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They're in Douglasville, so yeah metro Atlanta. I know Paisley was a patient at the big children's hospital in Atlanta when she was first born
Community Tard Baby General (includes brain dead kids) - Fundies and their genetic Fuckups; Parents of corpses in denial
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Ok yeah, that's in a poorer County but I'm sure a severely disabled toddler would be able to get home services even there.
I wish there was some way to transfer the PT/OT/etc services Luna gets to Paisley.
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Why would anyone but her mother want such a thing?
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Saw this on IG today and figured we needed some positive in the thread for the holidays.
This lady helps kids accept their illnesses/disabilitys by making dinosaurs and animals that represent them.
This lady helps kids accept their illnesses/disabilitys by making dinosaurs and animals that represent them.
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If a disabled child becomes a "successful brand" in and of the child's self, some of those creepy old ladies will buy "memorabilia."
Or, worse yet, the degenerate men.
Edit: @GenociderSyo - I don't say this kind of thing often, but that's fucked up. I get why they have value, but they're also pretty funny.
Second edit: I just bought a bunch.
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AITA for cracking up a bit at the dinosaur with a colostomy bag? I think this is a great idea, for kids of all ages.
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I... I feel like she could have chosen a better species besides a penguin to give the chew necklace to.
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They were hilarious, but also charming. For non-potato kids with disabilities or going through scary medical procedures, these are really great.
The puffer fish in the walker cracked me up. It doesn't even have fucking legs.
Don't forget the blind stingray, the octopus with Treacher-Collins syndrome, and the seahorse in a wheelchair!
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US couple could face death in ‘child torture, trafficking’ of foster son in Uganda
Nicholas Spencer, a former congressional staffer, and his wife Mackenzie, once a healthcare consultant, quit their jobs in DC in 2017 and moved to Uganda. Five years later, they are making international headlines for their arrest on child torture charges, Andrea Blanco reports
www.independent.co.uk
Posting this here because I'm sure these creeps would have had social media to tell be world how wonderful they are, trying to find anything now.
2017, Nicholas and Mackenzie Spencer, both 32, left behind their lives in Washington DC and moved to Uganda.
Mr Spencer, then a congressional staffer, and his wife, a former healthcare consultant, quit their jobs in America to become foster parents and begin their “humanitarian work” in the East African nation.
Five years later, they would be making international headlines — not for their activism — but for their arrest on charges of aggravated torture and aggravated child trafficking. The couple, now being held at a Ugandan maximum security prison, stands accused of subjecting their 10-year-old foster child to cruel punishments with the excuse that he was “stubborn, hyperactive, and mentally unstable, according to the Uganda Police Force.
Ugandan prosecutors said the Spencers deprived the boy, who is reportedly HIV positive, of clothing, education, warm food and a bed. Authorities added that the foster parents, who first retained custody of the children in the town of Jinja before moving to the capital, kept the boy through “abuse of position of vulnerability for purposes of exploitation,” the Daily Monitor reports.
If convicted of child trafficking charges, the couple could face the death penalty, the state prosecutor said during a court hearing on Wednesday. An attorney for the couple has dismissed the accusations, telling local media that the case was a “fishing expedition” by prosecutors, according to Reuters.
Zimbabwean activist who alleges harrowing torture by suspected state security now living in terror in Europe
The alleged torture
The Spencers, originally from South Carolina, have been held at the Luzira prison since 9 December, after a home aid alerted authorities of the alleged torture taking place in their household.
“I wanted to leave the job, but I knew if I left without doing something about it, the torture would continue,” the woman told the Monitor under the condition of anonymity.
She claimed that the Spencers only inflicted punishment on the 10-year-old boy because he was “stubborn and hyperactive ...[and] mentally unstable.”
Neighbours and teachers of the victim have since come forward with similar allegations of child torture, Ugandan Police said in a statement.
According to authorities, investigators found that the Spencers kept the boy barefoot and naked throughout the day and “would occasionally make him squat in an awkward position, with his head facing the floor and hands spread out widely.”
The boy was allegedly forced to sleep on a wooden platform, without a mattress, and “was served cold meals from the fridge.”
Filed documents obtained by the Monitor state that a camera was placed inside the room where the boy was kept in order to monitor his movements.
The outlet also reported that the victim was forced to stay home and not go to school for four months. According to police, he was a student at Dawn’s Children’s Center in Ntinda, a division of Kampala.
The alleged abuse took place between 2020 and the Spencers’ arrest earlier this month, police said.
A foster family
When the young couple moved to Uganda in 2017, Mr Specer first took a job as a supply chain director at AKOLA Project, a jewellery company in Jinja, a city in southern Uganda.
In Washington, he had worked as a press and legislative assistant for a congressman, according to his LinkedIn.
A year after the Spencers moved, they began to foster three children from the Welcome Ministry before moving to Kampala, the capital.
But in 2019, Ms Spencer, who reportedly suffers from a debilitating disease that affects her joint and spine, had to travel to the US to get surgery for her health concerns.
