I am so sick and sad and angry to just read that Joshua Powell has killed himself and his two young sons when the social worker brought the boys for a supervised visit.
Are you all tired of kids being killed by their parents?! How in the world can we make this world safer for kids?
When the social worker showed up to the house, he let the boys in. Then he blocked her and shut the door. She could smell gas and was on the phone with her supervisor telling her so when the blast happened. They are calling it suspicious...
Riley, I agree with you completely. I've lived that night-mare. While my husband actually did learn a great deal in those anger management classes, I know that most don't. We need to change the laws to protect the abused and not the abusers.
I think we should immediately stop all supervised visits for people that have proven they are dangerous or may be. It happens way too often that people that are under major suspicion for murder are allowed to keep their kids. Supervised visits should happen in a police station! I wish I could take some of the pain away from Susan's parents.
So sad! Those boys suffered so much. And, my heart aches for the grandparents--they lost their daughter and now their grandsons. Maybe there is a place worse than hell!
LiveBold, I read this news story just before the Super Bowl started. I was devastated. I don't know these people, but hearing that it turned out this way broke my heart What a coward and a psycho. Maybe now his father will stop defending him. Those poor, precious boys, my heart cries for them. If you want to die, fine, but to take your babies who have not even begun to live with you, unforgivable. Now Josh Powell has to answer to a higher authority.
OMG. Those kids should have been taken from him the day he said he
took them camping at midnight when it was something like 0 degrees.
Whether he did or did not take them, the fact that he said it should have
been enough IMO. May God watch over those babies.
I had to leave this site and check the news. I am just shocked. This is sad. We never will understand some people and why they do what they do.
Hello, I was shocked by the news. I don't know why because this seems to be the cowardly way out. Right now, I have a son who is so worried about the welfare of his precious child. The child's mother is using very dangerous drugs and he has not been able to get anyone to listen to him. She has needle marks and her mother has relayed this to my son. The child and his stepchild spend much time with the grandparents. They live in another town from my son. He is in the process of filing for custody of his child. I have warned him that this is not a stable person and that he and his new girlfriend need to be very careful. The child's mother has even threatened to harm the child to hurt my son. He has no proof and the police won't help him. CPS won't do anything, either. They call and ask questions of the mother and don't even go out. She can claim that he is just trying to hurt her. If they would go out and watch the apartment and see all of the coming and going of people and look at her arms, then maybe someone would listen. I can only pray that he will be able to gain custody of this precious little child and that they can all live safely.
Oh, and to answer your question, NO Hell is not hot enough for some people. I had such a hard time getting over the killing of Ulysses in Tijuana last week by the hands of cowards. How can anyone do these things to children?
K. K.
Unfreaking real -
those poor boys
I can't even process this.
I was so sad to hear this news. This case has been gross since the beginning. Especially when his father started saying he had relations with his DIL. There were some nasty things going on in the family and I mean the son and Dad.
I read an article today (Fox News) about it and it stated that the boys were starting to remember bits and pieces of that night. It mentioned that they say that Mommy was in the trunk when they went camping and then she left.
It appears that after the hearing on Wednesday and his petition for the kids was denied and he was ordered a psych/sexual evaluation and a polygraph that it put him over the top. I think he knew that the law was catching up to him and he decided to take the cowardly way out. He is a pimple on the butt of humanity and Hell has a special place for people like him.
I stopped reading those stories after the woman in Texas drowned her 6 children in the bathtub. It sent me into a serious depressive state for a week because I *know* what it's like to be mentally ill and make bad decisions, or at least lose parental empathy for a minute (not that I have ever harmed my children, I haven't, but I know what kind of mindset it takes to make that kind of decision, in that case anyway). I don't know what happened in this case, and I won't read about it. Parents have been killing their children since the beginning of time, it's a sad, but true, fact. And although my spiritual beliefs do not include a Hell, I have to say when I hear about these things, it takes me back to something my Catholic mother always said, "There is a special place in Hell for people like that."
