Gotta drop a warning on this one, its BAD!
A 10-year-old Dallas-area boy who died of dehydration after his father and stepmother kept water from him was being punished for wetting the bed, authorities say.
The boy, Johnathan James died July 25 after water was kept from him for five days while temperatures soared to 100 degrees or more each day, police said. The boy’s dad, Michael Ray James, and stepmother, Tina Alberson, both 42, were jailed after being charged Thursday with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.
Brutal! Dehydration is a HORRIBLE and very painful way to die, and over wetting the bed? Bed wetting isn’t even a conscious act. If anybody can remember that childhood horror, and the shame and embarrassment, there is nobody who will say that bed wetting is intentional.
The murder of this child WAS intentional, and the fact that no gun was used doesn’t make it any less brutal. I’ll dare to say that these monsters would be hard pressed to top their brutality with a gun.
Remember that next time somebody uses the metric of “Gun Death”.
h/t Jake
That’s all they’re charging them with? Seems like a negligent homicide charge might be more appropriate.