Is This Right? DC Entertainment Says No to Superman Logo on Murdered Child’s Memorial

[Oilcan]

Boy did they ever dropped the bomb.

Jeffrey Baldwin loved to wear his Superman costume.
A memorial for the murdered Canadian child, though, will have to go without the iconic Superman symbol; DC Entertainment has denied its use for the statue.

An Ottawa man was so moved by the story of little Jeffrey – who was starved to death by his grandparents and died at the age of 5 in 2002 – he wanted to do something to memorialize the boy’s short life.

He also wanted to depict his wearing his Superman costume, something the child truly loved.
During the court interview of Jeffrey’s father – who was a teen when the little boy was born and lost custody of the child – he said that the young boy wanted nothing more than to fly.

“He wanted to fly,” Richard Baldwin testified. “He tried jumping off the chair. We had to make him stop. He dressed up (as Superman) for Halloween one year. He was so excited. I have that picture at home hanging on my wall. He was our little man of steel.”

Boyce thought the memorial should capture that moment of happiness and childlike longing in the boy’s memorial.

 

[Boing]

I see an apology coming soon.

 

[Wazzap]

I see an apology coming soon.

:Waiting::Waiting::Waiting::Waiting:

 

[Bigwillie]

My thoughts on them.

 

[Wanker]

My thoughts on them.

LOL.

 

[Art Mann]

Don't be fooled. The Superman logo isn't the real story here.

The real story is framed in this question:

What are we doing to protect other kids from the suffering little Jeffrey endured.

Taken from his parents by social workers and sent to live with his grandparents. There, inside an attractively decorated home, he was systematically starved, humiliated and forced to lie in his own feces and urine, locked in an unheated bedroom. He was hidden away from the world, kept out of school.

By the time he died, he weighed only 21 pounds and couldn't even hold up his head.

Family members, including Jeffrey's own father, watched it all happen — and no one stood up to defend the child. Jeffrey's aunt who lived in the house, and had studied — wait for it — early childhood education, said she "didn't pay that much attention" to what was happening to him.

The social worker at the Catholic Children's Aid Society, who removed Jeffrey and his siblings from their volatile parents, never bothered to check on the files of the grandparents, Elva Bottineau and Norman Kidman, to whom the children were sent.

Had that step been taken, the worker would have discovered that each grandparent had a history of child abuse that included a prior conviction.

Both are now serving life sentences for second-degree murder.

That's the real story.

This child's death was preventable.