In Florida, once again, a mother is responsible for killing her child. A 2 1/2 year old. Jordon spent most of his life with a foster family.

I really don't understand the human race, we are the most cruel creatures to ever exist.

It happens all the time . Look at that father who killed the whole family then put the little girls in 55 gallon drums

There are sick people out there

I wouldn't come down on the human race as a whole, because of this kind of thing. Especially not in comparison to all the other species on the planet. When some non-human creatures are stressed at all, they react by killing and eating their own young.

When I WOULD be concerned for the race, is if this sort of act were just ACCEPTED as a necessary evil. As long as the vast majority of us react with revulsion and act against the insanity of the person who does such things, we will be as good as we can be as a species.

The fact that you are far from alone in finding this horrifying and infuriating, is a good thing.

I think a lot of people are sociopaths and can't feel love for their children.

"A lot of people" ??? Where do you get that kinda data ? Lol

I've researched info on a sociopath. It said a lot more exist than people think. I was married to a sociopath.

According to 2016 statistics filicide (Child Homicide, by parent) The United States has the highest rate for child murder among all developed nations.
8 per 100,000
(90% were committed by a biological parent
10% were committed by a step-parent)

About 2.5% of all homicide arrests in the United States were for parents who have killed their children. This amounts to about 500 filicide arrests each year. The rate of filicide decreases with the child's age. Men opposed to women are more likely to murder older children. Among 16-18 year old victims, the male parent committed 80% of the homicides.

Very disturbing!

Many people don't know the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath.
Plus, there are different degrees of each.

is it possible for you to link to the source of your Info?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5282617/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5282617/#sec1-4title

I could be wrong. But I feel societies which promote and encourage concern for and about others, are less violent in general, than those which promote responsibility for and to self only.

This, is what liberalism looks like.

Yes, I agree. In looking at society as a whole, we are failing our children, community and our mear existence.

Yes, societies which teach one to be responsible for themselves and their actions ae really screwed up....what bunch of nutjobs..............

Im sure it is easy to miss the word ONLY in the previous post.

I believe that we are not seeing more folks DOING such things, but that we are HEARING about such things more just because of the rapidity of information transfer now.

When I was growing up, we still had perverts "offering candy to strangers" from cars, etc. There were folks who killed their own families, I have seen many shows on TV detailing the murders in black and white police photos. Heck, my town growing up was a ground zero for "funny priests", as we called them growing up. ("Stay away from Fr ___, he is 'funny'")

Now though, a death in Florida is picked up and reported nationally rather quickly (to fill the multi-outlet 24-hour news cycle), instead of having to wait for the morning paper to detail it.

I mean, would folks on the east coast ever have heard the name Elizabeth Smart in the 70s? It would have just been an abduction known in California.

As far as the comment in the thread of it being "the face of liberalism" though, there is a danger with simply slapping a name on anything. They come in ALL flavors, we don't know the killer's politics, so simply saying it is a manifestation of "liberalism" shows that we are too lazy to think something through... and if someone TOLD you it was just an example of "liberalism" examine their bias before they tell you the next thing, because it is probably tinged with that same incorrect slant.