Comments on: 13 year old was wearing bullet proof vest

By: maryo

maryo — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:45:00 +0000

Its a case of monkey see monkey do, he doesnt know any better was never thought wrong from right. I agree with anonymous I think his “gaurdian” should be charged – parents/gaurdians need to start taking responsibility, hit them where it hurts in the pocket. He hasnt got a hope in life…..

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:11:18 +0000

Anonymous1, do you have kids?

Thinking about it before posting:
Ah, stupid me, I’m expecting a normal family/guardian but we are dealing with an apparently dysfunctional family. So above question doesn’t aplly here…

You’re actually right!

By: Anonymous1

Anonymous1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:35:24 +0000

How is it that this kids “guardian” cannot be arrested? surely if he was released in to “the custody of his guardian” this means this person was supposed to be responsible for him and keep him at home. I thoroughly believe the guardian should be charged for this. It should be a crime to not be able to control your child, if he couldnt control him he shouldnt have been released back into his custody !!

Its an absolute disgrace and will be forgotten about, somebody would have had to have died before this would have been taken as seriously as it should be.

By: tiny'stears

tiny'stears — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:12:51 +0000

where is the kid now back with his caring parents or was the 2 alleged offence enough to get him taken off the streets

By: shan

shan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:42:03 +0000

Nobody surely is that surprised really tell the truth. Most of these kids are lunatics there parents have been there and done that so its natural to them.
This kind of behaviour is everyday life for them it doesn’t surprise me a bit. What does is everyone reaction. It is horrific I have a thirteen year old and there is no way I would even entertain the surroundings in which half of these kids grow up in. These Estates are the Irish Ghettos how many headlines does it take for people to believe that there is a problem?

By: Shannaboley

Shannaboley — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:16:36 +0000

Bock: I know I meant in the past before you could officially live off the land or the dole whatever its called now.I cant get my head around this one! the combination of assinine stupidity on the parents part the total disregard for authority the fact that the gardi cant seem to contain or stop this.

Its like a steven segal movie if you were reading this as a script you’d say aw fuck off thats just stupid shit, next they will be taking arm at the armed gardi and leaving the estate on horse back.

By: Northsidelass

Northsidelass — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:22:23 +0000

I just read in a newspaper article that this is the same lad that did the shooting in St Mary’s Park that morning. He was brought home by the guards at around 1am and then left out by his so called parents to carry out the shooting at 6am, unbelievable.

By: Bock the Robber

Bock the Robber — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:38:11 +0000

Shannaboley: I don’t know if I’d call these people “working class” without knowing if they actually work.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:36:54 +0000

AND THERES MORE…

From the Independent
‘Heavily drugged’ boy (14) in gun attack on home

A 14-YEAR-OLD drugged-up boy is understood to have carried out a gun attack on a family home in Limerick, less than three hours after he was arrested and released by gardai for driving a stolen car while wearing a bullet proof vest and armed with a knife.

The schoolboy, who is barely 4ft tall, was arrested again yesterday morning and gardai recovered a sawn-off shotgun.

Gardai believe the teen carried out the gun attack with an 18-year-old on the family home in St Munchin’s Street, St Mary’s Park at 6.15am. The culprits opened fire at the home before the gun jammed and they fled on foot from the scene while the Emergency Response Unit patrolled the estate.

Last week, Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy deployed the ERU into the city’s flashpoint areas after a man armed with a machine gun opened fire on six homes in St Mary’s Park.

The ERU arrived at the weekend but there has been no let up in the gun crime.

A well-informed source indicated that both teens involved in the latest shooting were heavily drugged-up.

Nobody was injured in the attack and it is understood that the same home was shot at last month.

Both were arrested at 10am and taken to separate garda stations. The sawn-off shotgun used in the attack was recovered from a garden in the estate.

Yesterday evening one of the teens was released and was back outside the same house taunting a woman living there.

Before the gun attack — the third in the estate in a week — the 14-year-old was arrested when he was stopped driving a stolen car on Island Road in St Mary’s Park at 1.30am. He was wearing a bullet proof vest at the time and a knife was also recovered from the vehicle.

At 3.30am, he was released into the custody of his guardian.

However, less than three hours later, he was standing outside the family home armed with a shotgun and opened fire.

The whole series of events came less than a day after more than 60 gardai recovered heroin and cocaine worth almost €100,000, a sawn-off rifle and a quantity of ammunition.

Last Sunday, a widow’s home was targeted. She had to be hospitalised after the incident and was treated for shock and trauma.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:01:01 +0000

That bullet prrof vest wasn’t a fashion statement apparently:

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhojojidsnmh/