Danny Platt Said “No” to Child Support
January 4, 2009 by Lizard
Ja’ Shawn Powell
New Orleans, LA – Two and a half years ago, a woman gave birth to a little boy and named him Ja’ Shawn. Ja’ Shawn’s father didn’t seem to show much interest in being a daddy, as he never visited him. Of course, the courts expect fathers to help with the raising of their children at least financially, even when the extent of their parental involvement was a single sperm donation, and recently Danny Platt was ordered to pay child support. Apparently this caused Platt to cogitate on his hopes, dreams, desires, and the course of his future, and FridayFriday reviews
, for the first time ever, the 22-year-old picked up Ja’ Shawn for a weekend visit. You might guess that Platt had decided it was time to step up to the plate, get to know his son, and be a good father to him, but guess what? You’d be completely wrong.
A bit over two hours after Platt picked up Ja’ Shawn, he made a call to the boy’s mother Daniella Powell that went something along the lines of “Your son has been kidnapped, bye.” Subsequent phone conversations led to the police being notified of the boy’s apparent abduction. According to Platt, three black males with AK-47s mistook him for someone named “Johnny,” insisted he owed them money, took Ja’ Shawn, and drove away in a Chevy Tahoe-like vehicle. Police issued an announcement regarding the missing boy and began searching in the area near where the abduction was said to have occurred.
At a playground not far from where the boy supposedly went missing, Ja’ Shawn’s body was found yesterday. Danny Platt subsequently was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
Although police aren’t releasing details of how the little boy died at this time, the motive is clear: Danny Platt didn’t want to pay child support. In an interview with WWL-TV, Daniella Powell reported that “We went through child support court on December 4. First his dad was ordered to pay $446 in regular child support, and he was ordered to pay me $4,000 in back child support.” Maybe he could’ve handled the monthly payments, but clearly Platt thought that murder was an suitable alternative to $4K in back payments. “He said it’s my fault that he is $4,000 in the hole,” Powell told WWL-TV.
Well played, Danny Platt. Trading in a $4,000 debt for first-degree murder charges. Brilliant.
1:21 am on January 4th, 2009
Thats disgusting and I can barely type,,but had he seen “daddy” before???Did he know him or just of him??Was this a first time visit?Not just a first time weekend visit??If so then his mom was nuts allowing unsupervised visits but ill wait till I read more info before I attack anyone,,
1:27 am on January 4th, 2009
From what I’ve read, he’s known all along that the boy was his and has always had visitation rights but never took advantage of them. This was the first time. It seems like the mom would’ve been a little suspicious of his motives, but maybe she thought that since a month had passed since the hearing, he’d gotten over being upset about the child support?
1:55 am on January 4th, 2009
Poor Ja’Shawn – can you imagine his excitement of finally getting to visit his Daddy?
2:00 am on January 4th, 2009
Yeah…and just over 2 hours later, he’s dead. I’m thinking the second they left the mother’s home, Daddy dropped his nice face. I certainly hope Ja’ Shawn died quickly, and in some ways, I hope he died soon after leaving his mother…I can only imagine he was scared and confused.
2:23 am on January 4th, 2009
“Although he had visiting rights, Platt, 22, of New Orleans, had never visited the boy until he picked him up Friday, Riley said.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6193031.html
Is the mom NUTS??? Why would you let him take your child unsupervised even for a few hours let alone a weekend? Excuse me while I slap her then beat the crap outta the sperm donor?
Lets see… $4000 or life in jail?? What a moron!!
2:39 am on January 4th, 2009
Dear.
God.
I think I am going to be sick.
–Al
2:46 am on January 4th, 2009
‘”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”
I took that from the link above, maybe since they were married she thought she “knew” him? oh hell, I dunno, I am grasping at straws… blah. fuckers !
