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Off-Topic / Re: Please help! Child Abuse...

« on: November 14, 2010, 08:53:37 am »Message ID: 269057

Please keep this bumped up...We are really fighting hard to get that cage removed and need all the signatures to remove it.

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Off-Topic / Re: Please help! Child Abuse...

« on: November 13, 2010, 04:01:10 am »Message ID: 268604

A youtube video of New Mexico news telling you more details of the story....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b7cjgIllFU

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Off-Topic / Please help! Petition to remove Abused Child from Cage! ( Warning Graphic)

« on: November 13, 2010, 03:58:21 am »Message ID: 268603

There is this story I want to share with people and it's an extremely sad one. This is a local issue we faced in 2002 and right now we have a petition about.

Please read! We need your help!



July 2002, 5-month old Brianna Lopez, born premature in February of that year in Las Cruces, New Mexico, died a brutal death after suffering some of the most horrific abuse I have ever heard a child having to endure.

In her short 5 months of life, she was pinched,bitten, kicked, thrown in the air, slammed on the ground, repeatedly bitten and sexually penetrated by her father and uncle.

An autopsy showed her anus and vagina were both injured. She had a significant abrasion on her buttocks, which went all the way into the buttocks, that was consistent with sexual assault. Immediately after she was pronounced dead, a nurse observed that her anus gaped open with no muscle tone. The autopsy revealed her *bleep* opening was dilated to a full inch. Internal examination showed an injury a half-inch to an inch inside the *bleep* opening and vaginal injuries inside the labia minora, including three small injuries to the hymen.

Her small body was literally covered from head to toe in bruises and bite marks. She also had older injuries that included fractures to her skull and legs.

From the Facebook Page dedicated to her, we read, “On the night of her death she had been thrown to the ceiling and hit the floor three times and also sexually penetrated. When authorities found her it shocked them so badly they needed counseling. Her father and uncle had raped her and were also the ones who threw her to the ceiling without catching her during a night of drinking. Her mother caused the many bite marks on different occasions and also pinched Brianna when she became frustrated with her baby. Brianna's father, Andy Walters would throw her when he became frustrated. On Friday July 19th at 10:00am Briana's mother Stephanie Lopez, woke to find Brianna not breathing and called 911. On Friday July 19th at 11:10am 5 month old baby Brianna Lopez passed away at Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces from the injuries that were a result of this abuse.”

This poor little girl never felt a single second of love or affection in her short 5 months of life.

Brianna’s father and uncle were sentenced to 57 and 51 years in prison, respectively, for raping and killing the girl. Her mother received 18 years for negligence that led to the girl’s death.

In 2006, the convictions of these three monsters were overturned after lawyers for the three filed an Appeal with the New Mexico Supreme Court, claiming that because the three had been tried together and had provided evidence against one another, their right to cross examine their accusers had been violated. The Justices agreed, and overturned all three defendant’s convictions.

In June 2007, the mother’s conviction was reinstated.

In September 2007, the convictions of the father and uncle were reinstated on most counts.

That these three still breathe is a travesty itself, but they are all locked away in prison, for now.

The outrage in Las Cruces was astounding as was the sympathy and guilt the community felt over this poor child.

The only photo of her is one filled will bruises taken after her death just prior to her autopsy. By digitally removing the bruises, a decent photo of this child was made where she appears sleeping.

As if not abused enough in life, no one came forward to claim Brianna’s body, so the community banded together and claimed her, giving her a decent burial. Then, remaining family members came forward and decided to claim this poor child’s grave, erected a cage around her grave to keep community members who would erect a headstone as well as keep flowers on her grave, out.

Even in death this poor child’s memory is to be refused a little caring and affection, if the remaining family continues.

I am linking to a petition I would encourage everyone to sign to encourage the New Mexico Courts to legally remove that cage and allow well wishers to pay homage to this poor child, dead now for 8 years.  

http://www.gopetition.com/petition/26696/sign.html


The family did nothing for this child in life and now, in death they continue in doing nothing for her, not even a few flowers or a decent headstone.  

The family told us all to forget about her, but we refuse to!  


If you google her name Brianna Lopez you will find graphic photos of her bruises and these are the only photos she ever had taken of her.
They will show photos of the metal cage her grave is surrounded by and an unkept grave site.
 Locals want to buy her a headstone and to pay respects to her.

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Off-Topic / Re: What are your favorite quotes?

« on: November 08, 2010, 09:21:07 am »Message ID: 266307

My favorite love quotes

“Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.”

