instead of taking over 10 years.

Hi Hannelore, to answer your question I do not think that stories of child abuse and other crimes should be kept in the closet. That would only lead to denial, and there's been enough denial. Nothing gets solved in silence and secrecy, and child abuse has got to be seen and heard to be solved. I don't see how reporting the story is "sensationalizing" it. good journalists will tell the story without injecting drama. The story speaks for itself as to how pervasive child abuse and family violence is in the USA. This story must have really bothered me. The night that I read the first post about it, and then I responded with a story of my own family, I woke myself up yelling HELP! I haven't had such nightmares in a while, but once in a while I am "triggered" to remember the domestic violence in my family. Fortunately, my husband let me feel safe in the hear and now when I wake up screaming. It just breaks my heart that innocent children, little babies, Infants! are being abused and killed. What is wrong with this world?

Oh, this is just horrible! So much abuse and so many abusers. I just don't have any other words, its just that horrific.

The death penalty is too good for this woman. She needs to suffer more and as long as possible. On Nancy Grace a forensic scientist told of how painful this death was and why. My God, I was shaking all over after hearing it.
Hannelore I have a problem with hearing of horrific acts and yet am afraid that if we didn't bring them out into the open (like the puppy mills) no one would know about them and they could just carry on their insanity in private. My entire disdain of the justice system in the country is with these dam judges, the police work endless hours catching this scum and these bleeding heart judges set them free. Same as in most abuser cases, we need stronger punishment, NOW, not in years after they commit their acts of violence.
Wheres Charles Bronson when you need him, remember the series of "Vigalante" movies, I cheered for him every time he wasted one of the scum sucking pigs out there ruining our beautiful world....

I had a friend whose husband was sexually abusing her daughters from her first marriage. He was arrested but when they put just his name in the paper, it wasn't hard to see who had been his victims and some of the stupid kids at their school really gave them a hard time.

Lynnie, I'm so sorry to hear that you still have nightmares because of these horrible stories.

I support books written on this issue. I'm just not sure about television programs that live off of these crimes. I just wonder if these stories give borderline criminals ideas to do the same. Would you know if there has ever been a study done on that?