Punk's mom speaks out
Here's an excerpt from an e-mail I received today from the mother of the 16-year-old punk who got off with supervised probation for his part in a violent home invasion and a stabbing, earning the judge an Eight-Ball Award.
Apparently I got it wrong. It was the 16-year-old I was supposed to feel sorry for, not the victim.
Here it is:
You do not know him nor does the readers that are
reading the paper. Obviously four Judges in the end decided that his two years
are sufficient. I will add that this is a lifetime for my son not just the two
years.
He is a caring young man and in his life has never hurt anyone. He is
not a crimilized individual and would not of benefited from being locked up in
a jail with many other criminals. He could have become crimilized inside. At
least with his existing sentence he can obtain the help he needs and continue
to grow into the sensitive young man that he has always been and continues to
be.
He thinks of that tragic night often and wakes up dreaming of what
happened. At the time he did not place what could go wrong. Unfortunatly he
was faced with the outcome that most of the population can comprehend (what did
this kid think - obviously nothing).
He has learned a valuble life lesson with a tragic outcome for a family but has
also been very lucky to have four Judges have faith in what kind of young man he
was prior to and after this incident.
I am the kind of person that follows the news regularly and believes that there
are concequences to actions but it has to be individualized and not necessarily
always Jail time, time served may be the worst form of rehabilitation for some
of our youth as they are locked up with all kinds of criminals and this becomes
their role models.
A new way needs to be looked at for our youth to teach
right from wrong. A youth locked up is not my ideal role model for my son.
I did not have my son living with me at the time this happened and I thank God
that I now have him for his 2nd chance in life.
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Comment from: todd dube [Visitor]
Mrs Punk. Answer this question. Would you be saying the same thing if the victim had died - that he's a good boy and deserves the crime to be over-looked? Or how about this one - would you be advocating for the same outcome if your son was the victim? In that instance consider that your son died. I will agree with your one true position and that is that jails should not be crime club-houses - they should be segregated re-hab facilities. They are run disgracefully now and must change. Whatever your son didn't learn from you and his father in his early years should be learned in safe incarceration - not at your current residence. That's the only kind of outcome/lesson that will teach future kids not to do things like go to a persons house with a knife with the intent to stab somebody (and actually do it). That's the part that you would like to ignore and the rest of us - not.
12/03/2009 @ 18:18
Here's an excerpt from an e-mail I received today from the mother of the 16-year-old punk who got off with supervised probation for his part in a violent home invasion and a stabbing, earning the judge an Eight-Ball Award.
Apparently I got it wrong. It was the 16-year-old I was supposed to feel sorry for, not the victim.
Here it is:
You do not know him nor does the readers that are
reading the paper. Obviously four Judges in the end decided that his two years
are sufficient. I will add that this is a lifetime for my son not just the two
years.
He is a caring young man and in his life has never hurt anyone. He is
not a crimilized individual and would not of benefited from being locked up in
a jail with many other criminals. He could have become crimilized inside. At
least with his existing sentence he can obtain the help he needs and continue
to grow into the sensitive young man that he has always been and continues to
be.
He thinks of that tragic night often and wakes up dreaming of what
happened. At the time he did not place what could go wrong. Unfortunatly he
was faced with the outcome that most of the population can comprehend (what did
this kid think - obviously nothing).
He has learned a valuble life lesson with a tragic outcome for a family but has
also been very lucky to have four Judges have faith in what kind of young man he
was prior to and after this incident.
I am the kind of person that follows the news regularly and believes that there
are concequences to actions but it has to be individualized and not necessarily
always Jail time, time served may be the worst form of rehabilitation for some
of our youth as they are locked up with all kinds of criminals and this becomes
their role models.
A new way needs to be looked at for our youth to teach
right from wrong. A youth locked up is not my ideal role model for my son.
I did not have my son living with me at the time this happened and I thank God
that I now have him for his 2nd chance in life.
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Comment from: todd dube [Visitor]
Mrs Punk. Answer this question. Would you be saying the same thing if the victim had died - that he's a good boy and deserves the crime to be over-looked? Or how about this one - would you be advocating for the same outcome if your son was the victim? In that instance consider that your son died. I will agree with your one true position and that is that jails should not be crime club-houses - they should be segregated re-hab facilities. They are run disgracefully now and must change. Whatever your son didn't learn from you and his father in his early years should be learned in safe incarceration - not at your current residence. That's the only kind of outcome/lesson that will teach future kids not to do things like go to a persons house with a knife with the intent to stab somebody (and actually do it). That's the part that you would like to ignore and the rest of us - not.
12/03/2009 @ 18:18
