Posted on 01/09/2008 7:55:39 PM PST by chasio649
I would venture to say he was a meth head....that stuff makes you nuttier than a fruitcake.
I hope with all my heart you are right and further hope he receives a fitting punishment.
What a horrible story. Just unbelievably sad.
Wow! Did you miss your empathy shots at the center this week??
Court appointed child advocates could write a book on these crack addicts.
“...too young to really get what was happening.”
Regardless of age, children sense when there is strife around them. They may not have understood exactly what was unfolding, but I’m sure they sensed their fathers rage, and when the moment came for each child to be thrown off that bridge, especially the eldest boy, they were horrified as they fell all that way.
Lord have mercy on their mother. I know the children are now with him.
It’s possible he could be making this up.
I’ve thought that myself.
Sorry, no “empathy” here for women who shack up with drug addicts, gangbangers, etc, and squirt out babies with no way to support or protect them. When she first found out the kids were missing, her first thought was that their dear father had traded them for drugs!!! She KNEW what this guy was about and kept having babies and leaving them with him anyway.
And for the helpless little children? Most likely their lives were pretty miserable, and since our political/legal system has evolved to do nothing about situations like this, they’ve been spared years of misery, which very likely would have been followed by their own irresponsible baby-making and child neglect/abuse. Sad but true. Hopefully they’re at peace now.
For the kids’ sake, I hope he’s not making it up. Because the most likely alternative is that he DID trade them for drugs. Can you imagine what people who take infants and toddlers in trade for drugs DO with the kids? These kids are too damaged and the wrong color to be marketable in the illegal adoption arena. There’s only one other market for kids this young . . .
Although, if he is an addict, jail is not where he’ll want to be indefinitely before trial. And facing capital murder charges after confessing is no trifle matter.
We have new information about the family of the four children whose father says he threw them off the Dauphin Island Bridge. The family tells News 5 that the youngest child, a four month old had heart problems and had just gotten out of the hospital. Cam Phengsisomboun, the children’s uncle, says the family’s home flooded during Hurricane Katrina and they moved to Hinesville, Georgia. They had just returned to South Mobile County.
Phengsisomboun also tells News 5 there may be a witness to the crime. He says a Dauphin Island man spotted a van that looks like the one belonging to the family on the bridge. Phengsisomboun says the witness saw three children in the back of the van and a man with a plastic bag. We are expecting a news conference in about 45 minutes. We will carry it live here on WKRG.com
He may have done it. I don’t know. I doubt if he traded them he would have stuck around. He’s not going to want to face murder charges. If he is doing this to “control” the wife though he probably has them some place safe. Just another possibility thought.
That’s not good.
Pretty arrogant, given the benefit of hindsight that you have that she did not.
Maybe there’s still time for you to get to the funerals for her children and you can impart some of your wisdom to her in person. I’m sure she would welcome your insight.
i think i read that someone saw him throw them in...
Hindsight?? She’s known for a long time that her children were in danger, and just kept bringing more into the situation. Just because she didn’t specifically know he’d throw them off a bridge doesn’t mean she didn’t know it wasn’t safe to leave infants and toddlers with a crack addict. I’m sure she’s wisdom-proof. She needs legal authorities to take control of her life. Plenty of past cases have shown the pointlessness of trying to teach women like this how to become responsible parents. It’s always helpless children who end up paying the price for bleeding heart liberals’ pathetic attempts to reform unreformable adults.
Well, dang... Are you going to the funerals? There’s probly still time. I’m sure they’d love to hear your take on things.
The information provided doesn’t specifically state the period of time the father was a drug addict. A “history”, and “...previous drug problems” doesn’t tell us much except to say he has a substance abuse problem.
For all we know, this may have been a problem before they were united. You are drawing conclusion that appear to be based on prejudice. Just because the family initially feared the children had been traded for a drug habit doesn’t explain the details surrounding their concern. Had he threatened his wife that very day that he would do such a thing? We simply don’t know.
Furthermore, the father was a “shrimper” Crack addicts don’t have jobs.
“...trying to teach women like this....responsible parents.” At the very least, we know she had a job. What we do not know is the details involving her longterm relationship with the father, as well as the kind of mother she was with her children. “She needs legal authorities to take control of her life.” Yes, and the “legal” authorities have quite a track record when it comes to family welfare and intervention. After all, wasn’t it you who criticized the establishment when you stated, “...bleeding heart liberals’ pathetic attempts to reform unreformable adults”, and, “...since our political/legal system evolved to do nothing
about situations like this...”
I can empathize with your frustration, but what I cannot agree with is your defeatist attitude surrounding this entire tragedy.
Prayers for the family.
Oh hell no. His defense attorney will find the perfect psychiatrist, strike a bargain for the perfect amount of money and then, poof, said psychiatrist will discover a new syndrome that this poor misunderstood man suffers from. He’ll be sentenced to a mental hospital where he’ll get the treatment he is so deserving of and then in about 3 years he’ll be discharged....completely cured.
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