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Comment made 268 days 1 hour ago.
She did not abondon her child..you are a heartless person!! Maybe you should be put away!!
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Comment made 267 days 1 hour ago.
She did abandon her child. She was supposed to be back within a few hours and that baby ended up being there for 3 weeks. Follow the story before you start sticking to one side of the story. There is also spec. that she is a drug abuser...and thats why she never came back...so really, start reading!
► PD - FTW, TX
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Comment made 264 days 23 hours ago.
where have you found this info, I have been following this story have have yet to see anything where it says that Jessica was only suppost to be gone for a few hours Please provide a link if you can
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Comment made 240 days 2 hours ago.
it was on the news on tv!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Comment made 234 days 4 hours ago.
The story can also be found on Snopes.com...she was just as at fault, yes, she abandoned the baby, and autopsy also said they dont know if all injuries took place while in the care of the father, she had healing broken ribs,,,how can you abandon your small infant for 3 weeks, come on quit giving the incmpetant person sooo much pity
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Comment made 229 days 18 hours ago.
If we go back to ONE thing that was said, that is the part that sickens me. My husband used to do paramedic work, and had taken children to the hospital to get broken bones looked at. The mother of one child refused to go in the ambulance with her infant, she wanted to go with her friend in the car. Makes you wonder what story they came up with when they got to the hospital. But the broken ribs part is horrific. Babies are born with more bones than adults have. The bones are very soft and pliable, for the most part. The bones harden over several years and they also "fuse" together, meaning two or three small bones grow and become one over years. Think of a soft, small bone. Kind of like you would find in a chicken or turkey (I know this sounds terrible, but go with me for a bit.) These bones are hard to break, unless they are dried out for several days. To break a baby's ribs, and have fractures heal, takes a tremendous amount of repeated force. Hard blows, maybe not even with hands. Babies and small children under the age of 2 hardly ever break their bones. This was told to my husband several times, mainly by hospital doctors. If ANY child comes in with a broken bone, Child Services (or whatever they have decided to call themselves this week) is called. Normal child behaviour of learning to walk, and falling, multiple times, does not do this. This is uncontrolled anger which borders on rage. Yes, I am calling it rage. Similar to people who have been cut off on the highway and pull out a gun and shoot the driver of the vehicle that did that. This may not have anything to do with Baby London, but it does have to do with how people think when things do not go their way. And anyone who is a parent knows that when you have a baby, you are low man or woman on the totem pole. Life revolves around the infant for many months, until they can move or at least entertain themselves for a few minutes. Babies cannot eat/drink, change their own diapers/go to the bathroom themselves, get into their crib, change their clothes, nothing. They can and do cry. That is all they are capable of doing. They need people to look after them. For the people who say to others to not give their opinions and stay out of other people's business, how does this help? If police stayed out of other people's "business" they would not respond to burgleries, car crashes, assaults, rapes, the list goes on. Some things are private and not any business of other people, but where children's welfare is concerned, someone has to speak for those who can't. The Godmother says she is a close friend of the mother... did she not even offer to help watch the baby? The father of the baby must have said London was not his, if Jessica had a paternity test done. Those tests are not cheap. Someone has to pay for them. Did she think that a "yes" he is the father, would make this guy suddenly a loving, caring, responsible adult? As for many here who say that having a baby sleeping on a mattress on the flooris terrible, and the baby needed a real crib... I never used a crib for any of my three kids. I had them sleeping with me while they were nursing. They NEVER cried during the night, and neither I, baby nor dad woke up when baby was hungry. I would hear a gentle smacking, roll over or whatever, baby would latch on, and back to sleep after baby was done. As for rolling over on a baby while sleeping... when was the last time you rolled over ONTO your spouse, or your cat, or your dog? If your body knows where the edge of the bed is so that you don't fall out, surely it knows not to squash a baby. Now the DIRTY part was not good. Also his parents told Josh that they would not help, as London was HIS baby. Maybe this happened before with the other babies that Josh had fathered.
You know, if a lot of people decided to help out others who need help, rather than expecting government agencies to protect children, we might be better off. If Jessica had so many friends, why didn't some of them offer to watch London. Take turns. Maybe she would have been shuttled between different houses and people every few hours, but they would have WANTED to look after her. In Edmonton, there is a kind of help/shelter for families with children under 12. It is called Kids Cottage. Parents can drop off children for whatever reason, no questions asked. Well, maybe a few. They want it to be a legitimate need, not just I want to go dancing with my friends. If a mom or dad is overwhelmed, they don't usually call someone they know in the middle of the night to ask for help. Some people have to go into the hospital for surgery or to have another baby. Their idea is to prevent child abuse, by having a place that is staffed by caring people who have had background checks and know how to care for children, and the children will not be in danger there. Maybe more cities and towns need places like this... and if they get one of these places, advertise. Not where well off people go, but the dirty downtown, where the druggies hang out, night clubs, convenience stores, homeless shelters for people, food banks, soup kitchens, etc. Instead of everyone screaming that this has to stop, and then sitting on their hands, or donating to children's abuse groups, WHY doesn't someone DO something to PREVENT this from happening? So you can't expect to walk up to a stranger and offer to babysit her child or baby if she looks like she is getting near the end of her rope, BUT, you can offer to help carry groceries, possibly help them at home, depending on where you and they live, you can smile and make funny faces at the baby to distract it from crying. Our society is so busy with the "what have YOU done for ME lately" mentality that if anyone sees something that does not look right, they just turn a blind eye.
► Very Ill Mom - Alberta, Canada
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Comment made 226 days 18 hours ago.
wHOEVER YOU ARE ...YOU MAKE VERY GREAT POINTS ...KEEP TELLIN PPL HOW YOU FEEL...BUT AS FAR AS PPL STICKING THEIR NOSES WHERE IT DOESNT BELONG....WELL OF COURSE COPS AND THINGS DO BELONG ...THATS THIER JOB .....BUT NOT PPL WHO ARE TRYING TO ACCUSE ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER WHEN THEY WERENT THERE!!!!
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Comment made 220 days 2 hours ago.
Ditto is all I have to say!! I couldn't have said it better myself!!
► Jaime, mother of 4 young boys - Calgary, Alberta
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Comment made 165 days 19 hours ago.
