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This story has been big news here in Wisconsin. Just when everyone thought it couldn’t get any more ridiculous, it does.
In the original story, a mother shot her eight year old daughter with a BB gun because the mother’s boyfriend bet the mother $1 that she wouldn’t do it. OK, the intelligence and the common sense of the mother comes into question right away, doesn’t it?
Of course you have the required part of the story of the mother telling the daughter not say anything because it was a family matter. Hmmm, how many other times has this mother said this? The little girl went to school and a teacher reported the injury. There is much more to the initial story but the facts are in dispute, like why the little girl was wearing three pair of pants at the time she was shot, and if it was a BB gun or a pellet gun, since the girl’s wound was a single round welt through three pair of pants. The type of gun shouldn’t really be an issue, but it could be.
Through the Wisconsin Court records, we can search and find out exactly what this mother is being charged with to find out it’s an H class felony of Child Abuse-Intentionally Cause Harm. OK, I can go along with that. She was released on a $5,000 signature bond. Recently she was arrested for “bail jumping.” Well, in this case bail jumping means that she has violated the conditions of her bail. She was drinking. Well, that’s what led to the first incident. Drunk talk and a $1 bet. She appeared in court again, in front of the same judge, and was released on a $250 bond.
Excuse me? The woman was violating her $5000 bail so we give her $250 bail? Oh, did I mention that the bail jumping charge is an H class felony? The same as the child abuse charge. Am I the only one who sees a problem with this?
I know the judge involved in this case. We have appeared before him on Sammy’s issues a couple of times, and more importantly, he was the judge involved in our abuse allegation hearing. I cannot begin to imagine how this tough judge that I appeared in front of allowed this to happen. Is there a double standard somewhere? We have seen this time and again with Sammy’s birth mother. She has appeared in court numerous times since his removal, all the for the same things that caused his removal, and she is able to plead out with little or no jail time, or with ridiculously reduced charges.
I almost forgot one of the most “important” parts of this story. The bail violation occurred a mere two weeks after she shot her daughter. Maybe mom was too broken up over losing her daughter and just needed to drown her emotions in alcohol.
Stories like this anger me and still never fail to amaze me.
