Brittany Lester Sent Disturbing Child Abuse Images to Father of Child

Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2011-08-20 02:04

Article here. Excerpt:

'Brittany Lester is another example of fine parenting coming from the state that brought you Casey Anthony. It seems that she wanted to use imagery to make her threats seem more realistic when she was angry at the father of her child. Fortunately, her baby's daddy has more sense than her, and he turned her in to police.

Sources say Brittany Lester, a 20-year-old out of St. Petersburg, sent disturbing images of her baby via text message to the father of the child. The father of the abused infant, Donald Callaway, had just dropped the 1-month-old infant off at the hotel in which Lester resides. Sources say she was recently kicked out of her mother's home and had to live in the motel with her children. Who wants to take a stab at why her mother threw her rear-end out on the street? It probably has something to do with the way she acts.'

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The article says the children have been taken away and are in the "state's custody". I wonder why this child is not with the father.

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Submitted by Kris on Tue, 2011-08-23 04:14

Well, the father in the article was the father of her 'child' but they put her 'children' into state custody. She likely has multiple children by multiple fathers and it sounds like they all got taken away.

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Submitted by ItsDan on Tue, 2011-08-23 12:15

Other articles say she also has a three-year old and do not indicate he is the father of both.

It is good that the children are taken away.

I do not know the specifics of this case, but I know in general many black people from tough neighborhood accept the raising of kids as strictly a mother's role as usually there is a cycle of single parenthood. Often black men have issues themselves that make them poor parents (drug use, little education, no employment, no parenting skills, etc). I am guessing that the father may not have had much more of a home to offer the child. He may even have multiple children.

I would hope that whatever services and support that are available to mothers would also be available to fathers. I hope the father in this article has some desire to be a father and has services offered to him if he needs them to get himself to where he can provide a safe home

If he has no desire to be a father, then I hope the kid(s) find a good adoptive family and are not returned to the mother.

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Submitted by Kris on Tue, 2011-08-23 18:01

"I hope the father in this article has some desire to be a father "

As he was bringing his kids home, presumably from their visitation with him, I would assume the answer is yes, he wants to be a father. The problem is, both the media and the CPS don't appear to have even bothered to check.

As you mention, there are some indications that the children are his, but it is telling of today society that the article (and others) don't even bother to clarify.

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Submitted by Kratch on Tue, 2011-08-23 18:01