Thoughts on the Murder

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/17411390.htm

http://www.woio.com/Global/story.asp?S=6700990

Here's an article with a little more information in it.

Blake had said other incriminating things besides what was all over the news.

The police department is rushing to distance itself from Bobby, referring to him as a "rogue officer." I wonder if he is still employed there.

The vague and fantastical hopes of some, that Chloe had somehow been saved, are dashed by this article. They found both bodies.

This whole case makes me ill, and the fact that there seem to be more and more of them.

How on earth are we raising so many who seem to have no conscience? Is it something in the water?

Jessie is gone. Chloe is gone. Blake has lost his mother. I can't even bear to imagine what Pat, Jessie's mother is feeling right now. Bobby's family has a tough row to hoe, too. So how did Bobby Cutts get to the place where it was OK for him to kill and hide Jessie and Chloe? How do any of them?

Almost anyone as alarmed as I by the seeming increase in this sort of killing must have a theory. I've heard the Violent Video Games and Movies theory, and I think it may be a contributing factor, but it's not the root cause. Here's my theory:

There is one little phrase that mothers can never let up on using: "How would you feel if that happened to you?" If your child has trouble imagining that, walk him through it. See, here's the problem. Babies are not born with a conscience. One of the main responsibilities of parenting is to instill one. Used to be, it was done at the end of a belt. Now, we have to work a bit harder at it. Used to be, there was a mom at home all day with her little ones. She was the person who followed the baby around, and noticed when he pulled the dog's ears, or bit the cat.

Now we are so busy trying to do too much. Most parents are in the work force, full time or more. Raising our children has to take second place to the house payment. Now tell me what societal phenomenon causes that? We are too afraid that our families and contemporaries will see us as unsuccessful if we live in a house that we can actually afford. Without the overtime.

Our children and our society speak a lot more to our success in life than the square footage of air-conditioned space we occupy.

Really. Get a small house. In the Grand Scheme of Things, do you really think it matters? I tell you what, though. If you get to be 50, and have to live the rest of your life knowing that your offspring is a cold killer, you're going to wonder if it was all worth it.

Sorry for the rambling rant. I am sick and disheartened over this case.

UPDATE, June 24, 8:30 PM

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PVG0CG0&show_article=1&catnum=0

New arrest. This one for Obstruction of Justice.

CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A former classmate of the man suspected of murdering a pregnant woman was arrested Sunday on an obstruction of justice charge, the FBI said. Myisha Ferrell of Canton was arrested in the death of 26-year-old Jessie Davis after sheriff's deputies and FBI agents broke down the door of her apartment Saturday night and searched it, agent Scott Wilson said.
The Stark County Sheriff's Department refused to discuss the arrest, saying any information made public would hurt their case. Ferrell was to be arraigned Monday, Wilson said.