Nurse Rached
Followed by what befell one Randle Patrick McMurphy.
Posted on 07/06/2006 10:41:40 AM PDT by devane617
NEW PORT RICHEY - Last week, her son turned 10 years old. On Tuesday morning, she watched as police took him away in a patrol car, charged with a felony.
A neighbor saw the boy break into her car and make off with a pocket knife, according to a police report.
Police were originally uneasy about arresting the boy, who will be a fourth-grader this year. But New Port Richey Lt. Jeffrey Harrington said the mother insisted. They charged him with armed burglary.
"The mother was at her wits' end," Harrington said Wednesday. "She thought he was just incorrigible. She asked us for help to get him into the system."
The single mother told the St. Petersburg Times that her son was so out of control that someone had to do something. (The Times is withholding her identity to avoid identifying the boy.)
"This kid has me in such fear for my own safety and my other son's (an 11-year-old) safety," she said. "I'm not giving up on him. I just think this is what he needs."
She said her son began beating her at age 6 with a Nerf baseball bat that had a metal rod inside. She said he knows that she has a bad leg from a car accident, and he aims directly for it. Sometimes, she said, he threatens to kill her or slit her throat during the night, and she is so afraid that she has a friend stay over so that she can get some sleep.
The mother listed several incidents involving her son since she moved to a new home June 1. The police had been to her home at least eight or nine times before the arrest.
Her son had punched walls in her last home, which angered the landlord so much that they had to move. She said he stole a bike from a little girl at the library and has also stolen jewelry, money and other items.
Recently, a police officer brought him home after he was found spray-painting the playground on Main Street, she said. But because of his age, nobody would press charges.
"Everyone's felt so bad because he's so young that nobody wants to press charges, but that doesn't help him," the mother said. "Apparently, he's trying to act like an adult, so he needs to be treated that way and learn he can't do these things."
When she saw her son in court Wednesday morning, she said, he was arrogant and refused to look at the judge, giggling throughout the proceedings.
"At one point, the judge had to yell at him to look up," she said. "And he said he didn't care if he was kept there for 21 days."
So that's exactly what the judge ordered. The 10-year-old will remain in the juvenile detention center near Land O'Lakes for just shy of a month. His mother said she hopes it will make a difference.
"I pray to God it will," she said "No matter how bad it gets, you just have to be a parent and give unconditional love."
Nurse Rached
Followed by what befell one Randle Patrick McMurphy.
Better a locked up, drugged out, psychopath than one roaming the streets looking for their next victim.
This is true. I have seen more parents outside the system that simply don't care enough or are too lazy to attempt to do anything.
Sometimes the system is a good thing. It was for us. We had a 13 year old girl who decided she was going to be on her own and would run away every time she had a chance. She was in and out of girls homes, until she was 18.
No, there was not sexual abuse or abuse in any way. She just went wild. Had we not done anything, she would have run the streets and probably ended up pregnant.
She is 30 years old now and we couldn't ask for a better daughter. It was hell for about 4 years when this was taking place. It turned out well.
"Unconditional love does not mean turning a blind eye. It means discipline... maybe the kind provided by the state. It just depends..."
Or maybe punishment of the corporal kind. I imagine that a good regimen of switching-when-earned would do wonders for him.
Brand me insensitive then. ;)
I've already raised 3 kids. When they get to be teenagers, it's very helpful if dad makes them a little nervous. And it doesn't matter if they're boys or girls.
The 10-year-old will remain in the juvenile detention center near Land O'Lakes for just shy of a month. His mother said she hopes it will make a difference.
I think this mother is as good as dead.
I think he's got a future in foster homes.
Without any doubt I predict that this kid's only future is life in prison w/o parole. It's already too late. If he treats his mother this way what kind of treatment will foster parents get. Personally I think we'll be reading shortly about the murder of this mother. No doubt at all.
Apparently the green vomit was the last straw.
LOL
The best reply I've read.
LOL
:)
dont waste your time....to many other decent kids out there
What kind of parent is that?
Some kids are evil and it has little to do with parents.
He's not afraid of discipline, never has been if he started attacking her at age 6.
This mother will be dead within a year and this kid will spend his entire life in prison. Guaranteed prediction.
Where's a dad when you need one?
Part of me believes you are correct, and the good in me wants to hope for the best...stories like Helen Keller's come to mind. But based on my experience with the state, it's a long shot. Odds are foster homes will do more harm than good.
Male leadership is what this punk needs. He is getting away with this stuff because she can't dominate the little cuss. The kid has grasped that. A father figure would immedately put the kid into his position and ensure he cleans up his act.
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