Shit Just Got Real 5

This could've been a Kids These Days since it involves a 14 year old but then shit got really real. In Mississippi a kid has been charged with having hi father killed. Now that is bad enough. Having a parent killed is bad. Blake Thompson had three guys kill his father by stabbing him, burying him in a shallow grave, and setting his truck on fire. But it still manages to get worse. How, you ask?

The boy was dating one of the killers...who is 25...and a cop.

There was a time when you would get upset with your parents and you would run away or tell them you hated them and lock yourself in the room. At the very least you would pack up a bag or if you were a living cartoon get a stick with a sack at the end (which I discovered is called a bindle).

Stop staring at his hair and continue reading, please. 

Jasper Pittman, the one in the middle, who is 25 was dating the boy and along with his friends Greg Antonio Fortenberry and LeJerrious Perkins who are 26 and 17 respectively killed and buried 53 year old Kenneth Thompson. Blake had run away and apparently his aunt knew about the relationship between Pittman and the child. After the boy's father went looking for him and finding him at Pittman's house he was stabbed and buried in Pittman's backyard.

Wait. What?

The cop decided to bury a body in his own yard in a shallow grave? That is a level of stupid that you see in a Coen Brothers film. He's been fired from his job as a cop, naturally, after being on the job for just two weeks. He is going to be tried for conspiracy to murder, arson, and sexual battery charges for fucking a 14 year old boy. The boy is going to be tried as an adult under Mississippi law.

There was just a story on the news about kids being tried as adults and more importantly parents having to pay for their children's crimes. This Blake kid cant do that because his mom is already dead and he had his dad murdered. I have no problem with kids being tried as adults when they want to be "grown." Funny how being grown tends to involve doing fucked up things to others.

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