Sad thing is that all single parents including me will admit that raising children on your own can be extremely frustrating and overwhelming. I have been taking care of my twin boys on my own since they were born practically. Yes it is hard there are times my frustration grows and the stress is so overwhelming I feel I'm going to snap. Thats the point where I put them in their beds for a few minutes and walk away to calm down due to the fact that you see this sort of thing on the news all the time. Its extremely difficult raising a child or children on your one. But it can be done. You just have to know when to walk away. What the father did is appalling, but at the sametime the mother should have been there as well! Both parents were in the wrong. It is sad that the child has passed away I know plenty of people who would have loved to take her into their home and take care of her. I don't know if the father seeked for help but he should have if he hadn't.
► J.D.S. - Independence, MO.
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Comment made 151 days 1 hour ago.
Just to clarify this:
"Babies and small children under the age of 2 hardly ever break their bones. This was told to my husband several times, mainly by hospital doctors. If ANY child comes in with a broken bone, Child Services (or whatever they have decided to call themselves this week) is called. Normal child behaviour of learning to walk, and falling, multiple times, does not do this."
that statement is not true at ALL. My one year old broke her arm on Jan 1, 2008 by falling off of one of her toys and nothing was ever said to me or to my husband about abuse. Of course the doctors asked how it happened and that was the extent of things. But she did just take a fall and it broke her arm. So it can and does happen.
► Ashley - Jacksonville, FL
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Comment made 141 days 15 hours ago.
Babies do have very pliable bones and it is difficult to break them.
This doesn't mean impossible. This doesn't mean every time it happens it is from abuse. If you went in a week later with another broken bone you can bet your you know what CPS would have been called.
So you are both partially right.
► Sandy - Buffalo, NY
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Comment made 146 days 17 hours ago.
your story is nice and all
but her baby died.
Why is it that whenever something happens
there is always an "alternate" scenario.
I mean yeah some choices she made may have been weird
like leaving her baby for 3 weeks
but then again that is the father and she may have had a good reason
and unless her reason was that she was doing something completely
unimportant to her life at the moment it isnt the police's business.
Her baby died, no matter what people say happened...
nonetheless this is about mourning a child. not accusing some one
of doing something bad if there isnt necessary evidence on that.
Just Mourn London.
NOt accuse her mother
who at this moment is feelin the pain of her lost daughter.
► Emily. - Pittsburgh
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Comment made 142 days 17 hours ago.
Yeah great points but when my sister was 2 years old she fell about 7 foot off of our porch by accident AND burnt her hadn on the iron my sister left carelessly laying in the floor all in the same month. My Mom is a Nurse and she was questioned by the own hospital she worked at if we had abused her COME ON PEOPLE. Babies DO break bones, my little cousin Chase then broke his arm when he fell off the trampoline and my sister got on the same trampoline when she was 5 and broke her opposite arm and yes they were being supervised but you cant stand over top of kids 24-7 things happen. Now with this baby is a totally different story but dont go out here hollering child abuse for every kid in America who breaks their arm. Grow some brains before you open your mouth!
► TRC - Varney WV
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Comment made 49 days 10 hours ago.
Yes, sometimes CPS does investigate situations where children are not really being abused or neglected, but how do they know that until they investigate it? If CPS just wrote down the family's explanation for every injury and then closed the case out unless someone actually said "I hurt this child intentionally" you would have a whole lot of children being returned to abusive situations. Stop complaining about CPS investigating your family and be thankful that someone cares about the safety of your sister. From your message, it sounds like they investigated the situation and then closed the case out, so get over it. It may have been an annoyance in your life but it is a necessary annoyance. I'm not accusing anyone of abusing your sister, just explaining that 2 injuries in a short time span can be suspicious but when they do the investigation they usually figure out whether or not abuse occured or it really was an accident. If nobody investigated baby London's suspicious injuries, her father would have walked free after killing her. Would you rather that happen?
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Comment made 31 days 12 hours ago.
ugh the baby died and thats sad. :[
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Comment made 142 days 11 hours ago.
You left me speechless. I agree with everything stated.
I don't have children of my own, my best friend is 23 with a 4 year old boy and a 2 year old girl. I watch those two babies for 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. Through CCAFS (Center for Community and Family Services) I'm allowed to make this my job. I stay at home through the day with the children. This has been my job for close to a year now and I don't think theres another job in the world that could be as refreshing as the one I have now. I'll admit, I have my stressing moments, I have my moments where if one hits the other and they start crying, I get frustrated, or when they argue or scream, I get frustrated, but never have I nor will I EVER lay a hand on either of them to stop them from being children. Children fight, especially when they're at such a close range of age, hitting them will not teach them anything. I release my stress by stepping back after seperating the two and taking a few miuntes to myself, maybe go sit outside away from the children and have a smoke.
I was 18 when my best friend got pregnant with her son. When I found out about her pregnancy, before I said congrats, I told her that if there was ever anything she needed, I would always be more than welcome to help. She struggles as a single mother, the father of her children takes no part in their life financially, she relies on her job and her family and friends. My best friend has stated numerous times that she would be lost without me. I've helped with food and diapers in the past, bought clothes for the kids and taken care of them, DO take care of them. I will NEVER give out a title of 'best friend' to a person that isn't willing to help you and be there for you when you are really in need of it.
Sadly, we don't live in a civilized world. We live in a world of civilization with no, or few, civilized people. I will never understand why people act the way they do, why a person would take another life over something as petty as money or a lane change, it has happened and I most definitely believe it will again. We call ourselves friends and family yet when we're needed, how many of us help? Some people, no, most people are too wrapped up in their own lives to help the people they claim to love and want to help. Too many people toss the statement "i'll always be there for you" out too loosely, they make a promise and break it. We spend so much time asking ourselves "why me?" We wonder why our lives are so horrible and why we're left alone at the end of the day and we never seem to realize that we're not giving, we're only recieving, we're taking and expecting but never thinking. We'll end a life long friendship over a material thing. We'll end a life over a simple cry. We can handle stress, frustration, annoyance, we can manage our anger and rage, we can but we choose not to and it costs lives, it causes heartbreak and tears, depression, suicide, murder and hate.
