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Cops: Teen hired pair to kill his mom for money

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A Colorado teenager hired men to kill his mother so he could use her money to get breast implants for his girlfriend, police said.

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Supposedly, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette, this was gonna net young Juan & Brandon about $3500 each. Juan attempted to do Momsy with a miniature souvenir baseball bat. The conspiring Nikita was in the house while the unsuccessful attack took place. And the flat-chested Sophia was outside the house with her fingers crossed. Just a bunch of typical American kids with nothing better to do. Where does this derangement come from? Is it part of a new culture that older generations cannot fathom? Some explanations, PLEASE.

  • 2 votes
Reply#1 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:44 AM EDT
BadWolf-404040

Two kids gone bad. What other explanation is there. As far as your observation: "Just a bunch of typical American kids with nothing better to do.", there are approximately 4 million kids in that age group in the US. Two hardly constitutes typical. Life is dangerous. John Adams observed that man is inherently evil. By this example, seems so.

    Reply#2 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:52 AM EDT
    mike sprinkle@yahoo.com

    This kid needs to put in a mental institution and never let out he is crazy and has lost touch with reality taking a human life so he can buy implants for his girlfriend. If ever let go he will kill someone

      Reply#3 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:57 AM EDT
      T20-503325

      hmm...now he can think about the implants for himself while in the prison with his bf.

      • 1 vote
      Reply#4 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:12 AM EDT
      LusciousDC

      This is what happens when you use "time out" as a disciplinary measure.

      • 4 votes
      Reply#5 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:29 AM EDT
      dongle

      It is also what happens when kids go to Public Schools where they can SAY and DO anything they want. Teens in Public Schools are out of control. They carry this behavior into communities all over this country. They suffer no punishment in School - why would they think about the consequences outside of school? Have you ever heard the expression? "That's his expected behavior." - meaning NO consequences for his actions.

        #5.1 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:39 PM EDT
        MLIL

        I am so sick of people making excuses for people who do stupid, reckless things. At what point in life is anyone held accountable anymore? This idiot kid decided that breast implants for his girlfriend are more important than his own mother's life and people's reaction is "well, gee, his mother must have been a bad parent." Either the kid wasn't diciplined enough, or when his parents spanked him he was being "abused", or his parents are divorced and that messed him up...
        So my question is, when is a person responsible for their own actions and decisions in this society?

          #5.2 - Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:03 PM EDT
          justiceisserved

          MLIL, he's still accountable for it, they are just saying the possible reasons as to why he's acitng the way he does.

            #5.3 - Wed Oct 1, 2008 3:14 PM EDT
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            Steven100

            With everything that is happening in the U.S. today and this is what is most important to these people. BREAST IMPLANTS! Where have these kids been, under a rock! Who has been supporting them? Don't they work, or have bills to pay, or have something more than breast implants ambitions?

            Any person that would kill for that is so spoiled, and thinks they are the center of the universe, never had any kind of discipline what so ever, let alone a "time out".

            That old old saying, "you reap what you sow, must follow this dysfunctional family and friends".

            • 2 votes
            Reply#6 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:06 AM EDT
            novascotian

            LusciousDC- Amen

              #6.1 - Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:36 PM EDT
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              talkalot101

              teenagers today think they should be given everything, and work for nothing.

              • 3 votes
              Reply#7 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:38 AM EDT
              John Wang42

              I resent that statement. There's plenty of hardworking teens out there who actually do alot to get what they want. You can't just put a general assumption on all teens just because of this one story.

              • 2 votes
              #7.1 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:38 PM EDT
              HeatherWithaC

              Sure there are plenty of hardworking teens out there, but there are a whole lot more with no sense of accountability for their actions and parents who gave them that sense of entitlement.

              • 2 votes
              #7.2 - Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:11 PM EDT
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              xxchromosone

              OMG! Throw away the key on this group!! OK, who do you think was the mastermind in this one (hint, 21 yr old girlfriend with 18 yr old boys)? There is absolutely no hope for minds like these. No boobs or brains (all the way around).

              • 1 vote
              Reply#8 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:38 AM EDT
              Florida_kes

              If found guilty, all the teens involved in this little scheme, regardless of their sentencing, need to be permanently sterilized,

              • 2 votes
              Reply#9 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:30 PM EDT
              hilobamacaine

              the love of large bazoombas is the root of all evil!!!

