1 Toddler Dead, 1 in Critical Condition in Memphis House Fire

Sandra Rose October 20, 2009

A 2-year-old is in a Memphis hospital in extreme critical condition after he was pulled out of a burning house in Memphis earlier today. The toddler’s 3-year-old brother was also pulled from the burning house but, later died from smoke inhalation. The children were left alone by their mother and aunt who left to drop off a friend.

The children’s aunt, Marilyn Wilson, said she had no regrets about leaving the children home alone. “I really need to get in there to see if my purse burned up. I had my Food Stamp Card and everything in there.”

No charges have been filed against the mother yet.

This is more evidence that birth control or forced abortions should be mandatory in the hood. Hoodrats who lack the common sense of a housefly or can’t afford to put food on the table, should not give birth to children.

Thanks to loyal readers Terri B. and CS for the tips!

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mirsmommy

I can’t hear what’s being said.

Why the f*ck would you leave two babies home alone?!?!?!?
RIP to that baby, and I hope the other baby pulls through.

SAD….:cry:
http://twitter.com/LaydeeJustice LadyJustice =)

no mother in her right mind would leave a 3 year old and a 2 year old home alone
MrsHawthorne77

Now Sandra, I thought you were a bit hostile the other day but I am slowly beginning to walk around to your side of the table. Who still leaves babies at home alone anymore???

Yeah…I can see why you feel that way. SMH
ELove

LADIES above me…
SADLY this happens ALL THE TIME (Every DAMN Day !!!)
Just LIKE individuals use to LEAVE THEIR KIDS in hot-azz cars while going to do some shopping
melinla

WTF – I have trouble leaving my 14 year old at home alone!!!! Let alone 2 children 2 and 3 alone to get into all kinds of trouble together. If they don’t send her to jail, she’ll have more babies since they’ll be cutting her money for the one that passed :smh: R.I.P.
LovelyLady

This is some sad ish right here. SMH. It has nothing to do with hoodrats or ghetto girls this is plain stupidity. And forced abortions????? Wow. Seems as though some moms should have aborted some of these commentors. Okay i take that back i just hate ignorance. Pro Life. (MY Opinon).

So i guess the white mothers who were leaving they kids in the car in 100 degree weather and kill they poor inncent baby should have forced abortions also. STFU an STFD. I love ya 2 def but damn Sandra….
LovelyLady

E Love
ELove

@LL… High FIVE Babes !!!
http://createspace.com/3393054 iscream

I can’t view clip but my heart goes out. Wow I hate fires. I’m so sad for these kids they mustve been so scared.

RIP.

No comment on the aunts quote. A baby lost his life.
shannon04

When I read the statment about the purse being burned/ food stamp card my mouth just dropped!! Sandra are you serious?? Did she really say that?? Im just in disbelief.
KaraZ

At first I thought Sandra was being extreme so I decided to watch it for myself.
They need to perform a hysterectomy on her and her entire lineage right now, those genes should not be passed on to any future generations.
LovelyLady

Sandra had to have thrown that statment in herself. (I Hope) if not who ever was holding her back should’ve socked her right in her damn mouth.
KaraZ

Y’all watch the clip Sandra did not put a word in that ladies mouth.

But they are lying about why they left those babies in the house, they probably left to buy some crack
PAHairston

Hello All. So many of our black women, young and old alike, still believe that having a man’s baby means having and keeping that man. It didn’t work during slavery and it ain’t working today. When will they get it into their heads that most men will do ANYTHING for the booty. (Keep yo legs closed or use protection ladies, simple as that!) Single, unemployed, uneducated women having 3,4,5 babies by just as many men, with nothing to give them, sometimes not even love. AND THEY KEEP ON HAVING ‘EM. (Ever heard of “baby land” in Memphis? Google it, sad, sad story.) Someone on this board once told me to STFU when I was stating my opinion on this touchy subject. I must have hit home. Peace. One last thing. How did Richard Pryor put it: There will never be a shortage of ni@@ers cause ni@@ers are fu@king! (Some of us seem to have such a high sex drive, in the time of HIV/AIDS.)
missy

I can’t believe this they couldn’t take the child with them What type of friend is this?