I see the topic of Jessica Sherwood leaving her child in the care of a man who chose to not acknowledge the child as his own, supposedly, because I haven't watched the news or read the paper, she was gone for three weeks. If what I read is true, then Jessica Sherwood is just as much to blame for this beautiful childs death as the person who placed her in gods arms too soon. You can't leave a child with someone untrustworthy for any length of time let alone 3 weeks. You love your child yet you let your own life come before it. As it was stated, you're low on the totem pole when you bring another life into this world, they come before you until they can do for themselves. Even then, you care for them, nourish and nurture them until they're at the age where they have the knowledge and ability to take care of themselves.
► Not a Mother, but a lover - California
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Comment made 139 days 13 hours ago.
All I have to say is that I am thankful that she was too young to understand what was happening to her. It's tough to see this sort of thing happen. We had a local woman who drown her 3 kids in a vehicle. The water only being 6-7 feet deep and she did nothing to get them out. These childen were 7 mos, 2, and 5 I believe. Can you imagine what was going through the mind of that 5 year old, being stuck in a car with your siblings going under water.......People should be born sterile and have to go through extensive testing and preping before they are allowed to have children. I would rather a lot of idiots have lots of pre=marital sex with random people and get as many deseases that they can get, than be allowed to be parents. The government can do so many things to control our "FREE" Country, but we can't control the fertility of morons!!!!!!!!!! AND I feel for those that cannot have children that are loving caring people with or without a relationship with God. Those people weep in sarrow of not being able to have a child while morons that can't tell the difference between their a$$hole and a hole in the ground are popping them out like rabits. I wish it were cheaper for those to adopt, I would have adopted a long time ago. I wish so many people realized that they have options with children rather than you have it you take care of it. It's not a dog, or a fish......it's a human being, you can't let it outside when you get sick of it. I blame the parents for this.......I was 17 when I had my daughter who I love and charish and watch ever second of every day that I can....but I blame my mother and father for not puting a leash on me when they could have. I would have finished school and went on to do other things before settling down and having a family. Although I have no regrets now, I often find myself being overprotective of my daughter and will always be that way. On a final note, I feel for that child, but we have to realize she is in a place now where she cant be harmed and she is with the ultimate love of all....God. Please if you feel like you can't handle the responsibility of a child give her to someone who can. I had a friend give her daughter away after two years of having her, because she realized at 16 she could not give this child the life and love that she deserved. It's never too late to give your child to someone who CAN take care of him/her. Don't try and play "house" with your child it's not a toy and it's not an animal it's a huge responsibility for 18 years. When you have a child you remember that is 18 years of your life GONE, devoted to another living breathing caring soul. Put God first, put your children second, and yourself somewhere towards remembering to put the laundry in the dryer, because that is what it is like. Ask any true mother though.....we wouldn't have it any other way. To the mother and Father.....may God be with you, and strengthen you and enlighten you to the obstacles that life brings. He is the only one who can pass judgement on you. Whatever happened to that child and to the whereabouts of the Jessica only you know. I ask that you BEG for forgiveness in it's full sincerity and that you NEVER allow yourself to mother/father anymore children as long as you are given the opportunity to breed. I am hoping that your guilt alone with hinder you from ever being able to be in the presence of children and that your nightmares, if your cold heart allows you to have any, keep you from living what we real parents call a normal life.
► Pissed off and Sad for you!!! - 25 yr old. Decatur, Illinois
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Comment made 40 days 17 hours ago.
You need a license to own a pet, maybe we should consider licenses to procreate.
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Comment made 36 days 11 hours ago.
I'm with you 100% on that one. Having a child isnt anyone's right. It's a blessing from God.
► Mama Dukes - Tennessee
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Comment made 36 days 11 hours ago.
I'm with you 100% on that one. Having a child isnt anyone's right. It's a blessing from God.
► Mama Dukes - Tennessee
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Comment made 50 days 19 hours ago.
I broke my arm 2 times before I was 5 years old. They were both from falls, I fell out of bed when I was 2 and I fell off of the steps when I was 4 (my pediatrician said I didn't know how to fall right!). So it is possible to break bones when you are younger. as for breaking ribs, I don't know how she could have done that unless she was abused or already in an accident. She wasn't even walking yet
► seansmommie - PA
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Comment made 49 days 8 hours ago.
hi, I found that your response was valid and very well researched.
I do not know much about this case but was sent a forwarded email about the ordeal.
So as usual I had to check it out.
And I agree with you, there is no real need to write my own response as it would seem like plagiarism.
► Sarah-Lorraine - Wollongong NSW
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Comment made 47 days 13 hours ago.
i like what you say. but the part about her friends taking turns watching the baby...its not their responsibility. this girl decided to lay down and make a baby, carry out the pregnancy, and then drop the baby off at her fathers house after a court told him the baby was his and she got bored playing house? he wasnt a good father in the beginning, a court wont change that. when I heard that she dropped off her child and left her there 3 weeks I was sick to my stomach. I am a single mother as well but I would never drop my daughter off at her fathers house and leave her. thats my daughter. this poor child suffered because she had 2 uncapable parents and its terrible. she was an innocent baby.
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Comment made 9 days 20 hours ago.
I agree with everyone else, you do bring up some very good points, but one thing I know is untrue, it is possible to roll over onto a sleeping child and suffocate them. A few months ago in my hometown a man rolled onto his 7 month old baby and killed him. Unlike your husband or a cat or dog, a baby is not fast enough to move out of your way like a dog or cat, nor strong enough to move so much as to wake you out of a deep sleep, like a husband can. It is true that most women don't sleep that soundly when a baby is next to them and wake up if start to roll onto their child, but that's not always the case.
► audrey - west texas
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Comment made 205 days 16 hours ago.
I DIDNT NO MUCH ABOUT THE CASE AT ALL BUT JUST READING WHAT I SAW POSTED HERE TURNED MY STOMACH IM A PROUD MOTHER OF THREE A 6YR OLD A 3YR OLD AND A 5MONTH OLD I COULDNT IMAGINE WHAT THAT POOR BABY WENT THROUGH ....THEY ARE SO DEFENSELESS AT 3 MONTHS OLD THEY CANT EVEN HOLD THERE OWN HEAD UP YES I AGREE MOTHERHOOD CAN GET STRESSFUL BUT THATS WHEN you MAKE SURE BABY HAS A CLEAN DIAPER MAKE SURE BABY ISNT HUNGRY ... IF ALL FAILS you PUT BABY DOWN IN A SAFE PLACE TAKE A MOMMENT OR TWO AND COME BACK .... IM SO HORRIFIED ABOUT HEARING THIS .....
► TRACY - FREETOWN, MASS
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Comment made 211 days 15 hours ago.
I'm sure you've seen this by now: http://www.startribune.com/local/east/12340686.html
► Anonymous - WA
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Comment made 169 days 7 hours ago.
THIS REALLY MAKES ME MAD!! SHES GONNA CRY AND SAY SHE DIDNT KNOW HOW HE WAS OK FIRST OFF IF SHE DIDNT WANT TO GO OUT AND PARTY LIKE SHE WAS THEN SHE WOULD STILL BE ALIVE. EVEN IF THEY WENT TO GET A DNA TEST TO PROVE HE WAS THE FATHER WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU GO OFF AND LEAVE YOUR BABY WITH SOMEONE YOU HAVENT SEEN IN HOW LONG? I THINK THEY BOTH NEED TO BE CHARGED, HER FOR LEAVING HER BABY AND HIM FOR DOING WHAT HE DID. I CANT STAND PEOPLE LIKE THAT, THESE BABIES DONT DESERVE ANYTHING BUT LOVE AND CARE. THEY WERE PUT ON THIS EARTH FOR A REASON AND THAT WASNT TO BEAT THEM AND LET THEM DIE. THIS IS JUST LIKE THE BABY GRACY CASE. THEY BOTH GOT CHARGED FOR HARMING THAT BABY AND KILLING HER WELL BOTH THE MOTHER AND THE FATHER NEED TO BE CHARGED THE SAME WAY. IF you DONT DO DRUGS AND DRINK THEN YOU CAN GET UP EVERY MORNING AND TAKE CARE OF WHAT YOU MADE. SORRY BUT IM SURE ALOT OF PEOPLE FEEL THAT WAY AND IM SURE ALOT THINK DIFFERENT. IM SORRY FOR THE FAMILIES LOST AND GOD BLESS THEM BUT LIKE I SAID THE MOTHER AND THE FATHER NEED TO BE BEHIND BARS.
► CHYNNA - galveston tx
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Comment made 263 days 14 hours ago.
UM EXCUSE ME BUT IF YOU ACTUALLY RESEARCH, JESSICA WAS KICKED OUT OF HER APARTMENT, AND DOING WHAT ANY MOTHER WOULD DO TO KEEP HER CHILD SAFE AND FOR GOD SAKES OFF THE STREETS, SHE PUT HER CHILD IN A HOME COMPLETELY UNAWARE THAT THE FATHER WAS THIS UNSTABLE WITH A NEWBORN. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT AND THEN MAYBE YOU'LL ACTUALLY HAVE A LEGITIMATE ARGUEMENT.
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Comment made 263 days 4 hours ago.
Thats the whole problem people shoot off at the mouth before they do research. Reguardless if her and the guy were still together and she went off to work or even to the store this would have happened anyway. What gets me is his family he was living with. There son did get this girl pregnant and a child was born out of it you would have thought they would have stepped up and been Grandparents but instead they just sat there while this little baby was getting abused and neglected and they just sat back and did nothing. I wonder how they feel that there son killed an innocent baby.
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Comment made 240 days 2 hours ago.
It did not happen over night. You have to see this type a erruption mounting before it takes place. The parents released a statement saying they refused to do anything that it was his responsibility. Of course they made it sound better. This may not have happened anyway. Someone could have helped. The news reports said that Josh had stopped going out and was there with that baby around the clock. He did everything for the baby ALONE. He is guilty and wrong as dirt but there without a doubt could have been a prevention.
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Comment made 257 days 17 hours ago.
GOD BLESS YOU !!!!
DAM I WOULD OF DONE ANYTHING TO MAKE MY CHILD SAFE CONSIDERING SHE WAS SO YOUNG AND COULD OF GOT SICK!!!
► CONCERNED PARENT - tennessee
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Comment made 231 days 20 hours ago.
im sorry but I was being kicked out of my apartment, and had a small child I believe I would have went to a homeless shelter, because after three days in a homeless shelter a mother and child can very easily be placed in a government assisted housing program, I know I use to do applications for section 8 and hud, further more, three weeks is a long time not to see your child.
► TheEffingPrincess - 24202
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Comment made 149 days ago.
you are right. if she cared that much she should have went to a homeless shelter. she did not want that baby, and 3 weeks is a long time not to see your baby! I dont care what people say, she was at fault too. She did not want her. I am sorry for saying this, but she was only concerned when something went wrong and that was to look like a good mother for fear of getting in trouble for it too! I bet anything she is feeling sorry for her self but at the same time relieved that she dont have that responsibility anymore! Sorry for being so blunt but that is how I feel. she was selfish and did not care about that child.
► carol hartman - columbus oh
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Comment made 36 days 11 hours ago.
Does anyone know this woman's situation?....Maybe she thought the child would have been better cared for by her father.....and as for homeless shelters...depends on where you live as to what they are like...some aren't safe.....some don't have room...and actually turn people away...I was turned away with my 3 children when I tried to leave a drug addicted ex husband...And also depending on where you live the waiting list for assisted housing can be YEARS long...I know...I was told the wait was 5 years for section 8...maybe she did what she thought was best for the child at that time...and if she didn't care for the child like some of you claim....she could have just thrown it in a dumpster....dropped it off on a doorstep....but no...she took her to her father...and HE was the one that did this to her....HE is the one that should be punished...and I am sure her guilt will haunt the mother for the rest of her life...some people make the wrong decisions out of desperation....they don't know what else to do...and maybe being with her father seemed better than being on the streets...I don't know the situation...but I can't condemn the mother....and the father could have asked for help just as easily as the mother could have
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Comment made 36 days 11 hours ago.
Maybe, no not maybe, that baby would have been better off dropped off on a doorstep. Because, then she would have been taken to authorities and been taken care of and would still be alive. Look, regardless of her situation, there were much better options at her disposal. Both the sperm donor and the receptacle are wrong and to call either one of them a parent is a disrespect to all real parents out there. There are ways to prevent this from happening, it's called birth control. My children are my life and the reason I wake up every morning. They come before me in everything and I would kill over them. These 2 monsters need to both die the same horrible death that innocent baby died.
