The neighbors said they'd heard the screams for years.
Shouting in the middle of their quiet Bel Air neighborhood. Cursing and threats so loud they could be heard a block away at night.
Late Monday, the conflict between father and son ended violently — with 16-year-old Robert C. Richardson III accused of murdering his father, Robert C. Richardson Jr., 58, and then dumping his body in a pond behind a relative's house. Police say the son confessed to the crime and told them where to find the body.
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Terrible for everyone involved. What I don't understand is that if "everyone" heard the screams, and was told that this child was abused by his father, and did nothing? I can't believe that CMW counselors were not aware of anything inappropriate.
ReplyDeleteHarford County sheriff's officials say they received no calls of domestic disputes related to the family within the past three years.
ReplyDeleteIn the past six months, police have been called 12 times to the home on Moores Mill Road for a variety of reports and complaints, but no formal action was taken.
In one of several missing-child calls, on Dec. 9, Robert C. Richardson Jr. reported that his son did not take the school bus home. The teen was found in Aberdeen and told police he did not want to go home because he was in trouble.
HUH? Didn't hear anything in the last 3 years, except the last 6 months? Is that it?
Regardless, one can only take so much abuse. My father verbally and physically abuse me and others too. I may have felt like killing him a time or two but I didn't.
I don't know why the state of Maryland decided to try him as an adult. It's obvious to me they won't win in court. Some state's atty trying to get a conviction under his belt.
I don't condone what he did either, but if so many people knew about what was going on and did nothing...this is what you get sometimes.
Prison is no place for this boy, even if he did kill his father. So many people failed him and he did what he thought he had to do.
I wonder how many can understand that.
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ReplyDeleteWhat is CMW?