Sofia Salva, Joan of Arc she ain't.......

Mother of the year Sofia Salva is back in the news, and she is priming the pump for the big pay off to come in her lawsuit against the Kansas City police dept. Im not going to rehash the entire case, you can read my first post here. Suffice to say I didn't cut the cops or Salva any slack, and my opinion hasn't changed one iota. Salva plays it up like the long suffering mother who was desperately trying to make it to the hospital, via the liquor store. Lest we forget this woman already has 4 children who were permanently removed from her care in 2002. So when Salvo takes on the role of anguished mother, that dog just wont hunt. Yes she was treated wrong, yes the cops should be held accountable, but Im not buying her new role as defender of the down trodden .

If Salva was really trying to get to the hospital, if she was desperately seeking medical attention, then she would have gone straight there, expired tags or not. Instead she was dicking around at a liquor store , forging fake tags and doing none of the things that would reasonably lead a person to believe she was trying to seek medical care. She could have called 911, she could have , but she didn't. The truth is Salva didn't start showing concern for the welfare of her unborn child until she got stopped by the cops. None of that excuses the police for not following procedure and their refusal of medical treatment. But lets not paint Salva as some kind of martyr, she isn't.

Salva was quoted in the article , "I have a right to fight for my baby and for other people, so that we can be treated right in the streets," said Salva, a Sudan native, in her strong accent.

Nice try but it wont fly, at least not here. Im not saying she doesnt have grounds to sue, she does. But to paint herself as the Joan of Arc of Independence Avenue is so fucking thin it's transparent. So Sofia, do everyone a favor, shut your pie hole , collect your money, and invest in getting your tubes tied. You neglected four children which is why they were taken away, and you are at least as culpable in the miscarriage of your unborn child as the two morons who ignored policy and failed to call an ambulance while you were in their custody.