2:49 am on January 4th, 2009
OMG are you kidding me??This is what I wasnt sure of.How the hell do you sue a man for child support and hes pissed as anything because your taking his party money hes never shown interest in the child and all of a sudden you pack the child up and send him off like its a weekly event??This is so much like the case last month(i will look it up tomorrow) where the girl left hubby for boyfriend then told boyfriend shes going back to hubby YET has him babysit her baby and he killed the baby!!Cant even blame it on the being young.I had heaven at 17,didnt live at home,worked and went to school and even that young theres no way in hell I wouldve sent her off with a man that hadnt seen her and all of a sudden he had to pay support and wants to see the child??Thats a recipe for disaster.RIP Ja’Shawn and its sad to even have to say this but,,”now you can run and play with all the other kids murdered this yr by STRANGERS & PARENTS”!@!!!! I have to tell myself theres a special place in heaven for these babies to get spoiled rotten,I know alot dont believe in a god and you know cases like this make you wonder even more,if there is what the hells he thinking???!!
3:07 am on January 4th, 2009
The mother stated in an interview that the courts informed her that she had to let the father have visitation per the terms of her being awarded current and back child support. I am not sure of the intelligence levels of all the parties involved, but she truly did seem like she was just following the law before and after her attempt to get financial support from the father.
3:08 am on January 4th, 2009
whispers_wing:
http://www.dreamindemon.com/2008/12/06/michael-janzen-got-even/
3:11 am on January 4th, 2009
God it breaks my heart to think about the turn from excitement to fear as he realizes the guy who just picked him up is really a selfish, heartless POS and not the “daddy” he was hoping for.
That’s what I’m saying…there is no way in HELL I would have sent my son off like that. I would have supervised visits between the two for as long as I could before ever trusting him to take my baby. Whether court ordered or not!
3:16 am on January 4th, 2009
In general, I agree with this sentiment–after he made comments about killing her or her son, why would she let him take the boy? But I’m reluctant to publicly beat her up over it. We don’t know what kind of conversations they had beforehand or what assurances he gave her. It’s clear from what I read that she could reach him by phone at any time (and go read the story at the TV link; he actually deleted info from his phone to try to cover up calls made around the time he reported the boy abducted), and as they say, hindsight is 20/20, and she now has to live the rest of her life knowing the father of her child murdered him.
And because I’m slow, yes, also what Morbid said.
3:20 am on January 4th, 2009
OK TY I hadnt read anything like that.Here when it comes to cases like that in Windsor we have a building called “Childrens Supervised Access” and the 1 parent drops the kid/kids off 15 minutes before appointment so the parents wont cross paths.Then they have their visit and theres a 2 way mirror I guess and workers watch so kids dont see them and after so long they recommend to the courts that they believe the children will be safe and should be allowed visits,but its not just 1 or 2 visits its over a long period of time.I hope mom has a good support system shes going to need it.Child support is such a sticky situation and I just cant believe how stuff like this comes out it.When my ex and I divorced I didnt want anything except to just go and disappear but my lawyer insisted and OMG hes a chemical engineer and im a RN I was in my 20s and there was no way in hell he was going to pay a cent.He wouldnt even give the kids their damn beds!!God I hate him lol love to see his face up here for something !!
3:21 am on January 4th, 2009
Trust me, I can’t imagine the pain this mother is dealing with right now…and I don’t want to add to it. But there had to have been something that could have been done ahead of time to make sure that he had supervised visits for a time frame or something. Why would the courts even agree to send a child off alone for a whole weekend with a man he’s never met before?
3:27 am on January 4th, 2009
Well, he probably *had* met him before and knew he was his father–but Platt had never taken advantage of his visitation rights and taken the child alone before.
3:31 am on January 4th, 2009
I can see that…but still, he made comments about killing her and/or the child….I think I would have just turned down the child support.
10:02 am on January 4th, 2009
visitation and child support are two different things, one having nothing to do with the other… I once seeked an attorney offered to forfeit support in order for my soon to be ex not to have visititation with my daughter. I asked for supervised visits but without goooooooood reasons that is not possible.
alto I moved out into an apartment I did not seek support –
so without the court papers, I had sole custody. Unfortunely I was addicted to him, he cleaned up his act and moved me back home… we planned another baby… our 2 kids are almost 7 yrs apart … my baby was 18 mos. when I left for the final time… I filed divorce and child support and visitation was established.