► Mama Dukes - Tennessee
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Comment made 5 days ago.
when jessica decided to drop london off at her father's house it was like dropping her off on a random doorstep because the father had no interest in london nor did he know her at all. but the one thing that I agree with you on is that he should be punished however so should she. the father would never have been put in the situation if the mother wouldnt have dropped her child off with him, NOW I am not saying that it was an excuse for the father to do that horrible act but if one parent should be blamed so should the other because neither one of them acted in the best interest of their child.
another thing that I wanted to comment on was the housing situation no one can say anything because no one knows the actual situation however from the information that I read or heard about the mother was kicked out of her apartment because of bad choices and she had a notice of the eviction, it wasn't just a spur of the moment action like some make it seem. after she dumped her child off at the father's house where was she staying? no one really knows but I garuntee that it wasn't on the streets. she had friends and family and if any of them cared at all they could have helped.
in this situation I think that both the mother and the father are to blaim for their childs dealth!
► Anonymous
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Comment made 225 days 21 hours ago.
I think that this is an enorme tragedy.... I have 2 children and I couldnt imagine loosin either of them... I also am a young mother. I dont believe any mother so ever have to bury their child. You ppl should stop blaming to mother and look @ what she just lost. London is IRREPLACEABLe and because of an imcompetant father THAT THE COURTS SAID SHE HAD TO GO WITH, baby London is now gone and gone forever. Stop being so cold hearted and blaming ppl. Seriously.
► Anonymous - Plymouth, MA
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Comment made 222 days 22 hours ago.
what do you mean the courts said she had to go ??? I never believed jessica would just up and abandon her own kid for no reason... I still dont... but did the courts have something to do with it?
► Shy - Woodstock N.B
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Comment made 87 days 2 hours ago.
the courts werent involved in deciding where the baby girl wud go!
► Anonymous
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Comment made 214 days 23 hours ago.
i agree with u. my thing is this.......
when a woman has a child with some 1 she doesnt know if he is a child abuser a child rappiest or any other kind of prediter or anything else. I feel deep down in my heart that Jessica done the right thing. she didn't want her child 2 be tossed from house 2 house or on the streets. she thought that her baby girl London would be safe there with her father.. when I go some where like 2 work I leave my 2 kids with their father.. because I trust him. she felt like she could trust him and at the same time had her child taken in a way no 1 wants..... either way I guess what I am try n 2 say is she had no way of knowing that the father was going 2 do such crap... he could have showed that child lots of love in front of her. how would she have known that he was going to hurt her daughter or cause her life 2 b cut short.. no I dont know alot about this story but I do know enough 2 say no matter what no child deserves such.. NO CHILD... he could have went and asked authorities 4 help or some 1 if he had no clue what 2 do. no instead he took his fustrations out on a 3 monthold lil baby girl. yes I feel she was put here for a reason, 2 show the world that it is time 4 ppl 2 open up their eyes and look around, cause it can be going on right next door it's messed up that this type of message was brought out this way. But she has changed and made a difference n some ones life... she has changed the world and the way things r looked at n so many ppls lives.... I will never 4 get about this lil baby girl 4 as l live. I love her and dont even know her. look she has made every body love her in her own lil way.... I think it is sad that ppl blame the mother when the mother wasn't there. what if it was their child and they left the child with the other parent and then that phone calls come can we blame them as well as the other person because they left the child with the other parent. thats like if I went 2 work like n e other time left my girls with their father and came home 2 some thing like this.... no one knows the truth the whole truth but the mother and the family... the press has a way of telling lies 2 make a bigger better story you cant always believe what you read or hear cause there is always something that they left out or added.
London's mother, 2 b honest with you I don't know how she is taking this and I dont know if I could... I pray 4 her and what she is going through. every time I look at stuff about London I look at my lil girl... and think how why what the world was he thinking 2 do some thing like this 2 his child... I cry and I think omg plz tell me that lil girl didn't feel n e pain. but in the back of my head I know she did... I am very thankful I have never had 2 make a decision like Jessica had 2 no mother or n e 1 4 that matter should not ever have 2 make a choice like that... R.I.P LONDON MARIE SHERWOOD you r always in my thoughts....
► melissa - spinglake, N.C.
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Comment made 233 days 19 hours ago.
And your going to believe what was said probally by Josh and his parents!!!!
There are always 2 sides to the story.........no matter what the real truth is.....London is dead and her father is responsible for that...NOT Jessica!!
► Anonymous
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Comment made 129 days 20 hours ago.
Who is to say her father is responsible? Why isn't the mother responsible? The baby had Healing fractured ribs. It is quite possible the babys ribs were fractured before she got dropped of for 3 WEEKS with her newly found father. Maybe London having fractured ribs is why she wouldn't stop crying. Who knows? I don't understand how any mother in her right could not see or contact her child (that she has had from birth) for three weeks. That shows exactly how much she cared about London. I don't feel bad for either parent because as far as I am concerned they are both to blame for London's death. Yes it is a tragedy that this kind of abuse had to happen to such a small child. What is wrong with people? I have two small children of my own and I know that I would never leave them for 3 weeks without contacting them or making sure I know the type of person that is caring for them.
► Anonymous
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Comment made 107 days 2 hours ago.
the mom should be in jail for leaving the baby and doing drugs how could anone leave there baby but the again a dont do drugs not everyone can just hand over a hand over like that I love my kids to death the mom of that baby is crazy is jessica like 15yrs old or what I feel bad when I saw her in thoses pictures and was mad at the dad until I did some resreach on this case and yes the mom should also be in jail for murder she also hurt the baby too by getting high and leaving the baby in the dads hands, and how can anyone leave a 9 week old at that time in his hands to go do drugs.jessica can come up with all of the excuses she wants about leaving baby. I got kicked out of my apartment before and I wouldnt ever leave my babies with their dad and I was 18yrs old at that time I took both of my kids with me and they were 2 yrs old and 3 months old and I didnt do drugs and I didnt leave them with my ex so that goes to show what kind of mother she was. but again I didnt do drugs nor would I ever.
► Anonymous - oregon
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Comment made 227 days 20 hours ago.
