Mistakes

Sometimes when you talk about drugs or other addictive things you actually can relate to them and it is hard to realize how they can change a life drastically. When you think about your friends you either know exactly everything that is going on or you don’t know anything at all. Like how I said in my other posts younger people are getting addicted to things that they shouldn’t and it always end up going horribly wrong, and one of my friends is an example. Now it didn’t just start off with him, it started with his parents. His mother was a drug addict and of course you don’t want your son around that so his father divorced her in order to get him, let’s call him John, away from her. John was actually pretty happy about this change because he never had wanted to end up like her because it just wasn’t a good life and you never knew what would happen. His mother had a different idea, he felt her life was perfectly fine even though she was on drugs, she felt it was fine. She fought for custody over John and won, well not really. John was staying with his dad when his mom came to the door with fake papers saying that he had to go with her because she won the trial. He was so upset he didn’t know what to do except run away, which is where everything got much worse. He ended up with the wrong crowd of people while he was on his own and they talked him into all sorts of things. One night they all went and robbed a liquor store, they needed alcohol for the party they were going to go to afterwards. Not only was that illegal but the fact that John was 14 when this all happened made it so much worse. They got to the party later that night and everyone was drinking, another thing not for 14 year olds. At some point during the party while everyone was drunk John was handed a gun, why no one will ever know. Next, he was bumped into, the gun went off, and his life was changed.

This all started because his drug addicted mother fought for him, and from the alcohol they all had that night. The bullet ended up through someone’s head, they died. The 19 and 20 year old that helped John rob the liquor store, they got only 20 years in jail for the robbery. John was unfairly tried as an adult, he got 25 years for the robbery, 50 years for the murder. He was 14. He didn’t get to finish his childhood, instead he has been sitting in jail for the past 7 years, just because they felt the need to get drunk. Just recently the case was brought back up to have a new trial since he was only 14 years old and trying him as an adult isn’t right. I’m not quite sure how things are going so far, but the last I heard the soonest he could get out is when he is 62. 62 years old, 48 years rotting away, for one dumb mistake.