Reno,NV (AP)- A couple who authorities say were so obsessed with the Internet and video games that they left their babies starving and suffering other health problems have pleaded guilty to child neglect.
The children of Michael and Iana Straw, a boy age 22 months and a girl age 11 months, were severely malnourished and near death last month when doctors saw them after social workers took them to a hospital, authorities said. Both children are doing well and gaining weight in foster care, prosecutor Kelli Ann Viloria told the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Michael Straw, 25, and Iana Straw, 23, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts each of child neglect. Each faces a maximum 12-year prison sentence.
If you’re interested, here’s the MySpace page. Irony abounds, given the charges they face. She says in part:
What’s Wrong With Our Kids?
Do you really have to ask? Open your eyes. The problem isn’t that the next mass murderer may be sitting right next to you, sleeping in your house, eating at your table, giving you every signal of desperation a person can give. The problem is, you don’t want to see it. How else does a child become an emotionally alienated, psychologically twisted, mass murderer, unnoticed by everyone?
They don’t.
Nobody gets that far gone without anyone noticing. We all recognize behavior that raises our concern. We all know when someone is more than just weird. We see it happening, and yet we ignore it, because if we don’t, we’ll have to take responsibility for doing something about it.
She’s got all the words in catch phrases down just so. The trick, apparently, is the application of those high sounding words. This whole situation screams “a detachment from reality. ” She’s a leftist, of course, and one assumes HE is, as well. Gee, I’m shocked by this, aren’t you?
Well, given the mentalities and the lack of connection to reality we’re dealing with here, we now, perhaps, have an explanation for the re-election of Harry Reid, hmmm?