The illness previously affected Ms Spencer’s mobility before a life-saving surgery at the age of 18, according to a Washington Post report from 2014. She went on to graduate from the University of South Carolina Upstate and was hired as a healthcare consultant in DC, according to the report.
Seven spinal surgeries later and while living in Uganda as a new foster mother, the disease returned, Ms Spencer wrote in a GoFundMe to raise funds for her medical expenses. Back in the US for a new surgery, Ms Spencer wrote about the challenge of being apart from her family, and how technology had helped them.
“Nick and the kids are doing very well and have great support from our Uganda family,” she wrote in the description of the fundraiser. “We are so thankful for technology that allows us to video chat twice every day. This has been incredibly helpful for all of our hearts during this difficult time!”
Ms Spencer raised nearly $5,000 on the page and also welcomed donations on her Target and Amazon registries for “items we need to bring back with us including items for the children, home, personal care, and other items we do not have access to in Uganda.”
A friend of hers, she wrote, also organised an “adoption shower.”
After Ms Spencer returned to Uganda, her husband took on a job at a company of design services as a marketplace leader.
Child torture and trafficking charges
Following the arrests, Ugandan police reminded local authorities to monitor closely foster parents in the region, saying the alleged torture against the victim could have been avoided.
“We want to thank the neighbours, teachers and the victim, for taking the courage to stand up against acts of child torture,” the statement read. “We also call upon all probation offices and social workers, to continuously monitor the well-being of children in foster homes, to guard against handing over vulnerable children to abusive foster parents, or other forms of harm.”
On Wednesday, the Spencers were charged with aggravated child trafficking, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of death.
They were not allowed to enter a plea as their case can only be heard at High Court, prosecutors told Reuters.
Mr Spencer, then a congressional staffer, and his wife, a former healthcare consultant, quit their jobs in America to become foster parents and begin their “humanitarian work” in the East African nation.
Five years later, they would be making international headlines — not for their activism — but for their arrest on charges of aggravated torture and aggravated child trafficking. The couple, now being held at a Ugandan maximum security prison, stands accused of subjecting their 10-year-old foster child to cruel punishments with the excuse that he was “stubborn, hyperactive, and mentally unstable, according to the Uganda Police Force.
Ugandan prosecutors said the Spencers deprived the boy, who is reportedly HIV positive, of clothing, education, warm food and a bed. Authorities added that the foster parents, who first retained custody of the children in the town of Jinja before moving to the capital, kept the boy through “abuse of position of vulnerability for purposes of exploitation,” the Daily Monitor reports.
If convicted of child trafficking charges, the couple could face the death penalty, the state prosecutor said during a court hearing on Wednesday. An attorney for the couple has dismissed the accusations, telling local media that the case was a “fishing expedition” by prosecutors, according to Reuters.
Zimbabwean activist who alleges harrowing torture by suspected state security now living in terror in Europe
The alleged torture
The Spencers, originally from South Carolina, have been held at the Luzira prison since 9 December, after a home aid alerted authorities of the alleged torture taking place in their household.
“I wanted to leave the job, but I knew if I left without doing something about it, the torture would continue,” the woman told the Monitor under the condition of anonymity.
She claimed that the Spencers only inflicted punishment on the 10-year-old boy because he was “stubborn and hyperactive ...[and] mentally unstable.”
Neighbours and teachers of the victim have since come forward with similar allegations of child torture, Ugandan Police said in a statement.
According to authorities, investigators found that the Spencers kept the boy barefoot and naked throughout the day and “would occasionally make him squat in an awkward position, with his head facing the floor and hands spread out widely.”
The boy was allegedly forced to sleep on a wooden platform, without a mattress, and “was served cold meals from the fridge.”
Filed documents obtained by the Monitor state that a camera was placed inside the room where the boy was kept in order to monitor his movements.
The outlet also reported that the victim was forced to stay home and not go to school for four months. According to police, he was a student at Dawn’s Children’s Center in Ntinda, a division of Kampala.
The alleged abuse took place between 2020 and the Spencers’ arrest earlier this month, police said.
A foster family
When the young couple moved to Uganda in 2017, Mr Specer first took a job as a supply chain director at AKOLA Project, a jewellery company in Jinja, a city in southern Uganda.
In Washington, he had worked as a press and legislative assistant for a congressman, according to his LinkedIn.
A year after the Spencers moved, they began to foster three children from the Welcome Ministry before moving to Kampala, the capital.
But in 2019, Ms Spencer, who reportedly suffers from a debilitating disease that affects her joint and spine, had to travel to the US to get surgery for her health concerns.
The illness previously affected Ms Spencer’s mobility before a life-saving surgery at the age of 18, according to a Washington Post report from 2014. She went on to graduate from the University of South Carolina Upstate and was hired as a healthcare consultant in DC, according to the report.
Seven spinal surgeries later and while living in Uganda as a new foster mother, the disease returned, Ms Spencer wrote in a GoFundMe to raise funds for her medical expenses. Back in the US for a new surgery, Ms Spencer wrote about the challenge of being apart from her family, and how technology had helped them.
