GALVESTON ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ Joshua Royce Mauldin felt a “weird sensation” and lost control of his actions before placing his 2-month-old daughter in a microwave oven, according to a video of his statement to police shown during his trial today…. “I felt a weird sensation, a crazy sensation,” Mauldin, 20, of Warren, Ark., said in the video of his interview with Galveston police Detective Holly Johnson…. In the video shown to the jury on the fourth day of his trial on a charge of injury to a child, Mauldin said he felt like “a shell and a hot fire inside, right in your stomach. At that point I had no control over my body…. “I could see what was going on, but I couldn’t do anything about it.”
Every now and again, I run across a story so utterly inhuman in it’s execution and so incomprehensible in it’s result that it’s almost too much to process. I mean, who in the HELL microwaves his own daughter? I don’t care how crazy, unstable, or otherwise thoroughly (&^%$# up you are; if you microwave a 2-month-old, you deserve the absolute worst Texas’ criminal justice system has to offer…and then some.
“Do you think you’re crazy?” Johnson asks. Mauldin replies, “No.”
Hell, yes, you’re crazy. What other possible explanation could there be for such monstrously inhuman behavior? I don’t care how sane you think you may be, or how thoroughly (&^%$# you actually are. If you place your daughter in a microwave, set it on “popcorn” and hit the start button…well, you’ve pretty much forfeited any claim to anything resembling garden-variety sanity.
I don’t care what happens going forward. Mauldin may become the sanest, most well-adjusted and rational person in modern human history…but he under no circumstances should be allowed in the same time zone as his daughter. I’m sorry, but microwaving your daughter really ought to disqualify you for your next four lifetimes from having children, raising children…or even DISCUSSING children as an abstract concept. I’d really like someone to explain to me why Maulding shouldn’t be forcibly sterilized. When the technology becomes available, he should be given a medication that will cause his head to explode if comes within so much as a half-mile from ANYONE under the age of 18. If this means that Mauldin ends up living in a cave somewhere in south Waziristan, so be it. As far as I’m concerned, the farther this cretin is from civilization (and children) the better. If it was possible to send him to Mars, I’d be leading the fundraising campaign.
Yeah, you might have surmised that I’m a bit on the angry side here. Hey, if your choose to microwave your two-month old daughter, you should be stripped naked, covered in honey, and staked to a fire ant bed in west Texas. THEN the real punishment should start. Yes, you know what I’m talking about- Bill O’Reilly morning, noon, and night…24/7/365 at full volume. If Mauldin isn’t already crazy, a steady diet of O’Reilly will most definitely push over the edge…and deservedly slow.
Oh, and did I mention the part about forced sterilization?