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I will never be able to wrap my head around a parent being able to do this.
“Cherish ran out to the car crying, ‘Daddy, Daddy’” one neighbor who witnessed the event told WEAR-TV. “She was all happy to see him.”
Cherish’s parents were separated and on Saturday afternoons Jackson would often pick up his daughter from her mother’s home and walk with her to a nearby store.
However, that afternoon Jackson, 22, walked about 100 yards with his daughter before he pulled out a gun and shot her twice in the head.
“I know he said something to Cherish right before he shot her because I saw her look up at him,” the neighbor, who asked to remain unidentified, told WEAR-TV. “That image of her looking up at him is etched into my mind forever.”
I think that there is a weird mechanism that they cannot bring themselves to kill themselves (maybe they have tried, but just couldn't take that final step) unless they first take out a loved one, and then the finality of that act allows them to take their own lives.
I wonder.
There is enough of a phenomenon of this kind of thing that they have a term for them, "family annihilators." I used to worry that my ex might do something like this, at times. He'd attempted suicide and talked about it, but often said he "just couldn't bring himself to pull the trigger." Then he'd be threatening to burn the house down or something.
Really glad I got away from him with nobody dying.
I don't understand the psychology of why these guys often kill their kids before killing themselves. Leave the kids out of it.
It's rather obvious - they're trying to hurt the other parent, and they know that killing the child is the way to inflict maximum hurt on that other parent.
I know a woman who was my next door neighbour who did this to spite her ex-husband. She killed the kid but when trying to kill herself she failed. She now has to live with that guilt forever.
It's rather obvious - they're trying to hurt the other parent, and they know that killing the child is the way to inflict maximum hurt on that other parent.
I always tell my kids, who you marry is the single biggest factor in the happiness or misery of your life.
What a horrible story; that poor baby.
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