I’m so sickened by a report today out of New Orleans that I don’t have words to describe it.
The father of missing toddler Ja’Shawn Powell confessed to murdering his son and led police detectives this afternoon to the boy’s body, which had been dumped near a Central City playground, police said.
Ja’ Shawn Powell, 2, had been reported missing late Friday night by his father, Danny Platt, 22, police said. New Orleans Police and FBI agents worked through the night and morning and secured the father’s confession this afternoon, NOPD officials said at a news conference.
Platt, of the 2800 block of Baronne Street, is expected to be escorted to Orleans Parish Prison within the next hour. He will be booked with first-degree murder, police said.
Platt told police that he did not want to pay his outstanding child support owed to the boy’s mother, according to NOPD Assistant Superintendent Marlon Defillo.
He didn’t want to pay child support . . . so he killed his own child.
What spawned this inhuman monster? Is it even possible that he had a mother and father, like the rest of us?
May God have mercy on the soul of Ja’Shawn Powell, and receive him into His peace. As for Platt . . . I question whether there can be mercy for a crime such as his.
Then [Jesus] said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.”
Luke 17:1-2
Peter
I wish I could say this… thing… is the problem, but I think it would be more realistic to think of it as the symptom of a bigger set of issues.
With any luck his prison stint will be nasty, brutish, and short.
Jim
This monster does not meet minimum standards to qualify as human.
I don’t have a millstone, but I would gladly contribute an anvil
Rather than pay a lousy four thousand dollars in child support, he killed that beautiful child…..
Christ said to let the little children come unto him; I pray for Ja’shawn’s innocent soul.
Get a rope.
And this LA native isn’t the least bit surprised that this has happened in N.O. The crime rate there is worse now than it was before the hurricane. I wonder how many National Guardsmen were up all night looking for the child.
Men like him deserve their own level of hell.
I’m not sure this is true everywhere but, I know in most Texas prisons the people that have sexually abused, physically abused or killed children must be kept from the general population of the prison for “thier own safety”.
This is because even the prisoners inside understand you don’t hurt kids…especially toddlers and infants.
Jeffery Dalhmer is a prime example of this…and he didn’t make it.
No cameras in the bathrooms after all.
There are worse people sadly…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475964,00.html
Man had a 4 year old girl, chopped up in his fridge and said she tasted “delicious”.
Such creatures are the reason I am SO glad God sent Christ because they would get the evil side of my nature in spades and then some.
Forgive me Lord…but I am a sinner….
Welcome to the ultimate results of LBJ’s “Great Society”…
doug in colorado