warning this one is triggering on multiple levels.....
The Kids Aren't Alright!
There is a lot of child abuse out there. Us ACONs know what we grew up with. Maybe there's a little more help, and knowledge as young people can google "what do I do if my parents are abusive?" Child abuse does seem to be getting worse and the cracks in this society are growing. Now there are different types of parents in these videos, there are the narcissistic/Cluster Bs/Machiavellian, Dark Triad types, and the beleaguered alcoholic, or high, too poor and mentally ill messed up types who are unable to keep up with the demands of parenting. Some are low IQ, some irresponsible, some confused, and some sick. However, one can see the evil parents too, who are those who enjoy unleashing pain on others.
You're Going to Jail Because You Left Your Toddler Home Alone!
Many videos are out now where people use police body cams to show cases of parents being arrested for child abuse. There's a lot of them, sadly. Maybe these cases get more notoriety given the internet, but were there this many bad parents this in the past? Some of the parents, you can tell have substance abuse problems that lead to the arrests. There's the guy who left his 7-10 year old kid at home, the guy seemed to drink too much, but he really seemed to make a mistake, thinking his 18 year old daughter was home to watch her brother. The 18 year old was kind of snotty, saying she had left to visit her boyfriend. She didn't seem like a loving sister. Maybe she was fed up with the Dad too and took it out on her brother. She seemed sick of babysitting and angry at the brother for leaving the house, so maybe this had happened a lot before. Watching this you wonder what happened to that poor kid later? Did he get in trouble for crying and turning to the neighbors later on? Did the Dad lose his job making for more anger, blame and resentment?
In the first video, three teens call the cops on their aggressive angry Dad who hits them, they even ask the cop, "Can we just leave?". You can tell they are afraid. Obviously this is a family cracking under the pressures of poverty, with 4 people stuck in a camper. The father is physically abusive while throwing and breaking things too. The father claims he is overworked, and lost several family members but sadly is taking things out on his boys. He has two other cases related to abusing them too. Hopefully those kids ended up in a better situation later.
The woman in this video, some people felt sorry for her. They thought, "So she ran into Target, for a few minutes not wanting to wake the kids up, and got caught!" Doing this in 9 degrees Fahrenheit was a bit much though. I think some of the parents get physically tired, and take a few risky dumb chances. They don't want to load and unload the kids or unbuckle car seats. Of course sympathy was lessened when viewers found out a loaded gun was under the seat of the car. Who knows if a relative or someone else left it there and she didn't know about it, but if she did, that's horrible and put those kids at risk.
I saw this other case where this one mother, went to work at her restaurant and she left a 2 year old home alone, she had no child care, and the apartment looked empty and the cops were outraged there was no food in the fridge. In that case, leaving a 2 year old home alone is dangerous. It's almost attempted murder to leave a kid that young to their own devices for hours. She was so desperate to get to work, how much did desperation lead to that poor decision? She knew if she didn't go to work she'd lose her job and then with no money would be homeless. There isn't much support for parents out there anymore. When the corporations got their two for one deal with feminism, taking care of children at home was no longer valued, and now you see some parents cracking under the pressure. This seems to be a growing trend.
Here's an example of a woman leaving her 7 month old baby locked in a car so she can go to work, she says "I didn't know what else to do!" They still committed a crime, that poor baby could have died from getting hot in the car, gotten kidnapped or trafficked, etc. However you know a society is broken when mothers are scared to lose their jobs, and there's no one to help them, so some sadly choose the job and take extreme risks putting a child's life in danger. They should say forget the job and choose the child, but obviously many worry about losing the job and becoming homeless. There's too many single parents out there with no mate to help them or family that cares anymore. If you think about it, why aren't there emergency daycare centers or anything like this? There just isn't.
These videos are all over YouTube. There are kids wondering the neighborhoods, left home alone and told not to answer the door, so no one finds out, and abandoned for hours. Some are abandoned for days with empty refrigerators. I saw a video some months ago where a teen girl who was responsible, was left home alone with two toddlers, with no air conditioning and an empty fridge and no money to get the kids any food. She was too young to work or have money herself and she knew she couldn't take care of the kids and her mother had been gone for days, so she called the cops. This was the right thing to do.
