All of you who read me regularly know that nothing ticks me off more than abusing the elderly and children. We have a major problem in America these days where too many parents do not want to be actual parents.

But the following story from www.kristv.com, takes this to an entirely new level. Not only did this deadbeat mom make her 9-year-old son shoplift, but then abandoned him at the store for seven hours afterward. She let the poor, terrified little boy stay in police custody.

There is a silver lining to this story. The deadbeat mom has lost custody of both her 9-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter. Does she care? Apparently not.

The 39-year-old Mary Ann Perez stuffed a backpack with merchandise from the Wal-Mart store and told him to walk out with it. When the 9-year-old boy was caught, his mother was nowhere to be found. Since then, the boy and his 5-year-old sister have been in foster care. Perez has several warrants out for her arrest, and hasn't been seen for almost a year.

Perez cared so little that she did not even show up for the hearing where she lost custody of her children.

While in custody the boy said his mother used him and his sister to help her shoplift more than 50 times.

More to the silver lining - the children were placed in foster care. Nearly a year later, their caseworker says they're thriving in their new home.

It is a shame that selfish people like this even have children. Hopefully these two will get a second chance from a loving, law-abiding home. I would like to think a Texas theft class and counseling might help Perez, but I think she is totally morally bankrupt!