<p>[Sleeping</a> Caernarvon Township couple stabbed by son over failing college grades, police say | NEWS](<a href=“http://readingeagle.com/article/20131231/NEWS/312319862/1052]Sleeping”>http://readingeagle.com/article/20131231/NEWS/312319862/1052)</p>
<p>Sounds like the son’s issues go well beyond his failing grades. Luckily he doesn’t appear to be too skilled with a knife. Scary.</p>
<p>As horrific as this story is, glad it was a knife rather than a gun.</p>
<p>OH, my…</p>
<p>Wow…</p>
<p>She told Scalia that their son had received five failing grades earlier that week. She confronted him about it and he said the college records were mistaken, but when Angela Hausch called the college, they confirmed the grades were correct.</p>
<p>Kind of reminds me of the Mark Hacking case. He killed his wife while she was sleeping afte she found out that he had lied about getting into med school. She had called the med school to ask some questions before they were to move there in a few days and found out that her H had never been accepted.</p>
<p>*A Caernarvon Township couple were attacked by their 20-year-old son with a military knife as they slept in their bed a few hours after the son and his mother argued over his failing grades in college, police said Tuesday.</p>
<p>The son, Robert O. Hausch, was pinned to the floor by his father, Robert L., 38, when Caernarvon police Cpl. John W. Scalia arrived in the home in the 100 block of Dover Court about 5:30 a.m. Monday, according to police.*</p>
<p>Anybody notice how young the dad is??? The son is 20, the dad is 38. Not that this matters, I just noticed it.</p>
<p>I second the notion that his issues go deeper than failing grades…</p>
<p>I’m glad the dad was able to subdue his son with one hand, while using the other to try to stop the bleeding. It’s a good thing he was as young as he was since if he were 50+ things may have had a worse outcome. Those poor parents.</p>
<p>It’s pretty clear that this young man has some fairly serious mental health issues and that his failing grades were just the trigger for this event. Very sad . . .</p>
<p>The Mom is 42</p>
<p>Romanigypsyeyes, I had that same exact thought.</p>
<p>You really have to work hard in order to fail five classes. Like, never go, and turn in nothing.</p>
<p>It says he’s 20, so is he a sophomore, then? If so, I wonder if he had any academic problems or warnings the year before? Maybe if he had gotten help this wouldn’t have happened…? </p>
<p>This is so sad to hear. No parent should have to fear for their life to be taken by their son while they’re sleeping. That’s just scary.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t assume he’s a sophomore because he’s 20. He may have taken a gap year, or done CC for a year, or just started kindergarten late. </p>
<p>He may have been so desperately ashamed that his parents were going to find out the truth that he resorted to those extreme actions. Very sad. My heart breaks for the parents.</p>
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<p>Or he may have selected courses far too above his academic level or was so woefully unprepared for college-level work he should have been taking remedial classes or not admitted to the given college in the first place. </p>
<p>In any event, agree with those who say he has deeper issues if he resorts to violence under these circumstances. </p>
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<p>Agreed. </p>
<p>Usually, I’d think a 20 year old is a junior, not a sophomore unless he’s had a late start in schooling, gap year, or was left back for some reason.</p>
<p>I’m going to take a leap and guess that the failing grades are a symptom of something else. When you have two extreme things like this (failing five classes and an act of extreme violence) you have to allow for the possibility that the son is having a psychotic break, other major psychological problem, is suffering from addiction, etc. What I’m not following is why the fathers age is of interest? So he was 18 when his son was born. And this is of relevance how? He saved both he and his wife, restraining the son until help could arrive, while stemming his own bleeding. This is indeed a horrific situation as a parent.</p>
<p>Oh, true, 20 years old can also be a junior. 20 can be either an older sophomore or a younger junior. </p>
<p>I guess I just wonder if there were any previous academic signs or if this was the “snap,” or if something dramatic happened this year and started him on a downward spiral. It’d be shocking for a straight-A student to suddenly flunk out, and the shame and panic maybe could take someone over the edge. Or, if he was on probation and this was his last semester to redeem himself, maybe he just lost it.</p>