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Cases like Karla and John Baker's are the most controversial. Police raided their home in February 2005, suspecting that the couple was running a meth lab. The Bakers, who turned out to be users rather than dealers, were charged with endangering the welfare of their son Justin, 12. After the Bakers were able to plea-bargain their way out of jail time, Cindy Finch, an Olmsted County social worker, offered an ultimatum: come up with a life plan or lose Justin permanently...
Finch convened a family meeting that included Justin's parents, his maternal grandparents, a maternal aunt and Karla and John's 22-year-old daughter. The session gave Justin a chance to express his feelings. "I finally got to talk about it," Justin says of his parents' drug use. "I just told them I knew what they did, but I felt safe with them." Even so, Finch had him make a list of family and friends he would call if his parents ever made him feel unsafe. Meanwhile, all the relatives agreed to visit the family twice a week...
LIKE WHAT? He claimed Karla Faye Tucker's execution was a crushing weight on him and said, "God bless Karla Faye Tucker," and then, after she was executed, he mimicked her. I hate the way he uses religion. It's a sacrilege to me. As Governor, he had the power to save a woman who had completely changed her life...
...beaten with whips, water hoses, extensions cords, fan belts and wire hangers as a child." I couldn't help but think back to Bush's interview with Tucker Carlson in the now defunct Talk magazine, where the Texas governor mockingly mimicked the death row appeals of born-again convict Karla Faye Tucker. "Please don't kill me," said Bush with a condescending quiver. And the riff on gang violence? It's fine to take on gangs, but I couldn't help but notice Bush's promotion of programs "ranging from literacy to sports" and the standing ovation it drew from...
...Until we are able to control human overpopulation, any species that competes with Homo sapiens for space and food is doomed." KARLA KELLENBERGER Stow, Ohio...