EXCLUSIVE
03.19.15
They Ran My Little Girl to Death
Heather Walker's daughter, Savannah, died
after her grandmother and stepmother allegedly forced her to run laps until she
collapsed.
Heather Walker thought she had finally reached the end of a
grueling three-year custody battle for her 9-year-old daughter, Savannah
Hardin. But the next time she saw Savannah, the little girl was in a coma
after allegedly being forced to run laps for hours as a punishment for eating
candy bars.
Now, Savannah’s grandmother Joyce Hardin Garrard is on trial for
capital murder in connection with Savannah’s death, and the girl’s stepmother,
Jessica Hardin, has been charged with murder for allegedly failing to intervene
when Savannah pleaded for help.
Walker, who declined to speak publicly about the tragedy for three
years, told her story in an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast.
I think we need to look at this story a little more closely.
I see a greedy and selfish father who managed to get custody
switched to himself when he wasn’t even at home to take care of this little
girl; then immediately started alienating the mother from her daughter while at
the same time dumping her care off on his mother and new wife.
Of course, his mother and wife are totally responsible for
what happened during the torture murder of this little girl; but shouldn’t some
responsibility be laid at this man’s feet as well? How does he manage to get off scot-free? If
this was a woman, she would have been charged just for leaving the girl in a
dangerous situation. Plenty of women go
to jail with the same or higher sentences for leaving children with an
abuser. Don’t tell me this guy didn’t know what his
own mother was about. Clearly he did and
chose to leave his daughter anyway…
Additionally I think we need to look at the line-up of
custody cases the presiding Judge in this case handled to ensure he hasn’t placed more kids in dangerous
situations, switching custody to parents who are not even in the home to take
care of these kids.
BTW, this is a very common ploy of men who wish to get out
of paying child support. Switching
custody and then dumping their kids off on whatever woman is available to
provide free child care for them…
There is more investigation to be done in this case, much
more before we close the book on it.
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