              • 1 vote
              Reply#10 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:42 PM EDT
              Kara-582199

              First of all, this behavior can't be blamed to just one root cause. As humans we are all complicated creatures, nothing is black and white. We have no idea who the parents are, if they are abusive, or absent, and if the son has any emotional disorders or is simply a sociopath. Evil my butt. We are who we are based on numerous factors, and the nature vs. nurture debate will be on-going forever. Criminal behavior can't be explained by labeling it as evidence of the devil. That's ridiculous.

              Some factors to consider:
              1) lack of a conscience, or ingoring it
              2) they're teenagers-the part of the brain that controls risk taking and impulsivity doesn't develop fully until the age of 25.
              3) peer pressure - it can influence bad behavior by 50%

              Most likely these kids have a record of bad behavior and truancy, and obviously have a skewed understanding of right and wrong and taking responsibility for their actions. Teachers should have to take child psychology classes, as well as parents should have to take parenting classes in order to see the warning signs and act in order to prevent future crimes. Too much is ignored and then we start pointing fingers. That doesn't solve anything.

              • 2 votes
              Reply#11 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:54 PM EDT
              dongle

              Shouldn't the parents of these students and the students themselves who need psychology classes be the ones repuired? Not every parent has a need - only those who show signs of this behavior.
              Your comment shows ignorance of the Teacher Education programs in this country. Teachers DO have the equivalent of child psychology class in College. And - unlike most people they have the experience of interacting with hundreds of students each year in the school environment. However, they have little or no influence over these kinds of teenagers. In fact the lack of any sense of accountability for students in Public Schools means there is very little a Teacher can do to "short circuit" this kind of behavior.

              • 2 votes
              #11.1 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:52 PM EDT
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              LDA_76

              Kara- I think you hit the bullseye on the lack of conscience thing-- when I read this article I thought "Well...there's a sociopath for you."

              There are more of them out there than we all think.

                Reply#12 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 3:05 PM EDT
                teach34181

                Kara -- leave teachers out of this one. A couple of dumb butt kids wanna kill mommy and I have to take MORE certification classes. No thanxs! I've got my hands full trying to teach chemistry, track down truants, instruct special needs and nurture all the crazy HS teens as it is... Maybe you should take psychology classes to earn your certification in "it takes a village..." and then do more on your part. LOL

                  Reply#13 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 8:35 PM EDT
                  dongle

                  Teachers aren't the blame or the solution. The fools who designed the current public school system are at fault. Special Education advocates, politicians, religious organizations and all those others who have taken discipline out the schools are to blame. It is not the removal of "God" from the schools - it is the removal of discipline and student accountability from the schools. Too many unintelligent people have stressed Teacher accountability - they should have been working on parent and student accountability.

                    #13.1 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:45 PM EDT
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                    L-284194

                    The responsibility falls on the ones who chose to do evil. They are of adult age. They made the decision. It is no ones fault but there own. Deciding to do evil is a conscience decision. I don't believe in the cop out of environment or whatever other excuse you want to slide by on it's still your choice. I have seen people who have been raised in the worst circumstances but who consciously chose not to go that same road or use their environment as an excuse to become a scum bag. Life is filled with choices. What you become is what you decide not anyone else.

                    • 2 votes
                    Reply#14 - Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:41 PM EDT
                    novascotian

                    They're of age, they know right from wrong. 18 and blinded by so called mad love. I guess he doesn't think much of his mother.

                    • 1 vote
                    Reply#15 - Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:45 PM EDT
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                    patsym546

                    He thought it was okay to take a human life for breast implants. When he is released on parole from our extremely lenient justice system, I wonder what he will think is worth taking a life for the next time? Because there will be a next time.

                    • 1 vote
                    Reply#17 - Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:36 PM EDT
                    OldThang

                    I'm with Hilo! Bazongas are the root of all evil! Betcha Hyun Weis wishes she'd used Summer's Eve instead of knitting booties. (I wanted to say "douched" but I thought it would get edited...)