And the aunt have the gall to say she worried bout some effin food stamps.She had to be doing this for a long time i agree some of these people shouldn’t have children cause they are so selfish. They need to go to jail for life that is extreme child neglect but one good thing come out of this is that the child will go straight to heaven

(im so pissed i wanna just whoop their arse i know this happens everyday and i hate seeing this )
shannon04

Sandra, this don’t make any sense. That heffa stood there and chuckled and said she had no regrets for leaving the kids in there. Then went on to say she was worried about her purse and her food stamp card. To hell she will go…
pointhimout

any reports about her god forsaken food stamp card. are you kidding me?
aqtpie

Heartbreaking!!! My prayers for the family and surviving baby!! RIP angel!
Charles

Typical single black hoodrat mom

When is the forced abortion bill gonna make its way up?
Kat

Wow! I can’t believe she had the nerve to say something about some food stamps….Just WOW!
LovelyLady

OMG THIS NO TEETH RAGEEDY AZZ BIYATCH DID NOT JUST SAY THAT WTF IS WRONG WITH HER LOCK HER ASS UP LOCK THAT BISH UP, IM MAD AS SH*T ABOUT THIS

SANDRA MY BAD U WERE RIGHT SHE DID SAY THAT WTF SMH
flyqtnvaAKAlilmissprissy

“I really need to get in there to see if my purse burned up. I had my Food Stamp Card and everything in there.”
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This cant be right????
flyqtnvaAKAlilmissprissy

i had to stop what i was doing to pray for this child and lets just all pray he makes it through…..CHILDREN AS SO INNOCENT
mirsmommy

The children’s aunt, Marilyn Wilson, said she had no regrets about leaving the children home alone. “I really need to get in there to see if my purse burned up. I had my Food Stamp Card and everything in there.”

^^^^^How the f*ck did I miss that above???^^^^^^

That b did not really say that ish did she???? They should have locked her a** up right on the spot….

Women should be required to fill out applications and be evaluated b4 having babies or becoming pregnant. This is ri-effin-diculous….

So sad…
flyqtnvaAKAlilmissprissy

i just saw the video and IM DONE FOR THE DAY!
wiggy2272003

I cry for the children raised up my creatures like Auntie EBT
flyqtnvaAKAlilmissprissy

I pray GOD shows this woman mercy….the mother that is…she’s gonna need it
missy

i won’t watch the video because i know i will say some bad words so i’ll just for her.
kcicero

This is sooo sad, I can’t…I just watched the video…I just can’t…
Richie Domino

bad food, bad TV, bad crack, bad DNA and toxic melanin. So many children die in Memphis every year due to neglect and plain ignorance. We won’t even get into the babies who die at birth.

I think something has happened and the gubment just hasn’t reported it yet. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS! I SEE (MENTALLY)DEAD PEOPLE WALKING AMONGST US.
KayCeiSoul

If I had been the t.v. personality or the camera person I would have lost my job today. I am positive that once she mentioned the purse and the food stamp card, on top of having no regrets, I would have whomped and binked her right on up.

What about these babies? One hurt, one loss of life. If it weren’t for them she probably wouldn’t HAVE a foodstamp card, ole’ Dustball Gutterbutt self. These idiots left those babies there to do something that was shady, whatever that may be. And what exactly can a 2 & 3 year old do to set a fire unless they left them sitting on the floor with matches or a lighter? Why would anyone leave babies at home alone like that?? This sounds suspicious. LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP!
http://notenoughrealmen.blogspot.com 2thick4u

This is a TRAGEDY !!

I have to ask WHY…why would you leave your babies that young home alone?

Charges need to be filed and that aunt needs her teeth knocked out more by my boot!!!
missmiami

You lying about the purse statement, right??????? Truly sad to hear. I am embarassed for the mother.
missy

@ Richie

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS! I SEE (MENTALLY)DEAD PEOPLE WALKING AMONGST US.
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That line is so true I mean you can’t be….(i can’t even think of the words)but i agree with that statement

Anyway i’m just glad that i wasn’t the reporter because i would have to pray 1000 times in order to not knock the heck out of that woman.I don’t wanna judge her but dang she just didn’t give a darn man i need to let my emotions go and realize that some people are just going to be the way they are(that’s why i’m trying to be a psychologist because i wanna know what possesses people to think like this)
Richie Domino

According to the boys’ aunt, Marilyn Wilson, she and their mother — identified as 23-year-old Melanie Dunn — left them at home to go shopping at a Citi Trends store. They spent about an hour away from the house.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/oct/19/people-trapped-fire-effie-south-memphis/
Richie Domino

I’m going to give you all an experiment to do to prove to you how so many people are like robots.

