Oklahoma doctor held in death of son, 9

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/16/oklahoma.child.slaying/index.html

CNN) -- A doctor in suburban Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was arrested Monday and accused in the early morning death of his 9-year-old son, police said.

Dr. Stephen Wolf, 51, faces first-degree murder charges, said Nichols Hills, Oklahoma, Police Chief Richard Mask.

Third-grader Tommy Wolf was dead when authorities arrived at the family's home about 4 a.m. CT in response to several 911 calls, Mask said.




What is with people killing their kids?

[Warpy]

1. With women, they're crazy

especially with things like post partum depression.

Men kill their kids because they feel trapped and sometimes because they don't want their kids to live through economic disaster and very rarely as a way to get back at an ex wife.

Who knows where this guy was at or if he even did it. A trial will sort it out.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. A doctor?

Gender aside, a doctor?

[me b zola]

3. Tom Coburn?

:evilgrin:

[WeekendWarrior]

4. I'm going to assume he DIDN'T kill his kid

until a Jury says he did. Just because he was arrested for it, doesn't mean he's guilty.

[pnwmom]

5. Nice policy in general. But since the mother was there, and she was injured

trying to save the boy (and ran to a neighbor's for help), and the police disarmed the man when they got there, good luck for that attorney.

[deutsey]

6. It makes no sense. It just makes no sense.

Like the sheriff says in "Fargo":

"And here you are, and it's a beautiful day. Well, I just don't understand it."

:evilfrown:

[lunatica]

7. This story is tragic

No matter what the mitigating circumstances are. It's heartbreaking.

[OKNancy]

8. I notice this in the story

"he boy's death, he said, had had a "devastating" effect on Nichols Hills, a small town about 15 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. "It's had a huge impact," he said."

LOL - not really. It's like an incorporated part of OKC, but you can't tell where OKC ends and Nichols Hills begins. It is the super rich part of Oklahoma City.

I copied the wiki entry. It is accurate:

Nichols Hills is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. The population was 4,056 at the 2000 census. Nichols Hills is a bedroom community and is completely cut off from further growth. It is surrounded by Oklahoma City and The Village on the north, and by Oklahoma City on the south, east and west. Nichols Hills is a primarily residential area, and has a very low commercial tax base. Nichols Hills is also known to have some of the highest housing prices in the state, and has the highest average household income in Oklahoma. Nichols Hills is home to the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club, a private establishment. Nichols Hills has a full service city government, to include water, police and fire services.