Regardless, wether or not she didnt come back for the child, that baby had her whole life ahead of her and it tragically ended by a young immature wanna be father, there is no excuse. I lost my baby sister at a younger age than that, I know how it feels, I am a former U.S. Marine and been through the hells of combat, and this just absolutely broke my heart. I know this little baby is in heaven with my baby sister looking down on us and hopefully she is some other little baby's guardian angle to make sure that this kinda of thing doesnt ever happen again. And I am doing my part as a police officer to put away these horrible people that do these terrible things. I could go on and on because my heart hurts for this mother and the baby, but this little girl is finally at ease and can rest now without pain, and hopefully the mother is a little more at ease too knowing and believeing her baby is in the safe arms of our lord now.
► Steve
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Comment made 227 days 1 hour ago.
Oh my heck people!!!! Who care's?!?!?! The person that comitted the crime is in jail, and thats about all thats going to happen. All I know is that my sympathy goes out to London and her family! No matter what "truely" happened, London is dead so I think we all need to just get a life and show some respect to her and her family!
► Jocelyn - Orem, UT
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Comment made 191 days 7 hours ago.
ARE YOU SERIOUS! WHO CARES? do you have no compassion? nobody really knows what happened and this is not about the mother or the father. its about london she was innocent in all of this and nobody was there to take a stand for her! we should be making a difference and making sure that no other childs life is taken away because of something as little as a child being fussy. it so sad and there is nothing we can say to bring her back and give her another chance at life. RIP LONDON MARIE SHERWOOD
► Megan - Seattle, Wa
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Comment made 51 days 21 hours ago.
i think you guys DO need to get a life because if any of you really cared about this at all you'd stop posting all of these stupid comments...i think that you guys just have nothing better to do than just sit on the computer and post these retarded comments on something that is none of mine or your bussiness so really get a life london is a baby not a walking television show this baby was abandoned and her stupid father is in jail and im pretty sure her mom feels horrible about this so be a christisn and stay out of it.........
► noneya - yea right
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Comment made 163 days 6 hours ago.
i understand that she lost her apartment & all... BUT why the need to leave your baby for 3 WEEKS?!?!?! I know he was the father & all..but GEEZ!!!!! I refuse to believe that she didn't have any friends or family that would've let her & baby London stay with them until she found an apartment.
don't get me wrong though, what that man did was...inhumane. & he should rot in prison for this, but ... better choices could've been made. =/
► jess - los angeles
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Comment made 140 days 3 hours ago.
you are stupid,
she DID do the right thing
because if she didnt take her daughter off life saport that baby
would have suffered for the rest of her life. :(
so I saport that young mother.
that "JOSH" person is going to HATES for what he did and if you saport him you might too!! :(
► Danielle - VA
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Comment made 139 days 2 hours ago.
you support the mother for dumping her child off at an unstable home, where she would eventually die?? I don't understand you at all..
jess did the right thing by taking london off life support but not by dumping her off and never returning in the first place!
if you support jess in everything then you belong with josh just as much as she does or anyone else you does harmful things..
► Anonymous
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Comment made 44 days 22 hours ago.
MAYBE SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BACK IN A FEW HOURS, MAYBE SHE NEEDED HER TIME ALONE, AND ATLEAST SHE DIDNT HURT THE BABY AT ALL, ALL MOTHERS NEED THEIR TIME, SHE IS NOT THE ONE TO BLAME, SHE DIDNT PUT HER HANDS ON THAT BABY... YOU ARE JUST AN IDIOT
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Comment made 266 days 16 hours ago.
'So every person that has given their baby up for adoption should be "put away"'
► Anonymous
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Comment made 252 days 23 hours ago.
That is completely different. She didn't go to anyone and say she wanted to give the baby up for adoption. She didn't need to dump her off there and never come back there is a big difference!!!!!
► Just Me - United States
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Comment made 227 days 23 hours ago.
ok when you have a baby it is the responsability of the mother to make sure that baby is okbut she didnt make that baby aolne the man could have helped too... so sh left the baby 4 3 weeks to find an apt that father could have got help from anyone go to a neighbor any female friend shiit take her to a park chuck e cheese were other kids will be playing and ask anyone there for help and even in the worst case senario leave her at a fire department such a beautiful baby didnt have to die
► damaris
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Comment made 242 days 15 hours ago.
So you are saying that if she were to give her child up for adoption and found it a wonderful, loving environment that she should be "put away"? That makes no sense at all. So what are you suggesting she do? Have an abortion maybe? That's even worse if you ask me. That's killing an innocent child that didn't ask to be brought into this world but really had no choice in the matter. I think most stable and normal people would agree that it's better to give your child to a loving home if you feel you cannot take care of them properly rather then having an abortion or beating your child.
► Anonymous - CANADA
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Comment made 265 days 17 hours ago.
Are you serious? She ABANDONED her child for 3 WEEKS!!! She had to be tracked down, just to find out that her daughter was about to die. She NEVER even called to check on her!!! She is JUST as guilty as the man that shook that baby, and in all the pictures she is crying like she really cared. If she cared AT ALL, she would have atleast checked up on her baby, reguardless of what she was going through. This makes me sick.
► Lauren K - West Palm Fl
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Comment made 264 days 23 hours ago.
So you know that Jessica never called and checked on her baby and how would you know this when there is nothing that states that anywhere
► Anonymous
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Comment made 264 days 22 hours ago.
because thats what the father told the police? Like I would believe that from someone who killed there own daughter.
► Anonymous
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Comment made 249 days 1 hour ago.
Actually, it is stated in several articles that she never checked on London.
► Goog
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Comment made 235 days 11 hours ago.
you make me sick... noone knows the whole truth, theres both sides and then theres the truth, she brought her to a place she thought she would be taken care of and loved.. better than what she could give her at the time, like listen to you...
"She is JUST as guilty as the man that shook that baby, and in all the pictures she is crying like she really cared." you have to be kidding me ... she brought the child somewhere she thought she would be taken care of... she didnt harm the baby, unlike the guilty one in this situation here.. am I right? at least she didnt just dump her off in someone random place.. and im pritty sure those tears that she is crying are real, so don't sit there and act like you know how the mother is feeling, and acuse her of not caring
► -S.H.
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Comment made 234 days 4 hours ago.
