More bad parenting: Grandmother, stepmother run 9 year-old girl to death - Polidicks

[quote](Reuters) - Two Alabama women were accused of murder on Wednesday for allegedly killing a young girl by forcing her to run for three hours without stopping, authorities said. The running was apparently a punishment for Savannah Hardin, 9, who died on Monday at Children's Hospital in Birmingham from dehydration and low sodium, a condition common in marathon runners, according to Natalie Barton, Etowah County, Alabama Public Information Officer. The child was apparently forced to run in the family's yard for eating a forbidden candy bar and lying about it, she said. A call placed to a 911 emergency operator reported an unresponsive child having seizures, said Barton. "It appears they ran her until she dropped," she said. The child's grandmother, Joyce Hardin Garrard, 46, and step-mother, Jessica Mae Hardin, 27, were charged on Wednesday with felony murder. Bond was set at $500,000 each. The girl's father, who had custody, was not home at the time, said Barton. There had been no prior reports of abuse in the family, Barton said. The third-grader's fellow students created a makeshift memorial on her desk at school, writing notes that will be delivered to her father, said Alan Cosby, superintendent of the Etowah County Schools.[/quote] What did they think 3-hours of running would do to a NINE year-old?

Title is a smidgen misleading, thought they ran her over But of course, this is awful, dunno how you can even think of doing this and expect nothing to happen

[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;34827946]Title is a smidgen misleading, thought they ran her over[/QUOTE] I'm glad thats what you took from this story!

Who punishes a child with exercise anyway? And three hours of running for eating a CANDY BAR? She's fucking nine years old. I am really pissed right now.

[QUOTE=AeroSinthetic;34827995]Who punishes a child with exercise anyway? [/QUOTE] Maybe the stepmother and grandmother thought she was overweight and needed to lose weight? Or it was some type of "you ate it so you have to burn it off" thought process. IDK, I could see exercise being a good and bad punishment. If the parents are using exercise as negative reinforcement, then the child is going to try and avoid it later, which is bad, but on the other hand, it could be good for a child to get exercise like that if they need it. Obviously three hours is like 2+ hours too much though.

I could run for maybe an hour before dying, the fact that she ran for 3 means that they probably just killed the next world's greatest long distance marathon runner :(

Run Forest, run!

[QUOTE=AeroSinthetic;34827995]Who punishes a child with exercise anyway? And three hours of running for eating a CANDY BAR? She's fucking nine years old. I am really pissed right now.[/QUOTE] Duh, Alabama.

[QUOTE=StormHammer;34828080]I could run for maybe an hour before dying, the fact that she ran for 3 means that they probably just killed the next world's greatest long distance marathon runner :([/QUOTE] Humans are natural trackers. A fit hunter 5000 years ago could easily run 8 hours straight for a kill. [editline]23rd February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=The golden;34828117]Lock 'em away and never let them see the daylight ever again.[/QUOTE] The American way!

death penalty doesn't seem so bad all of a sudden mmm yeah feed me your hate mmm god i love it

Wow, what the hell were they thinking. I hope the justice system will work for once and they get punished accordingly. [QUOTE=kenshin44;34828095]Run Forest, run![/QUOTE] Inappropriate.

Oh my good god, how did the kid keep going for 3 hours even?

A few minutes' run might have been acceptable (if a bit odd) but this was certainly excessive.

[QUOTE=Bomimo;34828126]Humans are natural trackers. A fit hunter 5000 years ago could easily run 8 hours straight for a kill. [editline]23rd February 2012[/editline] The American way![/QUOTE] I think "easily" is an overstatement. I'm pretty sure both the kill and the killer were exhausted by the end of hunts like that.

I can't even jog for ten minutes without stopping.

I have a feeling they were just too fucking stupid to realize that yes, you CAN die from being too worn out. [i]"I ain't never heard of no one dyin' 'cause they exercised too much! This'll make up fer all that sittin' 'round you do on the face book!"[/i]

[QUOTE=Within;34828185] Inappropriate.[/QUOTE] but oh so appropriate

I'm more surprised that some citizens in Alabama are favoring weight maintenance.

They should make her stepmother and grandmother run for 3 hours too just for shits and giggles. Right? Right? [sp]I'm joking.[/sp]

Wow, people on facepunch are really unfit. Try doing a training session with my rowing coach, he's ex army. I hurt. Not saying at nine years old i wouldn't die though. Or at least collapse.

It seems more like manslaughter and criminal negligence, rather than murder to me.

[QUOTE=Mlisen14;34830425]It seems more like manslaughter and criminal negligence, rather than murder to me.[/QUOTE] That sounds a little too reasonable for the american juridical system

I'm impressed the child kept up for so long. She would have been a great marathon runner.

[QUOTE=Master X;34828284]I think "easily" is an overstatement. I'm pretty sure both the kill and the killer were exhausted by the end of hunts like that.[/QUOTE] Not really. Sprinting isn't the only way to run. Tracking would involve running at a pace like jogging and an animal roaming about would move at a comparable pace. A full-speed chase would never occur since our top speed is fuck-all. He'd run along until he got to the thing and then he'd try to sneak in for the kill. Hunters were often out for a few days and in teams. [editline]23rd February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Smug Bastard;34828286]I can't even jog for ten minutes without stopping.[/QUOTE] It's because you don't breathe properly.

[B][QUOTE]The child's grandmother, Joyce Hardin Garrard, 46, and step-mother, Jessica Mae Hardin, 27[/QUOTE][/B] Explains it all, both had a kid in their teens, didn't know how to take care of one.

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[QUOTE=Gibo990;34830736][B][/B] Explains it all, both had a kid in their teens, didn't know how to take care of one.[/QUOTE] No, that's ridiculous. You don't instantly become a good mother because you've lived 10 or 15 years longer.

[QUOTE=Mlisen14;34831014]No, that's ridiculous. You don't instantly become a good mother because you've lived 10 or 15 years longer.[/QUOTE] People who have kids in their teens generally don't tend to be the more responsible or smart people.

[QUOTE=Mlisen14;34831014]No, that's ridiculous. You don't instantly become a good mother because you've lived 10 or 15 years longer.[/QUOTE] It's not the fact that you're further aged. It's the life experience and mental evolution that does it.

[QUOTE=Bomimo;34831097]It's not the fact that you're further aged. It's the life experience and mental evolution that does it.[/QUOTE] what a crock 1) for most of our evolutionary history women gave birth at ages as young as ten 2) there are plenty of excellent parents that had their children young and plenty of horrible parents that had their children late 3) people mature at different rates. some people never graduate clown college