Just read \u201cCriminals\u2019 rights secondary\u201d (Kent Reporter letter to the editor, April 15) by Patricia Horn, and I feel I too know how she feels about teen criminals, due to my own experience during Dust Bowl days as a child. Today I\u2019m pushing 81 years and lost my family when I was 9 years old. My experiences are vastly different in many ways.<\/p>\n
I remember standing beside my mother when a local sheriff pulled a gun on her and took $400 from her, and was a SHERIFF and he was never caught. I well remember as an abandoned child that I helped a local bar tender stack beer cases and watch the bar tender give another sheriff $300 secretly, telling the sheriff he would get the other $900 \u201cwhen the boys come around.\u201d<\/p>\n
I never knew if the boys ever \u201ccame around.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those were Depression days and I saw so many bad things take place while no one saw me watching, and teenagers still do many mean things for no real reason.<\/p>\n
Many blame TV, others blame drugs, while even the professionals do it for money. Yet they learn too much from online, Internet and blog.<\/p>\n
It holds being bored and too much time doing nothing interesting, and wasted time doing nothing and being greedy.<\/p>\n
If I told you what I\u2019ve seen, you would not believe it, even if shown.<\/p>\n
Greed and ignorance create criminal activity beyond reality.<\/p>\n
Leon Thompson<\/p>\n
Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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