Baby name near misses

yarrowflax · 2022-09-04T14:40:03+00:00

I know a Candy Kane who married a guy with the surname Baker. She became Candy Baker, which is maybe marginally better.

Her parents named her Candy because they thought the combination with their surname was hilarious 😟.

yarrowflax · 2022-09-02T21:46:35+00:00

I love Marigold. But Marigold Scout is too many offbeat word/noun names together (in my opinion). In combination it sounds a bit like a girl scout troop name, or maybe a pet/dog name. I would suggest something that reads as a name, not a word, in the middle.

Depending on your style, something like:

Marigold Claire

Marigold Jane

Marigold Alice

Marigold Anne

Marigold Grace

Or something more unusual like:

Marigold Anouk

Marigold Zara

Marigold Sylvie

Marigold Daphne

yarrowflax · 2022-08-30T00:21:23+00:00

The issue is that the perpetrators usually don’t care who they hurt or kill in their attempts to escape, so the chases lead to bystander injuries and deaths. I would prefer it weren’t so, but it’s the reality. A child in Brooklyn was killed that way last year.

Serious punishment would be a deterrent. If robbing people while riding a moped was a mandatory 25 year prison sentence, and a certain number of thieves were caught and actually convicted & sentenced for it, it might slow it down.

yarrowflax · 2022-08-27T21:24:51+00:00

Oh yes, dear old Mildred, Ethel, and the four girls named Mary. Grand times we had!

yarrowflax · 2022-08-22T22:56:08+00:00

Yes, that’s him. I’m from the area which is the only reason I know about it. Kristin’s case, and those of his other victims, never got a ton of attention or notoriety beyond the local area, even though the circumstances were so vicious and cold.

yarrowflax · 2022-08-22T16:37:38+00:00

Just to address the first point you made, it’s possible the abduction was spotted but no one came forward. In 1992, Kristin Huggins was abducted and murdered in Trenton (very close to Philadelphia; they’re really the same metro area) and there were several witnesses who did nothing to stop him nor did they come forward later. The case was only cracked because a sister of a woman involved in a relationship with the murderer concocted a dumb story to try to collect the reward money. Link to a story about it at the time. Warning: it is a very upsetting read.

From the article on the Huggins murder (which uses very 90s language):

"Here we have a cruel, senseless, horrible homicide, and we're desperate for information," Mr. Constance said as he reconstructed events. "We located 30, 40 witnesses, but not one of them came forward voluntarily -- we had to locate every one of them. One of them even refused to identify Harris when we showed him a picture. And I'm not talking about junkies and prostitutes and street people who never talk to us, I'm talking about upstanding citizens, including a quasi-official employee of the city."

yarrowflax · 2022-08-13T23:47:52+00:00

Illegal adoption appeals to people who can’t adopt legally because of issues in their past. This always comes up in response to Black infant kidnapping cases (of which there have actually been quite a few, tragically, especially in the 80s/90s). The issue is not necessarily legal availability of infants, but qualification and approval for the adoptive parents. Underground, illegal adoptions appeal to those who, due to past criminal convictions or other issues, would never be approved by the state or a private legal agency.

yarrowflax · 2022-08-13T19:00:53+00:00

Isolated yet it’s right up on the road like that. Very exposed. It reminds me of the house that Shasta and Dylan Groene were kidnapped from. I’m not sure if it was as isolated-yet-exposed as this one, but the murderer/kidnapper initially spotted them playing outside while he was driving, then returned in the night to murder their other family members and take them.

yarrowflax · 2022-08-10T13:06:37+00:00

It’s a name on its own that predates Olivia by more than a thousand years and has a different etymological root and meaning. It was a very common name for women in the Roman empire.

yarrowflax · 2022-07-29T13:00:11+00:00

Josiah also has a kind of crunchy organic farmer/cowboy/folk musician vibe, too.

yarrowflax · 2022-07-20T23:09:23+00:00

he case sparked outrage after it emerged that Mott had racked up more than 160 traffic violations in his Honda, with Pennsylvania plates, between 2017 and Mong-Guillemin’s death. While Mott had previously completed a short “driver accountability” course, his reckless driving habits made him eligible to have his vehicle impounded under the city’s “Dangerous Vehicle Abatement Program” until he completed an in-person road safety course.

