Police probe death of boy whose parents are in Iraq

[Ellen Forradalom]

Source: Chicago Tribune

Calumet City Police are investigating the death of a 4-year-old boy who was found unresponsive in his bed by a man taking care of him while his parents are serving in Iraq, authorities said.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/north/chi-calcity_25_may25,1,4716580.story?coll=chi-newslocalnorth-hed

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Every word of this headline aches with pain. :-(

[Fridays Child]

1. Another family ground into the dirt, beneath Bush's boot heel.

:cry:

[Artie575]

2. Boyfriend has been officially charged with the murder......

Both parents are serving in Iraq and are said to be flying home.

[Suich]

9. Do I have this right?

Mom's fiancee was caring for 3 kids, 4, 7 and 8 yrs. old?

1st post...glad to hear from you, Artie575.

:toast:

[LisaL]

10. Yep, this guy, who is 23 years old, was supposed to care

for three kids.

[MadMaddie]

3. How's the Pro Family Repug Party working out for our soldiars...?

Another destroyed family....

Meanwhile....* goes home to his ranch and rests his mind....:puke:

[AlCzervik]

4. poor baby.

heartbreaking.

[woo me with science]

5. Why the hell were BOTH parents serving?????

That is sick.

[Suich]

8. Parents are divorced. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Why should that make any difference?

It should be illegal to take BOTH parents from kids and send them BOTH halfway around the world into combat. It shouldn't matter if they are divorced or not.

[Miss Chybil]

6. OMG.

This is so heartbreaking. Why are both parents in Iraq? This is inexcusable. How heartless a government we have.

[Solly Mack]

7. ...

but hey, at least America's safer

[panzerfaust]

11. "No one suffers more than their president and I do."

Laura *

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Where was this relative when Mom and Dad BOTH were sent to Iraq?

as a result of Cameron's death, his siblings have been removed from the home and are being cared for by a relative

[libodem]

14. Expect more of the same

for everyone found there must be several more that haven't surfaced yet. What horrible suffering. A 23 year old male babysitter just couldn't be equipped for the mental stress of caring for young kids, who are not his own. So many of our local tragedies are a young male boyfriend left to care for a small child. What's is so terrible is that kids can survive bad beatings over and over and NOT die. Why do they have to be dead or broken before someone steps in. God Damn!

[LisaL]

15. I would say.

The male was unemployed, 23 years old, and with previous arrest for an assault. Left to care for 3 young children who were not his own.

[Lars39]

16. The real question is why the military who oversees such things

thought that this arrangement was acceptable.

[LisaL]

17. Right now the children are said to be with the mother's parents.

I wonder why all three were not given to the parents to begin with, before the mother went to Iraq.