Watch people race to a Red Traffic Light. Then if someone is behind you start inching forward and look in your review mirror and watch the person behind you inch forward as well. Or at a red light watch the person next to you inch forward after you do…..just do it and you will see.

Memphis is a super brain dead city. Just look at the politics here. A joke. The city school system is a big failure.

So believe it or not these women are the NORM for inner city Memphis. The others have just escaped tragedy.
ELove

@Richie
PEOPLE are too caught up with Working to pay-their-bills & take care of their children ALONG WITH their household to actually SEE the DECAYING of OUR SOCIETY … ESPECIALLY within OUR OWN COMMUNITY which is being hit the hardest BECAUSE we lack so much as a whole than any other ethnic group in the U.S.

I’ll go back to “Night of the Living Base-heads” by P.E. because N.Y. was the center of the Crack-Epidemic and THEY (Public Enemy) painted a very vivid picture of THE FUTURE which is now in EVERY CITY within the United States as we speak !!!
Anna

She doesn’t regret leaving the babies home alone but regrets that she forgot to take her purse w/her food stamp card in it. I have heard ppl say awful things but this is the worst. I didn’t view the vid but I wonder how many family members are waiting in line to beat her ass, just for saying what she said. She is just as responsible as the mother for leaving the kids home alone.
LovelyLady

Richie Domino Says:

I’m going to give you all an experiment to do to prove to you how so many people are like robots.

Watch people race to a Red Traffic Light. Then if someone is behind you start inching forward and look in your review mirror and watch the person behind you inch forward as well. Or at a red light watch the person next to you inch forward after you do…..just do it and you will see
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that is some tru ish right there.

Are u new?????
shunda

I feel like taking the 8 hour trip to Memphis just to go and beat the $h!t out of the Aunt. My blood is boiling. I am praying for those poor babies.
Richie Domino

@Lovely Lady I have been here for quite a while. Just don’t comment much.
The Divine Ms. K

Wow – what a sad and tragic story. I don’t see how the police CAN’T bring charges against the mother.

Now, on to the forced abortion and “hood” talk…

…I grew up in “the hood.” My mother, at several points in her life, was on public assistance because she was raising 3 children by herself until my daddy stepped up and became the family man he is today. I am diabetic and my sister has asthma and we were CONSTANTLY in and out the hospital, and my mother lost dozens of jobs since she was trying to work and take care of us.

See, my mother used the system as a TEMPORARY stepping stone until she was able to do it on her own. So, though we were hood-dwellers and on foodstamps – you can’t paint the whole issue with such an “abort the babies and force birth control” mentality. It’s ignorant and doesn’t apply to everyone in the “hood.”

And if you think I’m calling you ignorant, whatever. I get tired of everyone in the hood or who grew up on the wrong side getting painted as lazy, shiftless negroes who don’t desire anything but hood rich sh*t and a n*gga-rich lifestyle.
Anna

LovelyLady Says:

Richie Domino Says:

I’m going to give you all an experiment to do to prove to you how so many people are like robots.

Watch people race to a Red Traffic Light. Then if someone is behind you start inching forward and look in your review mirror and watch the person behind you inch forward as well. Or at a red light watch the person next to you inch forward after you do…..just do it and you will see
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that is some tru ish right there.

Are u new?????
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Ritchie is not new, but the experiment is true. This just happened to me.
LovelyLady

And if you think I’m calling you ignorant, whatever. I get tired of everyone in the hood or who grew up on the wrong side getting painted as lazy, shiftless negroes who don’t desire anything but hood rich sh*t and a n*gga-rich lifestyle
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LovelyLady

@ Anna, yes cause i do that all the time just because people be so press. U move they move and play right along with people and be inching cause i know they will im so wrong. But hey its fun in the morning sitting in that MD/VA/DC traffic
melinla

Maybe she doesn’t know what it means to regret something – real talk…
coaretained

someone. please tell me this bytch did not really say that.. PLEASE!!????!!!
LovelyLady

^^^ That has to be the answer cause no one can be that damn DUMB and insensitive
Anna

melinla Says:

Maybe she doesn’t know what it means to regret something – real talk…
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Sad to say but I hope you’re right.
LovelyLady

My comment was meant for Melinla
Daisy

@TDMs K we discussed the exact issue and mindset you just spoke on last night in my public policy class regarding welfare and the projects it was a very heated debate at times but good as well.

