I remember Lisa Steinberg, and so do many people. 1987 wasn't that long ago. My children were 6 and 4 years old when this NYC lawyer's abuse of his 6-year-old adopted daughter resulted in her death, propelling child abuse to the forefront of media attention. Who can forget the battered face of Steinberg's wife (a book editor)?
Now, after serving 16 years, he is being released. So, that's what the life of a child is worth now? Oh, you say things are better now; sentences are harsher for child killers? No, they aren't. Last week in Central Ohio, this article appeared:
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MOM PLEADS GUILTY IN SCALDING DEATH OF ADOPTED BOY
Saturday, June 19, 2004
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCHA nurse's assistant who pleaded guilty yesterday to helping kill her adopted son wrote in her diary that she and her husband discussed getting rid of their two adopted children "like dogs in a pound.''
Amy Thompson wrote in her computer journal that just seeing the 2-year-old Russian boy and her 3-year-old adopted daughter, also from Russia, sickened her.
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After locking her son alone in the basement for five days, barricading the door with furniture and boxes while his burned and injured body made its way toward death, this "mother" was sentenced to -- what do you think? Death? Life in prison? NO, 15 years! I'm not sure of her age, but I believe she's approximately 30. That means that she will be out of prison in her mid-forties and will likely live another 30 - 40 years free before the average age of women at death.
If she had killed a famous celebrity, a politician, a police officer, the sentence would have been different. Why does our society value the life of a child as being less than that of adults? What kind of a person can know their child is dying in their basement and do nothing to help? How did these people get the money and the access to adopting two children? I just do not understand.
Lisa Steinberg would have been 22 years old now, had she been adopted into a family who loved and cared for her. Lisa, we remember you.
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actually I worked with Amy (right before they adopted) who was not a nurses assistant. Amy was a Licensed Practical Nurse in the
state of Ohio. Not only that but, her mother Linda who lived in the house across the street from Amy is also an LPN. To me, that just compounds the horror of what happened to that little boy.
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