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9 year old allowed to go free for murder. 5 year old charged with sexual harrasment?
1 posted on 12/26/2006 4:15:44 PM PST by rocksblues
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To: rocksblues

We're a nation of laws ... and many are screwed up laws (or maybe it's the nuts that interpret them).


3 posted on 12/26/2006 4:18:22 PM PST by BW2221
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the five-year-old of whom you speak was criminally charged.


4 posted on 12/26/2006 4:18:25 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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I think the parents should be charged with neglect and child endangerment. Leaving a 15 year old to care for that many kids. Even in day cares there is a smaller ratio of care givers to kids then this situation.
5 posted on 12/26/2006 4:19:19 PM PST by antiunion person (Give 'em an inch and they will take everything !!!!)
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Since when did age become a free pass? If you can stab someone you should hang for it, I say.


7 posted on 12/26/2006 4:21:26 PM PST by Jaysun (I've never paid for sex in my life. And that's really pissed off a lot of prostitutes.)
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No charges will be filed against the boy due to his age, said Dallas Police Sgt. Gil Cerda.

They ought to at least put him into protective custody. If it were my kid he stabbed to death, the little bastard would be dead by the next morning.

9 posted on 12/26/2006 4:22:47 PM PST by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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Dear Lord help us all.


11 posted on 12/26/2006 4:40:55 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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If that were my son and I had other children I wouldn't let him back into the home. He is dangerous and needs help.


12 posted on 12/26/2006 4:42:54 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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Mon Dec 25, 6:21 PM ET



DALLAS - Caseworkers had investigated a family home eight times before a toddler was stabbed to death, allegedly by a 9-year-old boy, but conditions were never bad enough to warrant state intervention, officials say.

"It never rose to the level of imminent danger," said Marissa Gonzales, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Child Protective Services. "That is what is necessary for removal of the children."

More than a dozen children were at the home of Detress Richmond without an adult Friday when 2-year-old Damya Jefferson was stabbed twice in the chest, authorities said. The children had been left in the care of a 15-year-old baby sitter, who was in the house's downstairs while the children were upstairs.

Damya and her 2-month-old sister had been left with Richmond by their mother, Tiara Jefferson, 17, while she went to earn extra Christmas money Friday by braiding hair, police said.

No charges had been filed as of Monday.

The boy who stabbed Damya cannot be prosecuted because of his age, and was placed in a hospital, authorities said.

Authorities said the boy's siblings described him as a bully.

"We don't know what spurred it," police Sgt. Brenda Nichols said of the stabbing. "All we know is that his brothers and sisters say that he tended to push them around."

Since 1994, CPS caseworkers had investigated Richmond's home eight times because of allegations of that her children were neglected, not fed or living in filth. They referred her to parenting classes and helped her find work and food.

Gonzales said Richmond, mother of at least 13 children, seemed to be cooperative with that intervention.

After the stabbing, three of Richmond's children were placed with relatives and seven others were placed in foster care, authorities said. CPS workers also took Damya's 2-month-old sibling.

A hearing will be held within two weeks to determine where the children should live.


15 posted on 12/26/2006 4:49:25 PM PST by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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Not only should we have locks on guns, but also on knives.


18 posted on 12/26/2006 6:21:05 PM PST by 353FMG (I never met a liberal I didn't dislike.)
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Just when I was starting to feel good about humanity again, I read an article like this...


19 posted on 12/26/2006 6:43:04 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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Lionell, the kid down in florida that killed the girl doing wrestling moves was also involved in violence when he was under ten and nothing was done and his mom was a deputy cop.


20 posted on 12/26/2006 6:48:08 PM PST by eastforker (.308 SOCOM 16, hottest brand going.2350 FPS muzlim velocity)
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The more we turn over responsibility to the federal government to define morality for people, the deeper we sink. Yesterday I watched in disgust as two fat black women forced their young (think 5-7 years old if that) pulling a wagon full of phone books around our block. The kids were straining. The immorality of forced child labor doesn’t really register with uneducated scum.


27 posted on 10/31/2010 11:56:55 AM PDT by kinghorse
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