Let me tell you my son could care less about visitagtion with dad at 2 – 3 yrs old. He never got excited to go with dad, most kids cling not to leave mom… think about it when you leave them at daycare to go to work with someone they adore they still try everything possible to keep mom close … It did help that big sister was walking and talking and was going along that gave him some assurance but still it was very hard … to let them go. And trust me “talking” meant crap, she was threathen by him not to tell me nothing about where they went or who they saw etc. She didn’t have permission to use the phone to call me, even when I requested, It was safer to have them with classmate parents at least with them I was welcome to stop by, call ask where they were going and if they needed sunscreen etc. Visitation with dad sucked…
it probably wasn’t until our son was about 5 yrs that he picked up what was going on… and became somewhat excited. He is 18 now and last time he saw his dad was at age 12… our daughter is 25 and hasn’t seen him since she was 19. Our lives have been sooooo much more peaceful without that stress. My daughter said and my son agrees its a good thing dad didn’t come around that much they feel blessed… after seeing how the g/f’s kids turned out…. long story
In the beginning when they were young, He only seen the kids when I pressed the issue… ex: Are you going to see the kids on ___ holiday and his reply would be let me talk to ___ (g/f)… I would usually ask what she has to do with it… meaning it has nothing to do with her. He never seemed interested… he would tell them, if they wanted to live with him he would get an attorney, and tell me he didn’t want them, all head games. After all, mentally he had a g/f with 4 kids he replaced, his bio kids with the kids that lived with him. That was his excuse why he paid for their stuff (they had the best of everything) and not his own kids (he was pretty much hoping that I would fail) and didn’t give a ratsass how that would effect the children, to my surprise it did bother me more then the kids, my daughter said good for them if they can get stuff from him, then so be it they deserved it.
No matter how badly, our kids and I wanted a perfect relationship with dad, it almost never failed something negative occured on each visit. Just like marriage there were good and bad parts after, once he stopped over and found me taking my wash to my mothers to use the dryer – later that day he called asked my address I questioned why… honestly I thought he had planted drugs in my house needed my address to give the detective … he laughed and said I’m at Sears I bought you a new dryer it is being delivered. I put nothing past him.
The courts make these decisions based on standard visitation policy … It was the hardest thing for me to do but I was forced to let my kids go… (there were months between visits sometimes up to 16 months without hearing from him) and seriously most the time the kids came home they told me that they were left with sitters (there was a man in his 50’s – a store employee and there were a couple of 13 yr old girls from the neighborhood) dad was gone for the most parts, sucked I worked M-F off on weekends I wanted to be with my kids and they were gone spending time with some other womans kids mostly… The kids would claim to have fun, there were kids to play with, dads house is better etc.
For those that do ask for supervised visits the courts should try a little harder to investigate randomly with no min or max drop in visits to ensure the child(ren) safety and enviroment.
because of fear that it would come back to haunt me, I didn’t – but should of called the CPS on those two. He is very revengeful and its not a good thing to make any waves. Long story short they left the kids alone alot. They own a mini market/drive thru open 10 – 10, They would drink and do drugs until 2 or 3am day after day. When he met her she had 4 kids under age 5, By the time her only daughter was 8 or 9 she was held responsible for the brothers. She was accountable for the housework & laundry, helping her brothers with their homework & dinner they supplied the kids with frozen pizza’s, hot pockets, cereal and junk foods. That is just some of the minor things and I mean Minor….
so sorry that was long, I am very passionate about these issues – I think I might of had a mini heart attack writing this grrrrrrrrrrrr. excuse me while I go vomit!!!!!
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as for Danny boy… and all the other guys out there, 18 & 19 yr olds are NOT old enough to be fathers….. If you don’t want to pay or be responsible then don’t be putting your dicky up in little girls vj’s * R I P Ja’Shawn, is the victim – so sad for this little boys, loved ones.
10:07 am on January 4th, 2009
I’m sorry, but I would not turn my kid over to a virtual stranger if if he had once been there to donate sperm. I would be back in court demanding supervised visitations first. I would deny him visitation and make him take me back to court.
