I'll get back to this later to give more detail, but right now I am livid, disgusted, and out for blood.
A mother woman female who bore a child befriended a person in 2000. Two years later, she learns that person is a convicted pedophile. Instead of ending all contact with that person, instead of ending contact of her child and that person, she still maintained a friendship with the pedophile. Her "rule" was that he was not to be left alone with her child.
You see it coming...
The man molested the child. On Friday, the man killed the child. On Monday, the man was captured.
[ Update : 6:36 PM ] Around July 4th, the man tried to strangle the child and the police was called. But the police could not locate the woman who bore the child.
The man had prior convictions for sexual assault against children. The man was on parole.
More later. The mother failed the child. She is irresponsible and I wanted to throw a brick at her when I saw her on television crying, saying she is going to kill him. Lady, I want to kill YOU! But that ain't all...
More later for this sad ass tale...
[ Update : 6:36 PM ]
I'm providing a link to a long article about this sorded mess. There is a lot of blame to go around, but, to me, 90% of the blame lies with the woman who bore the child. There is no way on this earth I would allow my child to be around a man, "friend" or not, who is a convicted pedophile!
I'll also point out things in the article which shows where the system failed, but the woman who bore the child bears most responsibility. Please note a refuse to call this woman a m****r. Note where I bold things.
Shanda Harris, 41, Irvin's mother, said Jones was "like a male role
model" to Irvin and baby-sat him and his siblings for years as she
worked through a drug treatment program. She said she became aware of
Jones' 2002 conviction about a year ago but continued to let him spend
time with her family. "I thought that everyone could change, and I see
now I was really wrong," she said.
She said she never suspected Jones of molesting any of her six
children. Police would not say yesterday whether Irvin's body showed
signs of abuse.
Time and again, Baltimore court records show, Jones - who told police
during an interview in August 2001 that he was "a pedophile who needed
help" - escaped serious prison time in cases of sexual abuse.
...
Jones' first arrest, at age 16 in 1970, was on a charge of rape, said
Joseph Sviatko, a spokesman for the city state's attorney's office. A
second-degree sex offense charge followed in 1989. City prosecutors
dropped both of those cases but could not say why yesterday.
Jones was convicted in 1990 of child sexual abuse and sentenced to
seven years in prison, with all but seven months and seven days
suspended. Details about that case were unclear yesterday.
...
In May 2000, Jones' sister called police to report that her daughter -
Jones' niece - had been abused by Jones for four years, beginning when
she was 4 years old, court documents show.
The alleged abuse took place at Jones' mother's house in the 3500
block of Old Frederick Road in Southwest Baltimore. That's where Jones
has lived for years, according to court records, and that is the
residence listed for him on the state's sex offender registry.
The 2000 case was not pursued because the victim's mother and
Jones' parents wrote letters saying they would testify that he had
never been alone with the girl, said Margaret T. Burns, a spokeswoman
for the city state's attorney's office.
...
The three then agreed to give Jones a plea deal of a year in prison.
The sentence was two concurrent terms of 10 years in prison, with all
but one year suspended, and five years of supervised probation with
special conditions.
...
Harris, a mother of six and grandmother of seven, said she met Jones
about four years ago, when she was dating his brother. That would have
been just after Jones' release from prison.
About a year later, Harris moved with her children into a shelter
and sought treatment for heroin addiction, she said. Jones baby-sat the
children while she was in treatment, making sure that they were fed and
watching movies with them, Harris said.
...
Harris told Jones he could no longer go into her house and could not be
alone with her children. But she did allow Jones to maintain contact
with her family.
...
Harris said she and her family are devastated by the killing and the
thought that a trusted family friend may have taken the life of the
boy. "I keep thinking that if I didn't have so much trust, he would be
here," Harris said.
I'm disgusted.
On television, the woman's mother was on the news saying she told her daughter not to let him around the boy. Where was she in this? Where is the father in this? Where is the family in this?
And the court system failed all around, but if the family had stepped up, Irvin Harris would not be dead.
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