babies were found with rat bite marks on their bodies

[liberty]

They were charged with a crime because they didn't move after noticing they had rats. The problem is that some people don't have money—they can't move because they can't afford to. But that doesn’t matter to the system, the liberal system. They were young and probably didn’t even realize the danger. And it’s not like you can buy rat poison anymore—the liberal friends of animals won’t allow it. If you poison a rat, it might be eaten by a hawk or an eagle, and apparently, a hawk or an eagle is more important than a child’s life. There has got to be more to this story.

Sidebar: My babies were never left alone for a moment until they could walk. They slept in the same room as we did. Maybe I was just overly protective, but they were never bitten by a rat, a mouse, or anything else.


https://www.wtap.com/2025/05/12/parents ... uties-say/

Parents in South Carolina are facing charges after police said their twin babies were found with rat bite marks on their bodies.

According to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, Akayla and Justin Bearden, both 24, were charged with two counts of unlawful conduct towards a child.

Deputies responded to the home in Belton when the mother called 911 on Friday morning to report that her 6-month-old child was covered in blood.

The sheriff’s office said a “large rat started eating the child.

[Joe Guy]

So a MAGA couple neglects their children and you're blaming it on the liberals.

Sidebar: My babies were never left alone for a moment until they could walk. They slept in the same room as we did. Maybe I was just overly protective, but they were never bitten by a rat, a mouse, or anything else.

And you want us to believe that your kids never got bit by one-a these here critters?......

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[Scooter]

Solutions exist if you don't lack the brain cells of a turnip.

[Joe Guy]

And it’s not like you can buy rat poison anymore—the liberal friends of animals won’t allow it.

To add to what Scooter posted, I'm in California and I can go a few blocks from my home to Home Depot and buy all the rat poison I can afford. Are you saying they've banned rat poison down in Dixie Land?

Y'all need to talk to yer MAGA representatives and tell them to convince Donald to sign an Executive Order to release more poison.

[MajGenl.Meade]

This is what happens when MAGA bro marries MAGA sister.

[Big RR]

I just checked and Amazon also stocks and sells a variety of rat poison and other rodent control products. But why blame the "liberals" (whoever they may be)? Much ore likely the neocons who object to local rodent control programs--"I have a right to keep my house as I see fit free from [liberal] government interference." Or, if they rented the premises, "what right does the government have to tell a landlord how to run his own property?" Indeed, I have seen reports of programs where programs providing rodent inspection and remediation at public expense being terminated, but what do you expect when people like Robert Kennedy Jr are running public health entities.

As for the charges, do you really argue this is not child neglect--when the kids are placed in the hospital? And the charges assure the kids are brought into the DYFS system, admittedly not the greatest--but a damn sight better than being subjected to nocturnal rat attacks. While I doubt the prosecution will go anywhere, it will insure the parents will get some of the services they need and the children will be protected. All, again, because of the damn "liberal" inspired government interference.

Yep, it's the fault of the "liberals".

[MajGenl.Meade]

To give him his due, warfarin as a rat poison has been banned by various state governments and in pellet form by the US govt. EPA she say: "The rodenticide products currently available on the consumer market are ready-to-use bait stations that contain and/or are packaged with a rodenticide bait that is in block or paste form. Pelleted baits no longer are permitted to be used in rodenticide products targeted for consumer markets"

He's barking mad to blame "liberals" as opposed to "humans with a healthy concern not to destroy nature" but he's almost not doing it up the wrong tree

[Big RR]

Meade--true, but apparently warfarin is available for consumer purchase in North Carolina, even in pelleted bait form. And there are other rodenticides; even a couple of big cats could have made a difference in keeping the rodent population down. But the problem is not the absence of warfarin (or strychnine or ...) rat poison, but the failure of the couple to take any reasonable efforts to keep the rats away from the children. I imagine this will be addressed in the courts going forward but, to the extent their options were limited, it wasn't because of the "liberals".

[MajGenl.Meade]

Right you are, Big RR - but I think the pellets must be purchased in 18gallon drums or something like that. For farmers and the like. Mr and Mrs Dipwit ain't gonna keep that under the kitchen sink.

Yes too, the issue in the case is not the availability of rat terminators . . . lib's "wrong tree" up which he is barking . . . but of parental neglect which one can't really blame on Bernie.