Shit, if you picked a random dude off the street and handed your 2 year old over to him for a weekend, DCF would investigate you. What is the difference if the dude once poked you??
10:21 am on January 4th, 2009
My damn good reason would be that the sperm donor was a stranger to my child and unqualified to care for him/her. I don’t give a rat’s ass, when it comes to my child, what a lawyer says. I’d still be in front of a judge laying out every reason I could think of, make up, and point to. If I truly felt my 2 year old was in danger from the sperm donor, they would have to jail my ass first.
Personally, I would have never had support and visitation in the same order (as a single parent). I would file a support order only and make the sperm donor file for visitation.
Luckily, most random dudes will ignore both the support and visitation orders and not kill the kid.
10:42 am on January 4th, 2009
I’ve seen 18 & 19-year old mothers and fathers who did, and have done, a much better job than some “adults”…including some adults on this very website. I would also counter your “don’t put your dicky up little girls vj” with the obvious statement of little girls not opening their vj’s for little boy’s dicky’s.
10:54 am on January 4th, 2009
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11:04 am on January 4th, 2009
I saw this pop up on my welcome screen and the story was short and as per usual with no depth or feeling and of course no details. I immediately thought of this site.
I think this has to be one of the worst crimes of all. This child trusted his mother and this stranger and went with him willingly only to be (assumingly) painfully killed. This man apparently has no sense so I am guessing restraint isn’t one of his attributes either.
He’ll rot in rail but hey!! — at least he won’t have those pesky support payments to make.
11:14 am on January 4th, 2009
This is very sad. I live about an hour from N.O. & I used to love going there before Katrina but ever since nothing has been the same. So much crime & despair. I just want to say I’ve been a lurker on this website for a while & decided to post to let the administration know you all are doing a wonderful job!! It’s refreshing to know there a crime blogs that aren’t racist because there are quite a few I’ve come across that are pure racist like PYSIH! Keep up the good work and I will keep reading. Also, if you ever need help I’m constantly reading about crime and can email you many stories since I’m a stay at home mom most of my days are spent doing this because my babies are no longer babies and prefer to live their own lives in their rooms or out with friends!! I’m just glad my teenagers 17 & 15 are not getting into trouble ( I’m also a snooper ) because if I want to know something I will ask and find out for myself! I think that’s what parents should do when children don’t want to talk to you as much about their personal lives!!
11:19 am on January 4th, 2009
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11:33 am on January 4th, 2009
Or maybe no one needs to keep any dickies out of any vjs. Just go ahead–let the zippers fly, and scream to the world, “Sex is hella fun, and I aim to get some as often as possible! But first, I’m just going to take 20 minutes to stop by Planned Parenthood or Public Health and stock up on some of them free condoms they’re always talking about!” Go ahead and have all the sex you want–but if there’s the slightest chance that maybe you don’t want to fork out the money, or the time, to deal with any possible consequences, just get some free birth control first. And then bang away to your heart’s content for all I care. Birth control is really pretty effective when used correctly, and it’s not all that difficult to use correctly. It’s a hell of a lot easier than say, hiding a pregnancy for 9 months, giving birth in secret, and then figuring out where to dump the baby. And much, much cheaper than court-ordered child support. Heck, stop by my house and tell me, “LeeMouse, I’m a horny mo-fo. But I’m also evil and lazy, and a congenital idiot, to boot,” and I’ll run right out to CVS and buy you a box of condoms myself.
Lord knows these people should be wearing condoms, anyway. Who knows where-all their genitals have been?
Also, on the visitation thing: I think a lot of parents, in general, can’t imagine that everyone doesn’t love their precious child the way they do. Plenty of people think everyone in line at the store finds their child’s antics to be clever and amusing…let alone the child’s other parent, whether he’s spent time with the kid or not. Parents just want to believe that everyone will fall in love with their child. So I can kind of understand why this woman let the dad take the child for a visit. And she may not have felt like she had any choice? If she was arrested for interfering with his legal visitation rights, who would care for the child then? And believe me, if she had denied this guy the right to see his kid? After he’d been ordered to pay child support? A thousand “father’s rights” loonies would have come out of the woodwork, crying about how the courts give mothers everything, and fathers nothing, and of course eventually some bitch is going to get it from a guy in a santa suit one day.
