ENGLISH NOT TOOGOOD: Not since Glen Campbell in
True Grit has there been a poorer performance than that delivered on
CNN yesterday by admitted child abuser Madelyne Toogood. In an obviously scripted effort by her lawyer to poison the pool of potential jurors, Toogood blubbered on about how she shouldn't have viciously assaulted her four-year-old daughter, that it was the first time such a thing had happened and that she's concerned about Martha's emotional health while in custody of the state. (Why wasn't she concerned about Martha's health, emotional or otherwise, in the Kohl's parking lot?)
When asked to describe Martha, Toogood tried -- and miserably failed -- to sound like a proud and loving parent boasting about her kid: "Martha is, I would say, a typical 4-year-old -- but she's not. Martha runs everything. Martha is extremely loud. When she talks, she's loud. When you first meet her, she's real shy. When you're around her a little bit, she's loud and she over-talks everybody. And she's extremely smart for a 4-year-old. She runs the boys like she's older than they are. She likes to tell everybody what to do and how to do it." There's an anger and a resentment which seethes between the lines of those comments. Combine those words with the images in Kohl's parking lot video, and it's obvious that Madelyne Toogood doesn't like her daughter and should never have unsupervised custody.
During the interview, Madelyne Toogood also grabbed the English language by the hair, shook it and then repeatedly slapped it: "There never was nothing on her . . . I think they should have gave her to somebody in my family . . . No -- I never took nothing . . . I shouldn't have did that . . . She could have went with any member of my family, and I wouldn't have went near her . . . I wouldn't have went near my little girl . . I just wish they would have gave Martha to a family member."
I just wish someone "would have gave" Madelyne a taste of what she dished out to Martha.
Read the entire interview. It's reveals that Madelyne Toogood regrets nothing but being caught in the act.
