April 19, 2010, - 3:07 pm
In Defense of Jamar Pinkney, Sr.: A Detroit Father’s Story
Last week, in a Detroit courtroom, Jamar Pinkney, Sr. was found guilty of executing his fifteen-year-old son, Jamar Pinkney, Jr. The 38-year-old father was sentenced to 37-82 years in prison and will be 75 years old at his earliest possible release from prison. His story is one of the many tragic stories of life on the wilding streets of Detroit.
And I’m the only person I know of (other than his attorney) to defend him. But I think he got a raw deal. Sadly, the Detroit mainstream media all editorialized against him in their coverage of the story.
You see, Pinkney’s son, Jamar Jr. raped his three-year-old sister. And while I don’t condone executions for rape, we know that those who rape kids will do it over and over, again and again. There is no cure, and all the counseling in the world doesn’t cure child molesters of their sickness. A fifteen-year-old boy is old enough to know that raping anyone–especially a three year old child who happens to be your sister–is wrong. In most jurisdictions, a 15-year-old is tried as an adult for such crimes. And at age 15, this kid’s warped, perverted behavior was likely a preview of his lifelong conduct, had he lived beyond that day. Via his execution, how many girls’ lives of pain, humiliation and lifelong mental problems from child-rape were spared? Quite a few, I’ll bet.
But, instead, the mainstream media soft-pedaled the rape, describing it as “molestation”–a sanitized word for it. The Detroit Free Press quoted the sentencing judge as saying the father denied his son the chance at rehabilitation and repentance. Do you really think a 15-year-old rapist of his 3-year-old sister will ever truly be rehabilitated? Dream on.
How many parents wish they could execute the rapists who have killed the mental lives of their kids after raping them? We don’t condone that kind of violence, but when it happens in the movies and in real-life, we generally applaud those people for cleaning up the earth of some of the excessive scum that made it dirty. I wish these child rapists would all serve life terms in prison. But we know that’s not what happens. They get out, and they rape little kids again.
I feel for Jamar Pinkney, Sr. He was one of the few fathers in Detroit (and Highland Park–a destitute, wholly surrounded suburb of Detroit) who was actually around and actively in his kids’ life. And when he learned that his teen son raped his daughter, he apparently snapped and immediately took his son out and shot him, execution style. I don’t think he was sane at the moment. And it’s clear he feels terrible for what he did. This was a father who cared about his kids. He went off the handle as many would in a very traumatic tragedy. It’s a horror and rage any parent of a raped child feels because they know their child is irreparably scarred forever, some of the life in them permanently killed. Now, he will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.
There are plenty of other fathers a/k/a sperm donors in Detroit who deserve life in prison far more than Jamar Pinkney, men who are far more of a threat to society. Some are hardened criminals who don’t kill as the result of the rage over a raped daughter. Others are those who spread their seed at random to various babymamas. And their absenteeism results in their kids becoming killers, drug dealers, pimps, and thugs. And, unlike Pinkney, Sr., they’ll never do a day in jail for the monstrosities they’ve borne on this city. Pinkney, sadly, is a babydaddy, too. The raped girl was his daughter by another mother. And that’s why Pinkney, Jr.’s mother and grandmother don’t mention (in the video above) the daughter her son raped and dismiss the heinous act as “lust.” Rape is far more than lust. And now the raped young girl will be yet another damaged Detroit victim of violence who also won’t grow up with a father.
Like I said, I don’t favor this kind of vigilante justice or personal death penalty, executing someone for a sex crime. it is uncivilized. But sometimes vigilante justice ends up working out for the best. And frankly, I think Jamar, Sr.–in the heat of a loving father’s anger that his toddler daughter was raped–did a lot of potential future victims of Jamar Pinkney, Jr. a favor. He saved their lives.
Tags: child molester, Detroit, father, Jamar Pinkney, molester, murder, prison, rape, Rapist, son
Some of you people are disgusting, including YOU, author! Pinkney, Jr. was a VICTIM of his own father. I’m not suggesting that he wasn’t wrong for what he did, but to suggest that he was far beyond the realm of help that counseling could provide is a judgmental crock of Sh*t. And I don’t care what you say, author, spin it how you will, that 3 year old girl wasn’t raped, she was inappropriately touched, and coming from someone that this also happened to at a young age, and AGAIN at 12, I can tell you that what he did was not enough to ruin her life. He was 15 and could have been helped, what excuse do you give a father that beats his own son that he’s known 15 years until he’s got knots the size of golf balls, strips him down naked, forces him outside at gunpoint and then blows his brains out? And never mind that the poor boy’s family was forced to sit right there and watch the whole thing. You’re an idiot who’s obviously speaking from a personal perspective rather than an objective one. And for you people thinking that this KID deserved to be murdered, maybe YOU’RE the ones that need the counseling, since it’s obviously too late for Jamar Pinkney, Jr. The father deserves death, but I can rest in great solace tonight knowing that this waste of mass will most likely never see another sunset. I hope his son haunts him in mind for the rest of his worthless, useless life.
Aaron on August 5, 2010 at 10:37 pm