Sharlyn Singh Put Her Baby In the Oven

Okay, I realize that sometimes people don’t make rational decisions when fighting with their spouse or their significant other, but this is ridiculous.

According to police in Orlando, FL, Sharlyn Singh will be charged with Aggravated Child Abuse after she put her baby in the oven and turned it on, apparently because she was upset by a breakup with her boyfriend.

The article doesn’t say whether she mistook her baby for a turkey, or whether she was actually trying to hurt the baby. I would love to believe it was an accident, but I doubt it.

The baby is fine, a friend of Singh’s brother heard cries and got the baby out. Sharlyn is in jail.

This article made me think of a blog I was reading yesterday, in which a young woman talks about how much it hurt that her mother chose the mother’s boyfriend over the daughter when making choices.(WARNING: Contains Graphic Language) I feel horrible for this woman.

It seems that this sort of thing happens a lot. It’s amazing how self absorbed a parent can be.

When parents fail to protect their children, in order to protect an adult, the crime should hang around the necks of them all.