                      Reply#18 - Sun Sep 28, 2008 8:52 PM EDT
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                      Larry Birchfield

                      This is NOT what happens when you use "Time Out." That had to be the stupidest thing I ever read. Let me tell you something...My parents spanked, and as soon as I got big enough to fight back I did! Dicipline is not about beating your kids into submission or ruling them thru fear of violence. And if you do use spanking, it tells your children one thing. You have no control, and no other way to get your point across then hitting them. That is not how you teach your children to respect, only to fear physical violence. How the hell am I supposed to teach my son, that nothing is solved thru violence and fighting if I hit him???!! How the hell do you teach a child it's wrong to hit others when you can't think of any better way to deal with them, than hitting them? If my son does something unacceptable, he is made to sit in a corner and THINK ABOUT WHY HE IS THERE! and WHY HIS ACTIONS WERE WRONG! This actually teaches children to take some responcibility for their own actions. Americans have some of the WORST family values on the planet. When you live in a society where both parents have no chioce but to work full time jobs to make ends meet, and NO ONE is raising the children or provideing guidence and positive feedback what do you think is going to happen? We pay childcare workers only slightly higher than parking lot attendents and then wonder why they are out of control!

                      Also to Kara....YES this is a classic example of a sociopath. This kid could have had the best parents in the world and STILL would behave this way.

                      • 1 vote
                      Reply#20 - Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:07 PM EDT
                      MarkStemple

                      My late father was MD and he used corporate punishment on me and my brother.
                      We did not like it.
                      My father justification was:
                      people have two signals systems.
                      Primary - is done to us in physical sensations. For example - you touched the burner, you feel the pain
                      immediately, and you know that you should not touch it.
                      People have primary signal system from the birth.

                      Secondary signal system, when children are able to connect their sensations to words, when child would be able to understand words "hot", "pain", "no", and connect it to its physical unpleasant sensation.
                      Secondary system, usually, forms around five years old.

                      My father believed that corporal punishments are using first signal system to support secondary one
                      much quicker and more efficient, than using just secondary, trying to explain to teenager that to kill his mother is bad.

                      If he said "no', and we did not understand, then we had spanking, and more with regular belt.

                      Very soon we understood, that if father said "no" it means "no".

                      We knew that our mother will be protected by our father from any disrespect or disobedience from our side.

                      By the age five, when our secondary signal system is formed, and we supposed to understand words, our personality already formed, and it is very little you can do to change it.

                      But this discussion about children with normal, mentally healthy brains.
                      Now I am going to talk about most interesting thing I ever learned in my professional life.

                      I worked as MD neurologist for 20 years, and recently I discovered information, that I did not know, medical science science before did not know, and, I suspect, the most of other people still do not know.

                      This is the edge of the neuropsychiatric science, and I believe, this discovery is extremely helpful to heal society.

                      According to MD, world known neuropsychiatrist, Daniel Amen, the popular theory of "choices" is wrong.
                      When our frontal lobes of brain is damaged we have NO CHOICES, but doing crimes, and we need MEDICAL treatment. Criminal behavior is mental disease, not a choice.
                      With timely diagnostic and proper treatment, we, possibly, would not have 2,2 millions people in prison and would not read the stories about sons, which are murdering mothers for breast transplant for his girlfriends. Here is my proposal from MD AMEN discovery:

                      Petition for new Law in USA:

                      We, concerned citizens of USA, are over 18 and in sound mind, are requiring the NEW LAW for every candidate on ANY public positions, in every occupation, (where our lives and wellbeing depend on them), take and pass mandatory, and then annual, - PET SCAN (picture)-of brain in order to reveal
                      dangerous for society invisible mental disability and to save human civilization and the whole world.
                      Read: and
                      www.amenclinic.com click on amen clinic scroll down to watch movie where MD Amen speaks on presidential candidates brain health.

                      While the most prominent world known sociologist G. Klimov:
                      , (participant in research of the most brutal to its own citizens regimes by CIA for 50+ years ) defined "degenerative complex" as genetic undesirable result/defect of intermarriages inside of the same small part of population (inbreeding), Dr. Amen and Oxford university research, scientists in Japan and other countries found out that criminal behavior has, indeed,much
                      much broader organic cause – dysfunctional frontal lobes of the brain by any cause.

                      Provide treatment with Adderall for every FRONTAL LOBES DAMAGED sufferer in USA. Educate and familiarize public with danger of Frontal lobes damage. Start courses of
                      Degeneralogy in public schools, colleges and Universities, learn history of Russia (where 145 millions people were murdered by degenerates), China (57 millions) and other genocidal nations,
                      GOD BLESS/SAVE AMERICA!

