Mother charged in 5-year-old girl's death


	Mother charged in 5-year-old girl's death

arifsali

3-20-2007 4:19 PM

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crime, children, chicago

arifsali says:

These are what we may call screwed up human beings. If society does not take part of the blame then I'm not sure who does.

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