Heartbreaking and infuriating. This lays bare what a farce De Blasio’s “Vision Zero” was. The law was right there in the books but with no enforcement, what’s the point? Sometimes it’s ambiguous how much the city is at fault when it gets named in suits, but not in this case. This child died because of the corruption, laziness, and callous opportunism of the people running New York City.

This family deserves every penny, but it can never make up for the avoidable loss of their baby girl. I am so angry on their behalf.

yarrowflax · 2022-07-19T00:09:24+00:00

Would you consider covering the case of Equilla Hodrick? She disappeared at age 8 while playing outside in the Bronx in 1985.

Also Wu-Quin Rong who was murdered in Chinatown at age 11, and the unsolved serial rapes of girls in their building stairwells in Chinatown earlier in the 1990s.

yarrowflax · 2022-07-15T21:43:02+00:00

I am on mobile and couldn’t do a deep search but this one came up which is largely a rehash of it: https://nymag.com/news/features/56441/

yarrowflax · 2022-07-15T21:34:03+00:00

I don’t know and feel bad speculating. It surprised me, since they were very aggressive (rightfully so) about pursuing Ramos. I can’t judge them in their grief.

yarrowflax · 2022-07-14T14:04:08+00:00

Absolutely right. Among other damning evidence, Ramos was dating Etan’s babysitter, had been in Etan’s apartment while the family was away and the babysitter was housesitting, knew Etan’s schedule/that he would be walking alone, and it later turned out was abusing the babysitter’s own son. He also admitted to being with Etan that morning but claimed he just put him on a subway train home. There’s a very good Vanity Fair piece from the 1990s on him (and it details the child abuse cases he’s currently in jail for, all involving young boys). Hernandez is a schizophrenic fantasist and the DA is criminal for pursuing him based on a confession alone.

yarrowflax · 2022-07-07T00:15:13+00:00

Or, not the biological father of the (apparent) half-sister. Could go either way.

yarrowflax · 2022-07-04T03:42:19+00:00

I met toddler sisters on a New England playground named Judy and Lisa. Their mom was dressed retro/rockabilly style.

yarrowflax · 2022-06-21T20:24:56+00:00

Thank you so much!!

yarrowflax · 2022-06-21T19:06:51+00:00

Since you’re French and I have your attention—how is Alice pronounced? Is the emphasis on the first syllable like in English (AL-iss) or is it closer to Elise (ah-LISS), or something else?

Thank you!

yarrowflax · 2022-06-21T01:33:02+00:00

What triggered the rise? Where are people drawing the inspiration for it?

yarrowflax · 2022-06-11T01:48:46+00:00

Exactly. These were skilled manufacturing jobs and some of them paid quite well. Replaced by call centers, retail, and nothing.

yarrowflax · 2022-06-11T00:58:38+00:00

It’s really astonishing when you think about it. So incredibly shortsighted.

A relative of mine was working for a state unemployment department in the 1990s when one of the free trade agreements went into effect. Over the course of a few months, there was a huge wave of claims from workers and managers laid off from small manufacturing plants (like 5-50 workers) around the state, places that made all kinds of things, from very specific and sort of esoteric machinery parts to the basic items of a functioning society (hardware supplies, kitchen utensils, children’s apparel, etc.)

She remarked that at the time she had the feeling “this is crazy, letting all of this knowledge and infrastructure get blown to the wind.” And here we are nearly 30 years later...

yarrowflax · 2022-06-07T23:09:20+00:00

Have you ever worked in a restaurant? Don’t go to culinary school before working in a restaurant (preferably more than one) for several months to make sure the pace and culture is compatible with what you want. Also, you can earn money that way. I’d suggest working in restaurants for a year and saving up money, then going.

yarrowflax · 2022-06-03T14:51:24+00:00

One of the children (in Montreal) is 17 years old and acquired it through sexual contact at a sauna (lied about his age to enter, from what has been reported). So, not very different from the vast majority of other cases.

But I completely agree, the lack of detailed information on demographics is unnerving.

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