Who would make a child do that for anything??

Well of course- but over a chocolate bar is beyond words!

Your not hard. Animals on the other hand deserve more respect as it is this line of thinking that got us here in the first place.

You know jack shit on this story doll.

Completely. Only a seasoned distance runner can maintain a pace through 3 hours and even that is tough to 99% of practicing runners. These people are sick. Breaks my heart. RIP

Really Katrina you have no idea where I’m comming from. I’m sure in a parallel universe if this girl was still running that she would hate to see your comments about how your wishing ill on her guardians. Take it that this is the only life this 9 year old knew, sitting behind a computer screen and passing comment on your emotional instability is not helpful in making sure that children that find themselves in this situation have a resource in community values. Wishing badness and then closing your curtains off to the world is why this shit continues to happen. If you really wish this child peace in her death you would recognise the attachment she would have had with both her father, her pregnant step mother and her grandmother. It’s sad, but also is your misdirected anger.

Wishing suffering on people who’s intention in punishing their child was not the death of that child is a little harsh considering the amount of sugar that’s contained in chocolate bars.

The road to hell is paved with good ‘intentions’

A 9 year old child told a lie, sweet screaming Jesus! She was a wee child, they do these things and we’re suppose to educate them by example as adults. I’m beginning to wonder WHY she had to take the chocolate or lie about it but regardless toturing her to death by those who’re supposed to love and care for her is unspeakable.
Cupids Daughter, if those people were willing to do that for lying about a bloody bar of chocolate we can only imagine what this poor child suffered for the normal things children get up to, no child is perfect, I wasn’t nor were my kids, were you? She was never going to survive that family, children like her never do and we never know untill its too late. Don’t belittle a childs death.

Because in China, where religion isn’t exactly encouraged by the state, there is no child abuse whatsoever I suppose? Let’s face it – human nature dictates whether child abuse will occur, not religion!

I notice the article doesn’t mention if the parents had a religion whatsoever. Your casual stereotyping betrays your intolerance!

I’m well aware of the endemic child abuse in China, but i brought up the relationship between religion and child abuse, where a pattern can be seen. It might not be religion in particular thats the problem, but rather any common ideology (Ireland-Catholisicm-Child abuse, China-Communism-Freedom of Speech, Islamic Reublic-Islam-Gender Inequality, etc.). I made the assumption that these people were religious because Alabama has the second highest church attendance in the US- 58% (WIkipidia)

Where does it say anything about religion? This story is about an obviously psychopathic pair of women who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a child and the child this woman is having should be taken from her and pleeeeeeeeeeeease stick to the truth and stop being so ‘creative’ when commenting.

Hanly I’m not too concerned with your comment given I know your pro-religion views. All I was doing was pointing out the well established relationship between religious/fundamentalist call it what you will, ideologies and the way they manipulate people to do terrible things. And I’d call it ‘reasoning out’ rather than ‘creativity’. No I’m not certain that these people are religious but I’d put money in it that they are, I’m entitled to an opinion. We’ll just have to wait to find out more but corporal punishment is synonymous with the Bible Belt.

When the story about the little girl was left to die on the street in China, I recall most people spouting stereotypes and making mass generalisations about how inhumane and cold the entire Chinese race were. “Only in China” was the impression I got (this, despite several similar stories happening across the “developed” west). Yet here, there is a more measured response, with only one guy talking about how it’s Christians in the south who can be capable of this… top that off with “isn’t this world a horrible place?” comments (as opposed to “isn’t horrible?”, and we have obvious bias towards what are your “own people”.

Aren’t double standards wonderful.

can’t see how you can know what the ladies in question religious stance is and how in any way it’s relevant.
People are capable of unbelievable cruelty and kindness no matter what their creed or lack of it.

Well,if you have a kid at 17 and she has a kid at 18 or vice versa,you would be grandmother of 9 or 10 year old at 45….
What a messed up mind each of those women must have. Disgusting that they could do such a thing. Poor little girl

Oddball.

Sometimes it is better not to type.

You’re using this horrific act of sadism so you can boast about how wonderful your mothering skills are?

Sheila, how is this of any relevance? Is it really important that it would have been more correct for the headline to read ‘child forced to run for three hours and subsequently died for lying about eating chocolate bar’? What happened was brutal and entirely disproportionate in any case.

..and they would have called it a candy bar, Sheila

fair enough – I’ll put my hands up to this not being the most appropriate place to make my comment.
As my granddaughter (the 1 person on this earth who has made me realise the true meaning and given me personal understanding of the expression “apple of your eye”) has gone home now, I’ll just say that I absolutely CANNOT see any circumstance in life when her mother or I would EVER consider using such an inhumane punishment, or anything even remotely like it and the thoughts of the death that poor child suffered at the hands of those who were supposed to be her strongest protectors is an anathema to me.

To my point about lying – which for me is a real bugbear – when your own life has been extremely negatively influenced by lies that people have told you (not all necessarily malevolent – some were lies of omission or for protective reasons – which in the long term makes no difference to the effect they have on you) I realised the absolute detrimental affect it had on my relationships and it was something that I was determined would not affect my relationship with my children- (It’s taken me my lifetime so far to come to terms with those effects and I still have to remind myself of this on a regular basis) – that in itself did not make me a wonderful mother – I am unfortunately anything but, and would gladly give anything to go back and change HUGE mistakes I made – the thing is we all as parents make mistakes – it’s only in scrip writer’s land that people are “perfect”. To judge someone from 1 comment when you’re not sure of the context from whence it comes is something that I try not to do – hence I rarely thumb up or down unless the commentator has specifically hit the nail on the head (for me personally).
On a broader point of lying (and roll on as many red arrows as you like) we’re all paying for it now – lies of omission(remember the cheapest bail out ever – 36billion for Anglo originally – remind me of how much it is again that it actually is costing us now and in the long term future)
The lies still continuously being told to us from those who are supposed to be on our side are just further examples of it to me ( not another red cent – labour’s way not Frankfurt’s way; – a pay cap for all but just not these few special advisers; austerity for all but just not us on our big salary & expenses etc etc etc) and on more individual levels the “lies” of exaggeration where someone on a not great income had their mortgage forms inflated i.e. they earned 2p and got mortgages of 400,000 etc or non-full-disclosure about their involvement in the property market have landed us in the austere climate we all find ourselves today.

I’m just sick and tired of it all – are we placing less value on honesty and integrity????