Has the world gone mad? Nicole Finn gets 3 life sentences for starving 3 of her adopted children

[mfcorey1]

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2018/01/26/judge-denies-new-trial-nicole-finn-daughters-starvation-death/1068837001/

A Polk County judge on Friday sentenced Nicole Finn, the West Des Moines mother who rescued pets but starved three siblings she adopted, to three consecutive life sentences without parole.

Judge Karen Romano called the mother of five’s actions inexcusable and ordered her not to have any contact with her surviving adopted children. One of her adopted children, 16-year-old Natalie Finn, was so emaciated that she died of cardiac arrest.

"The court cannot imagine what kind of mental trauma these children have suffered," Romano said.

Finn abused three of four children she adopted from foster care, removing them from public schools and locking them away as she slowly starved them.

The food-deprivation case is among several raising questions in Iowa and around the country, including one this month in Perris, California, in which parents slowly starved 13 children.

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Finn, 43, did not comment before her sentencing Friday morning but said she would appeal the judge's decision, which requires that the life sentences be served one after the other — a largely symbolic gesture.

[IluvPitties]

1. Monster!

Evil is rampant in this world, and it knows no boundaries, genders, races, etc. We humans are a sick bunch.

[sofa king]

2. A slightly more positive spin....

I think it's possible that humans as a whole are becoming more gentle and peaceful as technology and good information becomes available to more and more people. But at the same time, with however many billion people there are now walking the earth, every possible permutation of perversity has a chance to manifest itself every day, and when it does it is observed and reported around the world.

Thus one can have the perception that evil is rampant and perhaps even growing, while humanity as a whole progresses toward a more peaceful existence.

At least, that is what I wish to believe, today.

[IluvPitties]

6. Thanks for your perspective, as it makes sense.

[Igel]

7. It's actually better than she says, in some ways.

You'd expect twice as many murders, rapes, etc., now as when I was young. Because the population's more than twice as much.

You'd expect those murders, rapes, etc., that occurred to be reported more often. Because reporting's roughly twelve times greater in quantity.

You'd also expect the incidence of these things to increase, because from the time I was young to now communities are less close knit, and if communities are good for one thing it's for control and provisions. You get support from your community, you find that those you're around and work with or grew up with are more trustworthy than strangers, and you're more likely to help them if they need it if you know them. "Social trust" and "social capital" are the words here. And that's severely eroded on the ground and in the abstract. I knew not only my neighbors when I was a kid, but the neighbors on the other side of them, plus a smattering of people on the next block in every direction. I could knock on the door and they'd have recognized me and helped me. After 9 years living in this house, I sort of know the names of two of the people who live on the other side of the street (there are 15, I think, in the house directly across the street and the house on either side of that one). I know none of the neighbors on this side of the street.

In fact, the incidence of most crime is sharply down from then in most places. It some places it's down moderately, in a few places up, and in some places it's about the same.

[Lil Missy]

3. The answer is in your title.

The conviction was for starving 3 of her children. A life sentence for each one.

[Mariana]

4. The world has not gone mad.

Most adults don't starve or otherwise torture or kill children, but there have always been some adults who do.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Twas ever thus.

[malaise]

8. Some foster parents are in it for the money

they are vile but vile doesn't quite describe folks like the California couple.