“Nick and the kids are doing very well and have great support from our Uganda family,” she wrote in the description of the fundraiser. “We are so thankful for technology that allows us to video chat twice every day. This has been incredibly helpful for all of our hearts during this difficult time!”
Ms Spencer raised nearly $5,000 on the page and also welcomed donations on her Target and Amazon registries for “items we need to bring back with us including items for the children, home, personal care, and other items we do not have access to in Uganda.”
A friend of hers, she wrote, also organised an “adoption shower.”
After Ms Spencer returned to Uganda, her husband took on a job at a company of design services as a marketplace leader.
Child torture and trafficking charges
Following the arrests, Ugandan police reminded local authorities to monitor closely foster parents in the region, saying the alleged torture against the victim could have been avoided.
“We want to thank the neighbours, teachers and the victim, for taking the courage to stand up against acts of child torture,” the statement read. “We also call upon all probation offices and social workers, to continuously monitor the well-being of children in foster homes, to guard against handing over vulnerable children to abusive foster parents, or other forms of harm.”
On Wednesday, the Spencers were charged with aggravated child trafficking, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of death.
They were not allowed to enter a plea as their case can only be heard at High Court, prosecutors told Reuters.
edit: GoFundMe referenced in article
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Puppy Mutt
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There are a handful of families that will take the disabled kids and give them the best life possible. It’s likely in the minority of those who birth and/or adopt a child with autism (as that’s what my experience is) but they are out there…. And I’m not talking about the ones who collect kids and give them the bare minimum “because at least it’s better than a Russian orphanage “
We are currently adopting a 14F who spent the last three years at a residential for ASD and the 11 years before that in a house of horrors. She is our one and done. We realized after babysitting one other foster child who is in another home for a few hours; our kiddo had to deal with the fact that the other child was making the house hell. We drive 8-10hrs. Minimum a week for 5ths of therapy, 1 hour of social recreation and 2-4hrs a day doing virtual schooling. And there is still always more to do.
Anyone who tries to adopt or claim to be able to care for more than one (two if I’m generous) children with special needs is not meeting all of the needs of one child let alone both. Having a disabled family member absolutely can and often does fuck the lives of the rest of the home. Sometimes it only effects the family in minor and bare able ways, but I know in my community of Moms with kids like mine (Level 3 with I/DD) it ruins their lives so often that it’s heartbreaking.
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The rabbit with a urinary catheter has its collection bag on the front leg, which is just bad fluid dynamics.
I want to talk about the koala with a feeding tube, though:
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That is a Kangaroo ePump, rendered much more accurately to brand than the other devices.
Kangaroo.
At least they picked another marsupial, I guess.
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You know that anything gained by maybe a dozen or so fewer cases of COVID (which is pretty much harmless to kids) is going to be outweighed by all the ass-whippings these poor kids are going to get from bullies because of their shithead parents.
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This person constantly complains about ableism and trans stuff.
She demands taht disabled doesn't exist. BUT if you were to tell her fine then no SSDI or no accomondations she would go crazy stating that unfair too.
She demands taht disabled doesn't exist. BUT if you were to tell her fine then no SSDI or no accomondations she would go crazy stating that unfair too.
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Here's a bit of a power level: I took an edible, read this post, forgot to look up at the URL bar to see where I was, and tried to guess what thread it was in:
My guesses were (in order):
- Kelly Lenza
- Corissa
- munchies
- Robyn woo mom
Man. This bullcrap really is cross-sectional.
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Some of you might have heard about the former Miss South Carolina contestant given the nightmare of her life after not being able to terminate a failed pregnancy. The kid had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, and it'd be born stillborn/live for maybe three days. So not really a life. That, or the baby would need a full heart transplant, which is hard to get for an infant. Termination of the pregnancy was not included under South Carolina's laws. Another, from Ohio, had no amniotic fluid around its heart. The mother has a blood clotting disorder, and no doubt it was passed on to the fetus. The reactions, however, really activate the almonds.
This is how the pro life chapter responded:
This is how the pro life chapter responded:
Yes, I know it's CNN. But imagine telling a grieving couple that had to make one of the hardest decisions of their lives they're murderers for choosing an act of mercy. We kill horses easier for glue.
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And fuck the life of the mother I guess, since the Ohio woman was at risk from continuing the pregnancy.
It's not like the US has worse maternal mortality than Russia or anything (that's only been getting worse over the past decade).
Also oof, the description of the condition the fetus in the SC case had
Prolifers trying to force more Tinslees into an existence of suffering
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shit like this makes me legitimately mad at real life.
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Someone recently described life as allotting each person or group of persons "weirdness points." You can only be so weird before people start even saying no to your GOOD IDEAS just because you said them.And fuck the life of the mother I guess, since the Ohio woman was at risk from continuing the pregnancy.
It's not like the US has worse maternal mortality than Russia or anything (that's only been getting worse over the past decade).
Also oof, the description of the condition the fetus in the SC case had
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Prolifers trying to force more Tinslees into an existence of suffering
Maybe pro-choicers shouldn't have squandered their social credibility bragging publicly about their abortions of convenience. Doing that actually hurts the women they profess to care about.