"BEEF" of the worst sort...(RIP young brother...)

In order to truly take on journalistic responsibility, I have to post this story. I don't know about anybody else, but this story almost had me crying. Certainly I feel sorry for the lost life of this young brother, but as a parent, I feel so bad for this sister.

Wrong is wrong and right is right. As simple as it sounds, there has to be something that we can learn from this that is more complex and more important than just "locking her up..."

Damn. And for some reason I feel like saying "sorry" myself. I don't know why, but "sorry..."

Screaming mom ‘sorry’ at arraignment in son’s death
By Laurel J. SweetWednesday, April 2, 2008

Dorchester mom Lakeisha Gadson sobbed and shrieked, “I’m sorry” this morning after she was arraigned on a manslaughter charge for her alleged role in allowing into her home the loaded gun used to kill her son.

Gadson’s 8-year-old son, Liquarry Jefferson, was accidentally shot to death with that gun June 24 by his 7-year-old cousin, who was playing with the loaded 9mm.

This morning, a Suffolk Superior Court judge ordered Gadson to be held on $10,000 cash bail. As court officers led her away in handcuffs she started crying and screaming, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
Gadson, 31, and her son Jayquan McConnico, 16, were indicted this week on a slew of charges including involuntary manslaughter and misleading a police officer. The mom and son team allegedly lied to police to cover their tracks after Liquarry was shot with the illegal gun. The lies sent cops on a manhunt for phantom gunmen.

Prosecutors allege that Gadson knowingly allowed McConnico to keep the loaded 9mm semi-automatic pistol that killed little Liquarry as he played with his cousin in their Seaver Street apartment.

Police believe Gadson may have even obtained the weapon herself. The gun, which didn’t have a trigger lock, was kept in an unlocked drawer, 2 1/2 feet off the ground.

Gadson faces charges of wantonly or recklessly permitting substantial bodily injury to a child, child endangerment, improper storage of a firearm and unlawful possession.

Gadson and McConnico face more than 30 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

The charges followed a nine-month grand jury investigation, and investigators say they are still probing how the illegal gun used in the tragedy was supplied.

McConnico, who has been charged as a juvenile, will be arraigned Monday.

Gadson’s distraught family said they will be able to post bail.

Liquarry’s godmother and Gadson’s “best friend,” who didn’t want her name used, protested that Gadson’s arrest was “politically motivated.”