Yah those tears prob. are real...she prob. didn't want her baby to die but she also didn't care enough about her to make sure she was in good hands. Didn't drop her off at some random place you say....
BIO OR NOT IT WAS RANDOM ENOUGH...bio doesn't mean he loved her cause he obv. didn't love her enough not to kill her in his haze of abuse.
She didn't harm the baby...no but she put her in harms way didn't she. There had to have been signs...things he said...why would a mother leave her child in a house with grandparents that also had nothing to do with her. Or did she stick around long enough to know that...i don't think she stayed around long. Whatever she had to do DID NOT TAKE 3 WEEKS....SHE CHOSE TO BE GONE FOR THAT LONG. SHE DIDN'T KILL HER BABY BUT SHE DIDN'T TAKE CARE OF HER LIKE A REAL MOTHER WOULD EITHER. I AM SURE IF SHE COULD TURN BACK TIME SHE WOULD BUT NEEDS TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR HER ACTIONS TOO. SHE WAS NOT MOTHER OF THE YEAR BY A LONG SHOT
► Anonymous
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Comment made 233 days 19 hours ago.
yeah whatever.. why dont you people just give it u, a mother lost her child let it be, and let the professionals deal with... get your own life, and let these people deal with THEIR loss...
► S.H.
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Comment made 163 days 16 hours ago.
there are numerouse people at fault here josh his parents and jessica and maybe more. they all are going through this they all have to deal with criticisum and actusations.the people that were involved know whos to blame and if the justice system doesnt get to them or cant get to them then let the one who matters get to them and that would be london for being so little guilt is a big burrden to have and thats something they all have to deal with. MAYBE with jessica crying its the giult getting to her or MAYBE its just the fact that a part of her has died their is alot of maybes of what ifs. I dont care who you are if you dont morn for a lost child then your hartless but like I said justice will prevail no matter what for it takes.
► derrick - n.y
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Comment made 264 days 18 hours ago.
She did to abondon her it said so in the news....she got the shucks paternity test back that proved that the guy was her father and she took the baby and dropped her off like last nights garbage and never came back....the investagation also states that they arent sure that all the damage done to the baby was done in the time she was at her dads house.....So I do believe the mother is to blame also...Read the paper watch the news and look at all the evidence and you will also agree ......Both should be put away for a very very long time....
► Randi - Texas
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Comment made 214 days 22 hours ago.
like I said that is he said she said bull spit... the media and every 1 else have no clue the sittuation... I think that she done what was best for her child.... the news and the paper have a way of adding things and leaving things out.......................... leave that woman alone and let that child rest in peace..
► melissa - springlake,n.c.
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Comment made 263 days 19 hours ago.
That mother is responsible for abandoning that sweet baby with a dead beat father. He tried and obviously he failed. He said he got frustrated like most of us do, but he went over board. They are both at fault. I am the mother of two and I have never left my chiildren with anyone not even the father when they were that little. They both should pay for the death of that little girl. If she didn't want her she should of put her up for adoption. Not drop her off with someone who was not capable of taking care of her either. My heart when out to this mother. I cried forever. I was so upset. Then I was told to google London Marie Sherwood. I did and I was shocked what I found out.
► Amber - Washington In
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Comment made 242 days 15 hours ago.
GOD! Another person judging for leaving the child with the father or with someone you trust when they are babies. IT DOES NOT MAKE YOU A HORRIBLE PERSON IF IT'S SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO DO!!! I don't know how much clearer I need to make this. If you cannot even leave your child with the FATHER for a time period then what's that say about the father. I don't know about all the rest of you people out there, but I would have trusted my husband with MY life so I had no problem trusting him with OUR children's lives. That's something else that a lot of you are saying. "HER child", "MY child". It takes two people to make a child...Remember that people.
► Anonymous - CANADA
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Comment made 241 days 18 hours ago.
we are not judging because she left London with her father, we are judging because she never checked to make sure everything was ok and she didn't even provide him with the necessary things. She didn't leave a crib or anything. She didn't make sure that the FATHER even knew how to take care of an infant. She just droped and left. THAT'S WHAT WE ARE JUDGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment made 241 days ago.
Your right....she left nothing for her child....but a makeshift casket....He is a monster and.she is unfit...period..
Sadly, she prob. recieved more loving care after she died then when she alive. Poor angel..I agreee
THE ONLY VICTIM HERE IS BABY LONDON.
► shelly - mom of 5 - never abandoned or shook or ne
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Comment made 239 days 20 hours ago.
Josh may have been the biological father aka sperm donor, big difference than a husband, that doesn't mean he is capable of caring for a child. Everyone has their opinion on here and suggests what they may have done if it were their decision, however we are just specualators. Coulda, woulda, shoulda...right? We are unaware of Jessica's circumstances at that time, who is to say that she was fit to make decisions for that child? This is where the judicial system fails...some people should not be allowed to have children. They don't offer free birth control, some states don't offer free abortion, this is only the tip of the iceberg.
► Anonymous - Alberta, Canada
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Comment made 239 days 3 hours ago.
HOW MUCH CLEARER DO I HAVE TO MAKE THIS TO YOU...
FIRST OF ALL IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU AND WHO YOU TRUST..
ALL FATHERS ARE NOT "DADS"
ALL FATHER (AND MOTHERS) ARE NOT CAPABLE
ANY MOTHER WHO LEAVES A CHILD "ANYWHERE" WITHOUT ENSURING PROPER CARE AND SUPPLIES IS NOT A MOTHER
WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT A FATHER YOU ASK.....ASK LONDON
I TRUST MY HUSBAND WITH MY LIFE AS WELL AS OUR KIDS...I LEAVE MY KIDS WITH HIM ALL THE TIME CAUSE I "KNOW" I CAN TRUST HIM AND I KNOW HE LOVES OUR CHILDREN.
JESSICA "DID NOT KNOW" EITHER OF THESE THINGS. THAT IS OBVIOUS.
► SHELLY - CANADA
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Comment made 235 days 18 hours ago.
well..first of all..from what I know (it may not be enough) he wasnt her HUSBAND, they were probably screwing around like animals, because she needed a peternity test to prove that he was the kids father!!
and your right, it does take TWO ppl to produce a child, but it doesnt necessarly mean that either one of them can raise it. It's not necessarly the blood relation that makes ppl parents to a child.
whatever the case...both the parents were irresponsible! and should and WILL get punished, whether it be from guilt or some other way karma would handle it.
she's one of God's angels now, and in a much better place.
