It started last weekend with two toddlers found floating in an area lake.
Then, later in the week, the father deliberately steered his car into the path of an auto transport. He died, and of the two children in the car, the older one died.
One of the children found floating in the lake died, the other is still in a coma.
The father is dead, so he escapes justice.
Stunned and flabbergasted does not begin to cover it. How strong must your hatred be for your ex-wife to overcome your love for your children?
What is even more disturbing is that the wife had an enjunction against him. He was to stay XX feet away from her. Not contact her in any form. She then filed for a protection enjunction for her children after she received a note from him that said she should die and he was going to kill himself. The State Attorney’s office dragged their feet and didn’t take the case serious enough. (The State Attorney claims there was paperwork missing from her original file) So what happens? He kills the children and himself.
The State Attorney’s office should have filed the warrant for his arrest for sending her the explosive letter. He violated the order.
IMHO the State Attorney’s office is in large at fault.
…in reality if she had gotten the enjunction forbidding him any visitation, what might he have done? If he was hell bent on killing himself and the children a piece of paper wasn’t going to stop him.
he claims his depression stemmed from losing a potential job recently and finding out that his ex wife was having a relationship with a co worker. Like this is a reason to kill your children? He wrote in the letter that he could not allow his children to be raised by her. sick sick sick
I’m praying for the surviving children. I pray that they not only recover, but that they don’t remember.
Because bluenoses like Lieberman and Dole like to blame horrific incidents like this on the media, I wonder if they’ll start a grassroots boycott of Euripides.
When they found the two children in the lake, we were talking about the chances that some crazy parent did it. How horrible that that was indeed the truth.
ivyglass just ask Susan Smith. How did she drown her children and walk away? She claimed she was going to take her own life but chickened out. Yeah right. She survived and was put in jail. (Where she had sex with guards and ended up pregnant again) She will get out of jail in 4 years or so and be put on probation. Big (&$_@ deal. Is that justice?
Having this father survive the car wreck (IMHO) would not satisfy my need for justice to be brought forth.
Can a father get much haussen by proxy?
In any event I pray that the children did not suffer. I pray that they went quickly. Why is it that the children are always the ones to suffer?
Unfortunately, this isn’t the only story like this in the news at the moment. In this one, the father actually called the children’s mother and made her listen to her four son’s final moments. Sadly, he also killed himself like a coward, but cases like this make me really really hope that hell exists, and that these men are currently burning there.
I feel so horribly for the mothers in these situations. To lose a child is bad enough, but to lose one–or more–because of the kind of man you chose to be their father? I would never get over that kind of guilt.
This happened in my family - to my brother’s sister-in-law (his wife’s twin sister).
My brother’s wife is from South Africa. Her sister had gone through a pretty acrimonious divorce. She had custody of the three children, though they would spend an occasional weekend with their father.
One weekend he offered to take the kids fishing. The oldest girl declined, but his ex-wife dropped off the two younger kids the night before so they could get an early start in the morning.
He apparently put the kids to bed, then turned on the gas in the kitchen. He committed suicide, and took the kids with him, to spite his ex-wife.
And to make an already unspeakably evil act even worse, he arranged things so that his ex-wife would be the one to to find them all. He had told her he would leave a check for some money he owed her on the kitchen table the next morning, and she should come by and pick it up. I can’t imagine what it must have been like for her when she opened that door.
Nobody in that family of course will ever be the same.
It’s things like this that make me wish I believed in Hell.
I think Randall’s father was wrong for making this statement.
When we die and are buried we are to “rest in peace” Would she have “peace” knowing that the man who killed her children are in the same place? Each time she visits the grave should she be reminded of the hell these children suffered?
Who cares what this deranged man wanted. He obviously was not in his right mind! Does this mean she should carry out the last wishes of a sick man because his father says you don’t mess with death wishes?
I think they should flush his ashes down the toilet! He doesn’t deserve a great final resting place under a shady tree in the peaceful cemetary. (This isn’t very Christian-like but I can’t help it)
Should he “guilt” her into burying them together just because the father is going to burn in hell? This is very selfish on his part and not good manners for a pastor.
I think it was noble of the mother to donate the organs of the 8 year old. If I were her I would have done the same thing. This way another child has a chance to live and in some way her child will live on.
Last month, a similar story here in Detroit. A guy called his estranged wife and said “Watch the news.” Then went and shot their three kids. One of the children was still alive when found. I haven’t heard updates on her condition.
It happens a lot, but it’s funny how it’s the women who get demonized. There were three guys, at about the time of the Andrea Yates case, who amongst them killed something like sixteen of their own children and at least one estranged wife. We had a guy up here who killed his wife and six kids. And then “Man shoots wife, then self” headlines get buried in the back pages of newspapers. If a guy’s willing to kill his ex wife because she’s his possession, how big of a step is it to kill the kids?
Susan Smith is the mythical bad mom. Where’s the bad dad whose name is known instantly?
Amazing how common this type of violence is. Earlier this month, a man in San Diego shot and killed his son as he jogged with his cross-country team, then casually drove home and barricaded himself, where he was killed in a police standoff hours later. As for motive:
Yeesh. And I thought my parents had a rough divorce…