Mom Killed 3 yr old Son & Buried Him in Playground
23 year old Tiffany Toribio
According to CNN, police have arrested 23 year year old Tiffany Toribio “suffocated her son and then buried his body beneath the sand of a playground, police in Albuquerque, New Mexico.” Her son was three years old. Toribio has confessed to murdering her own son soon after her arrest:
“She placed her hand over her son’s mouth and nose and suffocated him. She had second thoughts about what she did. She performed CPR on her son, brought him back to life and then decided to go forward with that original act she had started to commit.”
When asked why she did it, she said “she did not want him to grow up with no one caring about him, the same way that she had grown up where nobody had cared about her.” She has since tried to kill herself and is now in isolation.
I am disturbed by the thoughts of the last few moments of that poor child’s life when he was strangled by his own mother not once, but two times. What an utterly depraved mind.
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If only she would have killed the baby a few months earlier, inside her own body, she’d be free right now…instead of another psycho on the front-page. Boy what a difference a few days make, huh?
Reply: But then it would not have been a baby.
Christopher McElree
May 21, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Umm. I have to snark just a bit here. And I know I am going to drive the pro-life (read: pro-embryo/fetus) nutters nutty with this comment.
The human gestation period is nine months; can’t dispute that scientific _fact_. If the mom killed the three-year-old child a few months earlier, Christopher, it still would have been killing a child, not *abortion* as you seem unwilling even to write.
I’m with Seeing Eye. You get some ovaries and a uterus and then *you*, my man, may have the necessary, fundamental ethos to opine about a woman’s right to choose what happens to her own body.
If you think for one second, Christopher, that men would allow the government to control their ejaculations and the numerous unwanted pregnancies they cause every day on this planet (either through rape, incest or sheer pregnancy control ignorance/arrogant irresponsibility), you certainly live in a more bizarre alternate reality than the one you have written about here.
skyewriter
May 21, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Well Chris, that might have been an act of mercy. But then I see women as free to choose whether or not to be pregnant and give birth. Someday when you hack your own penis off, and you steal some working ovaries and a uterus from some other woman, or a baboon, then you can see what its like first hand, and make up your mind what you will do.
But wait. Women arent free to make those choices in your world. so we will have to call some self righteous man to make that decision for you.
Though someone will probably kick the crap out of you for being a “gender bending pervert,” before that could happen. You could be a new test case. Here is your big chance Chris.
Oh the irony.
Anyhow, they picked a nice picture to post of this woman. Talk about the crazy-eyes look.
Of course there are more than a few women it seems who killed their own children [over the years] to save them from Satan. I guess THAT made it okay. But then I dont act surprised. Until American Culture starts taking care of its mothers, and care givers, I dont know why anyone can be shocked that this sort of thing happens.
Child neglect isnt a stretch when the parents–esp mothers are socially isolated, overworked, underpaid and not valued.
But there I go, making sense again.
seeing eye chick
May 21, 2009 at 8:41 pm
I know this is off topic of the story, but it is in reference to the first comment. Up until a certain point in the pregnancy the fetus is merely a biological extension of the mother, much like any other organ or process, but is not a separate aoutonomous being until that point. Doctors should decide when that point occurs, not politicians. For the gov’t to tell her “no” is tyrannical.
ZIRGAR
May 21, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Is the larger lesson in this tragedy the effects on the second and third generations of kids feeling unloved, unwanted, ignored?
Reply: She was obviously emotionally disturbed and I have no idea what had happened in her life to make her feel such despair for herself and the child. It is a less, but to me at least not an excuse for nearly killing a child and then killing him by suffocation. Many people go through traumatic events and avoid this behavior.
morelightthanheat
May 22, 2009 at 9:01 am
I absolutely agree that her actions are inexcusable and not justified. Many people have horrible childhoods and do not kill their kids. That she suffocated her child and then revived him, only to finish what she had started is especially horrifying.
We know that child abuse tends to be passed on from generation to generation. One way to stop the cycle is for all kids to be wanted kids. For me, being pro-life is far more than being against abortion. It’s about caring as much for the person after birth as before. It means making sure that women have access to birth control, that adequate child care is available, that adoption is less traumatic for both mom and child, that we care enough about our kids to educate them properly, that we all have access to health care, that we attempt to bring people out of poverty, etc.
Where we as a society failed to recognize this tragedy before it happened and to make sure that she received the mental health care she obviously needed is a failure for which we share collective responsibility.
morelightthanheat
May 22, 2009 at 10:22 am
This tragic story has nothing to do with abortion, other than if all children were wanted, the point would be moot. Mercy killing, then? Not when so many childless couples would love to raise such a little boy or girl.
Hopelessness breeds tragedy. Rationalization isn’t justification. The real value of life is diminished every time a situation objectifies human beings, in every situation where fear, terror and abuse make life hell on earth, whether it’s YOUR life or the family down the street from you.
Ideally, timely identification, analysis and intervention could prevent such tragic outcomes. But not without dedicated social resources.
The same folks who prance and preen so prominently espousing their deep devotion to the sanctity of life are the first to deny the need for such social “entitlement” programs.
“Why do the poor need so much help (money)?” Why must a government be responsible for its weakest, most vulnerable citizens? Isn’t that something churches should do? Why should I pay more taxes to protect children past the womb?
These ideologues care about lives only when they’re coming or going. In between, it’s all about self sufficiency. “I have to work for a living–so should they. Those lazy SOBs can all just go F themselves.”
Chalk it up to some crazy ass mom doing what crazy people do. Sure, they live next door but they seemed so “normal”. “Wish I’d known”.
Heads in asses…simply heads in asses.
Paul Sonderman
May 22, 2009 at 8:22 pm