“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”

“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”

“Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.”


“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”

“It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it does not depart. True love is eternal. If you think that you were once in love, but fell out of it, then it wasn't love you were in. There are no 'exit' signs in love, there is only an 'on' ramp.”



My Favorite  Random quotes:


“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

“It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.”

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

“Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”


“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

“Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.”

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Off-Topic / Re: What are peoples hobbies?

« on: November 07, 2010, 06:03:12 pm »Message ID: 266107

Welding, drawing, photography, fishing, hunting, and video gaming

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Off-Topic / Re: Thankfulness

« on: November 07, 2010, 06:02:31 pm »Message ID: 266106

Things I am thankful for :

My twin daughters and my baby girl.

My Husband, my best friends, my family in general.

For having a roof over my shoulders and food to eat.

For the luxuries my family is able to have.

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Off-Topic / Re: myspace

« on: November 07, 2010, 05:57:59 pm »Message ID: 266100

It use to be a great concept and I enjoyed it when it first came out, but not it is just a bunch of spam bots and pervs.

I still have my account since some of my friends and family still have one and don't want to get another method of social networking.

I probably only log on once a week and that's mainly since it's a cheaper way to communicate with my family from Europe.
I prefer facebook even though social networking isn't my thing.

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Off-Topic / Re: Good friends or bad ones?

« on: November 07, 2010, 05:54:36 pm »Message ID: 266096

I have a lot of people I call friends... But honestly I think I have maybe 2 who would really go out of their way for me and me for them.
The rest aren't bad friends just not as close. I think I only have 3 bad friends...

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Off-Topic / Re: Friends w/ your EX-HUSBAND OR EXBF?

« on: November 07, 2010, 05:53:06 pm »Message ID: 266093

I think it depends on how everything failed... For example my husbands mom and dad still speak perfectly. I think you can even consider them best friends.
They divorced mutually because they felt that it was wrong to just stay married for the kids.
They fell out of love on both sides and they drug along with their days as if they were just roommates.
10 years has passed since they decided to divorce and they are both very close.
Both are remarried and have separate lives, they don't see each other alone or do anything to make the others spouse feel uncomfortable.
What they do is if the other needs help in anyway they provide support as one big family. It was weird for me to watch at first, but I have grown to understand it.

They were friends since they were 8 years old and the got married really young. They mistook their love and care for each other as a romantic kind and with the pressure of parents pushing it upon them they got married. It failed after 20 years, it was sad but they realized they weren't really happy together. I admire their choice and like that for 10 years now they have had no issues with being friends still.

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Off-Topic / Re: Interveiw the person below you

« on: November 07, 2010, 05:44:29 pm »Message ID: 266088

Well, I was a well rounded girl. I played sports,I was a little bit of a trouble maker ( was suspended a few times), I graduated top ten, and I dressed on the edgy rocker side as well as the trendy side, and I hung out with all groups.

So I don't think I was set in one group.


When you were young what did you want to grow up to be and what are you now?

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Off-Topic / Re: I am so proud!!!

« on: November 07, 2010, 05:39:54 pm »Message ID: 266084

Wow congrats! That would definitely make me proud and smile a lot! 
I can't wait for my kids to be old enough for school.

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Off-Topic / Re: Should prostitution be legal?

« on: November 06, 2010, 06:57:55 am »Message ID: 265320

Well there are various forms of prostitution...

No matter if it's illegal people will still do it.

I don't think street prostitution should be legal, because of risks of spread of diseases or viruses.
Unless there was some way of testing all the people on the streets which I doubt. It would take to much time and money to keep tab of everyone.

Now Brothel prostitution sounds more reasonable at least then they can test the woman or men and provide a safe setting for the acts to happen.

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Off-Topic / Re: What religion are you?

« on: November 05, 2010, 09:00:08 am »Message ID: 264704

I'm a catholic, but I don't really practice religion. I have learned that it's just not for me...I spent years going through all the sacraments and teaching them as well.
I found that I didn't fully believe in my religion and decided to just believe in God and go with the flow of things in life.

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Off-Topic / Re: Homemade ranch dressing...

« on: November 05, 2010, 08:58:21 am »Message ID: 264702

OoOooOO never thought to make my own...Don't know why I never did I will definitely try this!
Hope I make it properly good my Husband is a chef and he critiques everything >_<

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Off-Topic / Re: Breakfast

« on: November 05, 2010, 08:56:46 am »Message ID: 264700

Sounds like something my nana would make us when we were younger