This happy fellow used to be 43-year-old Robert Roberts, the man with the name so nice you have to say it twice.
Robert Roberts has had some problems with the law.
Back in 2001, Roberts was arrested and charged with child abuse and assault after he punched one of his children in the face. That child was six at the time.
Two years later, as his family watched, Robert Roberts fired a shot from a rifle into the walls of his home. Police were called and a standoff occurred, after which Roberts was arrested. Fortunately nobody was hurt during that incident.
You’d think that initiating an armed standoff with the police would be enough to keep a guy off the streets, but no such luck. Robert Roberts was back in the midst of society before you could say, “Robert Roberts.”
You’d think that with his history of violence with children, the mother of his children would supervise any contact that he had with them.
No such luck.
On the 14th of November, 2007, two of Robert’s children spent the night with him. One was four-year-old Carleigh Roberts and the other was Michael Roberts, who was six.
They’re both dead now.
They were shot by their father, who then turned the gun on himself.
The bodies were discovered by the children’s mother, who had been separated from Roberts for a while. The woman had wandered on over to Robert’s house on the 15th of November after discovering that the children had been to neither school nor daycare and that Roberts hadn’t been to work.
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Man…I just don’t understand how someone can kill their own kids
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Wanted to let everyone know the 2001 report of punching a kid in the face was a different Robert Roberts, date of birth is close, but it was someone else. News media got that one wrong. Trust me I’m not defending him. Just wanted to set that straight. Second, their mom was fighting for sole custody, but our snail-paced court system told her that she could not keep him from his kids until the court could hear the case. Not her fault! He adored those kids. We all knew he was capable of killing himself, but there was absolutely no indication whatsoever that he would ever harm them. He couldn’t even discipline them! He was a mentally instable man who decided to try to live his life without his medication, and this is what happened. It has been very hard on the family, please don’t think there was anything any of us could have done to prevent it. He was a devious, sick man and would have done it another day if it hadn’t been that day.
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what makes a man kill his children and then commit suicide? i’m tempted to click “yes”, but since some of the facts seem to be wrong, i don’t really know what to think.
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Reminds me of that Robin woman really. Cept she didn’t show signs of violence like he did before biting the bullet. Really, something can’t be right to make someone alright with killing their kid(s). I’d say something about suicide too but I think if you’re willing to shoot your kids then suicide’s not really that much of a surprise at that point.
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What the hell is wrong with the courts that they require a mother to hand her children over, unsupervised, to a mentally unstable man?
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I won’t see him in hell, but you guys might….
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i think we should remember that sociopathic types can appear quite affable and confident to the public eye. i can see without the proper training a lot of professionals would think an individual like this charming-”a great guy”.
examples like this teach us we need to be more on our toes.
kitty
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