Should the woman go to jail?

Question

If a woman moves her boyfriend in with her kids and the dude beats or rapes the kids, should the woman go to jail for endangering the welfare of a child?

I notice that it is almost never the kids father, its normally the man that the mother is sleeping with.

A woman who left her kids in the car while she goes into a crack house and buys drugs would go to jail for endangering the welfare of a child.

I think shacking up is a similar because the boyfriend is almost always the ones who rape and beat kids.

Answer 1

Yes. Any mother who would put her children at risk for the love of some freak should be jailed. She is just as guilty. As a mother, I can't imagine any mom not having the natural maternal instinct to protect her children. That, to me, is as sick as what the perpetrator did.

Answer 2

A while back a man named Joel Steinberg killed a little girl.
His horribly beaten girlfriend Hedda Nussbaum, was booked and served time right along with him. She was dazed, her nose had been broken so many times it was flat, her lips split and scarred, her hair was missing in patches where it had been pulled out.
Huge bruises from his fists were all over her body. When you saw her you knew this was no longer a woman who had the ability to do anything other than cringe and try to please her torturer. Yet she went to jail as if she still possessed free will.
I don't think she should have gone to jail, she was nothing human long before he adopted the child.
There is a desire to hurt eveyone connected with such a horrible crime, but really, when I looked at Hedda, I had to wonder if anything we could do would hurt her as much as he had. When there is no evidence that the woman is as damaged as she was in that case, then yes you could say she is responsible by her silence, but when you can see the evidence before your eyes of how brutal he had been to her, then maybe justice could show a little mercy to a mere shell of a human.

Answer 3

Depends on whether or not the woman was aware of the beating and/or raping, and what steps she took to stop it. If she knew it was happening and did nothing, take away her kids and lock her up in prison for a long time. Let's see how she likes the beating and/or raping.

Answer 4

I published something like this some time past, the place the 17 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous female grew to become into stoned to dying and that they confirmed the full situation on video. First they stripped her then approximately 50 men stoned her and her relatives set her up. She wasnt muslim yet she dated a muslim boy and the religion grew to become into against it so she died. you won't be able to alter those beasts. ninety 9.9999 % of the time, if something occurs to the ladies human beings, it grew to become into the womans fault. Thats the way it truly is over there.

Answer 5

Often she does, depending on her knowledge and actions.

I could tell you just as many horror stories about what fathers do to their kids. Those cases are harder to detect (if the mother is complicit).

ADDED: Parents can have their divorce agreements drafted to include no opposite sex cohabitation without marriage and these are enforceable. I did this 10 years ago. It works both ways and will tell you that the verbal and emotional abuse from step-parents (married or not) can be damaging as well. It's a great reason to make your marriage work. But if you're trying to maintain control over your ex-wife with this kind of thing, forget it. Lawyers and judges see right through it.

Answer 6

If she was aware that her kids were being raped and beaten, and did not take them to safety, absolutely. If she had no idea, that's different. Then she would just be a lousy mother for not knowing what's going on with her kids but that's not necessarily a criminal act.

Answer 7

I guess it would depend if the mother knows which unfortunately she probably would cause men like that usually don't stop at just the children. Getting caught up in a relationship like that is a sad situation.

Answer 8

All people make errors in judgment, and when a person perceives the relationship in a light that is false they can allow someone to injure a loved one. That does not meet the standards for a criminal offense.

Answer 9

It would all depend upon the criminal history of the man and whether the woman had reason to have knowledge of it.

I thought this question was going to be about Hillary and my answer was going to be a resounding, yes!

But, you are right. ALL single parents have to be hyper-aware of who they are bringing into their children's life.

Answer 10

There's alot of open-ends here. Was she aware this would happen, did the perp have priors to this? Did this happen over an extended period of time?

Can you post a link to the story?