I try not to paint with such a broad brush and lump everybody in the same boat sometimes I do miss the mark though.
intensemocha

I’M GLAD THAT I HAVE THE COMMON SENSE TO KNOW THAT THIS IS THE MINORITY AND NOT THE MAJORITY

ALTHOUGH THIS IS A DAYUM SHAME-THIS INCIDENT ATTESTS TO THEIR CHARACTER’S ONLY-NOT AN ENTIRE RACE

THANK YOU!
Anna

LovelyLady Says:

@ Anna, yes cause i do that all the time just because people be so press. U move they move and play right along with people and be inching cause
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Ppl are in such a rush to get no where fast. I love when there’s a car weaving in and out of traffic speeding and we end up at the same red light. LOL.
wiggy2272003

I agree Elove, commented on that in the teenpregnancy. I was watching one hit wonders countdowns on VH! and they had this song Whip it by a group called DEVO which they then said was short for devolution based on the devolution of society. That word is perfect because we are not evolving we are devolving .logically what comes next is REvolving as in a revolution.I can’t stand it but how do you change it. And please I don’t need to hear these are all signs of the end of the world and pray. Our years on earth are such a small drop in the bucket the end if coming could be hundred or thousands of years away.I want to know what to do now. . Not only are we in an economic depression we are morally bankrupt.
Sorry bout the novel, I get amped sometimes.
intensemocha

ONE COULD EASILY MAKE THE ASSUMPTION THAT ALL LESBIANS ARE SELF-LOATHING, LOW SELF-ESTEEM, ABUSED WOMEN WHOSE SEXUAL/ROMANTIC ADVANCES WERE REJECTED BY THE EXACT GROUP/RACE THEY DESPISE/LOATHE THE MOST-HENCE THE CONSTANT FIXATION ON SEEKING INCIDENTS THAT REINFORCES THEIR NEGATIVE VIEWS
The Divine Ms. K

@ Daisy – I know it can be hard not to paint with that broad brush. I’ve been guilty of it in the past and now I am very careful about that.

I think I had to vent on that one because I greqw up in the “hood” and was raised by a single mother and blah blah – and my siblings and I are prime examples on how you can’t throw out the baby with the bath water.

And knee-jerk reactions like Sandra’s just gall me. It’s so easy to say “abort them”, “cut off the food stamps” or whatever – but if you aren’t going to try and assist with the problem and mentality that drives SOME of our people to say the things like this woman said – shut the hell up. And if you haven’t grown up in the environment – sit down WHILE you are shutting up.
LovelyLady

Anna Says:

LovelyLady Says:

@ Anna, yes cause i do that all the time just because people be so press. U move they move and play right along with people and be inching cause
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Ppl are in such a rush to get no where fast. I love when there’s a car weaving in and out of traffic speeding and we end up at the same red light. LOL.
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i always see that and i be lma right on off.
The Divine Ms. K

LOL – And that’s why we shouldn’t assume stuff @ intensemocha.
KaraZ

I think welfare needs to be revamped/reformed anyways, but welfare is not the reason we have irresponsible members of society. Besides if you look at percentages or pure numbers, more white people are on welfare.
intensemocha

JUST DON’T PUT BLOOD ON MY HANDS FOR SINS COMMITTED BY OTHERS JUST BECAUSE WE SHARE THE SAME SKIN COLOR

PLAIN & SIMPLE
Krysi J

JESUS…

the world———is coming———-to an END.

i tried not to even look at this, and now that i have im sorry i did.
The Divine Ms. K

w/ intensemocha
intensemocha

IF BEHAVING POORLY, NOT ASPIRING TO ACHIEVE ANY GOALS IN LIFE, AND CONSTANTLY SCHEMING ON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN FINANCIAL GAIN-IS REWARDED IN ANY WAY-THERE IS VERY LITTLE HOPE FOR CHANGE

TRAGEDY-IS AN EVERYDAY OCCURENCE IN PLACES LIKE THESE AND THE ONLY THING THAT WOMAN WAS CONCERNED ABOUT WAS HER FOOD STAMP/BENEFIT CARD

GOD HAVE MERCY!
pinky2083

I AM SOOOOO ANGRY ABOUT THIS!!

I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT OL RAGGEDY MOUTH BYATCH SAID THAT!!! Poor children.

