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Mom Puts 9 Year Old Girl On Craigs List For Revenge
This is just awful.
Margery Tannenbaum of Hauppauge, NY has been charged with the following crime — putting the name and phone number of a 9-year-old girl on Craig’s List with an ad saying “Looking for a good time?-w4m 21.” (That’s “woman for man,” for those of us unfamiliar with the parlance of online sexytalk.)
Why would anyone do this? According to Suffolk County police, Ms. Tannenbaum did it to get back at one of her daughter’s friends. According to 1010 WINS: “When interested respondents replied by e-mail,
Tannenbaum is alleged to have given out the phone number for one of her
daughter’s rivals, which generated harassing telephone calls to that
home.” 22 calls, according to reports. On NY1
news’ “In The Papers” segment this morning, anchorwoman Kristen
Shaughnessy kept saying that the accused Long Island mom had a “degree
in psychology.” Perhaps with a minor in torture.
Some reports are pointing out a similarity to the creepy case of Lori Drew, the Missouri mother who made a fake MySpace profile to get back at Megan Meier, a teenager who eventually committed suicide because she became distraught over what was being said about her online. (That’s a simplification, you can read more about the story here and here.) No one died in this case, and Ms. Tannenbaum hasn’t had a trial yet. But the idea that a parent would do something like this to “get back” at a “rival” of one of their children, to get so involved in a dispute that their child was having with one of their peers… it’s kind of mind-blowing. It’s one thing to get angry. It’s another to go off the deep end like this.
Source: 1010 WINS, AZ Central
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3 Comments
leahsmom commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI got an obscene phone call when I was in grade school – I don’t think it was directed at me, I just happened to answer the phone. I must have been about 10 or 11. I was terrified – I refused to go into school for three days, and couldn’t sleep: maybe my parents had been hitting too hard on the “stranger danger” issues or “tell us if someone touches you” – but I was convinced someone was coming after me, and the whole idea of sex was too scary for me to be able to really process it and laugh it off. I feel really really bad for that little girl.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amYou really have to wonder about her own child at this point…Whether or not she knew about it, or what she’s going through now with her friends at school…
Knitty commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amGood lord, how does a nine-year-old have “rivals”? I don’t remember the forth grade all that clearly, but I’m pretty sure I was still holding hands with my little friends at age eight.
Regardless, what a horrible woman. I bet they can bring some pretty serious charges against her for that display.
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