I was left home alone by the age of 8-9. Things were different back then, the rules are far stricter now. Children spent more time on their own back then. Within reason I think this was smarter, I mentioned the mother arrested for letting a 10 year old walk alone to a store during the day, that was simply insane.
There was one scary time, where some people tried to break into our house while we were home alone. They were knocking hard on the door, and windows, like they wanted to smash them in. It could have been anything from teens messing with us to possible home invaders. My memories are vague, but I think we called the cops, so we did what you were supposed to. I remember staying home alone from school, by the time I was 8-9 years old. This usually happened when I was sick. I was a responsible kid, my parents knew I wasn't going to burn down the house and I already often made the family meatloaf and did laundry, so it wasn't a big deal to me at the time. It was a time for peace. Cleaning often was the price for my playing hooky from school but it was nice to be alone. It was a rare time for peace.
The kids being left home alone in many of these videos, were very young. Some of them abandoned for days. Most were left home alone at night or for days or without food, or other needed things. Some of the parents were plain wicked, some irresponsible, choosing partying and dating over their kids while others were desperate and on their own. As I have written here before when they broke up extended family networks during the 1960s for every family to be broken up into economic nomads, the kids have paid big times. I noticed many of these kids were rescued by strangers or kindly neighbors. There was no family to check on them. Raising kids unless you are more well off in America too is hell too. People are cutting corners, the kids are paying and some are getting caught and going to jail.
One can see the cracks forming, our culture doesn't support children anymore, so the parents who lack resources, stamina and more, are taking more risks. It is at the expense of the children. When people leave toddlers home alone to go to work because they fear financial destruction, you have a society that no longer works.
This mother is just mean, there's red flags there to me of a kid being scapegoated, she sleeps in while her kid misses the school bus and tries to walk 8 miles to school. The house is obsessively neat, she sleeps in, not caring to see her child off to school. He misses the bus, and fears her wrath so goes on a forever hike that goes wrong. This poor kid has a mother who could be on the Cluster B spectrum.
Homeschooling Isolates the Kids.
Now homeschooling can be done right. Most of my churches homeschooled. That said, there is a price, there is less knowledge that will come from worksheets rather than having several teachers teaching you history, science, art and music. If the schools are bad enough, I understand why parents homeschool. I worry myself about some things they push at school from forced Covid/other vaccination to teaching kids globalism and extreme "woke ideologies". John Taylor Gatto was right about some of the drawbacks of the public school system.
I find unschooling suspect too, an uncharitable opinion is that this is a lazy parent who doesn't want to get up in the morning. I know two girls now teens, who were unschooled, they live long distance, but can tell on social media, their spelling and writing skills are far below the norm. With the Turpins, as an example, homeschooling is exploited by abusers and creeps to abuse their kids in secret with no accountability. deal with the getting up in the morning. My life as a child would have been even more hellish if homeschooling had been a "thing" back then. I probably would have just literally been made into a Cinderella 24/7 instead. School probably keeps some parents more measured, the wealthier ones don't want to lose their jobs to little Sally or Joey showing up at school with a bunch of bruises. The isolation allows abusers to work in secrecy. There's no extended family present often to keep the abusers in check. It also breaks the kids away from the community. I notice the few decent homeschoolers will do co-ops or be involved in a church with youth groups and activities, but the abusive ones, the children are hidden away.
There's a reason the Turpin's homeschooled, while chaining their kids up. It kept outsiders from figuring out what was going on. On YouTube, one can see endless videos of psycho parents, [the few who get caught] being arrested for locking up their kids in a cage, and extreme abuses. Here is an example of one. This YouTube video is about the Jayme Kushman case. What if the neighbor had never spoke out? Sadly homeschooling is used by abusive parents to hide extreme abuse cases far too often.
Watching these videos is hard for me. I wasn't chained up as a kid, but got locked in my room for hours. It happened up to age 7. I believe it stopped when we got bigger because we moved to a dense urban neighborhood, right across the street from the school and church my family went to. Hearing kids yell, "Let me out!" may have brought social repercussions. Sometimes I think that neighborhood suppressed some of the worse, because after we moved my parent's abuse increased.
