Inferencing

Article Used: Rage At 'DROWN' Horror from the

Summary: The 27 year old mother that drowned her kids did more than just drown them. The newspaper said that she had cut the throat of the oldest child and that they found bleach in the apartment that she might have given the kids to drink before she drowned them. The article also bought out that the mother had been to family court a few times and the judge kept saying that the court shouldn't take her kids but that they were going to give her another chance. The day before the mother drowned/ killed her kids she was supposed to go to family court again because the father of the children had requested to take his kids from the unfit mother.

Opinion: The first day that I saw this headline I thought that this was a sad story. Now that I found out more information about this case it is even sadder to me. Just to think that these kids could have been saved if the judge had made better decisions about this case. I figure the judge must feel pretty bad hearing about the death of these three children. When you stand before a judge you figure they know what is best! You figure judges have been trained to make good decisions, that is why they are judges! In this case the judge made the wrong call in my opinion!

Prompt: What Information can you infer that was not Explicitly stated in the text?

As I was reading the news article the father stated that the mother that killed the children and he had an appointment on the following day. He was fighting for custody of his children. From this information I made two inferences. It Said: He was fighting for custody of his children. He felt that the mother of his children was crazy. I say: When someone takes someone to court over custody of the children it is because they feel that the other parent is unfit. And So: I feel that the father of the children thought that the mother was not able to do a good job raising his children and he could so better, and that is why he was fighting for custody! I also made an inference that the mother killed her kids because she didn't want to loose her children to the father. It Said: The day before court she wouldn't even answer the door or answer anyone's phone calls. I say: When you behave like that you don't want to face the facts of what is really going on in your life. Ans So: I inferred that she killed her kids because she knew that she was going to loose them finally!