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Police: Boy Says He Killed Parents Because He Let Them Down
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Discussion Started: 09-12-2007, 11:41 AM
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Police documents said a Fort Pierce teenager told detectives he killed his parents because he didn't want to disappoint them anymore.
Tell us your thoughts about this story here, and we might use them on our air.
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OneChance
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09-25-2007, 2:28 PM
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I am afraid to tell that i really understand this man. I am younger than him and i don't do any drugs or smoke. The reason I believe he did this is because of pressure in his everyday life, and expectations from his parents family and friends. The way the world has set expectations to us as humans have made me feel even suicidal. Of course what he did was not right but I have felt the same way myself, so I don't think you should blame the drugs.
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doe eyes
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09-13-2007, 7:33 PM
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I can tell the father was anything but abusive I find hard to believe. Its to bad people can't help but try to make a judgement without knowing someone. What I find ironic is I personally have heard the father talk about his family so many different times and he never sounded disappointed. He was a very laid back man, and I still can't understand even after listening to audio and reading everything. I think Jacob is really more disturbed than anyone realized. His mother worked with challenged children and was a wonderful woman. Although I never met her, I have heard enough before her death. Rick was very proud of her achievements. This man lived and breathed his family, they were all very important to him. God Bless this family - may they all find some kind of peace on this earth.
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smj49
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09-13-2007, 12:33 PM
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After listening to all the audios on this subject all I can think of is how sad this is... and sad doesn't even describe it. I can't begin to know or even try to guess what was behind this act (in addition to what he has already stated). But I guess we will know more in the near future. He was (is) definiately unstable in his thinking. At times he sounds very remorseful and then other times he does not appear to be. What is really awful about it, he thought about it prior to the day he did it. He is in Gods hands now.
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wpbnews
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09-13-2007, 11:29 AM
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If you listen to the interview tapes posted, the officer asks Jacob if he was abused by either of his parents. He says "no."
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lwmom
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09-12-2007, 5:28 PM
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Does our community help to keep the kids out of trouble, in school, and respectful? Will we lose a generation to the computer game addiction and drug escape? Do we love and support our kids or train them? How can a family in trouble find help?
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kiuku
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09-12-2007, 4:45 PM
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I agree with realworld. What kind of dissapointment do you have to be to kill your parents? When everyone else thinks of disappointment I am sure it is very different than what this young boy is trying to describe. The relationship was obviously very abusive. The father looks like an abuser in the picture, even. The problem is sexual abuse of girls and boys, and fathers trying to teach their sons to be "men". Just because abuse in families is widespread, and most people grow up with some degree of abuse, doesn't mean that it is ok, expected or normal, and that all people should be expected not to kill their parents. The problem is abusive family structures and family privacy. I think most families are abusive, and are only going to get worse. Psychiatry is not going to help this child. Most children who kill are on some kind of drugs, including psychiatric drugs. Psychiatric drugs have been implicated in almost all school shootings.
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CsuNikki
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09-12-2007, 2:58 PM
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I am so sadden to read about how this kid could think that killing his parents would solve his problems of feeling like a disappointment to them. He should have taken his own life instead. He deserves the death plenalty since he has no remorse and is a threat to the community. Or lock him up forever in a mental institution.
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realworld67
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09-12-2007, 2:34 PM
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reality check!welcome to the unsafe world we live in! sixteen year olds don't pop mommy and daddy unless they are being abused and see no other way out! I'll bet there was sexual,emotional and physical abuse!!He'll end his own life when he realizes that the help he was looking for is not there! Sad statement about our abilities as a society to protect children!!!!!!!!!
realitycheck
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junna
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09-12-2007, 2:12 PM
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I was shocked with story, I am really sorry for the young boy who now has to deal with killing his own parents, jail time, and the remorse of his actions. However, I look at him and I think about what he did and why he did it, and all i can think of are the thoughts he must have had about his parents. And I see the loveless household in which he must have been living. For a young boy to act like that it requires a lot of hate inside..I don't think life in prison will do any good to be honest, that just expense to the state. It won't teach him anything. He is still young and a life ahead of him. He made a terrible mistake, but I don't believe jail time will fix anything. If anything, it will make him a more harmful individual. I think people should help him become a better member of society and jail time won't do that for him. I know it must sound crazy but i dont think he deserves to pay such a high price. I don't know what kind of household he grew up in, and I don't know how good of a parents the Brighton's were. I think he deserves a second chance. Just my 2c
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Jessica1944
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09-12-2007, 12:04 PM
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I don't know what this young man been through, but we all go through difficulities in life both as a child an adult. His thinking was cloudy and I think that smoking the drugs had a lot to do with his destructive thoughts that lead to the death of his parents. People don't think that smoking marj. is dangerous or harmful, when in in fact, smoking it affects your ability to think clearly, it alters your mood, changes your personality, keep you from accomplishing your goals in life. Smoking drugs can destroy your life as it has done for this young man. He is an extremely dangerous person and society needs to be protected from him because after doing something like this, I don't think that he can ever be rehabilitated because he will hate himself for doing it forever and that hate and unforgiveness of his own self will lead to others being killed if he is not stopped. It's very sad and my prayers are with him and the rest of the family.
Jessica
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