Community Chat

[MorningLover]

In 2009,Kathleen Steele and her husband, Philip,

appeared in an episode of the reality show I'm Pregnant

and 55 Years Old.

"I'm Kathleen, I'm pregnant and I'm 55," she declared at

the start of the show.

Her husband died of cancer in 2011 at the age of 66. The

sheriff said the two youngest children were born as a result

of artificial insemination, using the dead husband's frozen

sperm.

Steele was raising the three young children herself. But

even before her baby girl died less than two weeks after

she was born, the sheriff said, there were already

concerns for her kids' well being.

[Allegheny]

People really to read the article in the link posted.

This story is beyond disturbing.  

[HappyDaze]

That poor sweet baby. I can't imagine what it went through in the car (and, apparently, prior to that as well).

Very sick and disturbing.

[Bird mama]

Jesus, Mary and Joseph!

That's all I can say

[Mj12]

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@lenapecci wrote:

This is a sad story. First that three children were left in a car.  Then what happened to the infant. 

Is she the mother?  If she is 62 yrs old?  Is the age transposed? 

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No the age is correct, and she is/was the mother.  I read that she was in some reality show for being a very old first time mother. 

What a tragic story, all of it.  She had no reaction to being told her baby was killed?  Horrible, all of it. 

[chickenbutt]

Wow, this whole thing is just bad/sad from A to Z.  

I can totally see her being charged, as she is clearly negligent, but I wonder if they are checking the oldest child out at all to see if he is showing proclivities for some sort of sociopathy.   

Clearly, the prior incident would have had some effect in the cause of death due to what the child did, but he had to gone into some kind of rage to cause the damage and death..   

[SilleeMee]

After reading what was in that posted link, that horribly sad and sickening story will be very hard for me to forget. 

[momtochloe]

This woman that jumped through hoops to have babies leaves her children in a locked car in that heat to have her cell phone repaired and after seeing what had happened to her newborn daughter ran an additional errand?

Manslaughter is kind in my opinion.  God I hate reality TV.

[maestra]

The 62 year old is the mother. She had her late husband's sperm frozen. She also had been on DCFS radar b/c of ijuries to the newborn prior to this incident.

So tragic.

[jubilant]

Who would leave a 6 yr. old child in charge of a baby and a toddler.  Yes, the 6 yr. old child has issues and will need lots of help. I imagine his life was not an easy one either.  I wonder how much neglect and abuse he took in only being on this earth himself for 6 yrs. This is just tragic all the way around.  

Surely there was family that witnessed some of this?