MICHIGAN (AP) — A 15-year-old Michigan boy admitted raping a 3-year-old girl, so enraging his father that the man couldn’t control himself when witnesses say he forced the teen to strip, marched him to an empty lot and shot him through the head, a defense lawyer said Tuesday.
The lawyer for Jamar Pinkney Sr., 37, said he will pursue an insanity defense as a judge in the Detroit enclave of Highland Park ruled Pinkney should stand trial on first-degree murder, assault and firearms charges in his son’s Nov. 16 death.
Defense attorney Corbett O’Meara said Pinkney’s son’s confession would have driven anyone crazy.
“There is no rational response to the rape of a child,” O’Meara said after the hearing. “He was immediately remorseful and didn’t seek to hide. He turned himself in to the police.”
Pinkney acted “under heat of passion,” O’Meara said, and should be found “not guilty by reason of insanity” or found guilty of manslaughter.
During questioning of witnesses, Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Christine Kowal tried to establish that Pinkney had time to think about what he was going to do as he forced his son out of the boy’s mother’s home on North Street before killing him.
No evidence of sexual penetration was introduced at the hearing, despite testimony about the girl being taken to Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit a day before the shooting.
O’Meara said the defense would introduce medical reports that indicate the girl had evidence of vaginal tearing. He said Jamar Jr. had at first denied he molested the girl, then later said he only lay on top of her but they had their clothes on.
O’Meara said after the hearing that the teen finally admitted to his father that he had sex with the girl, causing his father to snap.
He said his client is now devastated and under the care of a psychiatrist at the Wayne County Jail, where he is being held without bond.
“He doesn’t understand how any of this could have happened,” O’Meara said.
Authorities haven’t said if they believe the teen raped the girl, his half-sister, and police have said the matter is not part of their investigation. Wayne County prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Maria Miller declined to comment Tuesday on the nature of the sexual contact.
Pinkney’s confrontation with his son came a day after the 3-year-old underwent an examination at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Results of the exam haven’t been released, but the teen’s mother said they indicated her son “had molested” the girl. The Associated Press is not naming the girl or detailing her relationship to the teen to avoid identifying a victim of sexual assault.
Lazette Cherry testified Tuesday that her son talked to her about his contact with the girl after her exam. Cherry said her son called his father about 3 a.m.
“Daddy, can you please forgive me in your heart, forgive what I did?” she quoted Jamar Pinkney Jr. as asking his father.
The mother said the elder Pinkney agreed to come to the house later to talk further. Cherry’s sister, Yolanda Cherry, testified that Jamar Pinkney Sr. arrived about 10 a.m.
Yolanda Cherry said she and her sister talked about getting help for the teen, while Pinkney Sr. said he spoke with the 3-year-old’s mother and she wanted to press charges.
“Jamar, is there something you want to tell me?” Yolanda Cherry quoted Pinkney Sr. as asking his son.
“He got on his knees in front of his dad and said, ‘I’m sorry,'” the aunt said.
“What did you do?” she quoted the father as asking.
“I humped (the girl),” the teen replied. “I need counseling.”
Pinkney Sr. didn’t immediately respond, Yolanda Cherry said, and she left to visit her mother’s upstairs apartment. She later heard screaming and banging and rushed down to find Pinkney Sr. holding a handgun and beating his son.
Both sisters testified Pinkney Sr. ordered his son to undress and marched him outside. The teen’s mother said Pinkney Sr. ordered the boy to kneel in the grass, ignoring his pleas for mercy.
“I said, ‘Jamar, stop. Don’t do this. Think about what you’re doing,'” Lazette Cherry testified.
She said Pinkney Sr. stood behind the boy and shot him in the head, then walked around still grasping the gun.
“He didn’t want anybody to go back and help him,” the mother said. After Pinkney Sr. left, she rushed to her son’s side.
“He’s bleeding, blood coming out of his mouth,” she said. “Somebody said, ‘Get some covers, cover him up, keep him warm.’ So that’s what we did.”
Jamar Pinkney Sr. is being held in the Wayne County Jail without bond, charged with first-degree murder in the Nov. 16 shooting. If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole.
24 thoughts on “Enraged father kills son over child rape admission”
This is what is called moment of insanity. I think the father was out of his mind, and the availability of guns made it easy for him to do what he did.
G man are u saying availability of gun is problem noo i don’t think so! availability of gun is a pure solution for respected society. we hear this kind of story or u may say school shooting two or let’s say five times year. but do u know how many crulty ( raping killing…)woyane is doing in our country everyday . have u asked ur self why african dictators kill , rape, burn hall family or do whatever wanted to do because we or the people to nice not carry gun . tell me one thing if somebody want to robe or kill who would be first choice … answer.. the person who has no gun….if every body has gun back home nobody shitting on them!! Armed society always respected. We are brain washed by our kings, presidents , white colonies so on to be religious and hate gun just to keep themselves from danger. The reality is police job is catch the robbery or killer not to stop!
when we chose to do something, we should know that there is always a consequence for what we did. it doesn’t matter whether we are aware of it or not. though most religions teach forgiveness, forgiving the other person depends on the person’s will. how was the forgiving person raised? did his parents thought him to forgive other people no matter what their mistake is? if so, he should forgive. our behavior is a result of how we were raised and where we were raised most of the time. so that i don’t blame the father, how about the little baby? think about that too.
hum………….what made the son did what he did? is he wired wrong? is he mentally challenged or insane? or is he just an evil kid? who knows what went on his mind when he asked the 3 year old to undress. That is why we have a system where by crimes are investigated left and right from different angle. Two wrongs don’t make any thing right. I can see beating my son real bad but to tell him to kneel down and shoot him execution style is unthinkable. This is such a sad development. At the same time, I feel why the father was enraged.
