[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.

[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?

[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 !

[HELLRAISER II]

I'm not sure it would have made any difference to me whether it was boyfriend or intruder at 3:00 a.m. hiding in my daughters closet. Somebody would have gotten their @ss whipped and in honest humble opinion they would have deserved it.

[homeschool mama]

***My No. 1 priority is to protect my wife and kids.***

He had every right to do what he did!

[3catsanadog]

Kerr, who said he has two felonies on his record,

Whoa Nelly Bell! Am I misunderstanding this, or has this guy broken the law before?

This doesn't look good for Mr. Kerr, if he's been arrested and convicted before.

Otherwise, he better start bleating that he feared for his and his family's life in his defense.

I guess from now on, we are supposed to dialog with intruders and clarify that they are there to steal or rape or murder or all of the above before we defend ourselves.

Sheesh, what a country!

[in the Arena]

Somebody needs to remind the idiots in Berkley about the 12 year old murder victim, Polly Klaas...abducted from her home in the middle of the night...

Davis, 42, was convicted on June 18 of killing Polly after kidnapping her from a slumber party in her bedroom on October 1, 1993. Her disappearance touched off a nationwide search that did not end until Davis led police to the body weeks later.

[bigeasy_70118]

Louisiana has a great perspective on this. You unlawfully enter someone's house, car or place of business, you can be shot.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

James Halushka, director of warrants and investigations for the Prosecutor's Office, said Kerr's prior record was a factor in the decision to charge him.

Hmmm.

[ctdonath2]

Parents, make it clear to your children that not only will they get in trouble for sneaking other people into the house at night unknown to you, the intruders (as YOU decide who's an intruder, not your kids) risk being terminated on sight, especially if they are found hiding.

Also make it clear to your children that the same may happen (without warning) to them if they go sneaking into someone else's house without the homeowner's permission (regardless of the kids who live there).

Make it abundantly clear that the issue is not merely about "getting in trouble", it's about "getting dead".

[mhking]

It's in Berkeley:

All your crime are belong to us.

[oldvike]

"We're going to take this case under review at this point," Halushka said Tuesday. "We want to consult with the victims' families..."

Mr. Kerr was the victim, not the boys. JMO