Jim Robinson
Posted on 02/15/2012 10:32:55 AM PST by ColdOne
Authorities said Josh Powell was not living at the house he rigged as a bomb and blew up, killing himself and his two young sons, the Tacoma News Tribune reported Tuesday.
Pierce County sheriff's detectives told citizens at a community meeting on Monday that the house Powell showed to authorities was a sham -- intended to look like a loving home where his two sons could visit, according to the newspaper.
Detectives said they believe Powell passed the abandoned home off as his so that he could be granted supervised visits with his sons, Charlie, 7, and Braden, 5.
"He set it up like a rental place, with pictures of the family," Sgt. Denny Wood said at the meeting, the newspaper reports.
"I think it was staged so when CPS (Child Protective Services) came, it would look like a loving family," he said.
Powell, long a suspect in his wife's disappearance, killed his sons as well as himself when he blew up the home Feb 5, shortly after a social worker arrived with the children for a court-ordered visit.
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Mrs. Frogjerk could not have been more correct in her statement that “There are times when children should not be around their parents.”
Josh murdered those 2 kids in cold blood. Surely you cannot be suggesting that they are better off dead.
Wow, you need to chill out.
If somebody is potentially dangerous, they should be kept away from their children. That’s all I’m saying.
I’m not saying just go ahead and remove them for no good reason. There have been instances where CPS has dropped the ball and children have ended up dead all in the name of keeping families together.
By the way, I don’t appreciate your snotty attitude. I wasn’t reacting “emotionally” either. We have had many cases in NJ where children have died or have come close to death and they were under the watchful eye of CPS. That is what I am drawing my opinion from.
Like I had said in one of my comments, I am currently witnessing a disaster waiting to happen right in my own neighborhood. Like I have told my husband, I guess CPS will just wait until one of the kids shows up dead before doing something about it. They have been contacted at least 4 times about this family and I have never seen a case worker show up. They should at least offer assistance to the mother if she needs it and that isn’t happening.
If you would like to have a real conversation about this I’m up for it. If you are going to continue the name calling and insults take a hike and don’t bother commenting back.
I just read your comment again, and you know what, don’t bother commenting back.
The only person that is delusional here is you because I never alluded to allowing for a general permit for enabling children to be taken away from parents in my statement. I was referring to dangerous parents.
Conversation over so don’t bother. I don’t waste my time talking to people like you.
There is evil, there are evil acts, and anyone can fall into the pit and not get out. The killer dad, for example.
You can’t stop all evil.
However EMOTIONAL KNEE JERKISM never but makes things a lot worse.
I thought I said the conversation was over.
If anybody is reacting with an emotional knee jerk it is you!
Bye Bye now :)
I just can't imagine how you chose your own FR moniker Mrs. Frogjerk.
Your one of those people that has to have the last word aren’t you?
Well, I’ll let you have that because I really am done with you. My husband Frogjerk set up my account for me here hence the Mrs. Frogjerk.
I don’t usually get as vicious as you did with me right out of the gate. I reserve that for people who treat me as you did. You were exceptionally nasty for no good reason right away, so if anybody was posting fueled on pure emotion it was you.
So go ahead and have your last word. Then you can go back to lurking and keeping your yap shut.
Let the record show that no "name calling" is found in my posts on this thread. As to what is an "insult", why that, friend, is subjective. Generally a person attuned or desirous of being insulted can find insults in the most harmless, the most helpful and the most honorable of remarks.
It's one reason the (non-Constitutionally-based) "Miranda" warning includes the wise advise that "anything you say can and will be used against you."
Why didn’t you send this comment to me directly? Why did I have to come onto this thread to see that you posted something else about me. Doesn’t that break some kind of Free Republic rule?
You called me deluded. That is a very strong word that was used unnecessarily. that is what I was referring to when I mentioned name calling. I don’t use that term loosely. I don’t like to “insult” people with that terminology.
Listen, now I’m not going to take the bait and call you a name because I’m sharp enough to know that is what you are doing. If you continue to talk about me on this thread without replying to me directly I will report you to Free Republic.
Unless you want to apologize to me for being so rotten, please leave me alone.
How can I apologize to you for being so rotten? You are not rotten at all. Besides if you were rotten, which you are not, it would not be for me to apologize about, albeit we are outside of this selfsame discussion unknown to each other.
I fail to see emotional knee jerkism in the statement you have taken offense to. You have (IMO) read that into the statement on your own.
Just to let you know (and I hope that notifying you about this isn’t against FR protocol), but bvw was zotted tonight for being pro-abortion on another thread. He/she will not be missed.
LOL!
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