Boys sneak in, but dad is charged

Oakland Press ^ | May 01, 2002 | STEPHEN W. HUBER

[lepton]

If report is accurate, pretty ill-advised charge.

[dpa5923]

If Kerr is telling the truth, this is crazy. The kids should thank God it wasn't my house.

Kerr said he grounded his daughter for a month because of the incident.

My daughter would have gotten much worse!

[Pearls Before Swine]

Guys, this took place in Berkeley. All your authority are our.

[order_of_reason]

"They're lucky he didn't come down with a shotgun."
That would be quite an understatement.

[Redbob]

""We want to consult with the victims' families..."

That would be Kerr's family, right?

[mad puppy]

Kerr said he grounded his daughter for a month because of the incident.

Kerr sounds like just another guy tring to do the right thing. I guess he should be thrown in jail. (/sarcasm)

I wonder what the parents of the boys did to their sons? If they were mine they would be writting to the judge telling him to drop the charges on Kerr.

[CFW]

"We want to consult with the victims' families ...

Speaking of the "victims", I see no other mention of their parents.

It's 3:00 a.m., do you know where your children are?

[Savage Beast]

It appears that these boys are lucky they weren't killed. I did reckless and ill-advised "pranks" as a young teenager. Now I tremble as I think how dangerous such things can be.

[Leisler]

What right does this man have to interfer with these peoples reproductive rights!

[AppyPappy]

A 13 year-old cannot give consent, therefore the boyfriend is guilty of rape if they had sex.

[Tai_Chung]

Aside from the asault charge, there's other issues here.

Would you let your 13-year old daughter go to a party until 11 pm?

Would you let your 13-year old daughter have a boyfriend?

I would assume that both couples were making-out in the same room for atleast an hour before getting caught. Is this type of "group activity" normal for young teens?

I noticed there was no mention of the boys parents looking for them. Would you let your 14-year old son stay out all night?

These children seem to be running wild. I believe the father should have every right to beat the snot out of the kids even if he knew their identity. These children need some kind of order in their lives. Charging the father with a crime will only make them disrespect authority even more.

[Drango]

I'm wondering what the charge would be if I were to punch out the District Attorney?

[Savage Beast]

"I wonder what the parents of the boys did to their sons? If they were mine they would be writing to the judge telling him to drop the charges on Kerr."

Yes. At the very least. Mine would also be at Kerr's house, apologizing to him, his wife, and his daughter--to their faces. They would also be grounded until I decided what else to do. What these boys did is very dangerous, and they should accept full responsibility for it--for their own good--assuming that this report is accurate.

[antidisestablishment]

Any 14 year-old boy (who doesn't bear my last name) caught in my daughter's bedroom is likely to assume room temperature himself. As for the daughter, a month's restriction wouldn't even be a start.

[AUgrad]

It's a good thing they weren't hiding in my house. They would probably have assumed room temperature by now.

[KC_Conspirator]

WTF? The man had an intruder in his house for crying out loud.

[Marobe]

X42 made it legal for those thirteen year old hussys to entertain those boys and the Father is in violation of EO-13107 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, According to Article 13, "The child shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers..." In other words, parents have no authority . The State assumes full power to "protect" the child.... if parents restrict their child's "right to freedom of association" or their child's ambiguous rights to "privacy" or "conscience and religion" (Articles 14 -16), they would break this law and face the potential loss of their child to the state's "protection" services. Welcome to the New World Order !

[concerned about politics]

These children seem to be running wild. I believe the father should have every right to beat the snot out of the kids even if he knew their identity. These children need some kind of order in their lives.

Agreed. At least the father tries. I see him as trying to be a good father with a daughter who's a real skanky brat.