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Boy, 11, Pleads Guilty To Shooting His Dad’s Girlfriend To Death

July 30, 2012 at 4:14 pm by Morbid

WAYNESBORO, Ga. – An 11-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to the shooting death of his father’s girlfriend last December.

The boy was 10-years-old on Dec 30 when he got angry at his father’s girlfriend, 31-year-old Jennifer Albright (pictured), because she had asked him to clean up some dirty diapers. Albright was watching the boy, his younger cousin and her 2-year-old daughter at the time.

In response to Albright’s request, he picked up a 12-gauge shotgun he had received on Christmas then shot Albright in the back as she changed her 2-year-old daughter.

The boy was charged with felony murder and gun possession, both of which he pleaded guilty to the other day. Juvenile Court Judge Willie Saunders sentenced the boy to be held in Augusta Regional Youth Detention Campus until he turns 21, the maximum sentence allowed. The boy can file yearly petitions for early release or reduction in penalty.

His mother, who does not have custody of the boy, didn’t say anything in court but outside she apologized to Albright’s family, who wanted the boy charged as an adult. She said she did not have custody of the boy because of her drug use, but that she had tried repeatedly to get help for her son before this happened.

“I am sorry. I wish I could go back and change things, but I can’t. I know they feel like I didn’t do what I was supposed to, but they don’t know how many people I contacted for help. They will never know what I did to try and find help for him,” she told reporters.

Next up for the boy is a deprivation hearing that will determine where he’ll go in case he’s released early.

Tags: Crime, diaper, Georgia, Jennifer Albright, Juvenile, Murder, Shooting

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http://twitter.com/Bigcced Cedric

Seems like who ever gave this little Demon the shotgun should also be going to prison to me.
EveryVillainIsLemons

I wonder what the father has to say about this. Did he try to get help for his son before he murdered his father’s girlfriend?

While I don’t have a problem with children being taught the safe use of firearms, I do have a problem with children having easy access to firearms.
EveryVillainIsLemons

Agreed. You don’t leave guns laying around with small children and brats with issues running around.
newstarshipsmell

Especially around dirty diapers. No good can come from the unholy union of firearms and dirty diapers.
http://www.facebook.com/JellyBellyMomma Kimberly Hanselman

“In response to Albright’s request, he picked up a 12-gauge shotgun he had received on Christmas then shot Albright in the back as she changed her 2-year-old daughter.” Why in the fuck did a 10 year old receive a gun for Christmas, especially since it seems that he already had some major behavioral problems beforehand?
newstarshipsmell

“They will never know what I did to try and find help for him.”
Which apparently didn’t include using contraception or keeping her fucking legs closed, since apparently not abusing drugs is too much to ask of her.
ShelbySP

Seriously. Who give a 10 year old a shotgun for Christmas? Let’s break this down: 1- Who gives anyone a shotgun for Christmas? Nothing to celebrate the birth of Jesus like blowing shit to hell. 2-Who gives a 10 year old a shotgun?? Or any kind of gun except maybe a Red Ryder BB gun? Especially if the kid is the conductor of the crazy train!

*Mymindisfulloffuck*
http://www.facebook.com/sftmusic Sean Wernersbach

I’m pretty much just going to echo what others have already said but – Who the fuck gives a 10 year old a shotgun as a gift? Really? Morons.
Eliza Berntsen

Who is bringing up the baby now? The one that’s left without a mother. I can not imagine the terror that the baby must have gone through- at 2 they are really aware of what is going on around them, and even more aware of their mums being hurt.
newstarshipsmell

Someone who’s tired of his new girlfriend?
EveryVillainIsLemons

Exactly.
creamofflicka

Hey,.. Jesus told the Holy Posse to sell their cloaks to buy swords.
creamofflicka

Exactly. This is a gun owner responsibility issue…well, and a 10 year old psycho issue.
creamofflicka

It’s not an issue that the kid got a gun as a gift. I got my first rifle when I was 10. But my Dad kept it all under lock and key. This is a Dad issue as much as it is a crazy kid issue.

But who makes a 10 year old clean up dirty fuckin’ diapers,.. Fuck that. That was her kid’s shitty diapers, Her responsibility. Maybe he should have just hit her with a board or a chair leg or something,..

