Barbara O’Brien's 15-year-old adopted son attacked her with a butcher knife & Hammer

[Tazzzz]

Barbara Gail O’Brien, 49

A 15-year-old Forrest High School student, angry that his mother ordered him to get off the couch because he was wet, attacked her repeatedly with a butcher knife Tuesday afternoon, police reported.

According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office incident report, police called to a home on Leroy Drive found 49-year-old Barbara Gail O’Brien locked in a bathroom, covered in blood Tuesday afternoon. She told police she had been attacked by her adopted son.

Police arrested the boy at the nearby home of his biological parents.

He told police he was sitting on the couch watching TV when his mother yelled at him to get off because he was wet, the police report said.

He then picked up a butcher knife, followed her to the back of the house and began stabbing her repeatedly, he told police. After the knife broke, she was able to flee to the bathroom and lock the door.

He grabbed a hammer and tried to kick in the door, he told police. Then he took his mother’s keys and drove her car to the home of his biological parents, where he was arrested.

His mother was listed in fair condition at Shands Jacksonville on Thursday.

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[Rhoni]

Fuck I would hate to see what he would do to her if she told him to clean his room or take out the garbage...What's with all the rage in the younger people..

[Hellsbells]

Jacksonville judge gives 15-year-old 25 years for hacking mom with butcher knife

Torn between love and fear, a Jacksonville mother tearfully asked a judge Tuesday to send her adopted 15-year-old son to prison for stabbing her with a butcher knife.

“I love Andrew. It is so hard,” Barbara Gail O’Brien testified. “He needs help, but I don’t want him out in a year. I’m terrified of him. I don’t want him to know where I am.”

But Andrew Paul O’Brien and his adopted sister said he took as much of their mother’s verbal and physical abuse as he could before he snapped.

“I think he handled the situation the best he could. He didn’t know how to handle it any other way,” Kayla O’Brien, 18, testified.

Circuit Judge Jeff Morrow called the case a “social quagmire” before sentencing the slight Forrest High School freshman to 25 years in prison, followed by 15 years of probation with psychiatric counseling. Morrow found no evidence of abuse.

“This is a heartbreaking case,” Morrow told the 5-foot-1, 120-pound teen. “I don’t want to be the judge to sentence you, but it’s my duty.”

Andrew O’Brien pleaded guilty in March to attempted first-degree murder. In January he chased his mother down and stabbed her nine times in the back, shoulder and head after she told him to get off the family’s new couch in his wet clothes.

The teen told Morrow on Tuesday he had repaired the family’s roof in the rain and sat down on the couch. When his mother started yelling, he said he thought about times she had called him names and slapped him.

“I went and got a knife and stabbed her. I guess I was mad,” he said before hanging his head and crying. “I just want to say I’m sorry. Nobody deserves to be stabbed.”

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