Poor little Jonathan Ramsey was starved to death by his father and stepmother. They wrapped his little body in a sleeping bag and took him to a remote area and put him in a creekbed. He was found about six months later. His father has been convicted, and now the stepmother is awaiting sentencing for her conviction.
But, bless her heart, she's a victim, too! She says there was little she could do to rescue the child who was locked in a filthy closet (a closet she walked past numerous times a day) and fed nothing but bread and water. Little she could do? How about call CPS? How about call the police? How about call 911? How about take the child to the neighbor's when the father wasn't there? If none of that was possible (and I don't buy that it wasn't), she could have fed him when she stuffed her own face. From her mug shot, she doesn't look any too mal-nourished.
Her attorney says she wanted to call, but the father wouldn't let her. Well, gosh! I guess he didn't! Criminals don't usually sit passively by while their victims call the police. But was he with her 24 hours a day? She says he punished her daughter from a previous marriage by withholding food from her. Then she goes on to describe him as "a good father." What is wrong with this woman?
She was in email contact with the boy's natural mother, and she told her the child was better off not talking to her. I'm sure they didn't want him talking to her! Why didn't she give some clue in the email that the child was being tortured and starved?
No, this "victim" deserves not one ounce of sympathy. What she deserves is to be locked up in a small room with no windows. She deserves to be fed three times a day -- one slice of plain bread and 8 ounces of water each time. And that's a whole lot more than she fed that little boy.
"Stepmother defended in starvation." The Dallas Morning News; July 17, 2014; p. 1B.
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