Girl, 3, dies of hypothermia after 'mother and boyfriend locked her in freezing bedroom for wetting

[Gruntled Old Man]

Source: The Daily Mail (UK)

By Associated Press
Last updated at 9:11 PM on 4th March 2012

A three-year-old girl from America's northernmost community died and her younger sister suffered hypothermia after their mother and the mother's boyfriend left them in a locked bedroom with a window open to a temperature of minus 30 degrees to air out the room because the girls wet their beds, authorities said.

The mother, 28-year-old elementary teacher Esther G. Edwards-Gust, was apparently on the lam Saturday, a day after she and 29-year-old Richard Tilden Jr. were indicted in the child's death. Tilden was in custody.

The couple shared a home with Edwards-Gust's 1- and 3-year-old daughters in the Inupiat Eskimo community of Barrow.

Police say the two girls last month were trapped overnight in their bedroom with a window open to temperatures that dropped to 30 degrees below zero. Both children were diagnosed with extreme hypothermia and flown to an Anchorage hospital, where the three-year-old died.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2110024/Girl-3-dies-hypothermia-mother-boyfriend-locked-freezing-bedroom-Alaska.html

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Hey, Santorum, what's that you were saying about the evils of contraception?

[Cleita]

1. I just don't get why people punish toddlers no matter what they do.

They don't understand what's bad that well. However, this seems beyond the pale. No child should be punished like that.

[Smilo]

2. The mother, 28-year-old elementary teacher..................

this woman was responsible for educating young children and does this to her own. Wow.

[MADem]

15. That leapt out at me, as well. nt

[virgogal]

3. Lock them up and throw away the key.

[JBoy]

5. Don't forget to leave the window open.

[virgogal]

9. Yep! eom

[truthisfreedom]

4. She punished a one-year-old for wetting the bed?

You can't make shit like this up. I hope they catch her soon.

[tawadi]

6. The mother, elementary teacher..

"Edwards-Gust was initially arrested on assault charges, then set free at the request of the Barrow district attorney. "

[ghjtydger]

7. Spam deleted by Stinky The Clown (MIR Team)

[AlbertCat]

8. Yet more proof....

... that heterosexuals should not be allowed to raise children.

[richmwill]

10. Not just about the evils of contraception...

According to ol' Rick, the child was better off with this guy for a father-figure rather than a gay father.

[grahamhgreen]

11. Religious?

[Marrah_G]

12. wtf is wrong with these people

She is a fucking teacher?

[bluedigger]

13. A rendezvous with a piece of floating ice seems appropriate for those two.

They will not be missed.

[BeHereNow]

14. Another case for mandatory sterilization.

Both of them.
Such people should be spayed and neutered.

When I read about things like this- I simply can not believe how
anyone, let alone the PARENTS, could inflict such cruelty.

BHN

[Nihil]

16. +1 (n/t)