<p>Father “executes” son:</p>
<p>[Detroit</a> man arrested in execution-style killing of his teenage son](<a href=“Examiner is back - Examiner.com”>Examiner is back - Examiner.com)</p>
<p>I’m so sorry I read that. Time to go do something that doesn’t depress me.</p>
<p>I’m sick at the thought of this. So many stories lately about children abused, even murdered, by their own parents. What kind of punishment can possibly fit crimes like these? My prayers for the mother in this case.</p>
<p>These sad issues are, most likely, the result of our current economic woes. Still doesn’t excuse someone!</p>
<p>Better than what the Bible suggests for children who get on their parents’ nerves…</p>
<p>I really really wish I hadn’t read that.</p>
<p>An hour northeast of Detroit, another disaster: [Police:</a> Dad Kills Sons, Wife, Himself - Detroit Local News Story - WDIV Detroit](<a href=“http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/21626423/detail.html]Police:”>http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/21626423/detail.html)</p>
<p>We’re pretty accustomed to bloodshed here in Southeast Michigan, but this one and the guy executing his son in Detroit are too much. It’s like even the most basic human instincts, like protecting your young, are evaporating.</p>
<p>It was reported on the news today that the father killed the son because the son admitted to inappropriate touching of his 3 1/2 year old half sister.</p>
<p>I’m speechless.</p>
<p>This happened in my area, and it was the topic of discussion yesterday and today. I have teared up so many times in the past day & a half over this. At first, when I heard the initial reports, I felt very sad. When I read the newspaper account this morning, I just had horrific visions of it taking place … I actually cried, it shook me up so much. Later this afternoon, when my coworkers & I were discussing it, one brought up the latest news - about the inappropriate touching. Everyone sort of did a double take. The interesting thing was, some of my co workers said they could understand the dad’s rage if the son was doing that. Others, including me, said we could not understand how a father could do that to a young teenage son, no matter what. We could see the dad being incredibly upset, but to execute his own son??? No, no, no, no, no. </p>
<p>I just plain cannot understand how he could do it. The report I heard is this: The father didn’t see it happen. He went to the boy’s aunt’s house, ordered him to strip, marched him outside, executed him in plain sight of the neighbors, while the boy & his aunt begged him not to. The boy pleaded, “No, Daddy.” The father killed his son, then calmly walked to his car and drove off as if nothing had happened.</p>
<p>This has been coming into my consciousness all day. I can’t believe what animals people can be. How horrifying to know that a man can do that to his own son.</p>
<p>I used to be involved in the criminal justice system in Detroit - not as a defendant, btw. This isn’t out of the ballpark, sorry to say. I’ve sat in the run down Highland Park district court and heard horrific stories of violence that no one ever read about. It’s the relationship in this case that moves it into the papers. </p>
<p>When you hear on TV the old line, “You don’t know what it’s like” in reference to living in tough, even awful neighborhoods, it really is true. I saw it every day and I could never truly relate.</p>
<p>I feel incredibly sad after reading this. A thought came across my mind. I wonder if the father was ever sexually abused as a child ? No, that is not an excuse for what the father did. I am only trying to make sense of this for myself.</p>