Relative Says Man Killed Son For Molesting Baby Sister

By Associated Press November 19, 2009 12:21 pm

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A 37-year-old father irate over hearing his 15-year-old son had sexual contact with a three-year-old girl made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot and shot him to death despite pleas from the boy and his mother, a relative said.

Michigan authorities filed a first-degree murder charge Wednesday against Jamar Pinkney Sr. in the shooting death Monday of Jamar Pinkney Jr. in the Detroit enclave of Highland Park.

Defense attorney Corbett O’Meara said prosecutors should consider evidence of the father’s state of mind over the sex abuse report.

“If something were to happen that would cause a reasonable person to lose control of himself, that is something the prosecution would have to take into account,” O’Meara said outside Highland Park District Court.

Tensions were high in the courtroom Wednesday as the handcuffed suspect was led into the room for the arraignment, which lasted less than a minute.

“No, No, No,” one female relative cried before a police officer escorted her out.

Judge Brigette Officer entered a not guilty plea for Pinkney, who’s also charged with assault, and ordered him jailed without bond until a preliminary examination Dec. 1.

“This is something that’s hard to deal with for all the parties concerned, including the police,” police Chief Ted Caldwell said afterward. “Highland Park is a small city. These are people who have been members of the community for years.”

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Caldwell said the sexual misconduct allegation that led to the confrontation wasn’t part of the police investigation.

The shooting happened Monday night in a vacant lot in the once-prosperous city of 16,000, where decay, abandonment, fires and demolition have eaten away at many of the sprawling homes. Highland Park recently exited years of state financial oversight.

Visitors built an impromptu memorial at the shooting site. Two votive candles sat amid 10 stuffed animals, including two white teddy bears with red hearts embroidered with, “I love you.”

The boy’s mother, Lazette Cherry, told The Detroit Free Press that her son told her he had improper sexual contact with the girl.

“I called and told his father. This isn’t something you sweep under the rug,” she said.

Cherry said the elder Pinkney arrived at the home with a gun, ordered his son to strip and marched him outside despite her protests.

“He got on his knees and begged, ‘No, Daddy, No,’ and he pulled the trigger,” Cherry said.

Cherry did not immediately respond to a message Wednesday from The Associated Press seeking comment.

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  • 11-28-2009 4:45 am

    Well there’s a lot we don’t know here, but I’m not against what the father did. More parents should shoot their children when they know they’re monsters rather than going on the stand and saying crap like “he was always a good boy until he raped and killed all them people”… MY ass! This dad knew what that boy was and he took care of the problem before any more victims came about.
    And what fools up in here be talking about the “poor” 15 year old prolly just didn’t know better and was never taught to respect women? How dumb are you people? Kids who don’t respect women are TAUGHT not to respect them. Kids aren’t born needing to be taught not to rape babies. NOt that this boy was a kid by any means. 15 years old is old enough to get married, drive and work in some states. Hell not too long ago most 15 year olds already had their first kid on the way and had a full time job. But every generation we keep people in school longer and longer and nowadays you have to be almost 20 before you can be considered an adult and that’s ludicrous. Now most people take 6 years to complete college so next generation people will be considered little kids till their in their mid 20’s and then people will be like… oh poor boy was only 21 he didn’t know better than to rape that old lady up the ass…
    People who think this boy was just a little kid who didn’t know better need to be shot right along side him. His dad did us all a favor and the judge is definitely going to take that into consideration.

  • 11-25-2009 6:11 pm

    Damnnnn that is so crazy how many of yall would kill your own kids! Or kill someone period! WOW i’ll leave that at that, but obviously its not normal for a 15yr old to have any sexual contact with a 3yr old. Anyone who has been sexually abused while young or know anyone who has, knows it fuk’s up that persons sexual urges and thoughts and all that stuff. MY PERSONAL OPINION, I think that boy was touched at some time before this. That does not excuse what he did BUT being sexually abused can mess up someone’s mind and especially the age he was..meaning there was a strong possiblity he could had learned, been changed,rehabilitated, been counsiled on that. YES that is sad that she was some how (no specified) sexually abused..and she is a victim, id be out of my mind of my 3yr old son was touched but if he was..i would not want them to die…DIE–Dead–NO LIFE–NO WAY FOR CHANGE–HAVE NO IDEA HOW THEIR LIFE COULD HAVE CAME OUT TO BE..Prayers for the 3yr olds family and the boy’s family as well

  • 11-24-2009 10:11 am

    THATS CRAZY MAN WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO?

