Post #150

This is the 150th Post of Y...YTIF! Congratulations. To me.

Anyhow, here's a little more news analysis, courtesy of an article from CNN.com

Defense: Woman too obese to kill nephew

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) -- A nearly half-ton Texas woman charged in the death of her toddler nephew couldn't have beaten the boy to death because of her limited movement from weight problems, her attorney said Tuesday.

Mayra Rosales, who weighs nearly 1,000 pounds, was indicted last week on capital murder charges in the death of Eliseo Gonzalez Jr. Prosecutors said the 2-year-old boy died after being struck at least twice in the head while in the care of Rosales, who is bedridden.

Jamie Rosales, the boy's 20-year-old mother, believes the death was possibly caused by the morbidly obese woman rolling onto the toddler, said Oscar Vega, her attorney. She faces one felony count of injury to a child, which carries a life sentence and 10,000 in fines.

"She doesn't believe her sister intentionally did anything to her child," Vega told The Associated Press.

A state district judge put Mayra Rosales, 27, under house arrest Monday because the county jail lacks a large enough cell or necessary medical resources. She is required to wear a global-positioning tracker until her trial.

Sergio Valdez, Mayra Rosales' attorney, said she lacks the movement in her arms to have killed the child, calling it an "impossibility."

"She is not physically capable of having committed those acts," Valdez said.

Valdez said Rosales suffers from a thyroid problem that has caused her to put on hundreds of pounds over the past three to four years and has been bedridden for more than a year.

The stress of the arrest and charges has exacerbated the poor health of Mayra Rosales, who also suffers from a "life-threatening" ailment he would not disclose, Valdez said.

"This whole ordeal has taken a very negative effect on her, emotionally and physically," Valdez said. "She wants this to be over. She wants to be vindicated."

Vega said Jamie Rosales has a learning disability and will plead not guilty.

He declined to say where his client was the day of her son's death, but said he knew of no order forbidding the boy to be watched by his aunt.

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1. Of course this takes place in Texas.

2. I find it interesting that the autopsy report says the unfortunate toddler - who never really had a chance - was struck in the head "at least" twice. Yet it's charged that the half-ton woman (HTW from here on out) rolled on top of him. I've never seen anything that weighed 1000 pounds - at least nothing that didn't have an engine - but I can't imagine 1,000 pounds being rolled on you is like getting hit - twice, at least - in the head.

3. Who knew that being that...fluffy would result in two seemingly positive things: (1) a defense against murder, (2) not having to go to jail (the county doesn't have facilities to accommodate her.)

4. There are more negative effects that have exacerbated her condition? You would think that weighing 1000 pounds is about as negative - physically - as you can get.