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    TrumpsTinyHandsBreanna Edwards
    3/30/17 11:19am

    What a horrible story. I can’t imagine why someone who hates a child enough to beat her to death would agree to watch that child.

    I would love to hear from the neighbors and hear their reasons for not calling the police or family services. Maybe lack of trust in those institutions can be listed among the contributing factors.

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      thekladyTrumpsTinyHands
      3/30/17 1:11pm

      I hate to say it and make this conversation about something else entirely but us black folks accepting a certain level of physical abuse as not only acceptable but warranted as part of raising a child is (one reason) why people in the black community don’t speak up when they see/hear abuse. Because we’re told its normal to hit on your child. I’m not saying other races/ethnicity groups don’t hit their children. I’m also not saying our community is “more’ abusive. I don’t think those things are true. But I do think our culture supports it, can’t speak for others. And it needs to change.

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      WithAddedSucretheklady
      3/30/17 4:55pm

      I’m going to chime in and say no. Black people are not more accepting of violence for any reason. Just no.

      It’s better to say the environment YOU grew up in accepted levels of abuse, because it was not acceptable in my childhood or adulthood.

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    RaulBadgertonBreanna Edwards
    3/30/17 10:20pm

    Poor child, and what’s worse is that there had been a prior incident so the child was likely scared going in to the situation to begin with.

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