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Monstrous acts
After doing the horrible deed, the father called the front desk and told the clerk he had killed his children, ages 2, 4 and 6. He said he was going to kill himself. But, he didn't. A bipolar disorder was blamed for his actions. Maybe. But he wasn't crazy enough to kill himself. It seems like I am reading and hearing more and more about parents killing their children. In Iowa a 42-year-old banker charged with embezzlement killed his 42-year-old wife and their four children, ages 3, 5, 8 and 10. He reportedly beat the five of them to death with a baseball bat. The family had attended Easter Mass just hours before. The crazed man then rammed his vehicle into a concrete wall at a high rate of speed killing himself. In California, a father is accused of murdering nine of his own children. In Alaska, a mother is said to have gunned down her 18-year-old son at the family's home. She covered his body with a blanket and waited more than 10 hours and shot and killed her two other teenage sons. In Kentucky, a mother is accused of killing her children. We all remember the Texas case from 2002 when a mother drowned her children in a bathtub. She claimed she was insane but a jury didn't believe her and sentenced her to life in prison. They should have sentenced her to drowning in a bathtub. Sometimes it happens the other way around. A few weeks back, a 16-year-old girl, her 19-year-old boyfriend and two others ambushed the girls' family at their home in east Texas. Killed were her mother, and her brothers, ages 8 and 13. The father survived, despite being shot five times. Why? The parents wanted the girl to break up with the older boyfriend. It is bad enough to hear of people killing other people. But when family members kill each other- their children especially, I can't comprehend it. I think it reflects a selfish, everything-for-me attitude that is too prevalent today. To resort to deadly vengeance, to an innocent child especially, because you are mad with someone or with yourself is selfish cowardice at its worst. When family values die and love of family dies, community and society dies too. I hope we are not seeing the beginning of the end of life as we know it.
Jim Cox is editor and publisher of The Democrat.
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