controversy!!

A couple of days ago, I put up a post from "Pharyngula" It was about a child in a cage, another dead child buried nearby, and the information that the child was "eating herself" -- it generated more OUTRAGE than anything I ever posted.

Someone wrote and said I was as "sick and demented" as these parents -- BECAUSE this caged child was MERELY eating skin that flaked off her body -- not gnawing on herself, and that it was a case of typical media lack of accuracy

I thought it strange I was being attacked -- so, I went to the original.

Here it is:
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Virginia girl found eating herself in cage in mobile home; parents Brian and Shannon Gore charged

A young girl was found caged and attempting to eat herself in a mobile home in Virginia, and cops say her parents are responsible.

The malnourished girl, believed to be either 5 or 6, was discovered in a crib that was converted into a makeshift cage after police arrived at the home in Gloucester County to investigate a burglary last week.

The girl's parents, Brian and Shannon Gore, were arrested and charged with felony child abuse. The mother was also charged with attempted capital murder.

However, the gruesome twosome now faces first-degree murder charges after the remains of what authorities believe to be another child were found buried outside their mobile home.

"I've done this for 20 years, and I've never seen anything like this in my life," Gloucester Sheriff's Maj. Darrell Warren said.

A month-old baby boy was also found in the home, but was in good condition. Both he and the older girl are now in the care of the county Department of Social Services.

The horrific find came as police investigated a robbery on April 17.

A nearby homeowner reported his house was broken into and claimed gold bullion, a vacuum cleaner, a passport, $2,000 in cash and other items had been stolen, according to a police report.

Investigators trailed the bullion to an auction house, which claimed to have bought the gold from 25-year-old Shannon Gore.

Authorities arrived at her mobile home in Gloucester with a search warrant when they made the shocking discovery.

The girl's blond-hair was matted and filled with knots. She wore only a diaper and t-shirt and was eating flakes of dried skin on her body.

Brian Gore, 29, reportedly told police the girl had been kept in the cage since the summer.

"It was horrific. I don't know what else to say," Lt. Scott Little of the Sheriff's Department told Virginia's Daily Press on Friday.

"They seemed like nice people," neighbor Tim Hudnall told the newspaper. He noted he had seen the baby boy, but never saw a girl with the Gores in the six years they've been neighbors.

"He was really a nice guy," Brian Gore's ex-girlfriend, Sandy, told WTKR 3 News in Norfolk. "He went to church and everything."

Deputies discovered the child's remains while digging under and around a shed at the mobile home Friday evening. The age, gender and identity of the remains are not known, pending an examination by the state Medical Examiner's Office.

The Gores are being held in prison as authorities determine how the child died. An autopsy report by the state medical examiner is pending.
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O.K. - so, that's the original I got to. It was picked up by The NEW YORK Daily News. I think NEW YORK is the operative phrase.

The crime was discovered by accident. A Sheriffs Deputy said it was "horrific". The parents were also implicated in a robbery - which is why the cops were there, and had a search warrent

I think the fact this local story was picked up by NEW YORK, then by the pro-humanist P.Z. Meyers (he of eating the catholic wafer fame), sent pro-religious, anti-evolution, folks in a TIZZY!!

First NEW YORK!!

Then MEYERS!!

Now, a little blog from TEXAS picks it up (I also suspect the complainer thought I was one of those "effete" NEW YORK LIBERALS -- when the reality is that I'm a gun-owning, pro-self-defense VERY left wing TEXAN -- and a WOMAN - old, but still a woman -- and, I'm NOT a "liberal", I'm beyond progressive).

So, someone attacks me.

Our right wing LOVES to SHOOT THE MESSENGER!!

By the way, don't you think better education and less WRATH OF GOD religion - more Jesus Loves sort of stuff would have helped in cases like this? Why must children by subjected to this sort of "discipline" (if that's what it was)?

Also, why would someone attack me, call me a "smartbutt", for reporting this?

(please follow link to original)