Apparently, you don’t need to go to jail if you confess to killing someone…
Choice quotes:
“He’s a hero, really,” said Kelley Graham, 24. “I don’t know how many people would do what he did. The Bible says you just need to confess to God. Calvin took an extra step.”
It only took this “hero” about 14 years to fess up …
“The debt he’s paying to our society is teaching our young people to do the right thing,” said Cheryl Ellis, a member of the church’s youth staff. “To lock him away someplace and say he owes it to society is robbing the next generation of a mentor.”
Perhaps the example he is giving is that you can screw up royally and hurt people and as long as you wrap yourself with religion, you will be treated with kid gloves.
“I am thrilled my son has a role model to accept responsibility the way Calvin has,” Thac said. “There are way too many men who don’t accept responsibility.”
And here’s what all the fuss is about…
According to police, Inman said he and a 13-year-old friend planned to rob the convenience store. When Ahmed asked to see identification before giving them tobacco, Inman stabbed Ahmed in the chest with a kitchen knife, police said.
I wonder what these people would say if this person had joined the Peace Corp to work in Africa with the hungry, and then admitted to the crime?
Meh, they’re probably thinking that he took a potential terrorist off the streets…