12:03 pm on January 4th, 2009
I read about this first on another site and was thinking the SAME thing…what an idiot! I don’t want to pay for the kid so I’ll kill him….
12:09 pm on January 4th, 2009
And Morbid you are so right about this! You gotta take a test to drive a car, go to college to become a teacher, but there are NO prerequisites when it comes to parenting! It’s sickening. Like the late great 2Pac said: “….keep your head up, legs closed, eyes open…” I volunteer at a youth homeless shelter and it’s a Catholic based organization. Most of these kids have been abused, have had consentual sex, have babies and some on the way…the whole “baby dad/baby momma” thing is a trend to them! Being that it’s a Catholic organization, we cannot school them on birth control or anything but abstinence. It’s unrealistic and it’s not helping when they’re already having sex and having babies! There was this 14 yr old there once w/ one baby and one on the way! Instead of teaching her geometry I wanted to talk to her about safe sex! But we weren’t allowed. These kids go by what they see in music videos, hear in school from their little uneducated friends and the parents are to blame! That’s how I see it.
1:16 pm on January 4th, 2009
Danny Platt, you are a poor excuse for a human being.
I am sure you had many opportunities to make up for the loss of time with your son. On this day you choose to visit your son for the first time. Was it love you had for him? did you miss him? No….you show up at his door as a stranger, as his mama must have said, this is your daddy Ja’ Shawn. He likely died knowing it was you, his father that killed him. I hope your remember his struggle, the look in his eyes as you stole his last breath. I pray you will for ever be haunted by his smile and his laugh, as I am sure he gave that to you.
Children are so forgiving, Ja’Shawn probably even forgave you in his heart as he died…
…”it’s O.K., daddy”… It’s not O.K. Ja’Shawn, your papa was a bringer of pain and death and for that he deserves death.
I’m so sorry Ja’Shawn…kisses, you deserved love by a real father.
1:38 pm on January 4th, 2009
Oh yeah, that has me crying.
3:20 pm on January 4th, 2009
May the angels sing thee to rest, Ja’Shawn.
–Al
3:41 pm on January 4th, 2009
PASS THE TISSUES. SO SAD.
3:44 pm on January 4th, 2009
Boy, those black males sure do get around stealing other people’s children, don’t they?
Platt, go F yourself.
4:12 pm on January 4th, 2009
And I have to agree,Im not patting myself on the back here I just want people to know its up to you what happens in your life no matter what.I was 17 had my daughter I went to school ,worked and never went on welfare.I didnt live at home I had my own place with her because I just knew living at home with her my mom would want to do everything and I had no problem with that my mom and Heaven are extremely close,she watched her alot while I was at school and at work.I went through for my nursing and it was mainly to prove to my daughter that you can do what you want if you want it bad enough.She is now in University and going through for CPA and I dont regret my decisions for a second of walking away from child support and visitation because the fact he didnt push for visitation right there told me he wasnt going to push and pay child support either and down the road it became his loss.She was a honor roll student who won scholorships when she graduated high school and he missed out on it all.When I graduated (8 months pregnant) a home room teacher I had gave me a plaque that said”Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,but the final forming of a persons character lies in their own hands”.And when she graduated high school I gave that plaque to her because its sooooo true.
5:10 pm on January 4th, 2009
Shit. This makes me want to cry. I would never let my babydaddy take my son alone for a whole weekend if he had never even seen him. The mother should have been a bit more strongly opposed to that esp if he was making death threats.
5:54 pm on January 4th, 2009
Not trying to blame the mother at all! but was she not the least bit suspicious that he all of a sudden wanted to spend time with the child? I would have been. Poor kid.
I hope they hang his sorry ass from the highest tree!!
7:13 pm on January 4th, 2009
Morbid, that made me want to give you a big kiss lol. I was 18 when I had my daughter and I am just awesome. Seriously people admire me for the way my kids are being raised.
