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Treasured place lost

Lately in the news, I see that more mothers of our children are endangering the welfare of their own children by exposing them to their live-in boyfriends. Four generations ago, when I was a child, the most treasured and safe place for a child to be was in the care or arms of their mother.

Mothers back then were the lifeline and the glue that held her family together. Mothers performed their parental duties and half of the obligatory responsibility that was often neglected by the fathers.

Here are two examples which made headline news in newspapers across our nation every week. A mom in Pittsburgh left three kids under age 4 unattended at a local hotel for up to three days. In Avis, a live-in boyfriend seriously injured two infant children by punching one in the head, causing brain damage to one while throwing a 4-month old baby across the room, breaking its arm.

Similar cases have happened in Lock Haven, Williamsport and dozens of other towns and cities across our state. Such acts as not changing diapers when needed and letting them sit or lay in their own waste day after day. There are too many spineless jurists selected that they allow their would be verdict to be charged by some fast and slick talking lawyer who defends these despicable characters.

Many men of today are equally as guilty of such barbaric and uncivilized acts, causing harm to helpless women, children and babies as well as being guilty of cruelty to animals such as dogs, horses on the vary property which they live on. Our weak laws and the failure of the general public to challenge these acts of barbarism and cruelty will only end when severe punishment and exposure is properly handled by more stringent laws that should be implemented.

Weldon C. Cohick Jr.

Linden

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