DASTARDLY DADS FROM THE ARCHIVES (Throckmorton, Texas - 2002)

After yesterday's "history day" at Dastardly Dads, I've had people sending me their archival stories.

This one concerns UNNAMED DAD (in reality, JAMES D. SMALLWOOD, JR), who murdered his three children during visitation right after the divorce from their mother. And just to enhance his twisted Daddy Drama, he shot the kids in the car right outside the mother's house. Just so EVERYBODY knew Daddy wasn't happy. We just have to exert our total control, see--even if it extends to the power of death over life. Sicko sh**.

Of course back in 2002, the fathers rights people were really active in making excuses for Smallwood, John Muhammad (the Beltway Sniper) and other guys like him. (You can find the links yourself. I'm not driving traffic to these groups.) Oh, they were just besides themselves. Painting these killer scuzzbags as innocent "victims" of the "system" or "vindictive wives." Poor little darlings who just "snapped" under the pressure. Of course, it was all demented nonsense.

Given all the carnage of the last 8 years, most of the public is coming to understand that these daddy killers have long histories of violence against their wives and children and obsessive issues around coercive control. These guys are NOT victims. Their families were the victims of the father's ongoing reign of terror, both before and after the divorce or separation. Family court didn't "cause" these guys their problems. Rather, their families turned to the Family Courts for some hope of relief. But with all the mandatory joint custody/visitation stuff these days (which the FRs have insisted on), the abuse and violence just never ends. Not until people die.

Hat tip to Elizabeth.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/634361/posts

Man kills his three children, then self, outside ex-wife's home

02/24/2002

By BETSY BLANEY / Associated Press

THROCKMORTON, Texas - A divorced father who was returning his three young children to their mother's home shot the children to death as they sat in his car outside the house, then committed suicide, authorities said.

Ron Sadler, a dispatcher with the Throckmorton County sheriff's department, said he received a 911 call Saturday night from a residence reporting: "There may be some trouble."

Ten minutes later, officers called for an ambulance.

Mr. Sadler said the children were two girls and a boy, ranging in age from 3 to 10. The parents had recently divorced, he said.

Authorities did not immediately release any names.

Mike Haley, a state Department of Public Safety trooper, confirmed that the man shot his children as they all sat inside his car outside the residence in Throckmorton, and that he then shot himself.

Scott Hogue, principal of the Throckmorton schools, said the woman had recently moved back to the small northern Texas town, where her parents live.

"I do know he drove up, and her father and her went outside to the car, and the three children had been shot and killed," Mr. Hogue said. "The father also was shot, but not dead. He was taken to the local hospital, and they were going to careflight him, but he died before that could happen."

Mr. Hogue said the oldest child was a 4th grade girl named Corey Smallwood. "She was a sweet little girl, always had a smile on her face. Very pleasant. She had gotten into our school and really did well in making friends," he said.

The other daughter would have been in kindergarten next fall, and the boy had just turned 3, Mr. Hogue said.

Mr. Sadler said the shootings were the first homicides in Throckmorton in the seven years he had worked for the sheriff's office.

Throckmorton, a town of about 1,000, is 120 miles west of Dallas.

Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/texassouthwest/stories/throckmortonkill_25e.d2cac.html