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Ferrets chew off baby's nose
Three pet ferrets escaped their cloth cage and chewed off nearly a quarter of the face of a month-old girl, Philadelphia-area police said Friday. The baby was attacked about 3:30 p.m. Thursday as she sat buckled into a car seat at home, Darby Police Chief Robert Smythe told reporters. Her mother, Jessica Benales, had left her on the floor and went upstairs to the bathroom; her father, Burnie Fraime, was asleep upstairs. Both told officers they came downstairs after they heard the baby screaming, but it wasn't clear how much time had elapsed. The weasel-like animals chewed off her nose, upper lip and part of a cheek, Smythe said. They were euthanized and tested for rabies. "This is the most horrific thing I've seen happen to a child in 45 years in this town," he said. Burnie Fraime told WPVI-TV he "went over to grab the baby, and then ... half the face was messed up from the ferret. So I called 911 immediately." The infant underwent surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and additional operations will be necessary. The Delaware County district attorney is considering a police recommendation that the parents be charged. A neighbor described them as "a very nice and loving family." The family lives in desperate poverty and has been monitored by the Delaware County Child & Youth Services and two other agencies, Smythe said. Four other children under age 5 — all with developmental disabilities — live in the house, which he described as squalid. They are staying with grandparents while social service officials investigate. Besides the ferrets, six cats, two dogs and two turtles also lived in the home, which is infested with fleas or mites. The only food in the home was a jar of peanut butter, a can of cranberries and some juice, Smythe said. But there was pet food. "It's not that they're bad parents, it's just that the children are not being taken care of," he said. |
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Poor baby.
I don't understand why people want to have pets that endanger others and are unsanitary as well. And then when they are tired of caring for them just dump them off. 
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Edited by
DavidCommaGeek
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"It's not that they're bad parents, it's just that the children are not being taken care of," he said.
That's... kind of the definition of a bad parent, isn't it? My reasonably-certain guess is that the pets, including the ferrets, were there first, and the baby is the new development. (A month old, it says.) The ferrets probably thought that the baby was intruding on "their" territory, and had to get rid of it. In any case, you should never leave a baby alone with any pet for more than 10 seconds, even if you're ABSOLUTELY SURE that the pet is "nice" and "sweet" and "kind" and won't harm the baby. Anything might set the pet off - we laugh at the videos where a baby pulls a cat's tail, and the cat freaks out... but I wouldn't risk a baby's health on the assumption that the cat won't strike back. Either that, or the baby is going to harm the pet. Ferrets ARE naturally vicious animals, just like any predatory animal. If the parents had that many pets, they should've known better. I hope that little girl gets into a foster home no matter the outcome of the investigation. |
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Ferrets chew off baby's nose
Three pet ferrets escaped their cloth cage and chewed off nearly a quarter of the face of a month-old girl, Philadelphia-area police said Friday. The baby was attacked about 3:30 p.m. Thursday as she sat buckled into a car seat at home, Darby Police Chief Robert Smythe told reporters. Her mother, Jessica Benales, had left her on the floor and went upstairs to the bathroom; her father, Burnie Fraime, was asleep upstairs. Both told officers they came downstairs after they heard the baby screaming, but it wasn't clear how much time had elapsed. The weasel-like animals chewed off her nose, upper lip and part of a cheek, Smythe said. They were euthanized and tested for rabies. "This is the most horrific thing I've seen happen to a child in 45 years in this town," he said. Burnie Fraime told WPVI-TV he "went over to grab the baby, and then ... half the face was messed up from the ferret. So I called 911 immediately." The infant underwent surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and additional operations will be necessary. The Delaware County district attorney is considering a police recommendation that the parents be charged. A neighbor described them as "a very nice and loving family." The family lives in desperate poverty and has been monitored by the Delaware County Child & Youth Services and two other agencies, Smythe said. Four other children under age 5 — all with developmental disabilities — live in the house, which he described as squalid. They are staying with grandparents while social service officials investigate. Besides the ferrets, six cats, two dogs and two turtles also lived in the home, which is infested with fleas or mites. The only food in the home was a jar of peanut butter, a can of cranberries and some juice, Smythe said. But there was pet food. "It's not that they're bad parents, it's just that the children are not being taken care of," he said. i hate it when that happens... |
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Some people should not be allowed to have children.
