Father on the stand: 'I admit to shooting my son' (retaliation for daughter's alleged sexual abuse)

[depakid]

Not difficult to understand the sentiments- though personal vengeance with firearms generally doesn't end well.

After hours of meetings with family members and questioning, Jamar Pinkney Sr. testified today on his own behalf that he lost control and started beating his 15-year-old son after he said he heard the teen admit to having sex with a 3-year-old half-sister.

"I was horrified about the information he gave me about raping my daughter," Pinkney Sr. testified.

When asked by Assistant Prosecutor Christine Kowal whether he understood he has been the only witness in the three-day trial in Wayne County Circuit Court to say he heard his son, Jamal Pinkney Jr., admit to sex instead of only rubbing against the girl, Pinkney Sr. said: "I can't speak for anybody else, why they didn't tell the truth. That's what I did. Tell the truth."

Pinkney Sr., 37, is accused of first-degree premeditated murder in the Nov. 16 beating and stripping of his son, who was then marched at gunpoint to a nearby vacant lot in Highland Park and shot in the head.

Jamal Pinkney Jr. and the toddler had different mothers but shared Pinkney Sr. as a father.

In November, Jamar Jr.'s aunt, Yolanda Cherry, said the boy's mother took the girl to a doctor to be examined, and that there were no indications of sexual abuse.

Today, wearing a dark suit, blue shirt and tie, Pinkney Sr., a Detroit postal worker, answered questions on the stand with measure and without emotions.

"I admit to shooting my son, yes," he said.

Pinkney Sr. also testified today that he didn't believe it when told his teen son had inappropriate sexual contact with the 3-year-old.

"I couldn't believe my son could do something like that to his sister," Pinkney Sr. said.

According to testimony, the toddler had "acted out" while watching television with her aunt. When told to stop, Pinkney Sr. said he was told the toddler explained: "Jamar (Jr.) did this to me."

The autopsy on Jamal Pinkney Jr. determined he was killed by a single bullet, fired at his face from point-blank range. The bullet entered below the youth's left eye and lodged between his brain and skull at the back of his head.

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He takes responsibility for it. He feels tremendous remorse, but it's as if he became someone else," O'Meara said. "It doesn't make sense to him. He has no clue as to why he did that."

Lazette Cherry, Jamar Pinkney Jr.'s mother, told the court about how the teen said, "No, Daddy. Please, Daddy." But she said Pinkney Sr. berated and cursed his son.

She said she then watched him shoot and kill the boy.

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Pinkney faces up to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

More: http://detnews.com/article/20100331/METRO01/3310385/Father-on-the-stand---I-admit-to-shooting-my-son-

[BunkerHill24]

1. he had a gun, and he used it to justify his anger

We have laws....and if everyone decided to take life on their own hands, we need not respect of the law.

[PavePusher]

5. I can't quite parse your statement.

"he had a gun, and he used it to justify his anger"

Does not seem to reflect anything said in the incident. The father didn't use the gun to justify anything. He used it to commit a crime and should be punished appropriately. He may have used his anger to justify the use of the gun... but that doesn't seem to be stated in the article.

[BunkerHill24]

8. We agree...the father is supreme criminal.....and should be punished.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. Its clear that if he needed to the father would have used his bare hands

The rational part of me agrees with you over the respect for law, the father in me sides with father in the story. Hard to be a parent and not have some empathy here.

[dashrif]

10. +1

"if he needed to the father would have used his bare hands"

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

2. I bought you into this word and I can take you out ! - wow

I have heard more then one parent threaten that. I remember reading about this when it happened.
shocking, tragic, stupid but I can not help but be fascinated by this story.

[GreenStormCloud]

3. Do you think it would have been better if he had used a knife to kill his son? N/T

[stray cat]

4. Is the sensationalism because he killed his son or would it be there if he killed a 50 year old

pervert who molested his daughter.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. I think the paternal justice angle is the salacious part

I wonder where the mother was in all of this. It was her daughter too.

[TheWraith]

11. It would be less sensational, yes, but that's not the only reason.

This isn't a case of sudden, heated emotional reaction. This man coolly and deliberately carried out an execution. That would make it noteworthy no matter what.

[proteus_lives]

9. Horrible situation.

Should have just sent the little monster off to the police.

[LAGC]

12. This is, of course, assuming the man's story is true.

Could be a case of man kills his kid and needs a convenient excuse to justify it, so he makes up the molestation story.

Pretty tragic, regardless.

[one-eyed fat man]

13. Here you go, gun-free honor killings............

http://rt.com/Top_News/20092577258-10-01/honor-killing-uk-police.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ZWTx-QUj4

Vengeance has been meted out by humans against their progeny for countless millenia before firearms and doubtless it will occur after particle beam weapons are obsolete unless an asteroid hits the planet and causes another mass extinction.

At least, under our justice system, the father will be prosecuted, unlike other societies where his act would be glorified.

[gorfle]

14. Who wouldn't shoot the rapist of 3-year-old girls?

Obviously the father believed that his son raped a three-year-old girl, his half-sister.

Who wouldn't shoot such a person?