More Daycare & Crisis Nurseries = Fewer Tortured & Murdered Babies

This has been a bad week in the news for babies in Ada and Champlin Mn as the Star Tribune filed reports about two separate & tragic baby deaths.

Reading these articles (below, or click the links) demonstrate that these are not isolated cases of violence and abuse, but repeated terrible burning, and beatings of babies that have only made the paper because the child died.

There’s lot’s more of this happening that we don’t see. Without subsidized day care and crisis nurseries, babies are left with drunk uncles and cracked out boyfriends while mom is working or buying groceries.

In my work as a volunteer CASA guardian ad-Litem, I saw this kind of thing repeatedly.  In one instance, a baby was burned over half her body and in another case, because there was no subsidized daycare, the working father, who was a good man, had the state start proceedings to take his children away because he could not afford daycare.

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Nobody wins in these situations; terribly abused children, destroyed functioning families, & a fortune in hospitalization and foster care.   StarTribune Local;