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Ferrets chew off baby's nose
Three pet ferrets escaped their cloth cage and chewed off nearly a quarter of the face of a month-old girl, Philadelphia-area police said Friday. The baby was attacked about 3:30 p.m. Thursday as she sat buckled into a car seat at home, Darby Police Chief Robert Smythe told reporters. Her mother, Jessica Benales, had left her on the floor and went upstairs to the bathroom; her father, Burnie Fraime, was asleep upstairs. Both told officers they came downstairs after they heard the baby screaming, but it wasn't clear how much time had elapsed. The weasel-like animals chewed off her nose, upper lip and part of a cheek, Smythe said. They were euthanized and tested for rabies. "This is the most horrific thing I've seen happen to a child in 45 years in this town," he said. Burnie Fraime told WPVI-TV he "went over to grab the baby, and then ... half the face was messed up from the ferret. So I called 911 immediately." The infant underwent surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and additional operations will be necessary. The Delaware County district attorney is considering a police recommendation that the parents be charged. A neighbor described them as "a very nice and loving family." The family lives in desperate poverty and has been monitored by the Delaware County Child & Youth Services and two other agencies, Smythe said. Four other children under age 5 — all with developmental disabilities — live in the house, which he described as squalid. They are staying with grandparents while social service officials investigate. Besides the ferrets, six cats, two dogs and two turtles also lived in the home, which is infested with fleas or mites. The only food in the home was a jar of peanut butter, a can of cranberries and some juice, Smythe said. But there was pet food. "It's not that they're bad parents, it's just that the children are not being taken care of," he said. I wish I had not have read this! Poor baby 
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and it was said they be not "bad parents"..
if that is not a bad parent, what it. and neighbors described them as "a very nice and loving family"... obviously the neighbor is just as cooooookie cookoo with blind insight... self validaters of all they them self do as good and smart, get so blinded in their perception, mass murderers can invite them to dinner, with a knife behind their back, and they won't have a clue, declaring how awesome, nice and loving they are... just before they are thrown into a dungeon basement to be tortured and dismembered... but such is how the cosmos extinct the self worshiping self validaters. truly sad sadder saddest. all because they were first misguided by many others and taught to prove their perception as accurate with no proof needed. these parents need immediate mental rehabilitation. these children are obviously being put in extremely unsafe and compromising situations by unsane adult caretakers. |
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I felt the same 'poor baby' the terror it must have felt.
as for the parents,, if we are to consider parenting as the job it is, they weren't good at the job of parenting not because of the ferrets and the child, they had them in a cage and I can understand this type of oversight,, but everything else, the other pets with the mites and bugs and the lack of food except for the animals,,,, that doesn't mean they were not good people,, the job is not for everyone but I do hope the children are placed with people who are better at the job. |
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they live in desperate poverty...
their kids have but 3 items for food... but they have 13 pets? and pet food... please... these are totally unloving people... these people are complete and totally uncaring of "other human life", most sadly even most their own damn off spring, in their brain, are deemed equal in value as animals and rodent pets... pathetic. compassion and blind sympathy on craps like this is as condoning so encouraging it... no different than condoning a serial rapist, trying to be deemed a "loving person" most created by religious notions self should be a "loving person"... and such blind servitude to religious ideologies is what infected humans perceptions and allegiances to allow such things to be first created. everyone walking around trying to "feel" like a loving person, so much so, to deem these people as loving parents... if these aren't the definition of bad people, what is? what is a bad person for gods sake... one that does not take basic care and consideration for other humans as equal in value to them self... only religious people trying to be loving and approved of their "god", would be so unsane as to declare these are as "good people"... |
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I don't place intentional violation of ones body with what could be lack of resources
they were not equipped for the job of parent no matter how much they 'loved',, resources are necessary,, many loving parents are still not good at parenting as it involves more than 'love' they may be awful, I don't know enough to judge what their character was their neighbors thought they were 'loving' and they could have been that too,,, |
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sorry...
