One million dollars bail.
Unlike the great state of Massachusetts, where this week, legislators are in a twit over the granting of marriage licenses to any couple who doesn’t look like Trista and Ryan, they don’t cotton much to child abuse in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
And more power to ’em.
“Debra Liberman, 50, was arraigned earlier in the day on charges including assault with a deadly weapon, attempted homicide, and arson with threat of death.”
This latest contender for Mother of the Year beat a 7-year-old girl with a dog chain and keys, burned her wrists on a stove, doused her naked body with bleach, then locked the girl inside a closet in a coal cellar, with a safe blocking the door.
Would you call that just a tad premeditated?
For good measure, she chucked a burning furnace filter into the coal cellar.
A neighbor, hearing screams from the house, called the police, who rescued the child.
The little one is in the hospital tonight, her 4 year old brother is with a different, unidentified caregiver and Liberman is in the slammer.
Can’t WAIT to hear defense counsel’s rationale; let’s pick from the following creative options:
– Post-menopausal depression
– Twinkies
– Self-defense
– A third world doctor from a second rate clinic pulled her meds
– Religious cult brainwashing
– Mad Cow
– The glove, er, safe, er, dog chain didn’t fit.
Oh, did I mention that the little girl is “Mommy Dearest’s” ADOPTED daughter?
Nice.