Putnam County, FL - Poor little Morgan Leppert. The blond, blue-eyed 15-year-old cutie has her name and image attached to an Amber Alert. Once upon a time she was just another Florida kid with her own MySpace, where she called herself “blue eyed devil” and posted an oh-so-original profile pic — Morgan with her lips pooched out, peering out from under big black shades, looking as cool as any 15-year-old girl on MySpace ever does, doing pretty much the exact same pose.
Morgan had a boyfriend, an older guy. He’s actually the reason she’s on the Amber Alert, because the pair disappeared together on April 22. With the great wisdom God naturally gives to all 15-year-old girls, Morgan took off on a journey of discovery with the baddest motherfucker in Palatka, Florida, aka Toby Lowry, age 23.
It might be going a little far to assume that Morgan is with Toby of her own free will. But it’s kind of hard to ignore their MySpace profiles. His profile URL ended with “Morgan’s Man,” and in early April of this year, Morgan left this poetic expression of love as a comment under Toby’s profile photo: ” YA U HERE THAT BITCHES BACK THE FUCK OFF HE IS MINE I LOVE U BABY.”
A redneck Romeo and Juliet vibe between these two was enhanced by Morgan Leppert’s profile quote: “i wish i was wrapped up in his arms again.”
The thing is, no “Romeo and Juliet law” will save this couple — Toby’s old enough that a friend of his should have glared at him long ago and said, “Dude, she’s fifteen.”
Generally speaking, this could be relatively tame stuff. Amber Alerts have been issued for much more dangerous situations than a too-old boyfriend and underage girlfriend. After all, she might even try to help him evade the police, believing in the romance of it all.
Unfortunately, Florida authorities have now tied Morgan Leppert and Morgan’s man Toby to the murder of 66-year-old James Thomas Stewart, of Melrose, Florida. Basically, what could have ended up as a few years in prison and then a lifetime position on the sex offender registry for the baddest statutory rapist in Palatka could now put his sorry ass in the chair or under the needle.
Putnam County authorities found James Stewart’s body Thursday morning. Investigators wouldn’t say how Stewart died, but they confirmed that he met with foul play.
WFTV in Florida reported that Stewart hadn’t been heard from for days when cops went to check on him. Investigators apparently found Morgan Leppert’s cell at the scene. They still don’t know why James Stewart’s phone number was on Leppert’s phone.
Stewart’s silver 2003 Toyota Tacoma was missing. A trace of the plate number, 193KLR, showed that it had been checked as recently as May 1st in Katy, Texas, outside of Houston. Police think Lowry and Leppert are still in Texas.
Morgan Leppert is 5′1″ and weighs about 114. Toby Lowry, the baddest motherfucking child molesting senior killing buzzcut cracker to ever hightail it out of Palatka, is 6′2″, weighs 190, and has blond hair and green eyes. He’s now wanted for stealing Stewart’s truck and interference with the custody of a child. Lowry is a “person of interest” in Mr. Stewart’s homicide.
Morgan Leppert might have thought it was time to take off for parts unknown with the love of her life, but it looks like she hooked up with a child-lovin’ homicidal mouth-breather, instead. They may be a lot less Romeo and Juliet and a little more Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate.
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impqueen
May 3, 2008 at 8:57 am -Everybody, this is our new guest blogger, Indrid Cold. Indrid Cold, this is everybody.
Re: this story, I’ll say the same thing here i said in the forum: Morgan Leppert, meet Erin McCaffey. Pot, kettle. Little blonde soulmates.
Indrid, awesome first post. Welcome to the site!
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Morbid
May 3, 2008 at 9:03 am -3
Lynn
May 3, 2008 at 9:25 am -So James isn’t Morgans dad? I’m soo Confused. Don’t laugh, its too early in the morning for my brain.
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Morbid
May 3, 2008 at 10:04 am -I don’t think the relationship between the murder vicitm and Toby has been established yet, or at least, reported.
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Hippiepoet
May 3, 2008 at 10:40 am -Wow. I cannot imagine being in her parents shoes right now. Holyfucking shit.
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Indrid Cold
May 3, 2008 at 11:05 am -Yesterday, when I was putting this together, no one seemed too sure (no one = msm) how either Morgan or Toby might know James Stewart. His number could have been on her phone for a lot of reasons.
