Eagle dad was bad enough

At the end of a dirt road leading to a double-wide trailer in rural Alabama, authorities say 9-year-old Savannah Hardin was being forced to run for three hours as punishment for having lied to her grandmother about eating candy bars. The severely dehydrated girl had a seizure and died days later, her death ruled a homicide. Her grandmother and stepmother who police say meted out the punishment are in jail, facing murder charges. This is obviously a very tragic, devastating, heartbreaking situation, and I hope those two scumbags get the chair for making the poor kid do all that running over something so petty as a few candy bars. In other news, Texas authorities removed 11 children on Tuesday from a crowded home where a registered sex offender lives after they found eight confined in a small, dark bedroom with restraints tying some to their beds.