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The mother of a murdered 1-year-old boy says she never suspected her boyfriend, 22-year-old James Cooley, was a violent person and didn’t know he was being investigated in another child abuse case.“The only thing is, I just want to know why, how could he do something like that… and he laid him back in his bed after and went about his day and told me he had been sleeping,” Rebecca Mccollough aid.Spokane Major Crimes detectives say Cooley confessed to murdering 1-year-old Santiago and assaulting Mccollough’s other 4-year-old son Santana in their Hillyard apartment/Colleen O’Brien, internet content editor, KXLY. More here.
Question: How come so many women w/children end up with dangerous jerks like this guy?
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sweetpotatopie on September 29 at 10:30 a.m.
How do so many women with children end up with dangerous jerks like this guy?
They are insecure and have been taught (most likely from modeling by their own mothers) that this type of man is the best they can do. They tend to be uneducated and poor so that they must rely on these creeps to support them.
I just find it really, really sad, especially for the children who must grow up in these crazy, unstable and often dangerous house-holds. It’s a vicious cycle that can only be broken by education/job training and birth control.
kamm on September 29 at 2:22 p.m.
Anthropologically an alpha male in a new grouping, kills all the progeny of the previous male so that his new line will be uncontaminated.
This is true in modern society, there is no emotional bond between child and mom’s boyfriend. He probably doesn’t want to learn how to care for this other man’s child and sees normal infant/child behavior as a challenge to him personally.
Do these women not read the paper or watch the news? This happens over and over and over.