Evil: Mom tosses own baby from parking garage
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Our world is populated by people and the capacity for evil is astonishing.
In my world the evil memories often rule, and that can be disturbing to my efforts at finding peace. The latter is elusive in a time when hate rules and kindness is laughed at and ridiculed.
A life of of dealing with people in their worst moments, however, has conditioned me to never be surprised at man’s inhumanity to man and this is one of those cases. It’s really no wonder why I like dogs more than people.
Here’s the story:
A baby is in critical condition after he fell from the fourth story of a parking structure in California last night—and police accuse his own mother of tossing the seven-month-old over the edge. Police say Sonia Hermosillo, 31, threw her own son from the Children’s Hospital garage then drove away, KTLA reports.
A witness saw the baby fall but did not see exactly what happened; police later spotted Hermosillo leaving the parking structure on surveillance video and found her, four hours later, near the hospital without her baby in the car. Meanwhile, her husband reported Hermosillo and their son missing. She was arrested last night on a charge of attempted murder; police say the child is “clinging to life.”
Our world is populated by people and the capacity for evil is astonishing. The story of this woman tossing her baby makes for a good example. Please don’t tell me how troubled she might be, or how the system may have let her down, or how the cops probably lied about the whole thing. That’s all nonsense. Evil stalks our world and could be living next door or sleeping in the same bed.
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That was very informative.
I read that the baby died from his injuries.
Yes. I also read this morning that the mother drove to the hospital even though they didn’t have an appointment that day, went to the highest level of the parking structure, and removed the child’s helmet (prescribed to correct a congenital condition) before she through him over the edge. She also made sure she got her parking validated before she drove away.
I would agree that self-centeredness is fundamental to human nature and it therefore takes work to be “good,” but I’d also say that *evil* is a step beyond self-centeredness. Stealing someone else’s clothing is self-centered. Killing them for it is evil.
Or, are evil/sociopaths and self-centered/narcissists just different points the scale of human behavior? If someone steals who has a lot of money, s/he is self-centered , maybe narcissistic.
If someone is destitute, stealing clothes or food is neither evil nor self-centered: it’s survival.
I agree with your remark regarding survival needs; my purpose was to make a distinction that would point out the egregious nature of an act that’s truly “evil”.
I can recall another example from my youth: I was lying in bed unable to sleep (as usual) in the early morning hours when I heard a shot rip through the silence of the night. For some reason, I knew the sound was a gunshot, not a backfire or a firecracker, and I also knew–don’t ask me how–that someone had been murdered. It turned out that I was right: when I walked into my seventh-grade class the next morning, people were talking about how a long-haul trucker who had pulled over to sleep in the parking lot of the 84 Lumber a couple of blocks from my house had been shot in the head. The newspaper report said that the killer didn’t even steal anything from the man (his wallet was still completely intact)–just blasted his head off.
Once again, I would call this an *evil* act because it didn’t even provide any material benefit to the person who committed it the crime. It was just a random act of violence.
I guess it is all a matter of interpretation. I consider sociopathy an abnormal and often destructive state of mind, or in other words, a mental illness.
Have sympathy for both victims, but I suppose the healthier one more so, as the loss is greater.
It is barbaric and crazy, utterly. Your own baby! I can, however, kind of understand, if it had been someone else’s, but her own baby?! That is crazy.
One final note: the act was insane by the standards of our society. The woman was not in her right mind, as it was not a safe thing for her to do.
I cannot believe she is evil.
I can tell you from experience that people make rational choices to commit crimes. They are not sick, but they are sociopaths. They are not insane, or out of their mind. They are sociopaths. Even impulsive crime is rationalized as the brain can process billions of bytes of information within seconds. I have no sympathy for this woman, but I have sadness for the life the poor baby never got to enjoy because of her twisted mother.
You’ll get no argument from me on this one. Sociopaths are sick, but they are still well enough to make their own decisions.
I’m sure this woman had *some* sort of motivation, Mike, but I don’t care what it was.
I read about this in the local news yesterday, and it absolutely SICKENED me. I simply can’t comprehend how someone could do such a thing to a child. Although I have always believed that *most* people are fundamentally good (just self-interested, since that’s how we survive), I can’t deny that some people do stunningly evil things.
A case that I read about in the local paper when I was twelve–more than thirty years ago–still haunts me to this day. I read in graphic detail how a man beat his ten-year-old stepdaughter, Joyce Toliver (I’ll never forget the name), to death, over the course of an *entire day.* This happened at a flop house called the Mission Motel, which was less than a mile from my house in San Bernardino, California. The details described in the article were too disturbing to recount here, but I remember them almost verbatim, and they still make me want to cry.
I can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like to have to deal with things like this on a regular basis: I simply couldn’t.
I have always believed that *most* people are fundamentally good. I’m such a cynic. I believe that people are fundamentally self-centered and have to work to become good people.
“People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I’m not surprised the poor child died as a result of his injuries. Now the rancid bitch will be charged with murder. Horrifying story.
Stories like this make me weep for humanity..