Chaining is far more brutal but I remember being treated like I was an animal in a cage. Trust me, when people are locking up kids, it's not because they are "brats" in a desperate quest for control, I was a very quiet child, they lock them up for abuse, control and domination. YouTube is full of videos like this, where the kids are locked in rooms, and chained up. Does this say something about American culture? The country that has the highest incarceration rates, leads it's psychopathic parents to lock up their kids like hardnosed criminals? Lock them up is the prevailing cry for all "undesirables" now including the homeless.
Why are so many psychopaths having kids and then abusing them especially in the days of plentiful birth-control? One wonders if they have kids just to have someone to abuse, they seem so offended at the existence of their children. These wretched people make the kids all live like animals. I have noticed the weird bathroom stuff too, that probably is to dish out the most pain and humiliation possible. This is severe abuse stuff, but when they don't let kids use the bathroom, that's to cause the most pain possible. Often these abuse households have abused animals and pit bulls seem to be the favorite pet of too many Cluster Bs. This doesn't mean everyone who owns a pit bull is Cluster B, but the animals are often untrained and biting everyone, sometimes one wonders if mean dogs are used as "enforcers" too by the psychopathic. Then there is the food thing, many use food for control and abuse, starving kids and withdrawing proper nutrition.
This abusive couple seems to hold commonality with the Turpins except they are much poorer. They keep "good food" for themselves and pamper a pet right in front of the kids. If you consider your kids "garbage disposals", why do you keep having them? You know that's for sadists to use tools of psychological torture. These parents locked up the food too. Sadly I think there is going to be more abuse as groceries skyrocket and poverty increases. It will give these types of parents more motivation to neglect their kids. These kids were denied school too and hidden away in a trailer. Abusers like to do things in darkness.
Poverty seems common in many of these abuse cases though I saw a few cases like in the South West where the abusive parent seemed to be an OCD fanatic, and they lived in a mansion and were at the millionaire level. She locked her kid up too. Abuse can happen among all social classes.
Intrafamilial Child Torture
There is a newer term now used: "Intrafamilial child torture" to describe the worse cases of child abuse, where extremely abusive parents will lock kids up, torture them physically and emotionally and keep constant control over the kids, like not allowing a child to go to the bathroom or forbidding them from speaking for days. Here is a webinar describing it. The Turpins definitely fit the definition and they are talked about at the 7:58 mark. When children are extremely isolated, beaten, chained up, locked up, denied educations, and starved, it fits the definition. The video goes into different cases of abuse and describes, the outcome for adult survivors which is increased chances of mental and physical illnesses.
When I found out about this term, a couple years ago, I explored it a little bit but it was too triggering for me. One website described a child being held under water on purpose. This happened to me, as I wrote about in this article years ago when I talked about my physical abuse. It is hellish for children when they have psychopaths, sociopaths, malignant narcissists and sadists for parents and guardians.
They got videos all over YouTube of cops rescuing kids from abusive, neglectful parents, some are substance abusers, but others are Dark Triad types. Some do abusive stuff with food. Some kids are victims of SA. Many lock the kids up and physical punishments are common. I knew there was abusive parents out there and probably because I used to look up a lot of stuff on the Turpins, the algorithms started to show me a lot of other cases. I didn't realize there was so many cases. It kind of shocked me. It does concern me the degree of abuse that is happening out there and it seems to be worsening.
I remember local cases of child abuse that were shocking and horrifying such as this one family locking down a child, who was chained to a radiator, and died of a treatable illness. We see the parents on news reports and on videos like this who actually get caught. How many don't. How many kids are never rescued?
Is child abuse worsening out there? I don't know the official statistics, but I think it is. Just the sheer number of videos of abuse cases and cops rescuing children from horrible parents is shocking in itself. Children deserve a lot better in life. Society needs to do more to protect children from abuse. Sadly many of the official agencies are falling down on the job.
The Turpin Parents Sentenced to 25 to Life
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