They definitely need to receive some HARSH punishment for this mess!! OMG.
pointhimout

now that i’ve watched the video, charge the mom too. they left the house together? oh yeah. i actually think the mom only will be charged and not the aunt. they’re her kids and she chose to leave them alone. not a lawyer, but i think the aunt, despite her horrid ignorance, will not be charged at all.
bk2atl

The crazy thing is that before the aunt made the assinine statement about needing to get to her purse….she GIGGLED! Almost like she was saying to herself…”I KNOW I’m about to say some ignorant shyt..but I’ma say it anyway.” How do you manage to laugh/giggle/smirk when a baby’s life was just lost and one is in the hospital????
pinky2083

You are so right BK, that lil chuckle just killed me!!
Anna

bk2atl Says:

The crazy thing is that before the aunt made the assinine statement about needing to get to her purse….she GIGGLED! Almost like she was saying to herself…”I KNOW I’m about to say some ignorant shyt..but I’ma say it anyway.” How do you manage to laugh/giggle/smirk when a baby’s life was just lost and one is in the hospital????
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I need a update on this. Has anyone ever let someone take them home knowing there are two babies who will be home alone. Where did they drop the friend off, at a crack house and they all went in and it seemed less of a risk to leave the babies home then leave them in a visable car or taking them in a crack house. I saw the vid minus the sound. What you described of “she giggled”, sounds like she is on drugs.
coaretained

@bk the bytch did not giggle… please tell me these are all lies??

*on hotwire looking for cheap tix to memphis RAT now*

Caint STAND people!
http://twitter.com/sherita78 mizzdallas

W@TF did both mother and aunt leave the house just to take a dude back home only to be gone a damn hour, them bishes are on crack and they kill a innocent child I cant stand deadbeat mothers n fathers. They should tie the mother tubes she dont need no more babies and they should bury the aunt in a hole where she cant get out this is ridiculous smdh
starr

I haven’t watch the clip yet….but i hope y’all exacerating. Please tell me that she did not say that about her purse. PLEASE…….
http://twitter.com/sherita78 mizzdallas

@coa

yeah that dope fiend bish giggle she is just ignorant as some of these stupid rappers
Shauny

I’ve tried on here and the Fox news site to see the video because I just had to see for myself if this bish was really laughing and commenting, saying she had no regrets about leaving the kids home alone, AND being worried about her food stamp card. I have to see it for myself because I am just dumbfounded that someone could be so cold or dumb to say this chit.

I am SOOOO pissed that I want to fight her. I REALLY want to fight her. My prayers go out to that baby and if there is swift justice someone in the family immediately beat her ass as soon as the camera stopped rolling. Burn in hell biatch. I would’ve took them all of 5 extra minutes to load those babies up in the car. She should permenantely have her food stamp card revoked. I hope her and the mom go to jail so the women there can beat the hell outta them. I am ON FIRE!
starr

who leaves a 2 and three year old alone? Where is the logic?

unfortunately i heard a story on cnn about mother who left her kids alone. When she came back one died…she put the kid in the trash…and reported the kid missing. As it turns out, she had other kids in the house…and they were all malnourished. They found one kid under the bed, and the sheriff said, that they got there just in time to save that one cuz as soon as they pulled her out from under the bed….the child open her eyes….smh
http://twitter.com/sherita78 mizzdallas

@starr

Not only did they do some stupid shyt but them hoes look stupid smdh

@coa

I think I might have to meet you in memphis I want to beat the mama and the crazy aunt azz
http://twitter.com/sherita78 mizzdallas

@starr

that cnn story made me cry and its making me cry right now, sandra can be sooo mean at times but I really Im siding with her on this abortion how can any parent be soooo cruel to a child, if your azz dont want kids wtf are you still have kids…?
https://sandrarose.com Sandra Rose

@ starr and shauny:

I couldn’t believe what I was reading either. I watched the video twice just to make sure that was what she said.
HouStar

And the sad part was she was smiling and laughing like she was enjoying being on TV…. Why is it that you have to take a drug test to get a job, but you can sit at home and live off the system and do as many drugs as you please. It is just ridiculous!
Nina

This really doesn’t make sense to me…I can’t even wrap my mind around what I just heard the aunt say.
http://charactercorner.blogspot.com attorneymom

Did I just hear the Aunt correctly?? Was her azz laughing and worrying about her food stamps?? SMDH