[BoSoxGal]

Rodenticide is not just dangerous to wildlife, it is also dangerous to use in a home with small children who put everything they find on the floor into their mouths - especially if they have such zoned out neglectful parents.

If it was a rental home they should have contacted the landlord who is typically responsible for pest control; if they owned the home they needed to do something about the infestation. If they were letting their kids get bitten by rats then they probably weren't too good about keeping the property clean and the garbage removal timely. When I was representing the state I was pretty shocked by the documented conditions of some of the homes people are letting their small children run around in - some people live worse than any animal would live. I suspect the home was in a far more deplorable condition than the interior of the field rat's nest where they are raising their offspring.

Best solution to rat infestation is a rat terrier or other motivated rat catching dog. My little collie mix is crazy for rats, she cleaned out an infestation at one of my client's properties in the space of two weekends, sniffed out the various entrances to the nest and spent the day catching and killing each rat as it emerged. It's a far more humane method than rodenticide - a quick grab and shake and the rat's neck is broken and lights out, FAR less painful than death by rodenticide. Riley just killed a field rat on the current property where I work - it was nesting under the compost pile (excellent spot for a rat) and apparently unbeknownst to me, she had been surveilling for a few weeks every time she was out in the yard - the property owner observed her and he is well pleased she got the rat. I actually felt bad (as I always do) that she killed something and the day she grabbed it we were on our way to the car to leave and I interrupted her killing so the rat actually got away and scurried off - but it's not been seen since so either went off to die of the injuries or decamped to dog free environs.

[liberty]

You people, except for BSG, are bad liberals. You run the risk of being thrown out of the religion by your high priestess, Jane Fonda. Aren't you ashamed of yourselves? You are supposed to put the well-being of animals above that of humans—even rats and roaches. What, are you spiciest? Do you believe one form of life is better than another? How can you hold your head up in the liberal church?

[Big RR]

Until this last post I thought you were trying to have a (somewhat) serious discussion; I guess I misjudged you.

[liberty]

Until this last post I thought you were trying to have a (somewhat) serious discussion; I guess I misjudged you.

It is both. What, you don't like metaphors? You know that the majority of you guys follow in lockstep with whatever is in vogue and considered liberal at the time. If rats eating the babies of MAGA parents were in vogue, most liberals would find a way to defend the rat. However, I see the world differently—a baby is a baby, and it doesn’t matter who the parents are. It’s not like you guys are overflowing with independent thinkers.

[BoSoxGal]

Just to clarify, liberty - I don't celebrate the death of rats, I'm just practical enough to know that they carry disease and pose a danger to humans for that reason and so they must be managed and sadly in many if not most cases, eradicating them from an area requires killing them. I just like to point out that poison is a cruel way of doing it and also puts wildlife at risk of death, so killing rats with dogs is the more effective humane method. Studies have been done establishing that dogs are better ratters than cats are, plus they can be controlled better than cats.

Are these people MAGA? That wasn't clear to me from the news article. On the whole of course I consider your posts to be disingenuous.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I used to blow them away with a .22 back on the apple farm. Rats, not babies.

To answer lib's question ("What, are you spiciest?") . . . no, but these once were:

It’s not like you guys are overflowing with independent thinkers.

And it's not like you are overflowing with thought so . . .

[liberty]

I used to blow them away with a .22 back on the apple farm. Rats, not babies.

To answer lib's question ("What, are you spiciest?") . . . no, but these once were:

It’s not like you guys are overflowing with independent thinkers.

And it's not like you are overflowing with thought so . . .

OK then speciesist; However, I don't think it's a word anyway but when did the left ever care about that they invent your own words.

[liberty]

I used to blow them away with a .22 back on the apple farm. Rats, not babies.

To answer lib's question ("What, are you spiciest?") . . . no, but these once were:

It’s not like you guys are overflowing with independent thinkers.

And it's not like you are overflowing with thought so . . .

OK then speciesist; However, I don't think it's a word anyway but when did the left ever care about that they invent your own words.

