Child's Body Found At Tinker Dam

[unknown]

the investigation is closed. nothing came of it. her cause of death was drowning. she got out while her mom was in the bathroom. Accident is what the police said. this family has turned on one another instead of being together.. all they want to do is turn on one another and point the finger at the mom of this little angel.. they all have a news flash coming to them. from what i hear the mom of the baby is moving out with her sister and is doing really good. she is in college and trying to make it better for her three other kids. give her a break everyone she has had the hardest time out of everyone. what would you do if you lost your baby. the same thing she did. give her a break... find out what really happened. not what you want to believe happened.

[Alabama girl]

That's really sad. You know toddlers and small children can be gone in the blink of an eye. It's really no ones fault, they are just fast little creatures...
I can remember my daughter slipping off one time when she was about 2, when I turned my head for just a split second out in our yard... a creek ran behind our house & I was scared to death that I was going to find her in it!
I was searching frantically & crying my heart out, I finally found her sitting two houses down on a picnic table eating a popsicle! I was elated and ready to spank her little bottom all at the same time! She's 22 now and this wasn't her only houdini trick over the years, but I remember it vividly!
I'm thankful that I never had to go through a situation like this family has gone through though. It's terrible.
I know that sometimes death turns family members against each other and everyone wants someone to blame. When maybe it was meant to be God's way of taking this little angel, thinking it would bring them closer together...
Maybe they will work it out. Sad situation.

[unknown]

It is very sad. They are very fast. If only this family would realize that. The mother did her very best to take care of her kids and love them. The family has always been against her from the beginning. They were just looking for a way to get her out of their family. When this all happened she had a few of her family members there and then as soon as the Grandmother showed up they all turned on Mandy. When they should have been there with her to help her through what she was going through. She had to do it alone with just her friends. It is a good thing for the great friends that she had.
She is the one that has to wake up everyday and see that her baby is not here anymore. Mandy has been through a lot in her life and this was just one more thing that went wrong.
She has never had her family to support her and help her with anything. Just there to hurt her. That is not what a family is there for. Thank you for your kind words and I will make sure that Mandy knows that there is someone out there that knows just how fast kids can be.

[Alabama girl]

Tell her I'm praying for her and not to blame herself. As mothers we don't get an instruction book with them when they are born, and so we don't have all the answers and we are left to do the best we can with the knowledge we do have, on our own.
Sometimes we choose the wrong answers, and sometimes we choose the right ones... And many times the only person you CAN truly depend on in this life, is yourself.
I've been a single mom with very little help for the past 14 years. The few friends and family that did help me when they could, I'm thankful for. My kids are now 18 & 22 and it's not been an easy road raising them alone. I may not have done EVERYTHING right, but I did the best that I could as most single moms do.
Sometimes God just has other plans for our babies though, we can't control that. I lost my niece when she was 19 to an overdose, almost 4 years ago, she lived with me. She was like my own from birth.
That ripped my heart out and I felt guilty for the should'ves, could'ves and would'ves.
And believe me when I say, I did everything I thought I could to "save" her, and in the end, she was still gone. God had other plans for that baby too.
The only peace I have is knowing I will see her again someday and that she knew I loved her.
People can be cruel, without trying to be, and without thinking what they say through or thinking how it is going to affect the other person.
I'm glad she is going on with life, her baby girl would want that too. Good luck to her on her new start in life! I hope she does well.

[michelle]

Im really really happy that people are starting to understand the truth. and that they are not just going on the false things that have been said on here. I am a really good friend of mandy's. only me and a few other people have actually tried to get people to understand and not be against her, and im really happy its starting work out.

I am also really happy that mandy has now been able to contact her some of her family. Like her sister. this is just so awesome and im really happy for her.

[Andrea Lynn Winship]

Missing you Alexandria.

[Mandy]

I have been thinking about my little girl a lot lately. I seen her the other day. She is so beautiful and happy. I just wanted everyone to know that. She is in our hearts each and everyday. Just don't let her go, and she will be with us forever. I love you Alexandria.