Auntie Charo's Soapbox

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What a way to start off Easter Sunday. NOT so good.

When fetching the Pacific Daily News (Guam's daily 'rag') out of the box this morning the headlines tell the sad tale of a 3-year-old boy stabbed to death by his father yesterday. His 1-year-old sister was also stabbed and is in stable condition. That is a bit of good news. The father who did the dastardly deed is in critical condition and hopefully won't survive. It would preclude the expense of a lot of time and money by not having to go through a trial. It would also spare the family more public exposure and embarrassment.
I don't buy into the 'guilty until proven innocent' crap in cases like this or the sordid tale that follows below this story from today's paper:
Father suspect in son's murder 1-year-old daughter also stabbed, in stable condition

Pacific Sunday News

April 16, 2006
A 3-year-old boy is dead and his 1-year-old sister remains in stable
condition at Guam Memorial Hospital after they were both found yesterday stabbed in the chest inside their father's Dededo home.
Medics responding to a reported hanging at the Chalan Palauan house around noon yesterday found the two children with stab wounds, and their father -- 23-year-old Frank Reyes Jr. -- hanging by the neck. (IMO...he probably didn't initiate the hanging until the cops were at the door and who could save his sorry @ss!)
Police said Reyes is a suspect in the homicide investigation. (IMO...let's skip the 'suspect' and 'alleged' crap...he is GUILTY).
The three were transported to the hospital. The boy was pronounced dead at about 12:55 p.m. As of press time, the girl was in stable condition and being watched closely while their father was listed in critical condition, according to the nursing supervisor.
The children live with their mother but were in the care of their father that afternoon, said Dennis Santos, a special agent with the Criminal Investigation Section. He also noted the couple had just separated. "Later that afternoon, the children's mother called to make arrangements to pick them up when her and Reyes had a disagreement on the phone," Santos said.
"The relationship recently ended, and I guess with (Reyes), it appears he was having problems accepting it," Santos said. Police did not release the mother's name. (IMO...and the kids pay for the problems of the parents.. mother and father. Mother should have been more concerned, I say, considering that family violence is rampant on this little island!) After getting off the phone with Reyes, the mother called police out of concern, Santos said, but would not elaborate. (Concern...too late!!!)
When police arrived at the scene, they found Guam Fire Department medics treating the children and Reyes.
About a dozen police officers and detectives yesterday scoured Reyes'
wood-and-tin home, which was cordoned off with yellow police tape. Only two other houses were visible in the isolated area and police also were monitoring those houses.
Santos said he could not release any information other than that the
investigation continues. No arrests have been made and an autopsy has yet to be scheduled.
The other bad news was on FOX and the 'live' news report of the subhuman man in Oklahoma who murdered (butchered is more descriptiive) a 10-year-old girl and had plans to eat her. It's a shame that he would even afforded a trial and waste time and money to convict him. Then a probable death sentence and more years of appeals before they put him away. I say, DO IT NOW!!! In the
days of the Old West that's what they'd have done.

I couldn't do to an animal what he did to that poor little girl.

Maybe I got too soft a ? Or another one of those days that I'm not being very nice maybe.

Despite the bad news above I wish YOU and YOURS a Happy Easter! "