  • 11-23-2009 12:37 pm

    As a victim of sexual abuse when I was younger from my own relatives, this saddens me. Yes this is a crime for what is son did, but to kill him was not his right at all. This boy who was 15 years old will never grow up at all and the little girl will have to live this over and over again to know that the reason he’s not here anymore is because of what he did to her when she starts asking questions as to where he is. This is very sad. This could have been handled so differently, so differently because of one mistake that he had the courage to come to his mother and say what he did and because of that God has forgiven him. I just don’t know how this father could have done this, to stand there and look into his son’s eyes and hear him pleading, No daddy and to hear the mother pleading for him not to kill her son, I could never forgive him for that and I would have to do a lot of praying to God to remove that spirit from me. This is very sad..Rest in peace in baby.

  • 11-22-2009 11:09 pm

    is it just me or am i da only tired of a certain someone commentating on everyone else’s comments who aren’t in a agreement with theirs???? (no names) (<_<)… anyways just state yo comment and keep it moving. but when after i sleep on this subject… and being a victim of sexual abuse i can say that no… not once a pedophile is not always a pedophile… i have forgiven the ones who have wronged me and they have lived their lives and were conveniently punished in circ**stances having nothing to do with me… God as i have said b4 has the last say and he will punish people in due time… he didnt have to kill his son God is in control

  • 11-22-2009 9:52 pm

    iF NO ONE BELIVES THE ARMAGEDDON CRAZIZES…. I NEED YOU TO LOOK AT ALL THE CHILDREN DYING, SEASONS SCREWING UP AND THE TURMOIL GOING ON IN OUR GOVERNMENT. I TRUST NO ONE WITH MY CHILDREN NOWADAYS ITS SAD WHEN FAMILY DOES THIS TO EACH OTHER BECAUSE OF CYCLES OF BULLSHYT REPEATING AND EVENTUALLY ENDING.

  • 11-22-2009 9:47 pm

    @Jack_Stephen1- No, those of us that are against what the father did are not part of the reason why inner cities are a mess. I’ll tell you what though, it’s thinking like ours that would have helped some of these children in certain situations. Do you realize how inner cities get like they are? PEOPLE WHO DO NOT CARE. Thats how they are formed…WE, those of us who oppose this outright murdering of the boy by his own father are the ones who are interested in helping our children. Its obvious these two lousy parents were not into helping the boy. You called the children ‘terrors’? No my man..YOU are the reason why inner cities exist..people like you who dont care, just go ahead and let them do away with each other as long as they dont get the rest of us dirty in the process. This man killing his son did NOT help the community at all…kill em, brush em under the rug and be done with it…This father only made it where there is ONE more black man behind bars when he is sentenced to life in prison…Your thinking is jaded Jack_Stephen1…The negative mindset you SEEM to have is a hop and a skip from what the white folks would say about it.

  • 11-22-2009 9:06 pm

    This is very sad that child needed help and he told his mother so it was eating at him but for his Father to make him strip naked and make him march to a vacant lot and just kill him as if he was some wild animal while the 15 year old child begged him for his life leaves me at a loss for words,its going to take a long time for this family to heal as well as this 3 year old baby I am not here to judge but this is just very sad.

  • 11-22-2009 1:23 pm

    the type of thinking against what the father did is part of the reason why inner cities are in the condition they’re in. people know their children are terrors but silently hope-n-pray they’ll magically wake up changed one morning.

  • 11-22-2009 12:13 pm

    You people who suggest there was some abuse history in the family between father and son. Your azzsumptions are based on nothing.
    This man took the law into his own hand over the please of his wife and son.
    He should get life in prison and that’s only because I don’t believe in the death penalty.

  • 11-22-2009 10:52 am

    Again, what many of you fail to acknowledge is just because a father or mother is in the home doesn’t mean they talk to their children on levels of sexual urges, abstinence, or safe sex. This was a pubescent boy who was probably just told to wrap it up instead of taught how important it is to respect women and talk to your parent if you are feeling urges. Our people tend to just sweep sexuality under the rug and let TV teach our kids. It’s time we do better than just make babies…IT’S TIME TO TRULY RAISE THEM TO BE BETTER THAN THE REST OF THIS LOST COUNTRY!!!