And yes, I need to find a good gravatar.
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Kathy
May 3, 2008 at 11:11 am -Makes you wonder where her parents are at all. From the looks of the myspace pages, it doesn’t look like they were keeping this relationship a secret. I’ll admit, at 15 I was stupid, but my parents were there to keep me from fucking up too bad. Or at least to beat my ass or the ass of the grown man chasing me.
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Morbid
May 3, 2008 at 11:58 am -It is being reported that Leppert’s mother found out Toby was 22 years old and forced her to end the relationship.
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impqueen
May 3, 2008 at 12:21 pm -Doesn’t look she ended it, does it?
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mom of 4
May 3, 2008 at 12:27 pm -Sounding more and more like Erin Caffey. Morgan’s mom should be thankful they didn’t kill her and take her car!
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Indrid Cold
May 3, 2008 at 2:52 pm -I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop on this one. I was serious about the Starkweather/Fugate comparison. If this Lowry will kill an old dude just to steal his truck, he’ll do more killin’ along the way.
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Barbara
May 3, 2008 at 3:00 pm -Last night on Nancy Grace, it was reported that the deceased was handicapped. He was born “WITHOUT HANDS”. That poor man could not even fight back.
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swivel
May 3, 2008 at 4:33 pm -I dig the new author. The style of writing fits in with Impqueen and Morbid perfectly. Great initial post and I hope we see tons more of you.
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jenjen0135
May 3, 2008 at 5:03 pm -Even though this happened down around the “elbow” of the state, I am a native of NW FL, (been gone a long time, but still have family there…) and this type of redneck/ trash mentality is rampant. It is like stepping back 10 years when I go down to visit!
All of the smaller towns in particular have these type of stoopid rednecks running around. Nothing else to do but create their own drama. EX: who does what to who, who does whose mama/ daddy, who is having who’s baby, who beat up who, who gave who what/ who is whose GF REALLY doing while who is at work…
I wouldn’t be suprised if the parents initially liked the guy and allowed him to “hang” with their family/ daughter.
Sad that she was gullible enough/ wanted the attention/ or whatever the hell you want to call it, to end up with this POS “thrill-ride”.
Great job Ingrid!!
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impqueen
May 3, 2008 at 5:08 pm -I kinda dig him, too.
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nurseronda
May 3, 2008 at 6:19 pm -Her cell phone was not left at James home. Her mother found James number on her cell phone and since she was missing at the time, she gave that number to the police who was checking out this lead, but they didn’t know James was already dead at the time. Toby called Morgan from James’ home after he killed him. James’ brother, Mike, was the one who called police because he didn’t hear back from James. Yes, it is true that James was born without hands. He could do anything that a person with hands could do, and did not let his disability get in his way.
Indrid Cold…I like that you used the Mothman’s name.
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nurseronda
May 3, 2008 at 7:08 pm -They were caught in Texas!!!!!
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Hippiepoet
May 3, 2008 at 8:54 pm -Right on….and man I hope you take this as a compliment, cause you should goddammit…but when I read this story I thought my Queen wrote it. You’re good man. Welcome to this site and thanks for writing some kick ass shit. Looking forward to more.
(throws panties at Imp cause she is…and always will be the Queen)
Much love~
Hippie
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polis
May 4, 2008 at 4:18 am -http://www.kvia.com/global/story.asp?s=8266861
They found the girl in my town… very very far from florida.
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impqueen
May 4, 2008 at 8:44 am -Annnd we have HATE MAIL!! It’s from a kid whose Myspace name is Donut. His real name is Mike. Mike is not happy. Let’s all see what Mike had to say:
Quoting MIKE:
>
> MIKE wrote:
> FUCK U FUCKING COMPUTER GEEKS U SHOUD NOT BE SAYING LIES ABOUT MY
> FAMILY MAN
> U REALLY NEED TO SHUT UR FUCKING MOUTHS U PUSSY ASS BITCHS IF U
> WANT THE REAL
> STORY ABOUT WAT HAPEN EMAIL ME AND I WILL TELL U THE REAL STORY BOUT
> WAT HAPPEN
>
> Website:
> IP: (deleted)
so y’all know me, I wrote back. I’m helpful that way. It’s how I roll.
Oh, hey there little Donut!
