[madprof98]

This is what happens when all our social bonds are broken, even the bond between parent and child. I think it illustrates the direction our society is taking, with about 50% (not all of them in trailer parks) already there.

[montag813]

I just hugged my son and told him I loved him. That is the only response I can fashion to this horrid tale.

[Abathar]

When you have learned to fear retaliation is the best defense for these people in cases like this.

Call the police, get CPS involved, then come home to a burning home or a wife/kid beaten to within an inch of their lives.

Most people genuinely do care I believe, but understand that the consequences of stepping up are sometimes far more severe than the hurt you feel inside watching it happen and not getting involved. This 14 year old kid probably liked his life, enjoyed his high, and would have been vengeful toward anyone that took it away from him and put his dad in jail.

[Eva]

The people in the trailer park didn’t call the police because they didn’t want the police coming into their home and looking to closely at them.

[rightly_dividing]

The cops will find out about it, and get, like, so mad.

Looks like old media is scraping the barrel for "journalists"

[FrdmLvr]

Sounds like Sunnyvale Trailer Park - Scrilla Villa, maybe?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH5UcLaN1lc

[AnalogReigns]

FYI to the Broward-Palm Beach New Times: A 14 year old (unless a genius) is not a 10th grader, he's an 8th grader...which of course makes it even worse.

[AnalogReigns]

The child is still in the hospital; MacDannald is in jail with a bond set at $7,500.

Let me see, starve your kid, and turn them into a drug addict in Florida, and you get a tiny bond.

Defend yourself from a drug-dealing, thieving, school-expelled, thug, in the middle of the night, getting beat up and bloodied--before using a gun--and get locked up with a $1,000,000 bond....

[SoFloFreeper]

I find it hilarious the “New Times” is spewing this smug self righteousness. Their regular advertiser base is a combination of plastic surgeons, massage parlors and strip clubs.