Men. Again. But this time specifically “fathers”.
As we hear time and time again men have some kind of special hormone which means that no matter how terrible a person they are - their son will always, ALWAYS, benefit from their presence. No matter how terribly toxic and trashy a man is his presence will always instil disciple in his son. By some kind of weird osmosis.
So for today’s amazing fathers awards:
1) Exhibit A - the family annihilator
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/chad-doerman-ohio-dad-murder-bible-b2591995.htmlOhio dad read from the Bible and told his three young sons they were the ‘best boys ever’. Then he killed them
“ An Ohio father read from the Bible, told his children he loved them, and called his own father – cryptically telling him that his eldest boy would be “the hardest one” – before he murdered his three young sons in a horror attack at the family home.
Chad Doerman, 33, shot and killed his sons Clayton Doerman, 7, Hunter Doerman, 4, and Chase Doerman, 3, in Monroe Township, about 75 miles west of Columbus, back on June 15 2023.
On Friday, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three consecutive life terms in prison.
Now, disturbing new details have emerged about Doerman’s actions in the lead-up to the murders – and of the final hours of the three young boys’ lives.
In a press briefing on Monday, Clermont County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Tekulve revealed that on the day of the shooting spree, Doerman had lunch with his wife Laura and told her: “This will be my last good meal.”
Despite this mysterious statement, Laura did not think there was a need to “do something to protect the family” and her husband then spent the afternoon doing yard work and playing with the children.”
Just before 4pm, Doerman asked his family to join him for a nap in the master bedroom. His wife and three sons entered the room with him while his 12-year-old stepdaughter watched television in another room.
When Doerman opened the gun safe, his wife grew alarmed, telling him: “You’re scaring me.”
What happened next was a series of events that brought experienced officers to tears, Tekulve told reporters in a separate press briefing on Friday.
Doerman told his family he loved them and called his sons the “best boys ever.”
Then he jumped up from the bed and grabbed the .22 rifle from the safe, with the prosecutor revealing that his family were initially worried for his safety rather than their own, fearing he would kill himself.
“Laura is screaming, the boys are screaming, Laura is frightened that he’s about to kill himself,” said Tekulve. “They’re all trying to discourage him, telling him that they love him and begging him not to kill himself.”
Laura took out her phone to call 911 but Doerman threw it across the room and turned the gun on Hunter, shooting the four-year-old boy multiple times.
He then chased his wife and stepdaughter out of the house and wrestled his other two sons away from them, before also shooting and killing Clayton and Chase.
The 12-year-old girl was uninjured, but her mother suffered a gunshot wound to her hand while trying to shield one of her sons from Doerman’s attack.
The father-of-three was arrested that day and indicted on charges of aggravated murder, kidnapping and felonious assault.
Prosecutors initially sought the death pentalty before reaching a plea deal with Doerman handing him three life sentences, saying it was best for the survivors: “Doing anything further would be an act of cruelty.
Heartbreaking especially for the kids. To have your father, who you trust love and look up to, murder you. To have it be your husband who murdered your kids. I note he left the step-daughter alone so he did not see her as “his property” the way he saw his sons.
At least he did not take the cowards ways out and kill himself so he can happily rot in jail for the rest of his life. (Although it would have been preferable that he just kill himself and left his boys alone.
Exhibit B) The “role model”
So here we see the importance of fathers - keeping their sons on the straight and narrow, filling them with discipline and self-restraint and leading them away from criminal activity [/sarcasm]
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn47zd7k93po.amp“ A man was found guilty by a Los Angeles jury on Wednesday of sending his 17-year-old son to kill rapper PnB Rock.
Freddie Trone, 42, was found guilty of multiple charges, including murder, two counts of second-degree robbery and one count of conspiracy to commit robbery, after the Philadelphia hip-hop star was shot dead in September 2022.
The rapper was eating at a Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles restaurant in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, who is the mother of his four-year-old child, when the teen - wearing a ski mask - walked into the restaurant, demanded the artist's jewellery and opened fire.
Police said the teen removed items from the victim then fled in a waiting getaway car, which Trone was accused of driving, according to local media.
PnB suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at a local hospital less than an hour later.
Prosecutors during the trial argued the teen was acting on his father's orders while Trone's defence team said he was only an accessory after the crimes.
The teen, who is now 19 years old, was also arrested on murder and robbery charges in the case but, according to local media, he has not been found competent to stand trial yet.
A third man, Tremont Jones, was charged in the case and found guilty on two counts of second-degree robbery and one count of conspiracy to commit a robbery.
Both Jones and Trone are scheduled to be sentenced on 27 August.”