I was hoping you’d show up, kiddo. Is your problem with the story in our forums, or the story on our front page? You talk pretty big for a junior high school student, so maybe you do have “the real story” - kind of like how “the real story” on your Myspace the other day was “R.I.P TOBY LEE LOWRY MY BIG BROTHER WHO WAS SHOT BY THE COPS”, right? Except he wasn’t? And he’s not dead now? So your story so far seems to be kinda inaccurate. (”Inaccurate” means “wrong”.)
Or maybe you were just putting that up there just in case, right? I mean, guy’s gonna kill someone and get shot by the cops, you gotta have your Myspace ready. Good lookin’ out there, li’l rabbit.
So man up for me a minute and do tell. Old guy just die by himself? Toby and Morgan not fucking? Or they are, even though she’s jailbait? What part of all this did we not get right?
I’m really hoping you’ll ask your mama if you can have a user ID and come post. ‘Cause I have a lot of people waiting to hear from you. We’re not really a kid-friendly site, though. I mean, we’re not like Gaia, feel me? Good. Looking forward to hearing the Donut-Version.
ImpQueen
Dreamin’ Demon
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mo.armymom
May 4, 2008 at 9:19 am -Don’t you love it when the family show’s up, and thinks all the nasty words will scare you away!
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sweet_misery
May 4, 2008 at 10:05 am -Imp, you’re my hero!
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carol13
May 4, 2008 at 10:53 am -lol, but you know compared to the amber jimenez supporters, this kid could teach english. At least I could read the whole thing. Maybe he’s pissed because we dissed his gangsta (at least I know I did) in the forums. Anytime a pasty tween starts decorating myspace comments with ’see how many people send this back to prove how much of a crip you are’ I think it’s open season on asshattery. Please lil mikey donut, tell us more.
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polis
May 4, 2008 at 1:55 pm -http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_9146944
they were found panhandling! also they we’re using the car of the guy he murdered…and i don’t know if any of you knew this, but James Stewart was born with no hands, so it must’ve been easy to kill someone with that disability.
Lowry is now facing grand theft auto charges and interferring with custody of a juvenile.
Luckily these two idiots didn’t try to enter Ciduad Juareze because with their possible accents and complexion, they would have been totally fucked if the Mexican police got them…straight to Cereso.
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WryBread
May 4, 2008 at 3:51 pm -Boy, that’s the truth. Everyone screwing everyone in sequence and then creating drama. People need to get a real hobby besides generating babies and raw data for gossip.
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Ceronius
May 5, 2008 at 9:53 am -Very strange. I live in Katy. I wish that I had read this story sooner. By the description of the two I swear I saw a couple walking thru the parking lot of an HEB or Kroger’s grocery store on Saturday that fit it. I remember seeing a tall dude walking with a little blonde. I will have to keep an eye open for these two murderers.
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rollyo
May 5, 2008 at 10:50 am -Little Donut looks like he has had a few donuts in his time.
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Dakota Valkyrie
May 5, 2008 at 11:18 am -Morgan Leppert is expected to be reunited with her mother today. She is not being charged with anything.
Lowry will remain in El Paso, Texas, on charges of car theft, interference with custody of a child and panhandling while Putnam County investigators mull additional charges and extradition to Florida.
The man picked up with the couple claimed he was just a hitchiker, but he has an outstanding arrest warrant from Marion County, Fla., the next county to the southwest of Putnam.
http://www.news4jax.com/news/16159823/detail.html
I’ll be interested to hear what Morgan knew and if she didn’t what she felt when she found out. Probably we’ll never know that or may get a glimpse during any trial.
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Ceronius
May 5, 2008 at 12:32 pm -glad to see that they were caught. I just don’t understand why she isn’t arrested also.
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txredhead1271
May 5, 2008 at 1:42 pm -i live in katy, texas too and last week when i read that they were seen on I-10, I was lookin out. I have a 15yr old of my own. I dare her to pull some crap like that. Wooowww!!!!!!
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Harley_Tech
May 5, 2008 at 2:47 pm -Should that not be “the baddest DAUGHTERFUCKER in Palatka county”?
My guess he will NOT be the baddest anykindafucker in jail, but he just might get to meet the “baddest motherfucker in Palatka county”while he’s there.