I’ve got a 9 month old an 7yr old and a teenager… I’d never ask either one of the older kids to clean up shitty diapers. That’s parent stuff, my responsibility.. not kid stuff.
newstarshipsmell

“who makes a 10 year old clean up dirty fuckin’ diapers” – I dunno, without context it’s hard to say that this was unreasonable. Maybe he’d been misbehaving earlier and that was his punishment. Me, I’m just glad I never faced this situation. I probably would have voiced my dissatisfaction with the chore by blowing away the fucking diapers – and then I probably would have been forced to clean up all the bits and pieces of diaper and babypoo scattered everywhere, and lose my shotgun to boot.
lespacino

I wonder, because she was in the process of changing her kid, if it was simply a matter of “hey, toss this in the trash for me,” with regard the diaper she just took off the kid. If so, I don’t think that’s an unreasonable request. With my kids, I always wrapped and tied the dirty diapers in plastic grocery bags then tossed them, so on occasion when I had to change 2 at once (happens a lot with twins), my oldest would help and toss the bag for me. She was only 6, but liked pitching in- even by just tossing a diaper every now and then.
IamObsolete

Who gives a 10 year old a shotgun for Christmas? Plenty of people who hunt for their food. I’m a girl and I got my first gun when I was 11. Although like another posted mentioned, mine was locked in a gun case when we weren’t out hunting.
tinalib13

Damn you…that made me giggle. Now I feel bad!
tinalib13

This is so sad for the baby who just lost its mother. Seriously people, lock up your guns. Especially if you have a child with anger issues running around.
http://www.hillbillyhotdogs.com/ unimpeachablegoodguy

America has been getting undercheesed bigtime!
JohnQknowitall

“I am sorry. I wish I could go back and change things, but I can’t. I know they feel like I didn’t do what I was supposed to, but they don’t know how many people I contacted for help. They will never know what I did to try and find help for him,” she told reporters.

Who the fuck gave this two legged mess a gun for Christmas? If the mother’s statements are true, then the giver and father should be punished too.
David

”
he picked up a 12-gauge shotgun he had received on Christmas…”

What. The. Fuck?!?!

Imagine “A Christmas Story”, instead of 1940′s Chicago, it’s 2012′s Redneck Hell, Georgia. Did we just shoot past the Red Rider BB Gun phase or what?

Kid: “I’d like a new 12 Gauge shotgun.”

Santa: “You’ll shoot your stepmom’s guts out, Kid”
tkaz

I come from a long line of gun owners, as does my husband. My son got his first rifle at 8 mos. YES, that is excessive. However we keep the gun & all guns in the gun safe except when we take them out to use them. Which honestly, is only at Labor Day when we visit father-in-law in the boonies. My point is, you can give a gun as a gift for whatever holiday you wish….just be responsible about it. To think a shotgun was near a 10 yr old & 2 younger children is just wrong. And if mom though there was a problem, did anyone else question the childs state of mind?
takurospirit

Asking a kid to throw out some dirty diapers is an unreasonable request now? My daughter threw out her baby brother’s when she was all of 2 years old. People have lost their minds.
creamofflicka

Maybe I went a bit ballistic on the issue. But The way I see it, the 10yr old boy doesn’t have HIS mom in the house,.. he’s dealing with the new GF and her snot nosed kids all over his space. His world is more than a bit outta wack. He’s likely been butting heads with Dad and Dad’s new live in anyway,.. then she throws shitty diapers on him. It’s a low blow.

But still, I stand by my opinion that if you father or birth the kids,.. every shitty diaper is your ‘s with the exception of volunteers and your baby sitter. A kid won’t be a kid for ever and I’ll never throw an inkling of parental responsibility at a kid. That will happen soon enough with out my help.
JGo555

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB_5VbhIBzY&feature=player_detailpage
Heather4877

I sincerely doubt that this was all about being asked to throw away some dirty diapers. The boy picking up the gun to kill the woman was most likely the culmination of some things that happened before between the boy and dad’s girlfriend.
LeaveMeBe