total craps... when the mind love's something, the brain tells exactly how to care for it. when the brain wishes to find a way to accomplish something, anything, then the brain respond with that exact data... these sad souls called parents were but seeking happiness emotions for them self... not to love their own damn kids. or they would have responded and did completely different. |
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sorry... total craps... when the mind love's something, the brain tells exactly how to care for it. when the brain wishes to find a way to accomplish something, anything, then the brain respond with that exact data... these sad souls called parents were but seeking happiness emotions for them self... not to love their own damn kids. or they would have responded and did completely different. I don't know any of that about these parents I don't know what 'happiness' they had for themselves or what resources KNOWING What is needed is quite different from actually having it or being able to attain it,, and even attaining it can take time , can face periods of progress and periods of setback,,, and people fall on hard times,,, I LOVE my kids very much, and there have been times when what was in my refrigerator was VERY scarce UNTIL it wasn't,, that's lifes setbacks and successes,, that doesn't define ones capacity to 'love' |
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sorry... total craps... when the mind love's something, the brain tells exactly how to care for it. when the brain wishes to find a way to accomplish something, anything, then the brain respond with that exact data... these sad souls called parents were but seeking happiness emotions for them self... not to love their own damn kids. or they would have responded and did completely different. I don't know any of that about these parents I don't know what 'happiness' they had for themselves or what resources KNOWING What is needed is quite different from actually having it or being able to attain it,, and even attaining it can take time , can face periods of progress and periods of setback,,, and people fall on hard times,,, I LOVE my kids very much, and there have been times when what was in my refrigerator was VERY scarce UNTIL it wasn't,, that's lifes setbacks and successes,, that doesn't define ones capacity to 'love' so... if your kids had hardly anything to eat, you would still have 13 pets... and create with the self a "squalid" environement... 'squalid" is referring to dirty and filthy... unkempt. please... don't know why you feel the need to condone and embrace such human actions as loving. |
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sorry... total craps... when the mind love's something, the brain tells exactly how to care for it. when the brain wishes to find a way to accomplish something, anything, then the brain respond with that exact data... these sad souls called parents were but seeking happiness emotions for them self... not to love their own damn kids. or they would have responded and did completely different. I don't know any of that about these parents I don't know what 'happiness' they had for themselves or what resources KNOWING What is needed is quite different from actually having it or being able to attain it,, and even attaining it can take time , can face periods of progress and periods of setback,,, and people fall on hard times,,, I LOVE my kids very much, and there have been times when what was in my refrigerator was VERY scarce UNTIL it wasn't,, that's lifes setbacks and successes,, that doesn't define ones capacity to 'love' so... if your kids had hardly anything to eat, you would still have 13 pets... and create with the self a "squalid" environement... 'squalid" is referring to dirty and filthy... unkempt. please... don't know why you feel the need to condone and embrace such human actions as loving. DB,,, if I fell short this month and in the forth week we had hardly anything to eat , but I planned on being able to get more in the next week would I just INSTANTLY get rid of the pets,,? probably not if this is a regular thing where I am running out every month, I would have to get rid of some of the pets, though I suspect it wouldn't be something that would happen overnight either this story is about what people witnessed in a home on ONE DAY,,,its not enough for me to state what this family could have done or should have done,,,,and certainly enough for me to blast their character just their parenting skills ( they weren't good parents in how they managed their money) |
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sorry... total craps... when the mind love's something, the brain tells exactly how to care for it. when the brain wishes to find a way to accomplish something, anything, then the brain respond with that exact data... these sad souls called parents were but seeking happiness emotions for them self... not to love their own damn kids. or they would have responded and did completely different. I don't know any of that about these parents I don't know what 'happiness' they had for themselves or what resources KNOWING What is needed is quite different from actually having it or being able to attain it,, and even attaining it can take time , can face periods of progress and periods of setback,,, and people fall on hard times,,, I LOVE my kids very much, and there have been times when what was in my refrigerator was VERY scarce UNTIL it wasn't,, that's lifes setbacks and successes,, that doesn't define ones capacity to 'love' so... if your kids had hardly anything to eat, you would still have 13 pets... and create with the self a "squalid" environement... 'squalid" is referring to dirty and filthy... unkempt. please... don't know why you feel the need to condone and embrace such human actions as loving. DB,,, if I fell short this month and in the forth week we had hardly anything to eat , but I planned on being able to get more in the next week would I just INSTANTLY get rid of the pets,,? probably not if this is a regular thing where I am running out every month, I would have to get rid of some of the pets, though I suspect it wouldn't be something that would happen overnight either this story is about what people witnessed in a home on ONE DAY,,,its not enough for me to state what this family could have done or should have done,,,,and certainly enough for me to blast their character just their parenting skills ( they weren't good parents in how they managed their money) there is no way a feret is gonna be around my kids to chew it's face half off... and no way the place my kids live in would or can "ever" be described as "sqalid"... poor is NOT SQUALID.... but whatever ms harmony... create your harmony. whatever... |
