Girl Dies After Being Forced to Run for 3 Hours

Blort wrote:

Sad.

9yo was forced to run for three hours as punishment for lying to her grandmother about eating candy bars...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-girl-forced-run-hours-dies-charged-15770488#.T0WZybR798E

That's terrible. It reminds me of the story of the Phelps family (of Westboro Baptist Church infamy) forcing all the children, including one just 7 years of age, to run in the Heart of America marathon in the early seventies. The 7 year old struggled mightily, causing other runners to beg the race director to pull him off the course, but he finished in seven hours.

Letsrun could learn a thing or two:

The Denny's say they were used to seeing Savannah and other neighborhood children out waiting on the school bus in the morning. Gayle said her grandson had a crush on Savannah.

"My grandson asked her to be his girlfriend on Valentine's Day, and she said 'yes,'" Gail said before dissolving into tears.

What a surprise that the first sentence of the article begins: "At a doublewide trailer along a dirt road in rural Alabama..."

she's 9 and her GRANDMOTHER is 46? wtf?

tibialis posterior wrote:

she's 9 and her GRANDMOTHER is 46? wtf?

You've clearly never worked with a poor population. I have great grandmothers in my clinic who are 46. Kids having kids at age 14 or 15 - very common. Do the math.

welcome to red state america!

sf wrote:

tibialis posterior wrote:

she's 9 and her GRANDMOTHER is 46? wtf?

You've clearly never worked with a poor population. I have great grandmothers in my clinic who are 46. Kids having kids at age 14 or 15 - very common. Do the math.

my G-D why didnt they just give her a gatorade or some salt tablets?

She didn't die from the run. She didn't die until a few days after that. Where was she in the meantime?

If she died in a hospital, then the hospital is responsible for killing her.

Say Tann wrote:

welcome to red state america!

sf wrote:

You've clearly never worked with a poor population. I have great grandmothers in my clinic who are 46. Kids having kids at age 14 or 15 - very common. Do the math.

It has nothing to do with being a red state. I work at an urban hospital in a blue city that's in a blue state & there's many many women coming in having their second baby already by the age of 18.

Sadly she hits the wall right at time. But the wall was eternal. RIP.

how far did she run?

I have a little girl simular in age and looks.

This story breaks my heart.

interesting that grandma takes the blame for making her run and the girl died. but it is totally fine if grandma lets her slowly kill herself by letting her eat candy bars?

She was going to be a girlfriend at only 9 years old?

Averages by state...http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db21.pdfSince 1970, the average age at first birth has increased in all states, rising 5.0 years or more in the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, while increasing less than one-half that number in Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.

mr white wrote:

It has nothing to do with being a red state. I work at an urban hospital in a blue city that's in a blue state & there's many many women coming in having their second baby already by the age of 18.

i read the article wrote:

If she died in a hospital, then the hospital is responsible for killing her.

You are a very stupid person.

chauncey wrote:

i read the article wrote:

If she died in a hospital, then the hospital is responsible for killing her.

You are a very stupid person.

That was a stupid thing to say.

tibialis posterior wrote:

she's 9 and her GRANDMOTHER is 46? wtf?

For an intergeneration interval of 18.5 years. You find this shocking?

If you're surprised by this, you must live a completely sheltered life.

my apologies, I don't go tromping through trailer parks on a regular basis.