  • 11-22-2009 4:46 am

    WHAT SOME OF YALL SEEM TO BE FORGETTING IS THE BOY WAS 15 AND HE DID WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS RIGHT AND TELL HIS WRONG DOINGS SO UR SUGGESTING TO ME THE BOY SHOULD HAD STFU AND PROBABLY KEPTDOING IT OR TALKED TO HIS MOTHER ABOUT WHAT HE DID..EXACTLY WHAT ARE SOME OF YALL SAYING? UR TELLING ME THE BOY COULDN’T COME TO HIS MOM AND BE HONEST….UR TELLING ME THAT HIS FATHER HAD EVERY RIGHT TO PULL THR TRIGGER ON HIM NOT A STRANGER OR A FRIEND BUT HIS SON…IM NOT GETTING IT PROBABLY A CONFUSED 15 YEAR OLD YEA WHAT HE DID WAS TRULY WRONG TRULY BUT IM PRETTY SURE HE GOT IT FROM SOMEWHERE….AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS…AT THE END OF THE DAY THE (FATHER) COMMITTED A CRIME AND GAVE THE BOY THE EASY WAY OUT…HE COULD HAVE BEEN CHARGED TOO…BUT I GUESS… DUECES****

  • 11-21-2009 11:19 pm

    CaliFemme23, I understand where you coming from, though let me sight two things:

    1)All of you examples toward my statement are of white people, different cultures hence different patterns of thought.

    2)That’s why we have laws! Strictly to make examples out of the FEW and DETER the rest, Surely you didn’t think this or any other country could “lock up” everyone who committed a crime? That math is so obscure I simply won’t entertain it.

    So syllogistically my grid of logic is correct in that as brainwashed as the masses are, someone on the level of having little to no will of self as to commit such a crime may more than likely calculate consequences based on immediate knowledge rather than thinking deeply. If a sufficient school of thought were in play, they wouldn’t target younger or weaker victims, They would chase bigger fish.

  • 11-21-2009 8:48 pm

    This sounds like somthin that could come out of the old testments with a new age twist. So many people on here want to hug the bible and clutch the cross. As barbaric as this crime sounded, the father was the best one to bestow the punishment.

  • 11-21-2009 8:17 pm

    @STANVINYL-Ah come on, youre torn on this one? It may help deter another from commiting such an act? I disagree, did Johny Wayne Gacy deter the serial killers who followed him? Did Manson deter the killers who came after him? I dont think so because we STILL had Jeffrey Dahmer and so on later on in life….You know what that father did by killing his son? He just made it where the next person who tries it WILL DO IT SO HE/SHE DOESNT GET CAUGHT because of the extreme manner in which the ‘father’ handled it. When I was younger, and my older cousins would hop fences and fall, did it deter me? Heck no it didnt, it just made it where I took it upon myself to be more careful when I hopped a fence. I agree totally with KILLADYMEGURL15- The boy TOLD ON HIMSELF, and I take that as meaning he wanted some kind of help, him telling someone what he did was a SCREAM for help, attention he was lacking. How do we not know that the boy himself had not been a victim? I think the father was only trying to cover something up about himself as well..If the boy goes to jail and starts talking to doctors and so forth then what little dirty secrets were going to fly about the rest of the family? I think the father should be taken out and shot just as his son was…OH! and his mother needs to be jailed for being an accessory to murder because she was right there and watched this horrible azz man take her child away from her. She already has one girl child that was sexually violated, how can she accept having one of her children taken away from her at all? And from my experience in the medical field talking with many people who have been sexually abused…the attacker was 99% of the time ALSO A VICTIM AT ONE POINT! Why do attackers even become attackers? because they have once been in the same situation and no one did a thing to help them either…this world is sick if we think the father was just in killing his son…

  • 11-21-2009 3:25 pm

    KillaDymeGurl15, your comment raises questions in my mind, did the dad know something about the son and didnt want him to tell it?

    Was this a way to silence his son about the abuse HE (the son) sustained? Or was he having mercy on his son so people wouldn’t judge him all throughout the rest of his days as a pedophile?

  • 11-21-2009 3:04 pm

    i would have probably done the same thing…. the hear that your little girls innocence is gone forever would make any man snap on anybody.. family or foe…. he lost it for a second… and honestly i understand… manslaughter probably.. but murder in the first… not at all……..

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