Kids sometimes say the darnedest things when you really wish they wouldn’t.
Like 28-year-old Joshua McClelland’s kids, for instance.
There they were, Joshua McClelland and his two little kids, 5-year-old Zach and 10-month-old Olivia, out on a drive at about 4 in the afternoon on the 18th of September, 2007, which happened to be a Tuesday.
John Pash, a state trooper, responding to a concerned citizen reporting a possible drunk driver, noticed Mr. McClelland driving erratically and pulled him over.
Ok, fine. That happens all the time.
After giving a few field sobriety tests and determining that Mr. McClelland was drunk, the trooper arrested him for DUI.
That sucks, he was driving drunk with his kids in the car, but still - it happens all the time.
While the trooper had Mr. McClelland in the back of his patrol vehicle, 5-year-old Zach pointed out a bloody knife on the floor of the vehicle McClelland had been driving to the trooper and said, “See that knife? Daddy stabbed mommy in the back.”
Whoa! Now that’s different.
It turns out that Joshua McClelland had an anger problem that he liked to take out on his wife.
A few months back, Angela McClelland had moved to Bruceton Mills, which is a small town in West Virginia to get away from her husband.
The week before, Angela had let Joshua come over to see the kids, and, to be honest, he was acting just fine.
This visit, however, was different. Joshua McClelland had been drinking whiskey and was demanding that Angela come back with him to Ohio.
He was feeling a bit stabby.
When she refused, Joshua grabbed a handy steak knife and stabbed his wife twice while they were fighting in the kitchen.
5-year-old Zach jumped on his father’s back, grabbing Joshua around the neck and trying to help his mommy, but he was only 5 and was quickly thrown off.
Joshua McClelland ran after Angela as she tried to escape and stabbed her in the back, neck and stomach, inflicting a total of seven stab wounds on the smaller woman and puncturing both her lungs.
With his wife collapsed on the floor in a pool of blood, Joshua grabbed both kids, threw them in Angela’s car and drove off moments after neighbors had called police to let them know what had happened.
As Joshua used the restroom while stopped in Pennsylvania, someone noticed that he was staggering around and was apparently intoxicated when he re-entered the vehicle he was driving and called the police.
Angela McClelland was rescued by emergency personnel, who put her on an emergency medical helicopter en route to a West Virginia hospital in time to save her life.
Joshua McClelland was in prison as of the 20th of September, 2007, where he was being held on a $125,000 cash only bond while waiting for an extradition hearing. It’s entirely likely he will be returned to West Virginia where he will face a number of charges.
Update:
Joshua McClelland was sentenced to one to five years in prison for stabbing his wife.
Angela McClelland survived the attack.
She appeared at the sentencing and asked the judge for leniency.
Instead, Preston County Circuit Judge Lawrence Miller Jr. gave Joshua McClelland the maximum sentence for the crime.
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fuck all you bitchs that said hes going to hell bc thats my brother & you guys are fuckin lame for reading poeple youll see in hell wtf kinda shit is that LOVE YOU JOSH!!!
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The genepool a little shallow where you’re from?
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i think that this web page is a f**king disgrace!!!!! do u not think that the victims and defendants families have enough going on without having to read SHIT LIKE THIS!!!!! Half of the stories that you write are full of incorrect facts!!!!!!!!! u all need to get a fucking life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SUCKERS
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Jen your brother needs a quick trip to hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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that dude is 28? he looks about 58…
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Jen & disgrace. No one MADE you read this. Obviously you were looking up things to do with this crime or you wouldn’t be here complaining.
Don’t blame others for your choice.
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fuck you again yalll lame & i hope u & your family burn in hell than bitch my brother aint going to hell this shit is lies & hes been through alot fuck you
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& katy your a fuckin dumb ass i was looking up shit on my brother not on ppl who are going to hell no one can judge him but god & your def not god hoe so back the fuck up b4 i stab your dumb ass josh mclelland style hoe!
