Posted on 11/12/2016 10:04:11 AM PST by Gamecock
COLUMBIA, S.C. The mother of a South Carolina man suspected of killing seven people says her son is "very misunderstood" but not a monster.
Regina Tague told CBS for a "48 Hours" special airing Saturday she hates that her son, Todd Kohlhepp, is called a serial killer.
"I know that's what they say. He was very misunderstood," she told CBS late Thursday. "Todd is not a monster. He's not even close to it. He wasn't doing it for enjoyment. He was doing it because he was mad and he was hurt."
(Excerpt) Read more at thestate.com ...
Yes mommy, your son is a monster. And a serial killer too.
This is expected from a mom.
Hitler’s mom would have said the same stuff.
I have been mad and hurt! Does this mean I could have killed someone and gotten away with it?
Sounds like the pro-Clinton rioters out there destroying private property and police vehicles purchased by the taxpayers. They're just "misunderstood".
I’m sure Josef Stalin’s mother talked glowingly of him, too.
Oh, well that's different.
We'd better let the poor chap go free.
Yes, he was a monster and you raised him.
“At age 15, he was sentenced to 15 years in an Arizona prison for binding and raping a 14-year-old neighbor at gunpoint.”
Given he did not apparently grow out of this type of behavior, I would say he is a monster.
http://www.thestate.com/latest-news/article114143008.html#storylink=cpy
This mother is WHY he’s a KILLER!!
The mother sounds like a monster too. Supposedly abused him as a child - and laughed while supposedly doing so.
Sounds like Andrew Ellmaker. He killed his social worker with a knife and cut her up with a chain saw. He was 17 years old. His mother walked in on it and called 911. I heard that tape and knew the mother. All here in JOCOKS. I do know that the mother never called him her son. He was her child. Weird family dynamics. He’s in prison for life - couldn’t do the death penalty because he was a minor.
Notice they don’t have the same last name....
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If my son had done that, I’d be the first person out there demanding the death penalty for him.
Does this mean you’ve failed as a parent? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. This level of mental illness is not just an extreme form of neurosis, but neuroses assist psychoses in translating a horrible mental fiction into reality.
So obviously the family situation will play into some of this, even if it’s just refusing to admit that Junior is seriously messed up. But he’s seriously messed up and would be so even in a different family. And in any case you couldn’t get treatment for him because we don’t seem to believe that we should “impose” our normality upon the mentally ill. Guys, this is a crazy 1970s attitude and it’s got to go away because it’s killing people.
In psychoses I increasingly think that it’s all chemistry, aided by neuroses that make them more dangerous and harder to control. However, both psychotics and neurotics respond to clear guidelines, and that’s the best thing anybody could do for the US today.
We’ve got to get back to objective morality. It’s right or it’s wrong, and killing people is wrong. The state is permitted to kill for the protection of the populace - although the state has to be carefully watched - but letting people skate simply because they say they were unhappy as teenagers is ridiculous. Who wasn’t unhappy as a teenager?
No. He isn’t a monster. He’s a sick mass murderer.
Let the kid go. Execute Mom.
Seriously? Denial ain’t just a river. He is a monster. He needs to ride the sparky.
His momma is correct. Per the South Carolina Crime Statistics Reduction Act’s “Mad and Hurt” exemption (by coincidence, named after a local law firm), murders don’t count if you are mad, hurt, or inconvenienced by the victim living. Hideous crimes have skyrocketed, but it’s really helped with statistical disparities and saved oodles on prosecution and prisons. /S
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