DisGRACEful

(A face that only....well, you know.)

I've only watched Nancy Grace once or twice when I've been at a hotel or something, so I agree that I'm not exactly an expert on the topic. She struck me as a bit tabloid-ish at the time. But after recently hearing about a young mother, her missing son and the bashing she received from Nancy Grace, I'm completely disgusted.

Apparently young Trenton Duckett, 2, has been missing for over two weeks. His mother, Melinda, claims that he was taken from his bed in the night. Subsequent investigation has caused somewhat of a cloud of suspicion to fall over the 20-year-old mother, but so far nothing has been determined and little Trenton is still missing. Any parent's worst nightmare.

So Nancy Grace, having already decided Melinda is guilty of doing something with her son, hounds Melinda, accuses her, pounds her fist on the table demanding to know where Melinda was in the hours prior to her son's disappearance, badgers her about why she isn't telling more (apparently she has been told by an attorney not to discuss it), and all but comes out and accuses her of murdering her son. The following day, Melinda commits suicide.

Okay. I have to say that if a child of mine had gone missing, you'd have to shoot me before I'd stop searching the ends of the earth. No way would I remove myself if there was a chance of him coming back to me. So this indeed seems a little odd, almost like an admission of guilt. HOWEVER. No-one can know what her mental state was at this time. No-one knows yet what happened. Except, apparently, Nancy Grace. Was she the prosecuting attorney? Was this a court of law? Had Melinda been tried by a jury? Had a judge handed down a sentence? Under whose authority did Nancy Grace have the nerve to be all---judge, jury, convictor?

A quote from unrepentant Nancy Grace: "Long story short, Trenton Duckett is still missing...and now police are agreeing with me." Oh please. So the poor bumbling police were headed in the wrong direction until Nancy Grace came to their rescue.

Like I said, I don't know much about Nancy Grace or her legal history, etc. But from what I've recently seen and read, I know all that I care to know. Whether Melinda Duckett is guilty of tragic wrongdoing regarding her son or she isn't, Nancy Grace was still out of line.

And that's my opinion. The end.