14.“He seemed like a fairly good kid, too.”

I had a neighbor, Josh (he was 20 at the time) who killed his infant child by shaking it to death. He then tried to cover it up by saying the child was sleeping and gave it back to the mother, who eventually found out that it was dead and called police. I don’t think he did it intentionally, but he covered it up and made it look really bad. He seemed like a fairly good kid, too.

That family had the worst of luck. Josh’s little sister died when he was 15 and she was 12, she was fell off of a float during a parade and was run over and killed. About two weeks after the daughter’s death, the father had begun drinking heavily to try and ease the pain. One night after a few drinks, the father crashed his motorcycle and became paralyzed from the waist down. I felt to badly for the whole family.