Ngoc Phan and three of her children, from left: Lindsey Luong, Ryan Phan and Hannah Luong.
Makes me hope there is a special kind of hell awaiting this guy.
Oh my God.
Perhaps THIS level of crime rises to the death penalty?
The father, Lam Luong, 37, of Irvington, Ala., was charged with four counts of capital murder Tuesday night after officials said he told investigators that he threw his children off the Dauphin Island Bridge, a three-mile span that rises 80 feet over the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway to connect Mobile, Ala., and Dauphin Island.
“It was just sickening,” said John Joyner, chief of police in Bayou La Batre, Ala., who said he was present when Mr. Luong confessed.
“Apparently, in his statement, his motive had something to do with an argument he was having with his wife and in-laws,” Chief Joyner said.
On Monday, Mr. Luong, a Vietnamese immigrant who has been working in Bayou La Batre as a shrimper, and his wife, Ngoc Phan, 23, contacted the police to report that their children were missing, Chief Joyner said.
Mr. Luong initially said that a baby sitter had not returned the children and could not be found, but when that story did not check out the police reinterviewed Mr. Luong. He eventually admitted to throwing 4-month-old Danny Luong, 1-year-old Lindsey Luong, 2-year-old Hannah Luong, and 3-year-old Ryan Phan off the bridge, the police said.
Kam Phengsisomboun, Mr. Luong’s brother-in-law, told The Associated Press that the couple had argued Sunday night and again Monday, when Mr. Luong left home with two of the children, later coming back for the other two.
I read about this earlier elsewhere. Why do we seem to have so much of these horrible incidents? Are there precedents from the past? I can’t imagine either and those poor children, how they must have felt at their betrayal by a trusted parent, their last thoughts, pain and fear, just sickening. This one was apparently motivated by revenge so I don’t quite equate it with Andrea Yates, for example. But it may be more similar than I think.
Ngoc Phan and three of her children, from left: Lindsey Luong, Ryan Phan and Hannah Luong.
Missing and presumed dead were four-month-old Danny Luong; one-year-old Lindsey Luong; two-year-old Hannah Luong; and three-year-old Ryan Phan. Phan is not the man’s biological child, but Luong raised him from infancy, authorities said.
The couple lived with Phan’s mother at Bayou La Batre, a fishing village with a large Southeast Asian community. Phan’s brother-in-law Kam Phengsisomboun, who is from Thailand, said the couple moved back to the area from Hinesville, Georgia only a couple of weeks ago.
The family initially feared the children had been traded to support a drug habit, Phengsisomboun said. Luong had a crack cocaine habit and had spent an insurance settlement from an automobile accident rapidly, he said, and authorities confirmed Luong had a history of drug offences.
They need to throw this lowlife off the bridge until he is “missing”. No matter how many throws it takes.
What a horrible story. Just unbelievably sad.
Precious lambs are now safe in their heavenly Father’s arms. What is this world coming to. The most basic human and even animal instinct is to protect one’s young. Drugs or no drugs, how a parent can do this is beyond belief.