8:47 pm on January 4th, 2009
I was actually 15 when I had my first child. I wasn’t raised by drunks or abused in anyway. I was just a stupid teenager with a cute boyfriend and way too much time on my hands. I am a great parent. I am honest with my kids to the point of annoyance. My 13 year old is going to high school next year still a virgin and has never smoked a cigarette or had a drink. More than I can say when I was her age!
Age really isn’t the issue. It’s morality. The group of people I ran with (X-generation) nearly all had children young and I can honestly say I am one of the very few that didn’t screw it up!
I chalk these idiots up to horrible family environment mixed with drug and alcohol abuse sprinkled with a little chemical imbalance.
9:24 pm on January 4th, 2009
It is about morality and my big thing was making sure she graduated high school baby free.Because my mom was 16 I was 17 and poor Heaven wasnt allowed to date till she graduated and omg did I take flack from friends over that!! I was told “you will never be able to enforce that” well I did and the day she graduated she had her own little cheering section(including a few outlaw bikers with tears in their eyes,they had been around me since I was 5) .She fianlly dated her first boyfriend at 18 1/2 lasted 1 week and she dumped him.If she didnt answer her cell phone it would be ringing as she walked in the front door and the landline would start ringing so she said “mom I cant breathe” and she dumped him.Morals are a big thing in life and I was raised by a mom who didnt drink or party or that but bikers were always in my life,they lived next to us ,babysat me gave me royal shit if I fucked up and I know alot say they have no morals well I know different these guys “raised me” to respect everyone and they turned out to be teddy bears in black leather(but dont ever tell them that lol)
10:46 pm on January 4th, 2009
I have been lurking here for a very, very long time. This story really has me even more paranoid than normal.
I got married to a guy that I had only known a few months when I was 21 and in my first few months of the USAF. I found out 6 weeks later that I was pregnant when I was getting ready to pcs to Japan. They gave me the option to voluntarily separate since both parents were in the military with highly deployable jobs….so I did. I came home before leaving to go be w/my “husband” in Japan. I soon found out what a horrible scum bag he is. He had cheated on me numerous times…and I also found an e-mail from his dad telling him that he should “off” me…which when I confronted them, they said it was a “JOKE”!!! WTF?
Anyway, fast forward.
This guy has NEVER called to check on my daughter (who is now 2), he has never asked to see a picture of her, he has never sent her anything for her birthday or Christmas, and he has only seen her for 3 hours (that’s being generous) her ENTIRE LIFE! Even though he has taken months of leave to “see his daughter”…he has seen her on 2 separate occasions for maybe an hour and a half each time.
We are still not divorced and we have NEVER lived together (crazy, right?) He says it’s because he wants custody of my daughter (who he OBVIOUSLY cares nothing about)…but it’s because he is living the life. Think about all of the extra benefits and pay involved with being married and having a dependent. WOW….can we say BAQ of over $1000/month….and he’s only been ordered to pay $300/month in child support. He also gets to live in married housing rather than in the dorms…so he can have lots of fun with the flavor of the week. If/when we get divorced, things will be changing for him…and he doesn’t want that.
Anyway, I know I was stupid for marrying him…but I was 21, 4 months into my military career (stressful!), and I believed every word he told me. So, I’m faced with the situation that in 7-8 months he will be out of the military and moving back home to where his parents live in WA…and I’m in GA. What is this going to mean for visitation? It means, my daughter who doesn’t know this creep….is going to have to travel on the complete opposite side of the country to stay with these crazy people who do not love or care for her for 2 weeks in the summer (at the least), and whatever else the court orders.
I know that a lot of you guys are screaming “GET A GOOD LAWYER!”….well I tried that, my parents helped to pay for his services….we went to court so many times, and finally the Serviceman’s Relief Act was invoked and the case came to a screeching halt. Now, my lawyer has just been elected as a superior court judge and has dropped my case. So, I am in a lot of debt and I cannot afford another lawyer. I work full-time, I’m in school full-time…and my parents said they just can’t do anything else. I don’t know what I’m going to do when he gets out of the service and the court cases start again.
