Great-Grandfather Robbed for Crack Money by great-grand kids

NW Cable News ^ | 09/24/03 | Staff Writer

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FORT PAYNE, Ala. (AP) -- A Cherokee County brother and sister have been charged with robbing their great-grandfather of $250 and leaving him for dead, police said.

DeKalb County Sheriff Cecil Reed said the siblings apparently wanted money to buy crack cocaine. Both are in DeKalb County Jail on first-degree robbery charges, Reed said.

Reed said Ernest C. Goza, 89, of the Mt. Vernon community in DeKalb County, heard a knock at his door at 4 a.m. on Sept. 14 and found his great-granddaughter, 27-year-old Jennifer Goza, standing at the doorstep.

Goza, who had been living alone and in poor health since his wife died, let her inside, Reed said. After a very short visit, she went outside and then came back in the house with her brother, Waylon Curt Goza, the sheriff said.

Reed said Waylon Goza began beating his great-grandfather with a wooden stick. Jennifer Goza then took Ernest Goza's wallet, and the two then left the house, Reed said.

"He was badly beaten, and it took all his strength to get up and go over to his son's house for help," Reed told the Fort Payne Times-Journal.

Ernest Goza's son took him to DeKalb Baptist hospital, and he later was transferred to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn., Reed said. Goza spent three days in Erlanger's trauma unit and was unable to speak to investigators until Monday.

Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[CherylBower]

What a great family reunion. They are the lowest of the low. Oh wait, they are crack addicts. Redundancy.

Goza the Gozarian has come.

[MrLeRoy]

If crack was illegal, this never would have happened.

[TheBigB]

If anything deserved a "Just damn" alert...

[wideawake]

If crack were legal, these great-grandkids would have stopped by to see him, given hima big hug, looked at some photo albums and then taken their beloved great-grandpa out for dinner.

[Seeking the truth]

darn....you beat me to it.

[job]

Goza the Gozarian...stop it!

"yes, have some"

[Walkingfeather]

those that want to legalize drugs please ask yourself these 3 questions....

What child would say that their parents were better parents when taking drugs?

What parent would say their children were better children when they took drugs?

What Great grand father would say his Great Grandchildren were better grand children when they were taking drugs?

[SengirV]

When crack runs in the family, I figued the Great Grandfather would be 50. Actually since the great Grandaughter was 29, he was a Great Grandfather at around 59.

In response to CherylBower - Are you a god?

[KantianBurke]

"If someone asks you if you're a God, you say YES!"

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Oh, puh-LEAZE. The economics of the illegality of crack has nothing to do with their moral depravity.

They were too busy sucking the glass d*** to make rational choices with their lives - and if it weren't the crack money they'd need, it would be the rent money, or the electric money, or the car payment....

[Skooz]

If these losers were not pathetic scum-sucking pieces of repulsive walking vomit, this never would have happened.

[MrLeRoy]

If crack were legal, these great-grandkids would have stopped by to see him, given hima big hug, looked at some photo albums and then taken their beloved great-grandpa out for dinner.

Nah ... but they might have been able to scrape together the much lower price without having to rob grampa.

[MrLeRoy]

Those that want to keep alcohol legal, please ask yourself these 3 questions....

What child would say that their parents were better parents when drinking alcohol?

What parent would say their children were better children when they drank alcohol?

What Great grand father would say his Great Grandchildren were better grand children when they were drinking alcohol?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Ray Stanz: Gozer the Gozerian: good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activities and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.

[Skooz]

Something tells me these skidmarks would have done the same to get quarters for the arcade (back in the early '80s).

[MrLeRoy]

The economics of the illegality of crack has nothing to do with their moral depravity.

Straw man. I never said it did.

if it weren't the crack money they'd need, it would be the rent money, or the electric money, or the car payment....

Then why did they wait till they did to rob him? This was the first expense they ever had?

[MrLeRoy]

If crack was illegal, this never would have happened.

If these losers were not pathetic scum-sucking pieces of repulsive walking vomit, this never would have happened.

What policy conclusions can we draw from that fact?

[MrLeRoy]

Something tells me these skidmarks would have done the same to get quarters for the arcade (back in the early '80s).

Then why did they wait till they did to rob him? This was the first expense they ever had?

[jmc813]

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