Mother With Money Problems Walks Into Lake With Two Children

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAV64NMIJD.html

Despondent Ohio Mother Walks Into Lake With Two Children; She and Younger Child Drown

AKRON, Ohio (AP) - A woman apparently upset over money problems walked into a lake with her daughter and son in tow, drowning herself and the 4-year-old girl, police said Monday.

Kenetta Lockhart, 32, of Akron, drove her Jeep up to the Summit Lake on Sunday, parked it and either walked off a boat dock or ramp with her daughter and 8-year-old son, police said. The boy was able to swim to shore.

"Preliminary information indicates that she might have been despondent over some personal and financial problems," said Akron Police Capt. Daniel Zampelli.

The boy was listed in fair condition at Children's Hospital.

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[HawkerHurricane]

1. Prediction:

Rush et al. will blame 'liberal permissive society'.

It will then turn out that the woman's father was a major local Republican figure.

Rush et al. will then be silent, but never take back or appologize for what they said originally.

Anyone want to take that bet?

[Caution]

2. kudos to that tax cut...

couldn't have spent a couple hundred dollars of that tax cut on programs for the poor or anything...nah that would be terrible! Not my hard earned tax dollars! God BushCo pisses me off.

[jiacinto]

3. What a horrible shame

It really is a sad story. I don't know what else to say.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Very wierd.

We share the last name...no one I know, though.

Sad, but I think this is symtomatic of our national illness....I expect to hear more of these stories of despair as people run out of options in this country today...

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. How horrible

can you IMAGINE the kind of desperation that would prompt a mom to do such a thing?

[kcwayne]

7. My brother committed suicide

Being unemployed, with $300 to his name, no prospects, and too embarrassed to ask for help from family he had leaned on repeatedly, he took his own life last February.

The details of how and why are not clear, but I blame George Bush's cabal for denuding the country of prospects and hope. My brother was never financially competent, and he had a large measure of personal responsibility for failures that he endured through his life (40 years). But during the 90's he found enough job success to show that he could function and be self sustaining. People like him are the first to feel the effects of destabilization (poorly educated with no trade skills).

I will never forgive Republicans for creating the environment that left him so despondent that he paid with his life for their greed.

[NNN0LHI]

8. I am so sorry to hear about your brother Wayne

I don't know what to say. I am not good at talking about these things.

Don

[kcwayne]

9. Thanks

Thank you for your condolence.

[AnnabelLee]

10. I am very sorry

I grieve with you for the loss of your brother.

[Old and In the Way]

11. gee, I'm sorry for you and your family.

I can only imagine how I'd feel if that was my brother.

I'm sure there are many families that have felt similar pain and I just hope that we can change the direction we are going in before it accelerates and damages more people in this country.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. The American Psychiatric Association...

Has named personal financial problems as the #1 cause of psychiatric problems in the US, Hence, look for more stories like this in the days ahead. With the economy and employment in a shambles, and Chimpy and his pack of sociopaths cutting social programs and denying access to care, more people will be punching their own tickets.

My experience is that the amount of untreated psychiatric issues out there, in the population, is staggering. It is not those who are receiving care or taking appropriate medications for their consitions that are at risk. They have made the constructive moves. It is those who can't or won't receive the care and support that they need that are the risk and the threat to civil society.

Once you go into the "Social Safety Net" system, you learn one thing early on: The philosophy of the system, as it has been defined by the repukes, is that YOU ARE SUB-HUMAN. YOU ARE FLAWED. IT IS YOUR FAULT THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE A JOB. The system is now administered to be quietly punitive, to punish you in subtle ways for not being employed. Such a system is a breeding ground for situations as described above. Dehumanization does that to people.

Fsck that noise. Gently. With a chainsaw. Let's show those assholes how it feels to be unemployed.