An excerpt from the article
Police closed in on two 18-year-olds, Roger Whitten of Hamilton and Michael Douglass of Middletown, at the Hamilton Inn late Monday. They filed charges against them and Whitten's 16-year-old sister by early Tuesday......
The two have been friends since both attended Hamilton's Jefferson Elementary School, relatives said. Both have lengthy rap sheets that landed them in the state juvenile prison, officials said.
Douglass has at least 18 convictions, according to court records, including burglary, drug possession, domestic violence and aggravated menacing.
Whitten has 13 convictions, including serving time for aggravated arson in one of the most racially charged crimes to hit Hamilton in years - a 2005 fire that was set in retaliation for a Hispanic man's rape of a 9-year-old girl....
Whitten's aunt, Alonda Whitten, said the family was shocked to learn that the girl and her brother had been arrested. She said the siblings called a couple of days ago and said "they met this great guy who was taking them out to dinner and that was offering them a job in Florida."....
Roger Whitten is the father of a 2-year-old girl, Mathis said, and, in many ways, "he was a good kid," she said, despite his troubles with the law. He was interested in construction work and was proud of his Hispanic heritage.
A few thoughts.... When your nephew has committed 13 crimes by the time he's 18 (including an aggravated arson), I don't think "good kid" is a good description of him. In addition, I don't think you should be shocked when he's arrested yet again.
Nowhere in the article is a father presence quoted. Where's the daddy?
I've been on a rant this whole day about the poor. You really want to clean up the poor? Create an environment where's father's have to show up in kid's lives. I think you'll see a big turn around in the crime and poverty statistics.
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I'll bet he doesn't know "who his daddy is" much less where.
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