Latonya Bass, by all appearances, is a horrible parent. She contacted Channel 19 Action News to complain that her 3-year-old child was locked up in a jail cell with her after Strongsville police arrested her for shoplifting at a Wal-Mart … yet again. No, this wasn’t her first rodeo; she has other theft cases pending in Medina County.
If this bitch had balls, they would be made of brass.
Apparently she’s one of those parents who use — misuse is a better word — their children as cover for their nefarious activities, thereby raising the next generation of thugs and criminals. This is a cycle that simply must be broken. Her child won’t have any chance at a normal life unless Bass changes her behavior (which might be highly unlikely), or the child is taken away from this clearly unfit parent.
When stopped by Wal-Mart security as she attempted to exit the store with a shopping cart full of items that totaled over $500, Bass had the temerity to say she was simply going to her car to get her credit card so that she could pay for the items. Now, any sane person would leave the cart inside the store and come back in with their credit card, but not this grifter.
And here’s the kicker: She’s totally outraged that no one will believe her lame-assed story. Clearly this woman is operating in some kind of strange, alternate universe where her thinking is so criminogenic it screams out for psychiatric evaluation.
Video cameras in the Strongsville jail showed Bass and her child as she was taken into the police station and booked while holding her daughter. Then, the camera shows the child in the holding cell with her mother.
Strongsville police felt they made the right call when they attempted to reduce the tension for the little girl by keeping her with her mother while the child’s father was called to pick her up, rather than her being outside the cell with strangers. Which to any sane person would seem like a wise and compassionate move. But this stupid bitch is claiming that her daughter was so traumatized by being in the cell with her that she’s now afraid of police.
In reality, the child should be afraid of her own mother, but of course she’s too young to know that now, but one day she will — unless Bass passes her twisted view of reality down to her daughter.
Authorities need to step in and protect this child … and the sooner the better.
From Cool Cleveland correspondent Mansfield B. Frazier mansfieldfATgmail.com. Frazier’s From Behind The Wall: Commentary on Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass by a Prison Inmate is available again in hardback. Snag your copy and have it signed by the author by visiting http://NeighborhoodSolutionsInc.com.
2 Responses to “MANSFIELD: Stupid Criminals”
Toni
I agree in totality with your observations of how criminal behavior can be perpetuated from generation to generation. However, aren’t you perpetuating misogynous attitudes by your use of the term “b**ch,” when describing a female?
Mansfield Frazier
Toni,
You’re probably right.