Just about everything Taliyah wanted, she got: frilly princess dresses, My Little Pony dolls, dance lessons, you name it. The exception occurs, however, when loving mothers and fathers don’t have a choice, or don’t perceive themselves as having choice, as seems likely the case of Sara Baillie. Sara Baillie wanted a better life for her daughter Taliyah, but ‘second job’ left her in dubious company CALGARY — From outward appearances, Sara Baillie was a perky, hard-charging single mother, who greeted friends with “Hey, Sunshine!” and doted on her precocious five-year-old daughter, Taliyah Marsman. If anything, the fact that Baillie was desperate enough to turn to sex work makes her story more tragic, not less. And while that may be true, it doesn’t make the situation any less wretched, or imply that any more than one person is responsible for the deaths of Sara Baillie and Taliyah Marsman.

Source: National Post August 09, 2016 17:15 UTC