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Im Joshua McClelland Mother.How dare you talk about my son going to hell.Ill pray for all you people that sugest my sons going to hell!!God forgives!!My son knows God.Theres two sides too every story And the press were told lies.When the lies come out shame on all of you.
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The apple didn’t fall far from the tree, did it?
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It sounds Like apple dosent fall far from your tree devil mouth
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No, it really didn’t.
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Syyd reply on August 30th, 2008:
“It sounds Like apple dosent fall far from your tree devil mouth”… I don’t think that phrase means what she thinks it means…. or maybe you just caught her off guard and that was the best comeback she could think of?
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this is the worst wed site ever made lik i said no one can judg my brother but god & my brother is a good person we all make mistakes & if he could take it back he would but i dont understand how you people think you can judge. if anyone goes to hell its you guys..dot you people care about the friends and family who read this you people really dont care!!!well karmas a biitch so watch wht you say about others
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RITA thank god someone is on here with some sence i cant even beleiv that they would say this about josh its horrible & iam reporting this page bc this is bullshitt!!!!!& if you talk to josh please tell him i love & ill always be here for him & ill keep in touch with him!
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Yes, Jen, Karma is a bitch. Karma also knows how to spell. I wonder what Karma pays out to attempted murderers? Oh, and when you report this site to the “internet police”, put in a good word for your brother.
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Theres always two sides to every story. Try to find out about both of them , before you make judgement of a man. I agree with Jen HOW LAME
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Feel free to vote however you wish! It’s the American way.
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whatever the other side of the story is, the man stabbed the woman, that’s all i need to know.
i know this thread is already a little older, but the familly remarks here had me chuckle i must admit.
@Jen, Disgrace, Rita and Fatboy:
let me get this straight, we should feel sorry for the man who stabbed that woman? where i live, that’s still called attempted murder you know.
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Stabbing someone in front of the kids gives the story that extra “kick” I think.
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This is a very sad story for all parties involved. I know this family and instead of playing judge & jury people should be praying for them. There are a lot of factors to this story which no one knows and that doesn’t excuse the crime, but to say whether or not he should go to hell is just childish and mean. You are playing God. You should be praying he seeks forgiveness which Jesus can do. Not only has his family suffered but he is suffering too for a terrible mistake that he can never take back. This is a family torn apart and instead of ridiculing them with a poor website like this we should be trying to help them. Whatever happened to loving one another. People should think of the families feelings. I’m sure the victim of this crime would even consider this website an awful thing too. I have spoken to the victim after this happened and she even felt bad for him. So if she can feel compassion why can’t anyone else?
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Hold up…
Jen your claiming to be his sister and Rita is his mother how can you say…good job rita..im glad somebody is sticking up for him
Clearily your lying
GO GET A LIFE
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clearly bitch thats my step brother maybe you should get a life you dirty ass bitch you can talk your shit on the computer bitch grrow some balls & talk shit to someones face u dumb ass bitch you aint shit hoe thats why ur moms going to hell for havin a nasty as hoe with a ugly asss name & iam sure a ugly face bitch!!!!!!!!!
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uh thats so anoying how you said clearly & your rong hahahaaha bitch your corny get a life so you can be riht and not look like a dumb ass next time you say clearly!!!!!!
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im his wife and josh is a good man you make me sick i was the one that he stapped i forgive him and love him for he was not in his right mind and im to blame as much as him.
angela mcclelland you all go to hell asswholes
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Syyd reply on August 30th, 2008:
Wow, original. “it wasnt his fault” “I made him hit me” “he only stapped me and punctured my lungs and almost killed me that one time!”
No one will pity you when he finally kills you. But I will pity your children who have such an idiotic mother. He tries to kill you in front of your kids, drives your car intoxicated with them in it, endangering their lives, and you say you’re to blame as much as him??? Classic no-officer-i’m-not-pressing-charges-i-still-love-him mentality. Your poor children.
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Max The Cat reply on August 31st, 2008:
What the fuck, is it a full moon or something? Did your asshole husband stab you in the lung via your brain? Tell you what, send Romeo by my place some time and I’ll show him how it’s done when the other guy can fight back. He probably kick my broken down old ass, but he’ll think twice the next time.
You 2 dumb shits deserve each other.
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Amy reply on August 31st, 2008:
Are you shitting me? Your the woman that he stabbed? Women lik you make me so angry.
I lived with a controlling, violent man for four years. I loved him at some stage, but its hard to keep loving someone who beats the living crap out of you. So i left.
I have two sons to this man and i didnt want them growing up with violence.
He wanted me to come back. It started with flowers and little gifts and love notes. I said ;”thankyou but no thankyou.”
Then the true colours came out and he told me he would kill himself, because if i didnt want him then his life wasnt worth living. I dont do the whole guilt trip thing but even so, I rang around and got him some phone numbers for groups like lifeline etc and then rang his mother and brother and told them he was making suicidal threats. At no time was it an option to go back. My kids deserved a better life.
Then one day i got home from shopping and he had broken into my house. He’d bitten…yes bitten…the phone lines so i could not call for help and for a week i was a prisoner in my own home, with my children as wittnesses while he beat me, raped me and tried to kill me. He almost succeeded.
When i finally escaped, with my boys, i was i hospitalized for two months. Both myself and my sons have done years of therapy.
Although my ex used to hit me and threaten me, i never thought that he would ever really hurt me. Not REALLY! But guess what? He did hurt me.
My sons almost lost their mother.
Funnily enough he apologized for his actions and promised me he was a changed man and would never hurt me again. Was i dumb enough to believe him? SCREW THAT!!!
I went ahead with the charges and he did eight years in jail. He is out now, and i fully expect that one day he will turn up to finish the job he started. God knows he has threatened it enough times.
Stop for a minute and think of not yourself, but your shildren. Think about how scared they must have been when that man stabbed you. Think about your brave , brave son who tried to save you. Think about what is right for them.
This man is NOT a good man. He is a DANGEROUS, UNSTABLE man.
Are you really willing to risk your life and the lives of your children.
Wake up and do everything in your power to protect and help your children heal from that terrible experience. That is your job as their mother. If you wont protect them, who will?
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Jules reply on September 23rd, 2008:
Amy: Wow, that just gave me chills. Glad to hear you made it out of that situation alive. No wonder you have such strong opinions about people on this site.
As for this guys family-you guys are fucking hilarious!!
Pure white trailer trash at its finest! Oh, I cant wait to hear your rebutal- probably involves every curse word you can think of strewn together to look like a sentence.
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Wow this is unbelievable. I’m glad that you forgive him you are a big person, but is anyone thinking about the children? Forget the sister, the mother and friends. A 5 year old witnessed this. I hope you have good insurance for therapy, and I hope you enjoy your visits to jail to see this “poor guy”. Now please reply back with your comments such as “bitch ass hoes and etc.” You all sound like white trash to me. I’m praying for the children forget the rest of you psychos.
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The kids are doing very well things will get better with time
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OMG this is the funniest thread on here. First the people defending him can’t even spell. Shows as much intelligence. Ok and for the supposed wife, come on?!? You forgive some sleeze who stabbed you AND DROVE DRUNK with your kids in the car? Right there, you have some serious issues. The kids aren’t going to get better. Hello, don’t you read stories about kids who go through shit or get abused by their parents. Read up on how they turn out.
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and how in the hell would you know? the sad part is you people dont even know the truth.. so you all should mind your own. dont you people have anything better to do??? live my life my kids and my other family out of your fucking web.. fucking asswholes…. when something happens to you like this you’ll see how you feel untill then get a life…….. the wife
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if you don’t like it, then don’t bother looking. DUH!
