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Cops: Dad ordered to pay child support kills son
Yahoo | AP ^ | 1/03/09 | Janet Mcconnaughey

Posted on 01/04/2009 1:07:37 AM PST by LibWhacker

NEW ORLEANS – A man who initially told police gunmen kidnapped his 2 1/2-year-old son was arrested Saturday, accused of committing an "extremely hideous" murder because he was ordered to pay child support, Police Superintendent Warren Riley said.

Danny Platt confessed, told police where to find the child's body and will be booked on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Ja' Shawn Powell, Riley said at a news conference.

"He had said he would kill either his wife or his child before he paid child support," which he recently had been ordered to do, Riley said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: child; dad; kills; no; support
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1 posted on 01/04/2009 1:07:39 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

That poor little kid was destined to pay a penalty from the day he was brought into this world.

Born into a dysfunctional family, given an odd name like Ja’Shawn, deadbeat father who he never sees until the day he gets kidnapped and murdered because the deadbeat dad doesn’t want to pay to support him.

Poor kid had no chance.


2 posted on 01/04/2009 1:24:45 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: LibWhacker

Just when you thought that the world couldn’t freak you out anymore.


3 posted on 01/04/2009 1:37:51 AM PST by tanuki (Summum ius summa injuria. (The more law, the less justice))
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To: LibWhacker

The young boy is in the arms of Our Lord. Hopefully, his “father” will get the death penalty.


4 posted on 01/04/2009 1:38:26 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: LibWhacker

If this idiot was so dead set against paying child support, he should have just killed himself instead.


5 posted on 01/04/2009 1:57:24 AM PST by squidward
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To: LibWhacker

It is absurd for government bureaucrats to insert themselves into the deeply personal, and no doubt difficult, decision that this father made. I’m sure the decision to kill his son was not made lightly. This is the kind of decision that belongs between a man, his clergyman, and his God. Government has no business trying to force citizens to conform to religious tenets.


6 posted on 01/04/2009 3:15:46 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan
It is absurd for government bureaucrats to insert themselves into the deeply personal, and no doubt difficult, decision that this father made. I’m sure the decision to kill his son was not made lightly. This is the kind of decision that belongs between a man, his clergyman, and his God. Government has no business trying to force citizens to conform to religious tenets.

Are you saying that it was just late, late, LATE term abortion?

7 posted on 01/04/2009 3:29:54 AM PST by PalmettoMason ("an empty limousine pulled up in front of the White House, and Barack Obama got out")
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To: PalmettoMason
Are you saying that it was just late, late, LATE term abortion?

Your point is well made, and sadly, true. If a woman can decide whether a child is aborted or not, whether or not she'll extort from the bio dad, etc., things like this are going to happen. I'm horrified by this.

"Women have rights; men have responsibilities". Part II of this ideology in playout over time.

8 posted on 01/04/2009 4:03:51 AM PST by Alia
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To: LibWhacker

Bill Cosby’s statement “I brought you into this world and I can take you out” isn’t nearly as funny as it once was.

His defense could be “practicing medicine (after-birth abortion? euthanasia?) without a license.”


9 posted on 01/04/2009 4:04:26 AM PST by HighlyOpinionated (YOU can get your own Bail Out . . .Dec 18 post at http://auntiecoosa.blogspot.com)
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To: Alia

Yup. What you said.


10 posted on 01/04/2009 4:09:50 AM PST by BruceysMom ("Where knowledge is folly...")
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To: LibWhacker

My comments on this POS are not printable!

11 posted on 01/04/2009 4:11:23 AM PST by TexasCajun
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A few days back our little town had a guy bust into his ex wife’s house and shoot her boyfriend 8 times. The shooter’s family is defending his actions because the ex wouldn’t let him see the kids. However trying to murder a man in front of his kids isn’t going to help his visitation much.

One more reason we don’t like people from Ann Arbor and Yipsilanti moving to our town.


12 posted on 01/04/2009 4:20:28 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Huh?


13 posted on 01/04/2009 4:26:17 AM PST by DemonJuice
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To: DemonJuice; Arthur McGowan
I see you signed on today...

Either hang around & try to learn something, or maybe you happened on the wrong forum.

If I may expand on Arthur's point.

...the babies in the womb who are being murdered by the millions in our country have the same sweet cute faces as those who are mourned over on MSM & your newspapers....

..the womb babies are ignored & forgotten.... marginalized...
...because you never saw them & formed an attachment like we have for Calie Anthony (rest her soul)

Life has become cheap....

..When a nation surrenders its soul to killing unborn babies...

..the nation should not be surprised when sick murders like this poor little 2-1/2 yr old happen.

14 posted on 01/04/2009 4:40:55 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: DemonJuice

Are you like a demonic energy drink or something?


15 posted on 01/04/2009 4:50:30 AM PST by mkjessup
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To: Arthur McGowan

Agreed! Events like this should be legal, safe and rare.


16 posted on 01/04/2009 5:08:11 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: LibWhacker
Excellent problem solving skills. Just a tad misguided.

The problem here is do-gooders imposing child support. The mother has the final choice if the kid is born. With choice goes responsibility. Her getting impregnated is a separate issue. If she was impregnated against her will, she should have filed rape charges.

17 posted on 01/04/2009 5:57:33 AM PST by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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To: Guenevere

What did those others post? Was it removed already?


18 posted on 01/04/2009 7:07:03 AM PST by CHATTAB
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To: Guenevere

Ooops! I must have skipped over the comment the first time... What stupid, stupid comments they made.


19 posted on 01/04/2009 7:08:27 AM PST by CHATTAB
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To: Mark was here

He had the choice whether to have sex with her and take the risk that she might get pregnant. If he didn’t want to take that risk, he could have kept it in his pants. The child didn’t have a choice.


20 posted on 01/04/2009 7:12:59 AM PST by beandog
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