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Discussion Started: 07-20-2001, 8:49 AM

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Comment on the recent death of the 8-year-old Monessen girl.

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l_ham

07-18-2003, 2:50 PM

i blame it on the parents from reading up on the story, watching on the news, knowing marcia and from living in monessen and knowing what is going on. i just recently read that the brights' are suing the city it s not the city's fault that they let their children run around monessen and letting them do what they want. truthfully i have no sympathy for the parents but i do for the children that they lost their sister.

leah

Antigenic

08-14-2002, 10:21 PM

There's a very good reason why CYS fails again and again; their mandate is just plain impossible to accomplish.

There's nothing government can do to make bad parents be better parents. Sure, they can take the kids out of one abusive situation, but they can't guarantee that the next stop will be any better. There just isn't a standard, reliable test for compassion and responsibility. Some child molesting sadists look and act just like... well, priests, for example. Many of them take advantage of the system by volunteering as foster parents or choosing careers in education just to have access to vulnerable kids. The local purvey in my neighborhood when I was a kid was a straight A student who went off to attend Emory on a merrit scholarship... to become a PEDIATRICIAN!

I believe the (none too) Bright family failed their children and have suffered the ultimate consequence for it. The murdering child molester should spend the rest of his days getting some of his own medicine from some big smelly guy named Bubuh. That would be just.

But I have to ask this; are any of the folks who've posted here directly familiar with this family? If so, why didn't any of you do anything to help these kids? Did you think CYS had it handled? Did you think of calling CYS but figure they'd probably only make things worse? What might you have done differently if CYS had never existed

"The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst." --Andrew Dickson

pebed

03-16-2002, 1:12 PM

I am so sick of these idiots. Obviously they are uneducated, illmannered fools. Everytime I seen them on the news again I nearly go through the TV. They should be sitting in a jail cell for all that they have done to those 3 children. I only pray that they never get their hands on the dear little ones again.

catcatbst

03-05-2002, 5:04 PM

I think the Brights should be up on a plane to Afganistan and be used as missles!!!!!

bethanne_m

03-05-2002, 12:18 PM

Does anyone still feel that these people at any time might have been good parents? I think the verdict has been in a long time and the final appeal has been thrown out. These people should never have been or BE parents again. One wonders if the mother had complained against this man prior to the misfortunes of her two daughters if those crimes may have been prevented. Although she may be taking advantage of the limelight she recieved from the death of her daughter to get this situation brought into public eye and her voice heard since his was the only one we ever heard throughout the entire episode with Annette. One thing is for certain..dysfunctional is not a strong enough term for the people in this "family". May the children of these people never be returned to such horrible parents and may they find love and happiness in their new surroundings so that they might leartn the true meaning of family, protection, security, and respect. Then perhaps the sins of the parents...as well as their deplorable neglactful and abusive behavior will not be passed on through the generations to their children.

KWiley22

03-05-2002, 10:26 AM

Gee, now that man's a wife/child beater too, what a surprise! I think these people actually enjoy being in the limelight, no matter what the cost. As part of their punishment, I don't think they should be featured on the news or in the newspapers anymore, they're having way too much fun with all the publicity. And, personally, I don't feel that they're worth the time or the effort. Don't give their children back to them -ever-, and maybe they'll be spared a lifetime of embarrassment and humiliation.

bethanne_m

02-11-2002, 1:17 PM

Again these people have found a way to top themselves with their ignorance and stupidity. No bad intent on the ise of these funds raised to cover their daughters funeral expenses as well as a scholorship fund they were to distribute to children who love art and music. How can anyone misappropriate these funds and not realize it is inappropriate? The only reason is stupidity. Sheer unadulterated ignorance for morality and the lack of thought for what is right and wrong in the REAL world. I am not sure what world these people are living in...you cannot love your children if you allow them to run around with a man who has proven himself to have a crush on your 12 year old and violated their trust by taking this 12 year old out alone and overnight. To allow Annette near him let alone go with him anywhere is worse than lack of good judgement. It is parenting of the worst kind. These people always appear a bit "off" ...slow. These people have been aloowed to violate two of their children's lives already, in no way should they be allowed to make such stupid decisions that effect their children again. For the children are the one's truly being hurt by their lack of judgement. And this woman is aparently pregnant again. These people seem to be unable to afford to take care of the kids they have let alone bring another into this world. Thsi child should also be romoved from this unstable and dangerously unattentive enviorment. And someone needs to forceable make Mrs. Bright go on birth control so she cannot bring any other children into the world to endanger. People need to begin to relaize that children are a gift that should be loved, nurtured and cared for, not things which are owned and disposible. You can't just keep having them or replacing them because you want too. People need to realize that if you cannot ake care of your children then you lose the right to be parents again. Parenting is a priveledge not a right. If you aren't fit you should not be allowed to take part in such a special and important job. These people need to pay for their bad judgement whether it was intentional or not. They have already suffered the loss of their children to Foster Care and the death of one due to their stupidity...they also need to pay for making further bad choices by abusing the money which was given for their daughters burial and then to keep her memory alive by using the money as a scholarship for something she loved. Yes they need to be punished...made to realize what they have done and are doing is wrong. but perhaps, these people will never realize this. They have not seemed to realized their mistakes in any of their childrens affairs...

scarlettpa

02-10-2002, 11:11 PM

This is a tragedy that should have never happened. The question should be how much money and gifts were the Brights getting from the pervert BEFORE Annette was murdered? Obviously they benifited from the "gifts" their 12 yr old got from the PERV!! They didnt care about the kids then ..nor do they now. They sold their kids to the highest bidder it seems to me. Also.... who out there knew something was fishy about this PERV seeing the 12 yr old and didnt report it? Shame..... I still see small childern out alone and wonder where the parents are.. Please.. watch your kids..

pebed

02-10-2002, 9:28 AM

I wish I could sit on the jury that hears the case this idiots wants to put forth in court. I firmly believe that these 2 scum 'The Brights' should have been held in the murder of that precious little girl. This piece of dirt, her father, already gave the oldest girl to the lunatic or murdered Annette. These two scum were given 3 precious gifts and threw them away. I hope some jury puts these 2 behind bars. Let them get a piece of the life they deserve.

DBartman

01-02-2002, 10:01 PM

Something was going on in that household long before Annette was killed. This man must of had something that the Bright's wanted or needed from him to continue to allow him around their children even after a sexual episode with their oldest daughter. Any protective parent would have never allowed him back into their lives.

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