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sorry... total craps... when the mind love's something, the brain tells exactly how to care for it. when the brain wishes to find a way to accomplish something, anything, then the brain respond with that exact data... these sad souls called parents were but seeking happiness emotions for them self... not to love their own damn kids. or they would have responded and did completely different. I don't know any of that about these parents I don't know what 'happiness' they had for themselves or what resources KNOWING What is needed is quite different from actually having it or being able to attain it,, and even attaining it can take time , can face periods of progress and periods of setback,,, and people fall on hard times,,, I LOVE my kids very much, and there have been times when what was in my refrigerator was VERY scarce UNTIL it wasn't,, that's lifes setbacks and successes,, that doesn't define ones capacity to 'love' so... if your kids had hardly anything to eat, you would still have 13 pets... and create with the self a "squalid" environement... 'squalid" is referring to dirty and filthy... unkempt. please... don't know why you feel the need to condone and embrace such human actions as loving. DB,,, if I fell short this month and in the forth week we had hardly anything to eat , but I planned on being able to get more in the next week would I just INSTANTLY get rid of the pets,,? probably not if this is a regular thing where I am running out every month, I would have to get rid of some of the pets, though I suspect it wouldn't be something that would happen overnight either this story is about what people witnessed in a home on ONE DAY,,,its not enough for me to state what this family could have done or should have done,,,,and certainly enough for me to blast their character just their parenting skills ( they weren't good parents in how they managed their money) there is no way a feret is gonna be around my kids to chew it's face half off... and no way the place my kids live in would or can "ever" be described as "sqalid"... poor is NOT SQUALID.... but whatever ms harmony... create your harmony. whatever... and squalid is a subjective term from one speakers point of view, it doesn't really tell me anything specific perhaps only those who have been there, without the resources society says we should just magically figure out how to attain can understand the difference between a person without resource and a terrible person |
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sorry... total craps... when the mind love's something, the brain tells exactly how to care for it. when the brain wishes to find a way to accomplish something, anything, then the brain respond with that exact data... these sad souls called parents were but seeking happiness emotions for them self... not to love their own damn kids. or they would have responded and did completely different. I don't know any of that about these parents I don't know what 'happiness' they had for themselves or what resources KNOWING What is needed is quite different from actually having it or being able to attain it,, and even attaining it can take time , can face periods of progress and periods of setback,,, and people fall on hard times,,, I LOVE my kids very much, and there have been times when what was in my refrigerator was VERY scarce UNTIL it wasn't,, that's lifes setbacks and successes,, that doesn't define ones capacity to 'love' so... if your kids had hardly anything to eat, you would still have 13 pets... and create with the self a "squalid" environement... 'squalid" is referring to dirty and filthy... unkempt. please... don't know why you feel the need to condone and embrace such human actions as loving. DB,,, if I fell short this month and in the forth week we had hardly anything to eat , but I planned on being able to get more in the next week would I just INSTANTLY get rid of the pets,,? probably not if this is a regular thing where I am running out every month, I would have to get rid of some of the pets, though I suspect it wouldn't be something that would happen overnight either this story is about what people witnessed in a home on ONE DAY,,,its not enough for me to state what this family could have done or should have done,,,,and certainly enough for me to blast their character just their parenting skills ( they weren't good parents in how they managed their money) there is no way a feret is gonna be around my kids to chew it's face half off... and no way the place my kids live in would or can "ever" be described as "sqalid"... poor is NOT SQUALID.... but whatever ms harmony... create your harmony. whatever... and squalid is a subjective term from one speakers point of view, it doesn't really tell me anything specific perhaps only those who have been there, without the resources society says we should just magically figure out how to attain can understand the difference between a person without resource and a terrible person it is obvious you are comparing your own past experiences with these people... and frankly... there is no comparison. i don't know anything about you except for your words posted on these forums... and you would never have 13 pets, and let your kids live in filthy dirty conditions which 13 poets creates, without lots of money to properly house and care for them... and i know you would never let them live in squalor. a parent that loves their kids would give the kids away to who could care for them, before they would allow such crap to exist. |
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Edited by
msharmony
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Sun 01/25/15 08:07 PM
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all I will say is people have ups and downs
I have had many situations that I always thought would 'never happen to me' but life happens I have never had the task of caring for 5 preschool children with disabilities I cant compare my situation to theirs, how overwhelming a task they took on (probably in love) and cant condemn their character because of it either,,,, |
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all I will say is people have ups and downs I have had many situations that I always thought would 'never happen to me' but life happens I have never had the task of caring for 5 preschool children with disabilities I cant compare my situation to theirs, how overwhelming a task they took on (probably in love) and cant condemn their character because of it either,,,, that is your own reflection based upon one self, and not wanting to "judge", or make a character assessment based on data provided... they are being monitored by 3 different agencies... are all three of those agencies unvalid and unaccuarte for monitoring them too??? ... what happened for them to become monitored... 5 mentally challenged kids, and 13 pets... and, no problems... huh... like i said, they need "mental rehabilitation"... how is that not wanting with compassion help for them, to help them reach their own higher capacities to care for, or love, their own off spring better... sending in animal control to take their damn pets away would be the first step of sanity! of course... the response is based upon the data provided as accurate... as if that data is not accurate, than what data is? and if one self deems it as "not accurate", than how was this surmised or proven as so? if the data provided in the story is not accurate, than how is ANY response to it accurate, your's or mine... |
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the data I am responding to are the FACTS, not the opinions
the facts are that on that day, there was no food the facts are they are caring for FIVE children under five with disabilities the facts are there is a baby terribly harmed by three of these pets the facts are that they had a lot of pets the facts are they were being monitored(no facts included as to why) the facts are that the place was not clean based on those facts, I agree they need some type of rehabilitation to be BETTER at parenting based on those facts, I believe the children need to be somewhere else while that happens I cant, based upon the facts included, make an assessment of their CHARACTER as people,,,, this is based on my experience and my values, as most character assessments of others are,,, |
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