Relisha Rudd

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Agree. She was just gone. Out if their lives with no contact but no concern about it either. This is family pathology and it's offensive to other similarly situated families who are homeless and destitute to blame anyone other than Relisha's family for getting her into this situation.

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Thank you for saying what has been nagging me about this but I’ve been unable to express! It’s as if the conclusion of this is all families in poverty can’t care for their children so the government needs to step in. It’s paternalistic, has racist undertones and is offensive. This woman was a bad mother but that’s not because she lives in a homeless shelter or had a rough childhood. There are many others in the same situation who would never hand their child over to a grown man! This is an individual issue.

Did you miss the part that Relisha’s mother and grandmother spent their life in foster care as well??!

Hello!?!?

But what does that mean for Relisha? No doubt her family has some sad stories but should the city step in and involve itself in the parenting of every individual who themselves had been a part of the foster system? You can recognize the tough circumstances this family has experienced for generations but does that mean they shouldn't been responsible for keeping track of their kids?

[Anonymous]

I think the problem with the podcast is that they want to identify how the system(s) failed Relisha, but they also think that it's wrong for social services to intervene too much in families or split them up. So they can't really articulate what the "system" should have done differently, since the only thing that would really have protected Relisha was to have way more extensive intervention in the family and/or take Shamika's kids away to protect them. So it all feels disingenuous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the problem with the podcast is that they want to identify how the system(s) failed Relisha, but they also think that it's wrong for social services to intervene too much in families or split them up. So they can't really articulate what the "system" should have done differently, since the only thing that would really have protected Relisha was to have way more extensive intervention in the family and/or take Shamika's kids away to protect them. So it all feels disingenuous.

This podcast had the potential to be a really good investigative piece but ultimately fell real flat. She danced around the issue of ever placing the responsibility on the mother. Instead, the podcast or place responsibility on everybody else.

[Anonymous]

I'm watching ThE Steve Wilkos Show and they are talking to Relisha's mother and she seems so cold and unfeeling nothing like a mom who's child is missing .I can't believe that she was never made to take a lie detector test

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the problem with the podcast is that they want to identify how the system(s) failed Relisha, but they also think that it's wrong for social services to intervene too much in families or split them up. So they can't really articulate what the "system" should have done differently, since the only thing that would really have protected Relisha was to have way more extensive intervention in the family and/or take Shamika's kids away to protect them. So it all feels disingenuous.

This podcast had the potential to be a really good investigative piece but ultimately fell real flat. She danced around the issue of ever placing the responsibility on the mother. Instead, the podcast or place responsibility on everybody else.

+1 by the time I was pissed. Not at “the system” or “racism” but the mother and this reporter. What a cowardly piece of “journalism.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree. She was just gone. Out if their lives with no contact but no concern about it either. This is family pathology and it's offensive to other similarly situated families who are homeless and destitute to blame anyone other than Relisha's family for getting her into this situation.

+1

Thank you for saying what has been nagging me about this but I’ve been unable to express! It’s as if the conclusion of this is all families in poverty can’t care for their children so the government needs to step in. It’s paternalistic, has racist undertones and is offensive. This woman was a bad mother but that’s not because she lives in a homeless shelter or had a rough childhood. There are many others in the same situation who would never hand their child over to a grown man! This is an individual issue.

Did you miss the part that Relisha’s mother and grandmother spent their life in foster care as well??!

Hello!?!?

But what does that mean for Relisha? No doubt her family has some sad stories but should the city step in and involve itself in the parenting of every individual who themselves had been a part of the foster system? You can recognize the tough circumstances this family has experienced for generations but does that mean they shouldn't been responsible for keeping track of their kids?

+1

What should the system have done? If they stepped in and took the kids because generations had been in foster care, doesn't that perpetuate it? So Relisha's mother isn't responsible to keep her safe because she was in foster care? You are taking all responsiblity from the mom and grandmother, which in and of itself is condescending and just an example of gentle racism.

[Anonymous]

I thought one of the best things about the podcast was to show what generational trauma and poverty looks like.

[Anonymous]

Watching the news this morning and they mentioned Relisha's 20th birthday. I think about her often.

There is a new series about her case, hoping to get more answers:

https://www.blackandmissinginc.com/new-youtube-documentary-seeks-to-produce-breakthrough-in-relisha-rudd-case/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Watching the news this morning and they mentioned Relisha's 20th birthday. I think about her often.

There is a new series about her case, hoping to get more answers:

https://www.blackandmissinginc.com/new-youtube-documentary-seeks-to-produce-breakthrough-in-relisha-rudd-case/

I can’t believe it’s been that long. When I saw this post, I thought she was found. Praying those who loved her can get the closure and answers they need. So sad

[Anonymous]

Haven’t listened.

The mother and her BF are to blame. He was all over socials w cash days after that baby was sold. It was shameful. People know but couldn’t pin it on them.

[Anonymous]

My heart leapt with a twinge of hope when I saw this topic, hoping there was new news, maybe even the almost impossible to imagine news of her being found alive. Good to know that some are still looking for her, or at least for answers. Her mom and mom's BF should absolutely be in jail for selling that little girl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My heart leapt with a twinge of hope when I saw this topic, hoping there was new news, maybe even the almost impossible to imagine news of her being found alive. Good to know that some are still looking for her, or at least for answers. Her mom and mom's BF should absolutely be in jail for selling that little girl.

Me too. I think of Relisha from time to time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My heart leapt with a twinge of hope when I saw this topic, hoping there was new news, maybe even the almost impossible to imagine news of her being found alive. Good to know that some are still looking for her, or at least for answers. Her mom and mom's BF should absolutely be in jail for selling that little girl.

Me too. I think of Relisha from time to time.

+2 so heartbreaking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Watching the news this morning and they mentioned Relisha's 20th birthday. I think about her often.

There is a new series about her case, hoping to get more answers:

https://www.blackandmissinginc.com/new-youtube-documentary-seeks-to-produce-breakthrough-in-relisha-rudd-case/

Ugh, I thought they might have found her body.

I can’t believe she would have been 20.