                      # Date Name Address Telephone

                      Pertinent current scientific information, People with Frontal Lobes damage (or absence of their functioning) look externally and superficially normal, but have invisible, - monster like disabilities,- as human beings. They are NOT a HUMAN SAPIENS (not a man reasonable), anymore, but -HUMAN SCELERATUS – man criminal, lier and murder. Person with disregard to all Godly human values, Laws and morals, whose actions support Satan's will, to destroy God's world, humankind and steal our soles form God. The characteristics of person with fully blown frontal lobes dysfunction are: dishonesty, scorn to the Law, poor judgment, poor impulse control ( often violent), have NO ability to predict future consequences of their own actions/ behavior, no ability to have vision for and/or no wish for positive, Godly future for the country, they have NO human feelings – No gratefulness, No shame, NO remorse, NO love, NO conscious and NO connection with God (people with damaged frontal lobes often are militant atheists, prosecute believers in God and destroy churches). According to modern science Frontal lobes of brain are responsible for shame, moral (sexual behavior), concideration for other people. Frontal Lobes are the last and highest, newly developed, highly differentiated tissue in our body, very vulnerable and can be permanently damaged almost by everything on the Earth where, according to Bible, master is Satan. Frontal lobes of brain can be damaged (but not only) ,- by aging, by psychiatric, vascular diseases, drugs, alcohol, car accidents, inborn defects, excessive TV watching, computer's games and etc., People with frontal lobes defects are suffering from anosognosia – complete unawareness of their diseased condition and are not able to reach for needed medical/psychiatric treatment on their own. Criminal in mind, they cluster in the groups/gangs and prosecute and murder normal, different from them normal in mentality people. We request and demand ONLY people with FULLY functional frontal lobes of brain, - moral, honest, considerate, loving people, with righteous, Godly vision for our country to handle our lives, our minds, our health, our courts, our hospitals and etc.,. Only this kind of people we want to be our leaders, teachers, lawyers, doctors and etc., WE DESPERATELY NEED PET SCAN LAW! THIS IS THE QUESTION OF LIFE AND DEATH OF OUR NATION, OUR CIVILIZATION, OUR RELIGION/CHRISTIANITY and the existence of human civilization on the EARTH. Provide frontal lobes damaged sufferers with medical treatment, before it is too late.
                      Instruction for this petition:
                      Please, gather as many signatures as you can and send it to your legislative government/state representatives with request of PET SCAN LAW.
                      Another copy of petition, please, send to richest person of the world –
                      Bill Gates: 1835 73rd Ave NE, Medina, WA 98039
                      for financing of our new Law and obtaining proper equipment/PET SCANs for every election place, every court, every government in every place, every BAR association, every Medical society, Medical school etc.,
                      Send to Ron Paul, M, congressman, the third copy of your petition:
                      203 Cannon HOB Washington, DC 20515. Tel. (202) 225-2831
                      Support considerate fighter for restoring American constitution and Glory, MD, Ron Paul to president this year www.RonPaul2008.com

