I wish the news media would warn me about...(sad)
JessiLW
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...any story dealing with injured or dead babies and children. They just opened the newscast with 'breaking news' about a baby who died tonight and interviewed a cop that said the father was arrested for probable cause murder. C'mon folks give us a little warning so we can avoid the inevitable tears and anger.
There was also a story from my area this week about a 6 week old baby that was intentionally left in a car by its parents so that they could go into the store. They were in the store for over 20 minutes and it was one of the hottest days of the year. Thankfully the baby turned out fine thanks to some good samaritans and cops that pulled it out through an open window. I'm not a violent person but if you put those sh*theads in front of me I would shove them in a hot car and lock the doors without even cracking a window.
Re: I wish the news media would warn me about...(sad)
-m/c at 11w2d due to partial molar 2008 -m/c #2 2009
Beautiful daughter born February 2011
**Ultimate TTCALer 2009**
Just be thankful you don't have my job. I've had to take a few dead baby calls, including 1 where the mother let her baby drown in the tub and got away with it (and I say let because I don't know that she actually actively drowned the baby, that was literally my 2nd day on the job, only call that still bothers me) and another where the father was arguing with the mother on the phone while taking the kids to daycare, got the 2 yr old out at daycare and forgot about the 9 month old until he found him deceased in the car after work.
They are hard calls to take and hard to hear about. My parents are also in law enforcement for another (bigger and badder) department and they have many of those stories and much worse circumstances.
It's funny you get into this job to help people and you end up hating people.