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February 22, 2005

This Kind of Thing Breaks Your Heart (UPDATED) « Social Issues »

Police believe pregnant woman and 7-year-old son are dead, and the victims of murder.

Okay, not to condone murder of the woman as justifiable or anything, but it seems clear that a selfish and unscrupulous man might go so far as to murder a woman to prevent a birth. Obviously, both men and women sometimes feel driven to murder someone who they feel is preventing their happiness.

...but (assuming the guy mentioned is eventually convicted for the crime) did he have to murder the 7-year-old kid, too? What motivation could possibly cause him to think he had to do that?

Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely horrible he (allegedly) killed his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Nothing excuses that action at all. But the fact that the 7-year-old son was murdered, too, just increases the tragedy many-fold for me.

UPDATE: They found the bodies.

Please note: when I linked the NBC article at first, it said the bodies hadn't been found yet. Apparently they updated the information at the link to reflect the new information. I'm not trying to be redundant here.

Posted by Nathan at 10:21 AM | Comments (3)
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Looking at the pictures of that child makes me feel a horrible pit deep in my stomach.

Posted by: Hubris at February 22, 2005 12:37 PM

Me, too.

Posted by: Nathan at February 22, 2005 01:14 PM

When someone can kill a woman for no other reason than to prevent her from giving birth, what is there to stop him from killing a child who might name him as the murderer?

It is horrible. The two seemed so full of life, and a new and beautiful life was about to be added to the world.

Greed, that is the crux of the matter. His lifestyle and the ability to spend money on what he wanted and not on a child .

So horrible, so sad.

Posted by: Rachel Ann at February 23, 2005 05:06 AM
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