R
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Harley_Tech
May 5, 2008 at 2:54 pm -Mood: worried
Just a little tip for donut…there are a few guys in jail that will be calling your “bro” donut after they ream his little donut hole. LMAO
Please you little pimple faced donut sucker, send me hate mail damn it! I WANT HATE MAIL!
R
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Lizard
May 6, 2008 at 3:11 pm -They’re both going to be charged with murder.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/.....yid=108617
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mom of 4
May 6, 2008 at 3:33 pm -OMG So Morgan obviously helped murder this poor man. They beat him with metal rods, stabbed him multiple times and then put a bag over his head. Put a bullet in both of them now please!
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Morbid
May 6, 2008 at 3:42 pm -Damn. I really didn’t see that coming. I mean, I figured she was an idiot. But I didn’t think she actually taken part in the murder.
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mom of 4
May 6, 2008 at 3:46 pm -Just found this information as well.
http://news.jacksonville.com/j.....th-murder/
“Kelly said Leppert and her boyfriend, Toby Lee Lowry, 22, had stayed in the woods behind Stewart’s home for two nights before she went to his door and asked to use the phone. Leppert called her own cell phone and disovered that Stewart was hard of hearing and disabled.
Stewart was beaten with two metal rods, stabbed multiple times and suffocated with a plastic bag that night, Kelly said. Detectives had traced the call after finding Leppert’s cell phone at Lowry’s residence in the Palatka area. Stewart’s body was not found until later.”
They make a lovely couple!
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Indrid Cold
May 6, 2008 at 4:16 pm -Saith Morbid:
I did. That’s why the post I wrote was so unsympathetic towards her. Remember Tess Damm and Bryan Grove? Tess put her blindian up to killin mommy, then played poor little me, till the cops saw through her. I just smelled that kinda scenario all over this one.
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Morbid
May 6, 2008 at 4:22 pm -I guess I should have rephrased that. I meant that I was surprised she physically took part in the murder. The fact that she may have been with the guy and not known about the murder would have not surprised me. The fact that she was with the guy and knew he had killed a guy would not have surprised me.
But to find out that she may have whacked on this old man with a steel rod? It just goes against what we normally post. The last young girl I can remember blogging about who took part in murdering anyone was the chick from Medicine Hat who helped kill her family by attempting to stab her little brother.
Never mind, I just remembered the girl who ran out laughing with her boyfriend after killing her mother.
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Indrid Cold
May 6, 2008 at 5:00 pm -You have reason not to expect it. These kinds of little psycho chicks are still pretty rare. But you know, I still wish for the world my parents had, where folks were more worried about how the boys turned out. Now we know the genders are pretty much equal when it comes to psycho behavior and fucking up.
And the Medicine Hat story is still one of the worst of its kind, imho.
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Lizard
May 6, 2008 at 5:03 pm -My usual pessimism reveals itself again; I wasn’t surprised at all at the thought that she participated. She’s in loooooove, it’s her and him against the whole world, love will conquer all, the world is their oyster, [insert additional cliches of choice here]….
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impqueen
May 6, 2008 at 5:23 pm -Jeremy Steinke and Jasmine Richardson, or is there another Medicine Hat Story i missed? Psycho little girls are scarier than clowns.
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mom of 4
May 6, 2008 at 5:35 pm -Thats the one Imp. That little bitch will be free one day thanks to our lax sentencing standards here.
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Indrid Cold
May 6, 2008 at 6:18 pm -I may get my youngest daughter a t-shirt with that on it. It would go well with her two suspensions last year at school.
Which was also her first year of school. Since she was in kindergarten.
