The district prosecutor is an ass.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Been there. Not with the gun but been there. Sad for the mom. Where’s the dad?
To start with, when I was a 16 year old girl I wouldn’t have been allowed to date a 21 year old MAN. When I was a teenager of dating age I was only allowed to date boys my age that were still in high school. Of course, I was a teenager in the late 60’s and early 70’s and my parents (both of them) knew my every move but I did grow up in a very conservative relious home.
He is 21, I’m sure statutory rape charges are pending, I will just hold my breath.
I suspect most people who read this will find it mildly amusing and wonder why the mother didn’t just get with the program—maybe hand the kids a box of condoms and wish them a good time as they sped off. That’s the only reason I can imagine for indicting her and letting the boyfriend off the hook. (Or maybe it was the evil shotgun she used.)
When our two girls were 16 - a loooong time ago now - if some 21 yo guy tried to *date* them, he’d never see 22.
I would like to be on her jury. In my humble opinion,the prosecutor is the onr who needs to be on trial. For stupidity.
The county prosecutor needs to be thrown out of office and then run out of town. I’d bet a box of doughnuts that he’s a big, fat anti-gun liberal.
A warning shot into a pervert’s truck tire is perfectly reasonable to me.
That was the time to have chambered a round and pointed the weapon with intent to discharge.
Precisely.
Had he been a ‘stranger’ she would have been applauded as preventing a home invasion with possible rape & murder.
Monitoring ‘boy friends’ used to be the responsibility of fathers. Today, for whatever the reason, mothers are required to be providers and protectors.
Any opportunity to “take down” a law-abiding gun owner who happens to fire a weapon for a damned good reason and the leo’s are right on top of them to lock them up. Kids have all the rights now. Why isn’t the 21-year-old being prosecuted for breaking and entering and assaulting the mom—what is using your 50-pound weight advantage to force open a door and overpower an adult woman if it isn’t assault?
Look, let the little twit go. She’ll be knocked up in a week and then she’s on her own. Get rid of her. Bad spawn. It happens. When she’s forty, and a hag, and living on the streets with fifteen diseases she may reflect on what a moron she was. Probably not!
16-21? Nope, too old.
One other comment.... what mom should have done was to remove everything from the girl’s room except a mattress and a blanket and one change of clothes. Only food in the house - oatmeal and milk. The girl will run away and the mom will have to report that. Then just let go. At 16, too late to change her. She will probably come back. It may take ten years but she’ll probably come back.
This isn’t “love”, this is control and possession.
This “man” sounds obsessed with this teenager and unwilling to take “NO” for an answer. If he’ll bully the Mom to get his way, it’s just a matter of time before he exerts full physical and mental control over the girl. Do you think he will ever let her go, peacefully and normally?
What a sad thing when a stalker or sicko comes into your life. I don’t know if sending the girl away to a secure boarding school or taking her and fleeing would even save her at this point. Seems like being a “normal”
16 yr old worried about book reports, passing algebra, and prom gowns, is way over.
I really hope they get the girl to admit they're having sex (and you know they are or that 21 year old would be long gone!) so he can be charged with statutory rape. Too bad the mom hadn't made more of a legal paper trail before this incident with a restraining order or something.
Shouldn't it something more like unlawful discharge of a weapon?
Allenbaugh admitted in his own testimony to forcefully entering her home and restraining Vondemkamp three times, yet he was never charged.
Hmmm.
She said she wonders what happened to her rights as a parent.
Gone the way of a lot of other rights.
But one has to wonder. In many place parents can be charged and jailed for the behavior of their 16 YO child. But at the same time, they are legally limited to essentially no power to regulate the child's behavior.
Realistically, short of tying one up, not much can be done to force a 16 YO to comply.
Last time I checked, an unrelated adult using force to remove a child from a parent and then fleeing with said child is still considered kidnapping. I do believe as a parent I’d contact the F.B.I.
Easy for me to say now... She's currently only 7.
The district prosecutor is an ass.
It is so sad when you read about a kid out of control. It is obvious that the Mom is trying to keep some order (she isn’t just going on with her life and ignoring it all). Perhaps military school that boards the kids. I believe there are several in our southern states that you can send both boys and girls. If the girl is 16 then Mom still has some control. The distance between the two would help matters and little Miss Frisky may not have the energy to do much after some hard school work coupled with physical exercise. IMHO. Just a thought.