Toddler 'doing well' after nearly 3 weeks alone
Exhibit A in my case for "Why certain people should not be allowed to breed" is Dakeysha Lee, who apparently hasn't learned the fine art of child-rearing.
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (CNN) -- After spending nearly three weeks alone and surviving on raw pasta, mustard and ketchup, a 2-year-old Jacksonville, Florida, girl was in good spirits Tuesday morning at a hospital, officials told CNN.
"The child is doing well," said David Foreman, a spokesman for Wolfson Children's Hospital, where the toddler was brought for treatment. "She was sitting up this morning, talking and laughing with the nurses."
Officer Ken Jefferson, spokesman for the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, said the little girl was brought to the hospital Monday, suffering from malnutrition, after an officer responded to a call from the child's father, Ogden Lee.
Lee, 33, was at the apartment of his estranged wife, 22-year-old Dakeysha Lee, who has been incarcerated since September 10. He told the responding officer that the apartment manager had let him into the apartment, where he found his daughter.
"The child basically survived on raw pasta, mustard, ketchup," Jefferson said.
If you have no intention of actually caring for a child, why should you be allowed to even have one? Aren't there already enough abandoned and abused children in this world as it is? Memo to Ms. Lee: it's a child, not a plaything or something you put aside when you grow tired of it. Child = responsibility, and it seems painfully clear that you have not managed to grasp that basic concept.
While I hesitate to raise an argument for eugenics, I do believe that there are people out there having babies who have no business breeding. How to achieve a state where only those fit to be parents have children without becoming a truly Orwellian society is, unfortunately, a question to be resolved by a nimbler intellect than my own.