I was wondering the same thing about the dad, and what he has to say about the outcome of all of this. The article mentions the mother and the girlfriends family but no word from dad.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Sarah-Silcox-Martin/1460419094 Sarah Silcox Martin

I understand that it might be hard on the boy without his mom in the house and dad’s new girlfriend but to shoot her in the head???? I grew up in a house full of guns. I learned to shoot as a kid. My dad died when I was 3 (not from guns) and my mom remarried when I was 8. It was hard. I had a step-brother, a new dad. There was a little drama but I never shot anybody. And today I love my dad and my step-brother very much. This kid definitely had issues that SOMEBODY should have done a better job attending to.
lespacino

Yeah, those things should never be a kid’s responsibility, for sure. In my household, you were “old enough” to babysit at 10!!! I can’t even imagine letting a 16-year-old watch my kids, let alone the babies, toddlers, and kids I was caring for at that age. Childhood should simply be about learning and having fun. Although some of that learning should be acquiring responsibilities, those responsibilities should never be forced childcare duties. I can’t imagine shooting somebody for that at that age, but my Mom wasn’t a drug addict and I never had to deal with new parental figures.
ShelbySP

Don’t get me wrong, one side of my family is full of avid hunters, the other side is all military. We love guns, but in my family it’s high school for your first rifle and your 18th birthday for anything else. My parents and uncles also always kept (and still keep) the guns locked up in the safe when we’re not going shooting or hunting. I am in no way anti-gun, trust me Also, I am imagining your son operating his a teeny weeny shotgun at 8 months old and it makes me giggle.
tkaz

We have a pic, FIL & hubby are holding it & my son is barely even paying it any attention. It wasn’t a car, it had no wheels so it was “boring”. Haha!
ShelbySP

He’ll learn! Lol
http://www.facebook.com/joselyn.miller.7 Miller Joselyn

I was wondering the same thing. Why would the 10-year old have access to the gun that easily. If the child was given a gun (which I don’t get) for a gift, then why wasn’t it put up and he told that he could only use the gun when an adult was present and the gun put up somewhere safe with a lock, esp. with a baby in the house. The father and stepmother don’t sound like they were too fit themselves. The unfit biological mother who wanted to get the kid help, sounds like she may have been the most fit parent there was…now the baby is left without a mother and I’m sorry this kid knew what he was doing and should be tried as an adult because he is dangerous.
http://twitter.com/Bigcced Cedric

I can’t imagine her having made the kid do more than put a diaper into the trash while she was in process of putting a fresh one on the baby;this would not be an unreasonable request to make to a 10 year old.The dirty diaper was most likely folded and taped shut,the mom was most likely still in process of putting a fresh diaper onto the baby.Anyone who has ever changed a baby in modern times knows that when you remove a diaper such as a “Pampers” (disposable) the first thing you do is fold it shut and tape it closed.Closing the diaper as soon as possibly helps a great deal with the stench from babies poo-poo,kinda like a grown person doing a “courtesy” flush while not quite done taking a healthy shit.

When I was 10 years old I helped change my little sisters diapers all the time and I never had a problem with it – mostly ’cause I loved my little sister.Turns out that helping with my sibling aided me later in life – when I ended up being a single parent raising two boys from infants.
The_Yeti_Knows

For Christmas I read he got three sticks of dynamite, a kilogram of C4, HD donkey porn, an ounce of premium Hindu kush and a nice beretta 9mm. Ah America, home of the frumpty numptards
tinalib13

Did you forget about the 5 sheets of LSD and the big bag of mushrooms?
The_Yeti_Knows

You hippies are always on about the psychedelics aren’t you ? …. Listen here teach, if your web footed spirit guide slobbers too, maybe ask her to give peace a chance.
tinalib13

You seem surly lately. Have I offended your Yetiness somehow? If you want me to I’ll give Oprah a chance.
EveryVillainIsLemons

I know they want to protect the kid’s identity and all, but surely they could have gotten a comment from the father and just credited him as “the defendant’s father” or some such thing.
The_Yeti_Knows

No it’s the oppressive ridiculous festering furnace blast we call weather, if you were head to toe in fur, you’d understand…That and my secret crop was stolen by the idiot McCoy clan on the other side of the mountain. Revenge will be mine . Maybe ill have a couple handfuls of shrooms and lay in wait ?
tinalib13

