Somber

Texas dad accused in 3 kids' deaths

I don’t understand people. This idiot isn’t the first person, and unfortunately will not be the last, to do something horrendous to his kids. I think the worst part of the whole thing is that he didn’t succeed in killing himself. Now he’ll just be a drain on society. Thanks, dude.

But this guy feared he’d lose his kids – umm, he lost them permanently. By his own hand. How is this rational? His ex lived in a home for battered women, and he had his own apartment and a job … and he feared losing the kids. I don’t know about you, but there was definitely something more going on this story isn’t telling us. (Or is it – the fact he shot his kids proves he wasn’t all there.)

My mom said when she worked in corrections (yep, my mom is bad-ass, I know), the girls would ostracize anyone incarcerated due to crimes against children. Rightfully so, if you ask me. Now that I’m a mom myself, I believe that even more fully. Given that, I cannot even fathom someone killing their own kids.

But it’s been around forever … the idiot who drown her kids in the car in South Carolina, the whack-job who drown her kids because the “devil” told her to, Chris Benoit, this guy, among countless others. It’s actually a shame I have to use the adjective “countless,” to be honest.

Your job as a parent is to love and protect your children, and to raise them with a sense of well-being and morality. It’s not to use them as pawns against your ex, and then kill them when things may not go your way. It’s not to kill them to get publicity or get out of the responsibility that comes with them. They love you and trust you to do what’s best for them. How can a person live with themselves after doing such a thing? (This guy didn’t want to, but he did. Bigger joke on him.)


Go to sleep little one,
The worst is gone.
The demons have left, I’ll hold you tight
Until you succumb to the night.

Go to sleep little one,
No more must you fear.
No more fighting, no more tears
Just a world that’s better than here.

Go to sleep little one,
God has mercy on your soul.
You did no wrong, you didn’t deserve the pain,
He’ll protect you now, no need for tears like rain.

Go to sleep little one, you deserved more in this life,
You deserved more in your death.
Daddy doesn’t always know what’s best,
As you now lay still, permanently at rest.