                      Sagamore Institute Home » SIPR Publications

                      DO NOT LET USA BE THE NEXT COUNTRY IN THIS LIST!!PREVENT MENTALLY SICK FROM public officials POSITIONS!! NORMAL PEOPLE WITH still INTACT FRONTAl LOBES OF BRAINS, - UNITE, - DEMAND MANDATORY PET SCAN! (od)
                      Lenin is Man of the Century not because he was the most powerful of most vicious totalitarian, but because he was the first. Stalin, Hitler, and Mao murdered more and conquered more, but they were just following the path carved out by Lenin. It was Lenin's shadow that incubated them, Lenin's revolution that unleashed them on the world, and Lenin's methods that they--and so many others--imitated.
                      As told, mentally sick,(but still able to be educated in Russia as an attorney od), Lenin (who has typical facial features of Fetal Alcoholic exposure,- wider spaced smaller than normal eyes od),- and, was said, - suffered for 30 years and died from Syphilis of brain) and his heirs murdered 145 million people (od) and altered the world's very ethnic composition, (EXTERMINATED POSITIVE GENOFUND OF RUSSIAN CHRISTIAN NATION – CORTEX, BRAIN OF THE COUNTRY! od) a legacy that will scar humanity forever. The numbers are nearly incomprehensible. They numb us to the real horrors and terrors they represent. It was another mentally sick, frontal lobes damaged, leader of Soviet Union -Paranoid Schizophrenic Stalin (od)- who coldly observed that "The death of an individual is a tragedy, the death of a millions is a statistic." And in a perverse way, he was right: When thrown together in a lifeless heap of nameless, voiceless numbers, human life becomes less human; killing and slaughter take on the character of accounting; and the carnage--because of its very scope, because of the precedent set by Lenin--gradually becomes less repulsive, less tragic.
                      Many others would embrace his methods. In China, Lenin's protege Mao Tse-Tung would kill 37,828,000 people. In Cambodia, Pol Pot murdered 2.4 million people--out of a pre-massacre population of 7 million. In North Korea, Kim Il-Sung would butcher 1.66 million. In Yugoslavia, Tito would erase 1.1 million in Lenin's name. In Ethiopia, it was 725,000. In Rumania, the murder toll would reach 435,000. In Afghanistan, 228,000 would die at his altar. In Bulgaria, it was 222,000
                      When Republic is not following the Laws - and Constitution is not protecting their citizens anymore from criminals with frontal lobes damaged brains-shed of blood will come inevitably in the country. (comments and additions by od).

                        Reply#21 - Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:29 AM EDT
                        Reliquary-583151

                        Lengthy post aside, the statement that criminal behavior is a mental disease is ridiculous. Your theory may hold true for a very small percentage of offenders, the vast majority CHOOSE to rob a bank, kill someone, rape someone, or commit any other crime. They choose to commit those crimes just as I choose not to. As for the criminals in the story, why should i have to pay for them to live the rest of they're life in a federal prison? This is why i believe in capitol punishment. Make example of them. Make others who are considering something like this FEAR the consequences.

                          #21.1 - Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:03 PM EDT
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                          Betty-301392

                          We don't really know anything about Mom. Is she a crack head? Is she June Cleaver? Did the kid really put his friends up to this or is this a lie to cover up a botched robbery? There are way too many questions for me to make a decision on this one.

                          I do know that whenever my 19 year old's girlfriend whistles, my son drops everything and everyone and goes running. He will forget commitments to meet with friends, homework, and doing his chores. He will forget to eat. A young woman has incredible influence over a young man's brain, especially if he is getting a little sex for it.

                          If you use money as a means to keep your teens in line, it inevitably backfires on you. They will either get a job and tell you where to put your money or they will steal it from you. Either way, you lose control.

                          My bet is that, if the kids really did plan this, the girlfriend put him up to it and then plans to dump him later when she has great tattas.

                            Reply#22 - Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:23 PM EDT
                            patsym546

                            We don't really know anything about Mom. Is she a crack head? Is she June Cleaver? D

                            So if she was a bad mom, used drugs, slept late, didn't pack his lunch for school that day..it was ok to kill her? Maybe she didn't cook or clean the house? he had to make his own dinner? But if she was a good mom, then it was wrong for him to kill her....?
                            I don't think what kind of a mom she was should have any bearing on the right or wrongness of killing her. If the girl wanted new boobs, the young man could have taken a job and earned the money. Or the girl could have. Killing is not ok, and most certainly not ok for a new pair of boobs!

                            • 1 vote
                            Reply#23 - Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:52 PM EDT
                            Rottiemom

                            Another example of the selfish, self-centered kids that are being produced, not that I'm blaming the parents because everyone is a FREE MORAL AGENT and therefore responsible for their own actions. When the hell did FAKE BOOBS for your ho become more important than your mother's life? I am AMAZED at some of the people that are in this country, when did the value of a human life drop to nothing? SAD!!! I hope they lock these little psycho's up and throw away the key, let the prison population have them.

                            • 1 vote
                            Reply#24 - Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:09 AM EDT
                            hometowngirl-510510

                            oh my god, this is so stupid, kill your own mother for a pair of breast implants, shocking, the son and the 2 men who agreed to kill the mum should all get the death sentence, theres no use in keeping this sort of stupidity and cruelty in society.

                              Reply#25 - Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:57 PM EDT
                              justiceisserved

                              Rottiemom, I am so agreeing with you. there's no excuse for this at all.

                              • 1 vote
                              Reply#26 - Wed Oct 1, 2008 3:33 PM EDT
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