The ultimate sacrifice.

He asked his sister what she would would think about seeing her daughter that day. Stacie’s eyes popped open and she began looking around to find her.

Soon the nurses arrived with Dottie Mae and laid her right on her mother’s chest. The two stared into each other’s eyes for several minutes.

‘Nobody said anything, it got real quiet,’ Ray told NewsOk. ‘I told my sister, ‘You have done a beautiful thing.’ It was the perfect moment, that’s what I called it.’

Stacie died three days later. Her funeral was on September 14.

Her obituary on the Dudley Funeral Homes website reads: ‘Dottie Mae was the light of her life and her greatest accomplishment. She chose to give this baby life instead of taking treatment for herself.’

Dottie Mae now lives with Ray, his wife Jennifer and their four children in their Oklahoma City home

‘I think she’s a miracle. I just want to do right by her and do what Stacie asked,’ Jennifer said.

via Stacie Crimm refuses chemotherapy so her unborn daughter Dottie Mae can live.

Then there is the other side of the coin, where life has little value.

Four adults with the mental capacity of 10-year-olds were found chained in a “dungeon” inside a house in Philadelphia, authorities said Saturday.

A janitor discovered the captives – three men and one woman – shackled to a water heater, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. They were found in a 15-by-15 room where they had been locked behind a steel door.

Authorities described them as malnourished and living in “deplorable” conditions. The room also had several buckets filled with urine and feces.

The four were being held by at least three people who were stealing their disability checks, authorities said.

The unidentified suspects – one woman and two men – have been arrested but not formally charged.

“We’re going to find every crime possible in the crime code to put on these individuals,” Philadelphia police spokesperson Lt. Ray Evers told the Inquirer.

Possible charges include kidnapping, conspiracy, and aggravated assault, he said.

The names of the victims have not been released, and it is unclear where they come from.

It is believed the four – who range in age from 29 to 41 – were originally from Texas. They were recently taken from Texas to West Palm Beach, Florida, where they lived for at least a year, before arriving in Philadelphia in Oct. 4. Authorities, however, are not sure if the victims actually lived in Texas, or if that was merely another place their kidnappers stashed them.

“We have no idea who some of these people are,” Evers said, but noted that because of their mental handicaps getting information from them has been difficult.

via 4 adults with mental capacity of 10-year-olds found chained in ‘dungeon’ in Philadelphia: cops.  They have made arrests, but nothing imo can make up for the disgusting behavior that took place.  And if you are truly a glutton for punishment…2 year old child run over twice and no one stops to help.

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