BREAKING NEWS: REVEALED: Little boy, 2, found bloodied and alone during Highland Park parade shootin

[diehardblue]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10985321/Little-boy-2-bloodied-Highland-Park-parade-shooting-ORPHANED.html

The little boy who was found bloodied during the Highland Park parade shooting on Monday and lifted from underneath his father is left orphaned after both is parents were killed in the gruesome attack.

Kevin McCarthy, 37, and Irina McCarthy, 35, were among the seven people killed during the Fourth of July celebration.

Their two-year-old son, Aiden McCarthy, had been separated from his parents during the chaos and luckily unharmed. He has been placed in the care of his grandparents.

[SoCalDavidS]

1. Orphaned, Just Like The Children Who Lost Their Parents In Uvalde

SHITHOLE COUNTRY.

[cloudboy07]

14. so true !

people talking political revenge! just want shithole politicians gone & jailed ! I hope we can get god damn shit end'd !

[brush]

2. So tragic. And it's even more tragic that republicans allow...

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these mass killing to continue. It's every week or more now.

[Rhiannon12866]

18. The Boston Globe counted 314 mass shootings - so far - in 2022! Only halfway through the year

More than 220 shooting deaths just this weekend...

[underpants]

3. God how awful.

[elleng]

4. There's a GoFundMe,

GoFundMe, Irina and Kevin.

[LonePirate]

5. That poor kid and he likely will have no memories of his parents when he's older.

Hopefully his grandparents are still relatively young (early 60s or younger) so he doesn't lose them soon either.

Just awful news.

[WarGamer]

7. Different people have varying early memories...

My earliest identifiable memory is being in my grandmothers kitchen tugging on her apron... I would have been around 3-4

My wife claims to have memories from less than 2 years old.

[LonePirate]

9. The ubiquity of cell phone cameras and social media provides hope for plenty of photos and videos.

Obviously that is no replacement but if they exist he can see them when he is older and learn about his parents to some degree.

[WarGamer]

12. When to tell him about the massacre?

That's a hard decision... as a parent, I'd even consider protecting him well into his teens. Might even move 1000 miles away and change his last name?

I see no benefit in a tween or pre-teen knowing the fate of them...

[LonePirate]

13. It will be tough to stop a pre-teen from googling about their parentage.

The grandparents raising him will need to tell him something during his primary school years but that's a horrible decision to have to make. It's better for them to tell him instead of hearing it from a classmate. The name change or move are possible solutions as you said. Just a horrible situation all around.

That GoFundMe will easily clear $1M in donations, probably even tonight, and will go much higher. His caretakers will have options.

[Withywindle]

22. No, he's going to need to know

The longer you lie to kids about their traumatic past, the worse the reaction when they learn the truth, because they'll be justifiably angry if they felt lied to.

The article said he's being raised by his grandparents now. I don't know on which side, but they're also traumatized by the loss of their own child and their in-law. They're grieving too, HARD.

I think as a culture we need to learn to be honest about death and trauma and not sweep it under the rug. Obviously this toddler wants his parents back, and can't have them. He's going to be crying for his parents every night. The way to deal with that is not to pretend it never happened. He'll have memories of this day. They might be some of his first memories. Lying to him will not help and will only make it worse.

[WarGamer]

28. an unenviable position for all... SMDH

[KelleyKramer]

19. No one has memories before 3 years old

The human brain is not developed enough to have lasting memories until the age of at least 3 years

[Retrograde]

20. I think I do

2 yrs 8 months - I remember my grandfather’s wake, which was held in my grandparents’ living room. I was the only grandchild at the time and was very close to him

[KelleyKramer]

21. I dunno. I just saw that in a PBS documentary last week

It was 3 part series called THE AMAZING HUMAN BODY and they had re-runs all week on PBS and World channel


Normally I dont watch docs like that but it was very interesting and covered a wide range of things

[Withywindle]

23. I'm skeptical of this. Source?

I definitely have a memory of having my diaper changed on a narrow table that was waist-height to my mom, and being afraid of falling off.

Not a lot of other memories from that time of course, but the fear was so specific.

edit: I was born in 1969, so this would have been '71/very early 72 at the latest. Still remember it!

[KelleyKramer]

24. See my post just above yours

Pbs documentary series THE AMAZING HUMAN BODY, highly recommend it

[Withywindle]

25. I saw that post, and still

I think I'm going to accept my own real vivid memories over someone's description of a TV show.

[KelleyKramer]

26. It was very detailed

A full hour just on memory from birth to seniors and everything in between. Especially early development and how important it is to our core survival and functioning (ie when a red street light turns green its embedded in your memory and you can do other things without thinking about it)

They also covered how common it is to mis-remember or have false memories about long past events

[watrwefitinfor]

27. I know I do. At two and a half.

Mom and I were living with my dad's parents while he was overseas fighting the fascists. My memory was that I was napping in my aunt's room. I woke to the sound of a car horn and knew my daddy was home from the war. (Guess I had heard them talking about him coming home that day.) Lordy, I can remember so vividly my emotions, so happy and excited, jumping out of bed and running toward the door! Funny, no memory of him right then.

Next clear memory is like a color movie - Daddy was sitting on a bed with his duffle bag laid out, and he was reaching into it, pulling gifts from the duffle bag. An embroidered pillow for my grandmother; a beautiful silk fringed shawl for my mother; and a handgun for his dad, I think. For me a dinner set - a heavy plastic bowl with Old King Cole surounded by his fiddlers on the bottom and a little spoon and fork with green plastic handles. This was a vivid, clear memory, like a motion picture. And I ate from that bowl for years.

Not long before he died I thought to ask him about that day and told him my memories. He said he arrived home in a taxi at daybreak, so I would have been sleeping but not napping!

And he confirmed the gifts, of course I remembered my own. And confirmed that he brought them hom in his duffle bag, but he didn't remember that he had sat on the bed while he doled them out.

Then he told me he got home in the first week of October, 1945. The 1945 I had known, but not the October. I was born in the last week of March two years earlier. End of September I was 2 and 1/2 years old.

I couldn't believe it either. I always had figured I was in my three's. But confirmed by the man who was there!

Wat

Photos and nice write-up about duffle bags here:

https://www.ima-usa.com/products/u-s-wwii-m-1943-duffle-bag-late-war-od7-canvas

[rubbersole]

6. Devastating.

Unbelievably tragic. These incels are changing this country's psyche. For the worse.

[Diamond_Dog]

8. No words. ...

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. ...

[BlueBloodedAmerican]

10. That story and the video they just showed on ABC News of the

Grandma crawling into a store on her belly covering her grandchild with her body to protect them during the shooting just made me cry my eyes out. Just too much grief and terror to absorb.

[Evolve Dammit]

16. And the pathetic orange LOSER is enjoying it. You know he is. How far we have been degraded.

and abused. FU Drumpf.

[Demovictory9]

17. So sad!