Got A Wife And Kids In Baltimore, Jack

At first, I thought I might say “I have had days like this”.  The story, about a Crookston couple skipped town leaving their kids behind, almost sounded grimly funny at first:

Even before they left in September, the complaint said, food supplies had dwindled, bills had piled up and the landlord was talking about evicting them. Her son and his fiancée took care of the girls for a time, and the couple have been reported to be in Montana or Wyoming.

Now the girls are in foster care and a warrant has been issued for the couples arrest on gross misdemeanor charges of child neglect.

The son, Aaron Merck, 21, said Wednesday that his mother phoned himin Bagley, Minn., a few days after the couple left Crookston and said, “You wont believe what I did. … I left.”

When Merck asked his mother what she meant, he said that she told him: “Im in Montana right now,” and that she wasnt planning on returning.

When he asked whether the girls knew, Merck said his mother replied: “I told them I had to work late.”

The temptation, truly, is often there.

Of course, it’s really not funny at all…

Merck, who now lives in Thief River Falls, Minn., said his mother was stressed out by the younger daughter, who had been dating men in their 20s.

He said the girls went into foster care in November after he and his fiancée, who are expecting a baby, decided they could no longer afford to care for them. A third daughter, who is an adult, also helped out, he said.

Jennifer Anderson has been married four or five times, her son said. The family moved around a lot before settling in what police investigator Aaron Pry and neighbors called a “quiet neighborhood” in Crookston.

Criminal complaints and other sources offered this picture of family dysfunction, instability and abuse:

William, 44, and Jennifer, 42, dated for two years and married a year ago. Four months into their marriage, William was charged with terroristic threats for allegedly threatening to kill the girls and their mother. Authorities say he was drinking at the time.

William becomes physically violent only when he drinks, but he can be verbally abusive anytime, a complaint quoted Jennifer as telling police. William Andersons mother told an officer that he had been jailed for assaulting his ex-wife.

And so on, and so forth.

The greatest line in Keanu Reeves’ career; “you have to have a license to drive a car, but any a****le can be a parent…”

2 thoughts on “Got A Wife And Kids In Baltimore, Jack

  1. I’m thinking that would have been better, not worse, Kermit. I don’t imagine that the drain on society those two worthless slugs create on society will go away when her kids are independent adults not in the foster care system.

    I think this would be the perfect Christmas gift for those two this Christmas:

    http://www.zazzle.com/product/235404022968210542

    (sfw)

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