OK. About the Georgia murder of the toddler.

[IdaBriggs]

142. Is it possible she hired them? Yes.

Is it plausible? Possibly.

Is it proven? No.

We know she has a history of "bad luck" which looks like "poor judgment" most likely caused by her diagnosis of bipolar/schizophrenia.

Many people (not all) with those conditions go through periods where they choose not to take medications due to the side effects. Sometimes they make ... "unwise choices" during those periods.

She is *NOT* up for "mother of the year" based on 1) raising a child who became a criminal/died in the commission of a crime; and 2) losing custody of her eight year old daughter for reasons unknown. Her toddler being killed leaves us with the need to investigate her own involvement - is the neighborhood dangerous? If so, why was she there? If it isn't dangerous, why were young hoodlums coincidentally there when she was?

The young children who killed her baby but *didn't* kill her did not display reasonable critical thinking skills: if you are going to kill a baby, you shouldn't leave someone who can identify you alive (unless there is a reason for it, like they are supposed to pay you later, which would be a plausible reason to shoot someone in a non-deadly area/leg). The fact a thirteen and fourteen year old had access to a vehicle to flee the scene implies an adult was involved in the planning/commission of the crime.

You are the first person to bluntly state what many of us are wondering: did she pay them to commit the crime? For the love of all that is holy, I pray she did not. I will also question the wisdom displayed by the grieving father of leaving a child in her care with her history of mental illness, but frankly, if the baby hadn't been killed, I would have assumed that medication / support systems were enabling the family to function at "normal" levels. Regardless, he will now have to live with the grief/guilt of leaving a child in her care who was subsequently killed.

Again, I truly hope she did not orchestrate this monstrous crime, but the police, by necessity, need to thoroughly investigate this situation. Unfortunately, the world is filled with cruel, narcissistic people, and for everyone's safety we all need to know if she is one of them.

In the meantime, we all mourn a child whose life was cut short by tragedy. We are all poorer for his loss.