Each week for these blogs I go to the CNN home page and look through all the news stories. I try and look to see which ones interst me best. A lot of the time, I find really funny ones or entertaining ones, but they don't seem to have a lot of information to make it 500 hundred words. My point being, I'm not a fan of death or murders, it just seems to be what I write about a lot for these blogs. I find it very interesting that these things happen, not only in the United States, but often times in small towns, which could easily be Joplin, Missouri. As a kid, I always wanted to be a Nurse or a Lawyer. In the end, I decided nursing. Yet, I still have an interest in things like this. CSI is my favorite show. These stories of crimes and topics never cease to amaze me.
Anyway, today I found a story on an Eight year old girl who's death is now being questioned whether it was an accident or homicide. Bianca Cartagena is an eight year old girl that was found dead inside her mother's home in Amherst, New York. Shortly after the body was found, CNN reported that it was "suspicious." Police were called to the home of Bianca's mother, Candace Cartagena, around nine o'clock Tuesday evening, November 30, 2010. When the police arrived at the house, Bianca was already dead inside the home. After searching the area, authorites found the mother behind the house inside a shed, suffering from what they called "self-inflicted illness." Not very suspicious, right?
Bianca had been living with her grandmother, Kathy Sweeny. The grandmother stated: "She was with her, she's the last person that was with her. She needs to come forward and she needs to be responsible." Sweeny also said that she had tried repeatedly to get a hold of her daughter. The last she heard from her was at 5:50 Tuesday, and it was a text stating that they were on their way home.
Bianca's aunt and grandfather discovered her body, completely covered with blankets over her head. In a letter, Candace wrote her mother, she wrote: "I have no recollection of Bianca even being at the house with me from that point on. All I know is that I wanted to die and kept taking pills each time I would wake up."
Authorities found a Facebook page for Candace Cartegena, on her page states: "I have a beautiful daughter, Bianca age 7, who I cannot imagine my life without. She makes me smile everyday!"
Amherst Police have yet to charge anyone and still have the death as "undetermined."
In my opinion, and I'm sure I'm not speaking alone, I think the mother had to have had something to do with it. All of it is just too suspicious. I'm slightly surprised she wasn't charged with anything as soon as they found her. Again, it's crazy to hear stories like this, especially with cases with children and their death's being undetermined. Hopefully, someone will step up to the plate so the family can have justice.
Alexis,
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you that stories like these are interesting. I also love to watch CSI and Law and Order. Anyway, I think that the mother did it to! The grandmother tried to get a hold of her and the mother said that she didn't even remember that the girl was even with her, when clearly she had been with her all day! The mother also stated that she kept taking pills all day long so that must be the reason that she couldn't even remember her daughter being there. I think that if that lady had a history of being like this then maybe her visitations should have been supervised because then maybe this wouldn't have happened! You have to be one screwed up person to murder your own daughter and not remember doing it. What the hell lady!? All the evidence points to her so they should just haul her down to the prison and get it over with. It's sad that that poor little girl didn't even know what was coming. I bet she trusted her mother and now she is dead. Poor girl. It's just not right.
This is the reason that blogs are hard for me too. I had this class last semester for 101 and it didnt seem as hard but now in 102 i find myself waiting till the last minute to do my blogs because I havent seen a decent story to write about. I wish that there were more positive things in the news to write about.
ReplyDeleteHaha. I go to CNN as well to get my stories...and then sit there for hours looking at all the ones that interest me. Some of the times I get off the computer feeling angry at this world...and the people in it.
ReplyDeleteIt's really hard for me too! I never can think of anything to write about that totals 500 words. It's sad we have to scour the news to find something..
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