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this is my life your fucking with bitch
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ooooh that hurt…ouch…where’s my mommy. Dude, you came to this website. With the headline on the main page, you should know something’s up with this site. And hey LOOK, you’re still here! LOL If he didn’t do what he “did” your life would still be “fine” right. Man…you’re headed for a nervous breakdown; you’re just in the denial stage. I’ll buy you a bottle of jack…haha
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thats funny you really dont care about others do you
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Oh no come on. I do. Just not people like him. And people like you who defend people like him. Now you’re kids, that’s a whole other story. They need some serious TLC, not you spending time on a fucking website.
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he’ll be forgive by GOD u bitches
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forgiven
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Why don’t you assholes leave his family alone. Who the hell do you think you are to judge him or his family? I don’t know any of them but my heart goes out to the kids & family. It’s hard enough for them to get thir lives back on track without all of you writing shit you know nothing about. My brother was murdered by his so-called best friend, it was the worst thing ever to have to go through. My family didn’t write commits about his family or put them down. We held him responsible. From what I read re:what happened, maybe Joshua has some problems that he needs to deal with, get help for. etc.. Every situation is different. So if you don’t know what happened, then keep your comments to yourself. As for this website, the people that came up with it, they should all be in hell!!!!! **Brittany, the reason I’m on this site is because someone I know has been added to this bullshit site, which is is full of lies. I hope something like this never happens to you or your family, but if it does, (since you like to bad mouth people you don’t know,) I’ll make sure I put some nasty comments.
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Max The Cat reply on August 31st, 2008:
Hey guys, guess who’s gonna be keeping momma’s oven warm while Josh is doin’ his bid? What’s up with that A.J.? Way to wave your dick around in public.
Trailer trash melodrama at it’s fucking best.
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ouch. my feelings are hurt.
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I’m having a really hard time understanding why folks are getting up in arms about comments made on a website where the admin and like minded people are sharing their opinions about situations that are in the public domain. Yet, the “people” on whom the articles are written and those who murder, maim, rape, kidnap, and assault fellow human beings. I understand that we can’t reasonably expect someone to simply stop loving someone because they’ve done something terrible, regardless of the circumstances, but when something like this happens and the details are out in the open for anyone to see, you can’t be upset when people form opinions about the situation. Cursing and threatening isn’t really helping your cause if you are trying to get people not to be judgemental.
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Sarah-
How dare you write something so logical about people you don’t even know?
Where do you get off writing in such an intelligent manner.
And to make matters worse, your puctuation, spelling and sentence structure is actually readable.
I’m going to guess that you know nothing about situations like this, and you probably haven’t even ever been in a particularly stabby mood yourself. Probably too good to drive drunk with your kids in the car, as well.
What nerve!!!
c
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Gosh Glory, you’re right. Consider me thoroughly chastened;)
I suppose since the only experience I have with these sorts is being on the vicitm’s side of the equation, I should really refrain from speaking of things which are outside of my realm of experience. Clearly when I got my call that a loved one had expired due to some obviously mentally ill individual’s actions, I should have immediatetly thought about what a great guy he was sans the psychosis. My bad.
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I have said this before. There is a huge difference between forgiveness and allowance. It’s fine to forgive, however, that does not dictate the bad behavior is allowed to go unpunished.
Fine forgive the prick…
Still punish his behavior to the hilt!
Also, why the hell do you think there are courts?
TO JUDGE PEOPLE according to the laws of our land.
Ughhh…
I hate that “don’t judge crap”. You are only free to do what you want when it doesn’t impede the rights of others.
Simple rule, live like you want, do what you want, just understand that when your actions hurt or stop others from their pursuit of happiness, life etc…you will be punished.
DO NO HARM.
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Wow — if the family had made as much effort to better themselves as they’ve made to come up here and show their asses, maybe these kids wouldn’t be facing what they’re facing. No sympathy here for Joshua; appears to be an utter waste of carbon and, now, a waste of my tax dollars.
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