JAMAR PINKNEY Jr. - 15 yo - Highland Park IL

Welcome to J4C Hopeful!
Good for you! Sounds like you've handled the situation like a caring, loving parent. The more I reflect on the trial the more I have to agree with some posters who feel that Sr was being somewhat manipulated into action by the mother of the toddler.
How totally ironic that this man gets a gun to defend himself only to use it for the first time on his own flesh and blood.

I have read several articles on this story. I am just so appaulled by the reaction from alot of Americans. What ever happened to the punishment should fit the crime. Grown men who are proven to rape children get less punishment then this young boy did. He was not even the age of accountability. I have read so many blogs about how this man was justified by taken the life of a child molestor, NO, he took the life of his child. The alligations against this boy were never proven. One doctor said no, another said yes. I would think another opinion and more facts need to be proven before he should be condemmed. Hopsitals by law have to call child protective services when molestation or abuse of any kind is brought to their ER and proven. They weren't called for a reason. This young boy made the confession at 3 am. How long was he being questioned about it. Being a kid maybe he made the confession just wanting it to be over with and life to go on out of pure exhaustion. Even if he did do this, he had the right as an American to due process. He isn't even getting that in death, people are still persercuting HIM. Can anyone of us as adults put ourselves in that boys position that day. Being beaten in the face repeatedly with a pistol, being stripped of his clothes, dragged out in the cold, naked, forced on his knees while the man he was taught to love and respect totally ignores his pleas, begging him to forgive him? The pure HORROR that boy endured. Not only was his last 24 hours total hell on earth but he never received his father's forgiveness only his rejection. The fear, the horror and the hurt mentally not to mention physically he was enduring and people have the nerve to feel he deserved that for humping? As parents we are suppose to teach our children the dangers of firearms not use them to hurt our children. We are suppose to love and protect our children unconditionally. A week ago I never even heard of this boy and last night I went to sleep crying for him. I hope the authorities continue to investigate and at least prove the allegations. If they are false I hope they prosecute the mother of that little girl. Trust me, I do not condon child molestation, I am and was a victim of it my entire childhood but I certainly do not see how anyone can feel this man was justified in what he did. I hope he relives that moment and one day is in that boys situation so he knows just how his SON felt that day at his own hands.

caseygirl67 ~ Welcome to J4C! First allow me to say how sorry I am that you were a victim during what should have been the most happy and carefree time of your life.
My ex-wife had many stories of her abuse as a young girl but never dealt with the inner pain and anguish and disgust that she felt. We tried counseling but when she couldn't even discuss it with the counselor, I knew it was only a matter of time before our marriage would crumble.
I hope that you have had the support and encouragement to get beyond this horrible time and wish you all the best.
Hang Tough
TomT

Thank you Tom for the kind words. I overcame my upbringing by not letting it over power me. I can't say I have had the best luck in relationships but to date I have a good husband and three beautiful children. The molestation didn't stop me from living. I couldn't allow it to. I'm sorry that your ex-wife wasn't able to deal with it. Its sad because all people deal with it in all different ways. Until you come to a point where you realize you did nothing wrong and its not your fault you will never overcome it. I really wrote because something just doesn't sit right with me on the whole molestation allegatioin in this case. I do believe in right is right and wrong is wrong. I am not on any side of the fence with the death penalty, but I do feel the punishment should fit the crime. It breaks my heart to hear so many people call this young man names and put him down when all of the facts are not out and probably never will be now that he is not here to defend or accept the allegation. This young man has touched my life forever. Because of him I now hug my children tighter and show them more love because at any minute someone so close can take it all away from you. Society needs to remember this is not a grown man we are talking about here that was brutalized, its young boy who was impressionable and wanted nothing more then to please his parents. Can I say he was a child molestor... no I can't.. But I can say he could of been a famous football player, a doctor, a lawyer, a humanatarian, or who knows maybe the president of this country one day but that will never been known because his father played devils advocate with his son, who he brought into this worlds life.

it is sad how public opinion can be swayed by those who manipulate the media, ie., those in the realm of phychiatry who after the sexual molestation and murder of several little caucasian females by adult caucasian males who were never subject to the laws that were later legislated under pressure from the phychiatric community and adult cacasian females under the premise that "once an offender always an offender". Since then CPS has been set up to rob and destroy young male lives, mainly minorities ever since, based mainly on on accusations. After my only daughters death, innocent bystander, using a payphone, killed in a crossfire shooting on christmas night of 1991, I was left to raise her two babies ages 3mos an 2yrs old along with my 8 and 7 year old sons. a year a so later after going thru tough times with babysitters and trying to hold onto a job with the transit agency that i still work for(20 yrs now), a relative who had daycare set up in her home thru the state, agreed to sit the grands for me thru the week and I could pick them up on weekends. since I had little senority and less control of my working hours I thought this was heaven sent. My daughter at her death was only seventeen but had worked enough for the babies to be paid soc sec benefits. It had taken up to a year and a half to prove the benefits and a lump sum was due. The relative who was sitting, whos entire family had been involved with CPS and gaining custody of other peoples kids for some time, pointed the finger at my sons, I beleive for the purpose of gaining possesion of my granddaughters for the purpose of control of that money. Long story short, granddaughters were taken from me, boys had to be relocated, counseling and therapy was instituted and told could never get my girls back unless boys admitted to something. They did at my urgence for fear of never getting my granddaughters back. Then the charges came, three years of counceling for all before unification, a false guilty plea out of ignorance of that system, with no proof, and years lattter when the boys turned 18, the sherriffs department showed up and required that my sons who had never been in any trouble again, register as sex offenders for the next 10 years. SOMEONE AFTER THEY WERE TEENS WERE ALWAYS CALLING "CPS" reporting that there were sex offenders in the home with my granddaughters and CPS was the ones who reunited us, as a result because of their status they could not be listed on my lease they were arrested and jailed for six mos each as adults for failure to register address effectivly listing them as adult felons for something that happened as children. How cruel the system is. My sons have grown up to be fine young respectable men my granddaughters have grown up and finished high school, the oldest married with a baby boy. There has been a toll taken on all of us by this systems handling of the entire situation, But I am thankful for the speech that this wonderful Judge gave before Jamar Pinkney's sentencing in wich he refuted the notion of "once an offender always an offender". As one of the previous bloggers wrote "WHERE IS THE LOVE?

Wow zinteacher. That sounds like you all had terrible time. I'm shocked that you urged your apparently innocent sons to say they were guilty to get your grandaughters back. Wow. I guess you weren't aware of the consequences to them at the time. That is so sad.