This will make you sick...

[MYSONSDAD]

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41493

Michelle Malkin

The death of Bradley McGee
Posted: November 17, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

  2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

Bradley Gene McGee was tortured and beaten to death 15 years ago. Thanks
to our senseless courts, one of his callous killers is free to strike
again.

Bradley died at the age of 2. It's the age when a happy boy's life is
preoccupied with Teletubbies, choo-choo trains, Cheerios, sippy cups, and
Velcro-strap sneakers with tiny red lights that blink when you stomp your
feet. It is also the age for potty-training, when a little boy needs
loving parents or guardians with patience, devotion and good humor.

Bradley's murderers possessed none of these traits. On a summer day in
1989, they punished him for soiling his pants by plunging him headfirst in
a toilet. Again and again and again. The man who rammed Bradley's head
repeatedly into the ceramic fixture was his stepfather, Thomas Coe. The
woman who covered Bradley's mouth to stop him from screaming ? the woman
who then sat by the bathtub, lit a cigarette and watched the little boy's
torment ? was the woman who gave birth to Bradley, Sheryl Hardy.

Coe and Hardy then dragged Bradley into the living room of their mobile
home, where they beat him over the head with couch cushions until he fell
to the floor unconscious. Bradley died of massive brain hemorrhaging at a
nearby hospital the next day.

To call Sheryl Hardy a "mother" would be an unforgivable desecration of
the word. When Bradley was 4 months old, she and Coe took him to a local
mall. They left baby Bradley with a pretzel vendor and walked away.

It was the best thing that happened in Bradley's cruelly short life. Child
welfare officials placed him in emergency foster care in Winter Haven,
Fla. He was immediately embraced by Sandra "Kip" Liles and her husband.
Mrs. Liles has nurtured some 200 abused and neglected children, showering
each one with much-needed attention and gentle care. On a website
dedicated to Bradley's memory, she posted poignant photos of the
cherubic-faced baby's first smiles and first haircut.

He was, she said, a "heavenly angel." Taken from Earth too soon.

When Sheryl Hardy learned that Bradley's foster parents wanted to adopt
him, she petulantly petitioned for custody. Sixty-six days after being
returned to Hardy and Coe ? the same heartless couple that had abandoned
him as a newborn ? Bradley was dead.

At trial, Hardy revealed the horrific abuse she and Coe administered to
Bradley. She had forced him to eat his own feces. Made him stand by her
bed all night as she and Coe slept. And allowed Coe to punch the little
boy's genitals. The medical examiner reported more than 90 cuts and
bruises on Bradley's battered body.

On the stand, Hardy offered excuse after excuse for Bradley's torture and
murder. She said she was abused as a child and beaten by Coe. The
shameless sob stories didn't work with the jury. She was convicted of
second-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years. Coe was convicted of
first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse and sentenced to life in
prison.

Due largely to Kip Liles' efforts, Bradley's murder led to reform of
Florida's custody and child welfare laws. Parents across the country sent
toys and teddy bears and childhood mementos that still adorn Bradley's
gravesite in Lakeland, Fla.

But justice has not yet been served. Sheryl Hardy was released after nine
years due to prison overcrowding and moved back to her home state of
Illinois. She gave birth to another little boy, now 3. Like Bradley, the
child named Billy has been in foster care for most of his life. Like
Bradley, Billy has now been put back in the custody of a woman who has no
business being anywhere near children. Earlier this month, the Illinois
Supreme Court refused to overturn a lower court ruling that there wasn't
enough evidence to prove that Hardy was a negligent or abusive parent.

Bradley's battered body and tot-sized coffin should have been proof
enough.

The court put its faith in Sheryl Hardy's "rehabilitation" and completion
of parenting classes. But the people most familiar with her crimes know
best: ''She's an evil person, a murderess,'' Paul Schaill of the Fort
Meade, Fla., police department, told the Associated Press. "[Billy] is
going to end up dead, too.''

Kip Liles is doing all she can to warn the public: "There is no sound, no
cry in all the world, that can be heard unless someone is listening."

Unless more concerned parents open their eyes, ears and hearts, another
life may be in danger.



Michelle Malkin's column is syndicated by Creators Syndicate and appears
in about 100 newspapers nationwide. Her book, "Invasion: How America Still
Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores,"
is a national best seller and now available at ShopNetDaily. All copies of
the book sold at ShopNetDaily are personally autographed.


"Children learn what they live"

[jilly]

GOOD LORD IN HEAVEN!! THAT IS INSANE!! WHAT THE HE$$ IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE???

[Hawkeye]

>GOOD LORD IN HEAVEN!! THAT IS INSANE!! WHAT THE HE$$ IS WRONG
>WITH THESE PEOPLE???

I second the motion...

[Stepmom0418]

I third that motion and now ask the question........who is more sick and insane this woman that was involved in the murder of her own child or the court systems that allow her to have another child in her care??

They both are sick I do have to say but.........What is wrong with the court system???? This is just NOT right!!

[Brent]

A bullet in their brains would be too good for them. Being fed into a wood-chipper an inch at a time while being beaten with tire irons is closer, but still a long way from justice. If I found these pieces of crap were living next door to me, I'd have a hard time keeping myself from going over and giving them some Instant Education of the .45 caliber variety.

[MYSONSDAD]

I could not agree more...

It is a sick sytem we live in. Child first, my A$$!

My mom remembers this when it happened, those adoptive parents fought the courts with everything they had and lost. It was all over the news.

The child lost.....and the system is giving her another chance, what about this other child? Who watches over him?

"Children learn what they live"