August 14, 2024
Here is an example of what 60 years of Great Society anti-poverty programs can yield
By Jack Hellner
Last week, I was an alternate on a jury in a very sad trial.
A two-year-old drowned while at the house of a babysitter who was very poor and who was not being paid by another very poor single mother of three young children.
It was reported in the Illinois-based Springfield State-Register here:
The woman who was babysitting a two-year-old child who died in her care in 2022 has been convicted.
Kaitlynn Russel was convicted of endangering the life or health of a child and reckless conduct following a jury trial in Sangamon County.
In January of 2022 while babysitting the child, who authorities referenced as P.G., the child was found face down in the bathtub.
Evidence was presented at the trial that Russell would let the toddler roam around the house unsupervised, and that after finding the child in the bathtub, Russell did not seek medical attention immediately.
Detective Chuck Redpath from the Springfield Police Department testified that Russell did not initially tell investigators that P.G. was found in a bathtub, but rather stated that the child had fallen off the couch.
Redpath testified that he subsequently located evidence that suggested the child had drowned after executing a search warrant at the defendant’s home. Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon testified that the official cause of death for P.G. was drowning.
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Russell now faces up to 10 years in prison on the charges.For the last 60 years, Democrats have claimed that their war on poverty and all their handouts helped lift people up.
Instead, it encouraged single parenthood and single parenthood is the greatest indicator of who will end up in poverty.
The result of these supposedly empathetic policies is generational poverty.
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