Yes, do that. It will relax you. Damn those McCoys! Do you want me to come up there and stomp some ass? I would do that for you, no problem. And Yeti, try to stay in the air conditioning. I hate to see your yeti fur get all sweaty and matted. While I’m up there kicking ass, I’d be glad to brush your fur for you? It just might cheer you up some.
ultracreep

Yes, gun safety is an issue, but the fact that the kid obviously had BIG problems when it came to anger and impulse control is the bigger one. My family lived out in the country when I was a kid. We had a (loaded) rifle that my dad kept in his closet at all times. Dad made sure he saw us shoot rabbits to eat and snakes and what not and made sure we knew that guns were for killing and dead is dead. It never occurred to my sister NEVER ONCE to touch that gun. I don’t know why kids now do what they do with them.
ultracreep

I changed my sister’s when I was 5 because I was all about baby dolls and she was a big real life one. My mom supervised of course, but later in life I was pretty much her primary babysitter from a pretty young age. It never occurred to me that this was an unfair or unreasonable situation. After all, I was the older sister and I figured that’s part of what we do.
Shar G’z

LMAO “Use them”….right -_-
tkaz

What does that mean?
The_Yeti_Knows

Maybe a sandwich? My new friend Mikey’s mom always makes him one after their three-way involving the dog.
tinalib13

As long as it’s peanut butter babycakes. You know how I love peanut butter don’t you? BTW, I’ve had a few beers. It tends to loosen me up some. Watch out!
The_Yeti_Knows

Good you can watch my back, nothing more comforting than a drunken backup riding shotgun… just keep the safety on until I say fire. Keep a couple cold for me too until I finish this long shift? Yeti for congress.
tinalib13

Do you have a Facebook? You so need to hit me up on there you hairy man. Oh, and I owuld certainly wash…I mean watch your back. **giggle giggle**
tinalib13

Yetiiii… where are you?? Don’t leave me hangin…
The_Yeti_Knows

What is the facebook thing people keep talking about? Where I come from we aren’t so lonely and depraved as to hope strangers will enjoy seeing a picture of us eating balogna flapovers whilst high on bath salts.
The_Yeti_Knows

Listen carefully at your attic entrance, I’m up here with a tub of hot buttered popcorn watching your home movies. The kind with a hole in the bottom
tinalib13

Lol no you’re just depraved enough to get on D’D daily and talk to me. lol
The_Yeti_Knows

Tina baby you’re the only one who gets it…. never change… well maybe the 80′s hair, but that’s cool, whatever works… **** grinning buttscratch, and full body stretch, and I mean full body ***
tinalib13

You can count on me Yeti love. I’m picturing the full body stretch…so hot lol.
Prominent Prozac

Except you know, the father had him. Knowing his son had issues and more than likely knew he had problems with his step-mom, he gave him a WEAPON, and easy access to it. The mother is getting shit from you for what? Having a drug problem? Why don’t you give the father some shit for not keeping his dick in his pants. Apparently a problem for him, since I’ll assume that baby she was changing was his, and god knows how many others. The father didn’t even comment, he should be the one apologising, not the mother. Yet he sulks away, not claiming responsibility for his own son, or his own part in what happened. Of course that makes it easy for you to blame the mother. It works both ways. -She’s bad for not being protected, having a child, and now a drug habit. Yes, that’s pretty shitty of her. The father is bad for also not being protected, helping create the child..oh and you know, giving the troubled boy a gun along with easy access to it. That’s worse.
newstarshipsmell

Sorry, this is so fucking stupid I can’t even begin to think of an intelligent, worthwhile response to it.
neenaP

Thats what I’m thinking AND if he has previous issues why leave gun around him?
neenaP

Makes complete sense to me. You are blaming the mother for getting pregnant, as if that has anything to do with this child getting a gun for Christmas…
neenaP

Because the family is white trash and they think giving a kid a gun is a great idea.
newstarshipsmell

Well, I did say “fucking stupid,” so I’m not surprised it makes complete sense to you.
Martin Huizing

@newstarshipsmell:disqus: Angry much?
newstarshipsmell

Angry? Nah, disgusted.