Mother 'traumatized' after fatally stabbing daughter's boyfriend reportedly hiding in closet

NOLA.com ^ | April 25, 2013 | Naomi Martin

[A_perfect_lady]

Yes, but they seemed far more sober-minded and mature back then. Kids today seem to be nothing more than trundling bundles of appetite and attitude.

[AnAmericanMother]

It was a ton of fun, I got to help once or twice, and we went to fireworks conventions a couple of times. He was also on the Tech rifle team and loved (and still loves) to work on cars and electronics.

He fit into the family a WHOLE lot better!

[JRandomFreeper]

Ooohhh. Sparkly!

My youngest called me from Basic Training to say she scored expert with grenades... "Dad, it's so cool to blow s@#$ up!" because she got to throw a live grenade after scoring expert.

That's my baby girl.

/johnny

[EEGator]

Multitasking while posting is a bad idea.

[Paladin2]

Indoors vs. outdoors. ;-)

[Yaelle]

That is different. She was expected to marry young and she was done with school, she was teaching school.

Now our 15 year olds can be completely manipulated by adult molesters and its not ok. I got the guy’s age wrong in my head though. I don’t actually have a problem with 17 and 15. I do with 25 to 15.

[G Larry]

Let me inject....

Many a father wouldn’t have hesitated in shooting a fellow hiding in their walk-in closet.

Likely without stopping to interview them about some possible relationship with the daughter.

[Starstruck]

At 17, you’d think Tyrone could have beat feet out of there before momma had a chance to stab him.

The quick and the dead?

[Tax-chick]

He could have married Anoreth ...

[forgotten man]

They were 17 years old.

[Tax-chick]

Laura's husband was ten years older, iirc, and she was 17 or so when they got married. Nowadays he'd be considered a pedophile and locked up. In those days, they were both responsible adults - able to decide to get married, not sneaking around screwing - based on their demonstrated capacity to to make an adult contribution to society.

[EEGator]

My post wasn’t saying what she did was wrong. She thought she was defending herself. I was questing the “oh well” attitude of the post I was responding to. Most people would wind up feeling bad if they figured out they killed their daughter’s boyfriend who was just trying to hide.

[presently no screen name]

She would not have killed him if she knew who he was no matter what the age. Of course, 15 year old's date 17 years old - that isn't the point here .

My point was that someone seemed surprised that 17 year olds could have girlfriends two or three year their juniors.

Then they are missing the point. They not only could have, they do!

[who knows what evil?]

15 will get you dead.

[Moonman62]

A 35-year-old single mother came home from her evening criminal justice classes Wednesday about 7:15 p.m. and was startled to see a stranger wearing a hoodie inside her walk-in closet,

An obvious case of profiling. Call in the race pimps.

[AnAmericanMother]

LOL! When hubby was in the Army, he got to shoot a self-propelled howitzer. He was absolutely thrilled. Blew up an old derelict truck on the range at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.

[Albion Wilde]

"As far as we know, he was an extremely good kid," the relative said...

That being the case, why was he boffing an underage girl when her mother was out?

That being said, and with all due respect to the difficulty of single parenting, the mother was negligent to leave her daughter this regular opportunity to go astray. She should have had a neighbor or relative stay with the girl, or send her to their house while she, the mother, attended classes. Kids, especially the children of single parents, are subject to too much pressure.

[Albion Wilde]

Damn, when I was seventeen everyone had 14 and 15 year old girlfriends...

Did they hide in the parent's closet to avoid detection when they had been shagging the underage girls?

[Albion Wilde]

I guess the holier than thou crowd around here never heard of a sophomore dating a senior before, but it happens all the time in the real world.

Sneaking around to avoid detection when you have entered a girl's house knowing her parent isn't home is NOT dating.

Dating between a sophomore and a senior is when the senior boy comes to the family's home for dinner and meets the parent(s) before taking the girl on a non-driving excursion to a parent-approved activity.

[Albion Wilde]

Awesome fathering, truly. Your daughters are lucky gals.