Two young women in Maryland have admitted to torturing a 16 year old mentally disabled boy over a period of months, including putting a knife to his throat on several occasions, kicking him in the groin, forcing him to masturbate and have sex with animals, making him walk across a frozen pond where he fell into the icy water several times, dragging him around by his hair and other acts which they reportedly recorded on camera phones. Despite the fact that the mother of the autistic boy knew that he was associating with the two (and spending excessive amounts of money on one of them), she admits she had never bothered to meet either of them. Now the mother is afraid people will judge her for that.
So is Hanna Rosin.
Writing for Slate Magazine, Rosin empathizes with the Mother, not so much the tortured boy, crossing the line in writing what amounts to a series of scripted excuses for the maternal cluelessness.
"I feel her pain," says the End of Men author. "From the little we know of the mother, it sounds as if she had to work a full day."
Surely that left her no time at all to get to know anyone her mentally disabled son was spending time and money on.
Please join Dr. Tara Palmatier, Dean Esmay and Paul Elam on Monday, March 17, 2014 at 1 PM Pacific, 3 Central and 4 Eastern Time as we dedicate an entire program to this tragedy.
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