Please God, don’t let this happen to my baby.
11:12 pm on January 4th, 2009
Welcome
if i were you id file divorce papers and move to a totally diff city,so he will think your in same town as papers filed,,,Am I making sense??lol sorry long day.I just think if you file in your city then you move to another he wont have a clue.And if possible have a friend mail all correspondence to him (legal papers etc) from another city if you have friends in other cities/countrys that are willing to help you.Just a suggestion,
11:21 pm on January 4th, 2009
We have already started the court proceedings. They were halted by the Serviceman’s Relief Act (formerly the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Act). As part of my end of the deal as of now – I have emergency custody until the case is over only granting him visitation as both parties agree. But, that will change when the case moves forward. Also, I cannot move without letting him know…and I’m sorry, but I can’t do ANYTHING to mess things up for my daughter….and if anything can be shown to the judge that shows that I haven’t cooperated, that is all they need. I am in the south and although most courts favor mothers, the courts here favor our military men (most have served and/or have children currently on active duty)…but I just pray I get a judge who actually SEES and LISTENS to the facts!
12:01 am on January 5th, 2009
Welcome, princessbeth. Forgive me for being an ignorant moron, but I don’t understand how any court would look at the circumstances here and grant your husband more than minimal rights. I mean, there is a history here, and I trust you have documented all this. I mean, is he willing to pay you child support for the right to visit a child he clearly has no interest in?
11:11 am on January 5th, 2009
agree, lets vilify the low life loser baby killing piece of crap
11:44 am on January 5th, 2009
Yeah, as someone who works as a paralegal, I can tell you that the mom absolutely couldn’t say, “Hey, no unsupervised visits.” The court decides that and even if you try to get an emergency order or something, it can be hard. Especially if you don’t know how the system works or can’t afford a lawyer. And I’ve seen judges deny such orders just because hey, they don’t know for SURE the dad’s dangerous. The guy’s a really stupid scumbag, though.
1:38 pm on January 5th, 2009
First off, this is very sad. I will never understand to a person how or why money/ anger is worth a child’s life. RIP little one.
Second, I work for an attorney and it is very hard to get supervised visitations. We have a couple of people that “claim” the dad is abusing the child, etc. We have done motions and orders to get these children away. Has it been done yet? Nope. So, it may not be the mother’s stupidity in this. She probably had no choice like the people I see everyday. Courts are full of crap sometimes. I see it everyday. People have proof and the court still half-asses stuff and it never gets done or it ends up being too late.
It’s sickening.
2:59 pm on January 5th, 2009
For those of you supporting Morbid’s statement, let’s remember that the VAST MAJORITY of parents, teenaged and adult alike, are at least decent parents.
That said, teenagers have been deemed, generally speaking, too irresponsible to even drink or own a firearm. This general impulsiveness that causes insurance companies to charge them significantly more for the simple fact of their age also deems them less than ideal to be parents. The very fact that they got pregnant before they were financially stable (or even independent, in some cases) speaks to a level of irresponsibility.
None of this means teenagers *can’t* be good parents, only that there is a pretty strong argument against the concept. Hell, I’ve met alcoholics and crack addicts who’ve done a fine job of raising children. But that doesn’t necessarily mean anything, does it.
If you had a kid too young and that kid was not abused or killed as a result, give yourselves a pat on a back… But let’s not advocate teenage parenthood.
3:36 pm on January 5th, 2009
This is so very sad. The first time he is picked up by Daddy, and this happens. I hope you become Bubba’s Daddy in the Penn you piece of shit.
4:45 pm on January 5th, 2009
I don’t see why men should have to pay up for a kid they didn’t even want. Isn’t it the woman’s fault for getting pregnant and not taking care of the problem some other way?
Look, both people agreed to have sex, but only one of them seems interested in the kid. Why force both of them to get financially involved?
5:01 pm on January 5th, 2009
I have found an AP generated photo of the child killer associated with this story but I don’t know how to add it to my comment.
5:04 pm on January 5th, 2009
Are you for real? Is this a serious comment?
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