Posted on 12/19/2007 5:20:59 AM PST by Puppage
ELIZABETH, N.J. -- A mother on Tuesday night said she wants her son who broke free from prison to keep running.
She said it's the only way he'll ever get to clear his name.
Otis Blunt was one of two prisoners who made a dramatic escape from the Union County Jail four days ago.
Despite the all-out manhunt for Blunt, there is at least one person who hopes he isn't found.
Dolores Blunt said she doesn't want police to hurt him or put him back in jail for a crime he said he didn't commit.
The mother of the escaped prisoner said she hasn't slept much since Saturday, when she learned her son and fellow prisoner Jose Espinoza broke out of jail. This was made possible by chiseling away cinder blocks in the cell walls, using pinup girl posters to cover up the holes and leaving rolled up sheets to pose as dummies.
Dolores Blunt insists it was a final act of desperation.
"When he first got locked up, he told his wife he didn't do it," she said. "He was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Otis Blunt, 32, was arrested this year on an armed robbery charge stemming from a 2005 incident at a gas station in Hillside. The owner was shot in the head, but survived. While Dolores Blunt said her son hasn't contacted her directly, she said she received a call from someone who claimed to be her son's friend.
She said the friend told her a security video from the gas station could vindicate her son.
"He was trying to get his lawyer or someone to look at this tape that was from the robbery that he was accused of, and evidently they weren't paying attention to him, they were laughing at him," she said.
The Union County prosecutor declined to discuss the existence of such a video, but said Otis Blunt had been indicted.
In a statement, the prosecutor encouraged members of the family to have him turn himself in. The prosecutor said, 'We don't want to hurt him, we just want to proceed with the normal course of the justice system."
Dolores Blunt said she would not encourage her son to turn himself in.
"Not until he gets his justice that he deserves," she said. "Just stay safe and don't get into any more trouble."
Security at the jail has been heightened since the incident.
The jail was placed in lockdown on Monday night when bed sheets were found torn into 7-foot strips and tied together, possibly an attempt by another inmate to escape.
The prosecutor said all officers working in the prison on Friday and Saturday were required to file reports about what happened during their shifts, and those reports are already being reviewed.
Mom is in denial big time I think. I bet sonny boy has never ever been to blame for anything in his life . I can’t stand parents like her. He is in his 30’s & mommy is still covering for him. Shaking my head.
No. That's what Mike Nifong thought his job was. A big part of it is to make sure people aren't railroaded.
NO the prosecutor’s job is the administration of justice NOT TO PUT people behind bars.
That unfortunatly is the misconception that infests the ranks of prosecutors and gives us Nifongs as a matter of routine.
Justice can also mean a person is cleared or charges dropped when the evidence does not hold up. Prosecutors screw with peoples lives they do not have a job to be a thug to pound peoples lives.
Prosecutors are to hold a trust not an assembly line.
Well, someone should at least investigate his claims. Is there a videotape? And why is the prosecutor not discussing it? Someone needs to at least find that out whether he’s guilty or not. If you owned a store you’d be a fool not to have a camera installed.
So that needs to be answered. Is there a tape? If so, what’s on it?
Why didn’t they interview his dad? Nevermind....
“Why didn’t they interview his dad? Nevermind....”
Bullseye.
There isn’t a single guilty man in prison.
According to every momma, their son is a good boy who was trying to turn his life around — and was thinking of marrying the momma of one of his babies.
Yeah.. I hate when I am buying gum in a store and a robbery
happens. The coppers always miss the perp and arrest
me, cause I was just standin there. Then the jury gets a bunch of mis-information and I end
up doin a 7 year stint. I hate when that happens. Bummer.
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LOL! You tell 'em, honey!
LOL!!
That, my FRiend, is the question of the week!!
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