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The cruelty of white boys in how they’re raised is particular
A 16-year-old was babysitting his girlfriend’s 23-month-old son. The baby wouldn’t stop crying so he covered the boy’s head with a pillow and punched him in the head until his brain bled. The child died. At trial, the teen sobbed and screamed that he’d loved him. Then the judge read out a phone call he’d made from jail and it ended him.
The boy’s name was Austin Smith. He was 23 months old. The 16-year-old, Dylan, was left alone to watch him and when Austin wouldn’t settle, he smothered him with a pillow and beat him in the head with his fists. The toddler suffered a brain hemorrhage and died.
In the courtroom, Dylan put on a performance. He cried hard. He screamed that he never meant to kill anyone, that he loved little Austin, that it was all a terrible mistake. For a moment, it almost looked like it might work on the jury.
Then the judge pulled out a recording a call Dylan had made to his own mother from jail, before the trial. On it, in his own voice, he’d laid out the plan: “I’m a 16-year-old blond kid. I just need to cry in front of the jury and they’ll feel sorry for me.”
He hadn’t been grieving. He’d been rehearsing.
The judge handed him the maximum: 25 years to life.
So here’s what splits people: is 25-to-life too heavy for a 16-year-old who still has a whole life ahead of him or does a boy who kills a baby for crying, then coldly games the court with fake tears, deserve to never walk free at all?
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Just a little reminder. Just because something isn't for you doesn't mean it doesn't change the world for someone else.
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llamadme loca pero me hierve la sangre un poquito bastante que haya mujeres y niñas sin acceso a compresas y material menstrual en general, y bebés sin pañales o agua limpia y esta gente despilfarre en MUÑECOS cientos de toallitas y leche y demás para sus pajas mentales
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"You can pick your sins, but you cannot pick your consequences." 😮💨
Darryl Strawberry says a woman used to show up at the ballpark in a No. 18 Strawberry shirt, trying to flag him down. He was the biggest star on the Mets, married, with two kids. One night in St. Louis, he says, "it just happened." Months later she was pregnant, and she sued him.
In the video below, Strawberry says his wife didn't hear it from him. "It came across the wire, and it was in the New York papers." The Post. The Times. "That was a bad conversation."
It was 1989. Her name was Lisa Clayton. Blood tests proved the baby was his.
He says it was always about money. So he never paid her directly. He put the money in a trust for the boy instead.
A year later the Dodgers signed him for $20.25 million over five years, the richest deal in the National League. His marriage didn't survive. He and his first wife divorced in 1993.
He is 64 now and has never met that son. He says he got the number from the boy's family, called, and never heard back. "I know I was wrong all this time, but now I'm trying to do right."
"You can pick your sins," he says, "but you cannot pick your consequences."
Does a check in a trust make him a father, or does the son owe him nothing?
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aconteceu a mesma coisa com a minha prima chappell roan
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PG County resident here.
Why should we be cool with building data centers in our county when we can't even get grocery stores in every community?
Fuck that. Give people here something that actually benefits them. Not something that poisons our environment.
We are reaching levels of mass hysteria over data centers I couldn’t have dreamed of. She helps block $5 billion in development on a lot that’s been abandoned for over 20 years, in a county already struggling with the closure of Six Flags, the (impending) departure of the Commanders, and federal job losses. And her father compares her to Medgar Evers, who was assassinated for his work as a civil rights leader. I mean, come on!