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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3643333" data-attributes="member: 20741">While these actions as described in the brief and sensational article (which is undoubteldy an incomplete and only partial explanation of the real facts and circumstances) are quite vile and sad, I cannot understand why jail would enter into it at this stage.This is a case of neglect. There is no suggestion the parents were deliberately and actively torturing their children.The children deserve parents who love them and take care of them. These parents, currently, simply don't measure up. The children need short term foster care.  Medium to long term, they would be both infinitely better off with one or both of their own parents - assuming one or both cease this disgraceful activity and resume a normal life. For both to do so together is unlikely. For one to do so on her own? That would be a likely result  - and certainly not too much to hope for.  Get the mother away from this unemployed creep and hopefully she'll wake the hell up.If not, then the older - and perhaps both - of these kids will probably have their lives utterly destroyed by a childhood filled with foster care and the loss of both of their natural parents.Why you would ever think that imprisonment would somehow improve their parenting skills  - or make either of them a better person - is utterly beyond me and defies all logic.  Do other parents need to be generally deterred from committing similar heinous acts of neglect respecting their own children? Really? Are there hundreds, nay thousands, of cases of couples spending so much time playing MMOs that their own infant children are starving with urine matted hair? Is this an epidemic that needs to be treated harshly and swiftly with a strong example, lest MMOS lead to malnourishment and infection across the 50 states - and Puerto Rico to boot??I think the fair answer is: maybe a few, but not bloody many, and it's not even close.So just what, pray, would incarcerating these parents accomplish - other than make you feel better for 3 minutes?Taking their damn computers away after they take their kids away.  THAT would be a start.</blockquote>

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