"He STOLE - He sent himself to jail. Why play this progressive socialist blame-the-parent-it's not-his-fault game?"
Jail is not a joke and it is not a game and it is not a place to send kids to "teach them a lesson". You send a young kid to jail and you can almost assured that he will be raped and beaten. You've got a teenager who takes a car without permission - you teach him a lesson at home - not with hardened criminals.
It is his parents fault that he is dead.
How nanny state of you. His theft of a car not a contributing factor, and the thugs in the van who beat him aren't the primary factor? Please sober up before Freeping. We try not to sound like DU here.
"Jail is not a joke and it is not a game and it is not a place to send kids to "teach them a lesson".
Agreed, agreed, agreed.
I agree. The parents should have known better than to trust their son to the police or to the legal system. As I get older, more and more do I distrust the motives of law enforcement. When I was a kid, I believed the police to be honest and true and to be trusted completely. As I've grown older, I've seen so much that contradicts that childhood faith that I can never again give them the benefit of the doubt.
His parents made a wrong decision, no doubt, but they aren't the main reason for his death.
He was put in with a caged animal by Law Enforcement. They are the guys closest to the murder who could have prevented, or at least stopped it.
The animal who killed him should be executed (What society that considers itself civilized would allow him to remain alive?), and the LE responsible for placing the kid in that lfe threatening situation should be prosecuted for negligent homocide.