[liberty]

Just to clarify, liberty - I don't celebrate the death of rats, I'm just practical enough to know that they carry disease and pose a danger to humans for that reason and so they must be managed and sadly in many if not most cases, eradicating them from an area requires killing them. I just like to point out that poison is a cruel way of doing it and also puts wildlife at risk of death, so killing rats with dogs is the more effective humane method. Studies have been done establishing that dogs are better ratters than cats are, plus they can be controlled better than cats.

Are these people MAGA? That wasn't clear to me from the news article. On the whole of course I consider your posts to be disingenuous.

I don't know if the parents are MAGA or not. I would think that, since they're young, poor, and live in a city, they're most likely Democrats. Yes, the South has an infestation of Democrats all over the place, and I am one—but at least I can think for myself. When I first heard this story, I was outraged and disgusted. But unlike some of my L friends, I stopped and thought about it. It could be that these people simply didn't have the money to do anything. When you're poor, every penny counts—I know because I was once poor. If we’re not careful, we all could be poor again, too. So, I wasn’t as quick to judge as most other people. I'd like to know more about the story and these people.


And in this next story, I couldn't find anything mitigating whatsoever. What kind of person keeps a dangerous snake around a baby or toddler? Same difference.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local ... om-prison/

[BoSoxGal]

Just to clarify, liberty - I don't celebrate the death of rats, I'm just practical enough to know that they carry disease and pose a danger to humans for that reason and so they must be managed and sadly in many if not most cases, eradicating them from an area requires killing them. I just like to point out that poison is a cruel way of doing it and also puts wildlife at risk of death, so killing rats with dogs is the more effective humane method. Studies have been done establishing that dogs are better ratters than cats are, plus they can be controlled better than cats.

Are these people MAGA? That wasn't clear to me from the news article. On the whole of course I consider your posts to be disingenuous.

I don't know if the parents are MAGA or not. I would think that, since they're young, poor, and live in a city, they're most likely Democrats. Yes, the South has an infestation of Democrats all over the place, and I am one—but at least I can think for myself. When I first heard this story, I was outraged and disgusted. But unlike some of my L friends, I stopped and thought about it. It could be that these people simply didn't have the money to do anything. When you're poor, every penny counts—I know because I was once poor. If we’re not careful, we all could be poor again, too. So, I wasn’t as quick to judge as most other people. I'd like to know more about the story and these people.


And in this next story, I couldn't find anything mitigating whatsoever. What kind of person keeps a dangerous snake around a baby or toddler? Same difference.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local ... om-prison/

Prosecutors said the 8-foot, 6-inch albino Burmese python named Gypsy was severely malnourished when it wrapped its body around the toddler’s neck and attempted to eat her.

The snake had escaped from a glass aquarium that was secured with only a quilt as a lid, according to investigators.

“She got out of the cage last night and got into the baby’s crib and strangled her to death. I’m going to kill the bitch,” Darnell said in a 911 call before fatally stabbing the snake his girlfriend had owned for years.

During their trial, attorneys representing Hare and Darnell argued that the couple never expected the previously tame pet to harm anyone.

So, these two disgusting excuses for human beings starved their Burmese python and left it in a cage with merely a blanket to secure the enclosure. And then when it acted according to its essential nature and went looking for food and found a readily available defenseless source, they killed it for acting according to its nature. I have a strong feeling that the little girl would have been seriously fucked up by these people, if not killed, had she not been killed by the python - which given the circumstances was in effect them killing her thus the convictions.

Both girl and python are in a better place, away from these two brain dead losers/psychopaths.

I am outraged that she's been released while still of reproductive age. I expect my attorney brethren here will understandably react in some horror at this comment, but as a formerly abused child, I honestly think when cases like this go down the justice system should offer voluntary sterilization as an alternative to lengthy prison sentences. No more kids, no more crimes against kids.

[Joe Guy]

I don't know if the parents are MAGA or not. I would think that, since they're young, poor, and live in a city, they're most likely Democrats. Yes, the South has an infestation of Democrats all over the place.....

Sounds like the South could use some of this.....

...... When I first heard this story, I was outraged and disgusted. But unlike some of my L friends, I stopped and thought about it. It could be that these people simply didn't have the money to do anything. ....

Parents need money in order to protect their children from rats? How many rat bites on a child are allowed before it becomes parental neglect?



The python story is disgusting.