August 4th 2014 a 12 year old boy walked into my family's life without a blink of an eye. Changing absolutely everything in everyone's lives. Until now, I have only casually mentioned the event due to my own pieces and also due to the protection of my family.
Jamarion Lawhorn, aged 12, stabbed a 9 year old boy to death. Connor -last name withheld to not link my sister and the rest of her family to this site.. sorry I love you guys but they don't need any more press coverage.. esp not this kind). Connor was my nephew and had just barely turned 9 years old. The child came up behind him and stabbed him with a serrated kitchen knife.
Over the past two months, my brain has been wracked with how such a young child could even do something like that. It's almost like when something that bad happens so close to you, your nativity kicks in again and you forget that some people are just super fucked.
Only a little time past before, of course, accusations of abuse were made against the parents. Today, as the released news proclaims, have the first little steps against them been taken. Jamarion is next.
However small the steps, we celebrate.
The Wall
Jamarion won't be let go because of the abuse. Although, I must admit, it's very frustrating to read all these people pouring out sympathy for this child. I guess, I just don't have the fortitude it takes to have any compassion or sympathy for him. I don't see a child, I see a monster.
The most that it will effect his charge is that he might get life WITH a possibility of parole instead of life without.They did find that he was abused. His step father waived his rights in order to get a plea deal and his mother when to court and they determined there was enough against her to go to trial.
Hell, sometimes, I do. His parents created him and tossed him around like garbage.. however, does the fact that abuse played a role in his life excuse premeditated murder? They postponed, yet again, the pre-trial for Jamarion earlier this week due to the psych evaluations not being complete yet. At what point can we separate the abuse from the actual deed? I think that he needs some serious help and I think he will get that in juvie. No 12 year old should want to die.. there's something wrong with that.. but he shouldn't be punished less because he is a little boy.So far, we have been lucky in the whole racist category. My family has been very cordial publicly with what happened. I understand what you are saying but the punishment needs to suit the crime no mat...See more