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mulan
May 8, 2008 at 12:48 pm -Ok- another family member here, but Morgan’s; not the psycho dirt bag’s. There is a lot of incorrect information and sensationalizing from the media (shocker) which has succeeded in convicting Morgan and even painting her in some instances as the “mastermind.” She was a sweet naive girl who “fell in love” and was charmed, manipulated and controlled by an older and unbeknownst to her (or her family)- psychopath. The initial post, “baddest taste in men” is essentially correct, save for the last correlation with Starkweather and Fugate, which is why I did not bother to post anything. However, if you notice throughout the posted updates in your own blog, there were inconsistencies reported from the media (and Palatka Sheriff’s Dept.). The Sheriff (ironically up for re-election this year) has never returned any phone calls to Morgan’s mother, and through his other “good-ole boy” network lied to her about Morgan coming home and calling her mother as soon as possible ( the mother heard one minute of hysterical crying and “I didn’t know” before Sheriff Kelly clicked the phone off. ) He did speak with Morgan’s attorney who demand that Morgan not be questioned;however they are in Texas, and loop holes have probably been used to accomplish their interrogation and they have kept the mother and attorney in the dark while they questioned Morgan (who has no experience with the legal system as Lowry does) for 48 hours. One has to consider what happened in the interrogation of the juvenile for two days. Miranda rights? The sheriff’s department felt no need to issue an Amber Alert on April 22 because they saw no danger (to meet the Amber Alert criteria) however, the Sheriff’s department was well aware of Lowry’s past criminal history, Morgan’s mother at that time was not, she knew her daughter was in danger, but not to the extent that the Sheriff’s department did. Now an innocent man has been brutally murdered and the “good ole” boys are looking for a hanging and not just in Lowry. That’s all I will say here as there will be a lot going on in the courts and media in the coming weeks. I like this site and just wanted to set some of the record straight. This case is not as straightforward as portrayed in the media. Morgan is innocent until proven guilty in a court of peers, not Guilty by Fox news. Thanks.
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impqueen
May 8, 2008 at 12:58 pm -Thanks for posting, Mulan, and I appreciate your input.
I should point out that we are totally not FoxNews. Neither are we a courtroom, so we really don’t have to presume innocence at all. But I think that Morgan probably was swayed by her boyfriend. I don’t know why she agreed to go up to Stewart’s door, ring the bell, call her own cell phone and scope out the place. That alone tells me she knew he was going to be robbed, or worse.
It’s unfortunate that Morgan’s mother seemed to know so little of what was happening with her daughter before all this went down. It sounds like she doesn’t seem to know what’s happening now either. Is her mom in Texas now? If not, why not? If my kid were arrested in another state, I would sell blood to get there, get a lawyer for her, and find out what the hell was going on.
It sounds like you’re alleging that Morgan was not read her rights and that her attorney has not been allowed to be present during interrogation. If so, that’s pretty huge. Am I reading you correctly?
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Mandella
May 8, 2008 at 12:58 pm -I realize this post is probably horribly innapropriate following a post from a family member defending Morgan and proclaiming her innocence in all this - HOWEVER, I just looked at the girl’s picture again and had a thought.
Doesn’t she kinda remind you of one of Manson’s followers?
And if you carry that analogy further…..well, you can decide for yourselves whether personal accountability or brainwashed idiot is more fitting.
That being said, I wasn’t surprised that the girl has been implicated as having participated in the actual murder. However, I wouldn’t be surprised to find that she knew nothing about it, either.
Nothing new under the sun….
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Mandella
May 8, 2008 at 1:03 pm -Another thought - not to say that her mother isn’t a good mom (some kids are just fucked up), but you have to wonder why a 15 year old girl has already run away from home multiple times.
And why she’s senseless enough to get involved with a man this much older in the first place. My mother spoke logically with me, “Be wary of older boys, honey. Don’t you wonder why they can’t get a girl their own age? It’s probably because they’re losers.” Pretty much broke me of my fascination with inappropriately older boys.
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tricia1971
May 8, 2008 at 1:27 pm -So now that a family member has come on here and professed Morgan’s unlawful interrogation & detainment, we’re supposed to feel sorry for herself? My mom taught me, you’re never in the wrong place at the wrong time, you just made a stupid decision to be there. It amazes me the stuff I hear people say.
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carol13
May 8, 2008 at 2:14 pm -I’m glad you brought that up Mandella. I understand that we have a relative here, and there is always the possibility of the media blowing things up, but I know that in some places, when a murder is commited during the commission of a felony, even the criminal who didn’t do the actual killing is held liable for it. It’s a warning from the govt. to stay out of doing dumb shit with dumb people, because you will go to jail for their actions. I also understand this girl is young, but she’s not that young. She’s old enough to know right from wrong. It is correct to put some blame on the boyfriend, but not all of it. She made her own choices, she chose to follow him. She is liable for everything she helped him do.
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sgj92393
Jun 10, 2008 at 11:40 am -All you bitches dont know her I do
And put a bullet through both their heads bitch please do it to your self and go to hell FUCK YOU
so before you trash talk somebody DO YOUR FUCKING HOMEWORK RIGHT
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