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The mother, who does not send her to school or take her outside in the sunlight, allows the bedridden child to starve to death while lying in her own feces and urine, covered with bedsores and maggots.
Then, these "parents" - who face criminal charges - sue the city for not protecting their child.
This is a new twist on the story of the man who kills his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.
If that weren't bad enough, the mother and father, who between them begot 11 other children, were originally part of the suit, but have now withdrawn their names from it, allowing the siblings or the estate to be the plaintiff named.
How charming.
What could possibly have been in the minds of the lawyers who took this case? Does money ring a bell?
Now - in the category of you-can't-make-this-stuff-up - Brian Mildenberg, one of the lawyers who brought this suit on behalf of the other children and the parents, has hired his own counsel because of his "shock and surprise" at the vilification he is now facing.
Here's my take on the situation: Plain and simple, attorneys like this give the legal profession a very bad name.
The courts are already crowded with legitimate lawsuits; they do not need this kind of posturing in the hopes of grubbing money - from where? Taxpayers, of course.
And who is paying Mr. Mildenberg? Or is he hoping for a percentage of the take?
What about George Bochetto, the lawyer hired by Mildenberg to "explain the facts"?
As for the parents of the 11 children, what were they thinking? The number of unwanted and abused children in this country is staggering.
And what about the Department of Human Services? The hundreds of millions of dollars we spend on the incompetent child-welfare system in Philadelphia each year is a huge bite out of the budget.
Do I agree that DHS did not do its job and tried to cover up this outrage? Sure.
But the first line of defense for children is and should be the parents. These parents flunked, and the city and the courts should not have to pay for their failure.
Maybe it's time to require licenses for couples before they have children.
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