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Ooh, poor baby! Gee, I'll bet if Warren Messner had known how totally not-fun jail is, he wouldn't have jumped on the chest of Michael Roberts, crushing his ribcage. He might have found something else to do to alleviate his boredom. He might have, at the very least, said he felt bad about what he had done. Who knows, he might have stayed in school, gone to college, and done great things with his life. Well, after serving eight months of a twenty-two year sentence, he says he knows, now. He's ready to go home. He wants to be "an inspirational speaker for troubled teens."Everyone, say it with me... Awwwww!
This is a kid who, along with his three buddies, went into the woods and beat a homeless man to death just because they were bored. Messner outweighed the victim by 200 pounds; I don't even want to imagine what it must have felt like to have him jump on the victim's chest. Which is harder -- that or twenty-two years in prison? I'm sorry, but I think this kid got lucky. He should spend his twenty-two years thinking about what he did and how he got off easy for it.
Luckily, the judge agreed. "I can't think of some reason to change the sentence. I'm going to deny the motion," said Judge Joseph Will. Lori Messner, the boy's mother, says he just fell in with a bad crowd and that now prison is killing him. She says it's not fair. Not fair? Ask Michael Roberts about fair.
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12-08-2006 @ 2:46PM
Ginny said...HA! Good, I HOPE it sucks to be him. It's better than being Michael Roberts.
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12-08-2006 @ 3:05PM
Christine said...Well... guess it's lucky he didnt fall in with a worse crowd and would up serving a life sentence...
I mean... he is the one who jumped on the chest... right? Sounds like THEY fell in with a bad crowd (him)...
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12-08-2006 @ 4:40PM
LB said...Roger, what a bunch of insensitive,sociopathic bullshit.The criminal justice sysytem for teens is a disgrace. It is a totally screwed up system.
Twenty-two years is prison is not easy. I hate this sloppy comment. I mean which is it? Punishment or easy?
I'm NOT saying he should be off the hook or not punished.
I could even be persuded to accept the merits of things as they stand, however, your teasing and poooh-poohing here is shameful. This is a tragedy. Your sarcastic attitude is perverse.
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12-08-2006 @ 7:39PM
mp said...haahahahahahaha! Roger, I don't always agree with your point of view, but kudos to this post. make fun of these assholes all you want.
LB...are you serious? you could "even be persuded to accept the merits of things as they stand"?? wtf?!! you actually need to be persuaded that this kid needs to pay for the crime he committed? it's not like he got mad, punched somebody too hard and accidentally killed them. he jumped on a beaten man's chest OUT OF BOREDOM. and you say you need to be persuaded?? it's bleeding hearts like you that will completely turn this country to shit if you had your way.
the kid's a sociopath. from the article:
"Did you feel bad when you are doing it?" Messner was asked during questioning.
"Not really, no," he replied.
he got off easy..all the others got 27-35 years in prison. lock them all up. life. no parole. period.
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12-09-2006 @ 12:16AM
Neural Chick said...I work with kids and the majority who end up on my caseload believe that a) my parents can get me out of any trouble I get in b) you're always entitled to another chance c) consequences are negotiable and never set in stone. I'm glad he's having a hard time but I can't believe his own mother would dare to say "it's killing him." Her kid killed someone else's!!! Though he was a man, he was once someone's baby, you know? This killer's problems started in the home, where Mom led him to believe he was entitled to do whatever he wanted as long as he wanted to.
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12-09-2006 @ 8:06AM
Nancy Toby said...Rog,
I love how you tell it like it is! Keep up the great posts like this one.
Neural,
Love your reaction. Right on the money.
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12-10-2006 @ 6:20AM
Rob O'Daniel said...This little snot certainly needs to do his time, but I have a feeling that a great deal of the blmae truly lies with the mother. Children who are raised by helicopter parents and/or without tough guidelines are going to fail to develop a sense of responsibility for their own actions. They'll instead develop an air or entitlement and a feeling that their parents will solve any problem that they get into.
"Love & Logic Parenting" makes more & more sense every day. (www.loveandlogic.com)
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12-10-2006 @ 2:17PM
Nancy Toby said...Uh, Rob, what about the father? It's all mom's fault?
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