► Zee - Canada
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Comment made 232 days 18 hours ago.
Just because they had a paternity test doesnt mean that they were screwing around like animals. I know plenty of guys who will deny that it is their child to the death because they want nothing to do with it.
She gave the child up to the father obviously not the best decision but the child is his responsibility as well. Being that a paternity test was required he more than likely was denying the child was his from the get go. She wasnt able to care for the child she left it upon the father to care for her and he killed her... IS HE HIMSELF NOT CAPABLE OF TAKING THE CHILD TO DCF AND GIVING THE CHILD UP FOR ADOPTION.. She was able to give the child up in hopes of it being taken care of knowing she couldnt handle it, so why are so many of you using that as his scapegoat that she couldnt take care of it and she made a bad decision... he couldnt take care of her and he made and even worse decision
► Randy k - florida
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Comment made 132 days 15 hours ago.
Bad IDEA to give your child to a man that was denying his paternity. Would have been better off to drop her off at a safe haven.
► anyone - massachusetts
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Comment made 226 days 12 hours ago.
Hey, I dont know from all the he say/she say bits n pieces ive read on here tonight but I was fwded this piece on myspace as well and I have to say just this--and it is JUST A MATTER OF OPINION becoz I havent researched much more than this site, but I AGREE with THIS poster here in regards to "if you cant trust the father of your child WHO THE HELL CAN you TRUST" . unfortunately theres ALOT of men, women in this world who have no heart at all, but seriously people---let the child rest in peace already. It needs to be said though that a father has JUST AS MUCH , IF NOT ,MORE RIGHTS TO THEIR CHILD as ANY one of us mothers do. Whose to say that this particular mother-knew any better ? who would she be to judge this man or his capabilites of caring for HIS OWN CHILD ? Last I heard, we as people in society, were not paid to judge or be judged ..thats the GOOD LORD'S job. I am not takin sides to either parent, as I stated before, I have NOT done any research on this but should ANY of us be "believing everything in the media" ? Unless we knew either of these people or their families personally---we have no right to sit here and type/take sides. No matter how much we read or see on tv...it doesnt take the place of KNOWING THESE PEOPLE to pass judgement.
► Becky - Chicago, Illinois
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Comment made 222 days 16 hours ago.
It might take two people to make a child but we are not talking about the best quality of people here. Sure you "should" be able to leave your child with it's dad, but a "dad" doesn't require a paternity test. You can't deem someone suitable to raise your child when a paternity test was required to determine if he was even the father. I don't know about you, but as a mother, I wouldn't leave my child with someone I probably didn't know very well just because a DNA test says he's the father. Being a father doesn't make you a dad and unfortunately, whether right or wrong, it is the mother's responsibility to keep their children safe. I do trust my husband with my life and with my children's lives but I don't think I would trust some idiot that is how old and still lives with his parents who also appear to be pretty useless. The fact that she even slept with someone with that much integrity speaks volumes about her. All I can say is this.....that precious little baby is in a better place and is much better off than she would be with either one of the two idiots that make up her DNA.
► Missie A - Maine
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Comment made 183 days 5 hours ago.
Just for clarification purposes, getting a paternity test does not make them bad people, and it does not mean they were screwing around like animals. If she was trying to get some financial help to help her raise London, they require paternity tests. "Needing to determine if he is the father" is what a lot of HHS agencies do so that they can go after the father on behalf of the mother for child support. I knew perfectly well, without a shadow of a doubt who the father of my oldest son was but since I needed a little help with medical, they required a paternity test to try and get his help for me and my son. And just because they need a paternity test doesn't make them bad people. My sons dad and I got back together and got married and have since added two more babies to our family - it wasn't that he was a total loser, just that he hadn't been around babies and didn't know what to do and he was scared. Now he is a great dad - so you can't go off of statistics and what everyone said. And no matter what, it is up to both parents to provide financially for the child. It is just as much the fathers responsibility to keep the child safe - we are in a completely different era where it is customary for both parents to care for the kids. It's not just a womans job anymore. People make mistakes - maybe she thought their relationship would go somewhere and maybe she saw something in him that wasn't visible to the rest of us. And if you want to point fingers, then why shouldn't his family - who was there while all this was taking place, be charged just as much - Jessica wasn't at the house, but look at how many people were that shouldv'e stepped in and didn't. There is a difference between a hungry/tired/bored cry and a hurt cry - why didn't the other people in that house do something - they had all been around babies before so they should have known the difference. If you want to point fingers, maybe they should be charged as accessories. You can't ever fully know someone - that's why life is based on Faith, and practice.
► L - NE
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Comment made 114 days 21 hours ago.
She obviously didn't KNOW he was the father because she had to do a paternity test.. This also proves that he was denying her too.. If he denied her, then why would Jessica drop London off at his doorstep? If he wasn't interested from the beginning, why force it on him? It would only end in misery.
► Anon - Canada
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Comment made 256 days 13 hours ago.
Ok I didn't read all of these comments some may support jess at this time but some may not ..to those who are saying she needs to b put away ...all you are listening to is the papers and I have nothing against for that but you have to remember they are not always 100% right ...they haven't talked to jess as far as we know so what they say is only what they are inferring..jess is one of my closest friends and London was supposed to be my god daughter....jess was a young mother and she was struggling financially and she was not fully ready for a child of her own I mean she just turned 20...she has been trying to get back on her feet and she was looking into the best interest for the child ...she didn't mean for any of this to happen I mean really who would??i think some of you that are saying she should be locked up are a bit heartless...i am tired of people like them talking trash about something they know nothing about ..weren't you taught when you were a child the little phrase that goes if you have nothing nice to say don't say anything....if only you guys actually knew jess and how much she loved and cared for London ...i was their throughout almost all of the pregnancy I mean I was their for the ultrasounds...i have seen her love for that baby and I talk to her almost every day ..all I am asking is that people try to understand what I am saying and cut her a little slack for not knowing the josh was going to do this...i mean we all are hoping for a long sentence for him but I don't believe jess deserves to be ridiculed by some of you that don't know the situation ...thank you
► A caring family member of London - WI
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Comment made 242 days 16 hours ago.
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