Guys, I have no comment at all. This is totally evil spirit raised from the parents’ parents, I would say. It is an evil for a 15 yr old boy to cruly molest a 3 yr old toddler, it is more evil for a 37 yrs old dady mercilessly shooting his own little boy ignoring son’s mercy plea, either. One thing I know is that the American law itself would impose a death punishment if the boy was over 18. Given the age of the boy, he would have survived for better if his dady did not have the gun at hand. The American law destroyed an American family!!! What a sham!
Dorcha :
I like your analysis. It is so true every thing you have said but i am surprised that you started by saying ” I have no comment” when in fact you ended up commenting.
Are any one of the actors Ethiopian or of Ethiopian origin? Not that we don’t care about other human stories but I am surprised to see it prominently posted here.
Kunta, I agree with you 100% love gun and I do go shooting range once awhile. Guns don’t kill people; people use gun to kill people.
The second amendment secures a personal right of individuals.
‘The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”
My gun is next to the air that I breath. Guns don’t kill people, People kill people with different weapons that include a K-bar, an axe, a sword, a stone etc… Killers will always find a TOOL to kill. When you ban weapons from the hands of lawful citizens what that means is allowing the criminals to carry them, this implies particularly to the United States and most third world countries. We you get mad go out and run, even if it is snowing. Actions you take when you are mad are catastrophic.
I was going to ask the same question Tirat asks. Great minds thing the same Tirat !
The father is a pure savage and barbaric should be hanged immidately. I do not understand why God created this kind of unscrupulous, heartless, sadistic,mericiless,unforgiving, ungodly, spiteful,satanic, diabolical and crule human being.
If I had the power I would give order to burn him alive in the place whre he shade his own son’s blood.
You can imagine the boy who was asking mercy to his own father and instead he was shot coldbloodedly by his own father.
It is very hard to imagine what he felt at the last movment when he was orderd by his own father to be killed.
I hope the american justice system would not allowed this kind of savege to go free for the henois crime his committed.
If it was possible this dog should be burn 100,000 times.
I never seen any one who killed his own son coldbloodedly, even Hitlor, stalin, monson and Idiamin have not done such a crime.
This is for Tirat and Tizibt:
I disagree a 100% with you all because guns kill. They play in to the state of your mind that some one is in. They are eay access. You think the Father will do what he did in the state of mind that he is now? I dont think so. When you snap , it is like you can’t think any more. Think of what happen in your life? Have you ever snaped and if you have, think of the state of mind you were in at the moment. It is so easy to justify having a gun as your basic right.
The very prayer of chrsitianity ” Our Father thou art in heaven……..don’t let us in to temptation……..Amen”
Do you understand Temptation is such an evile enemy of man kind. Think about that…
SEXUAL IMMORALITY IS THE MAIN REASON WHY THE WORLD IS FULL OF MORAL BANKRUPTCY . SOME SAY MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVILS I SAY ” SEXUAL IMMORALITY AND MONEY GO SIDE BY SIDE”. ONE REASON TPLF WON OVER THE DERG ARMY IS TPLF SOLDIERS WERE MORE CONSERVATIVE AND FAITHFULL TO THEIR PARTNERS.
first of all the boy rapes a 3 year old don’t forget. One less Child rapist in the world. It’s been prove this child molestors don;t ever stop. So if a father had the guts to do this his saving lot of children from being molested
the true victim here is the 3 year old girl, lest we forget, who was raped. Let’s imagine that for a moment. Instead of a rapist asking for forgiveness, let’s imagine a 3 year old girl getting raped, crying. It must hurt. It’s horribly painful and no one will help and to top it off it’s her half brother hurting her and she can’t understand what’s happening. I don’t care about the boy or what happened to him. This morally defunct society wants to hug him while not caring about her??? The father acted in a heat of the moment. If he had not had a gun, he would have killed him differently in that situation, so no, outlawing guns wouldn’t help. Also, those who want to kill, will do so, with or without guns. That’s fact. I agree with you Commenter 14, Anonymous.
Furthermore, Koko, you’re an idiot. Have you read any history about Hitler or Stalin? Have you? Maybe you should invest in some grammar classes, some history classes and some therapy if you think what this man did was more “coldblooded” than what Hitler or Stalin did. Your ignorance disgusts me. And it’s not American laws destroying this family, it’s a complete breakdown of morals within this society where sex and hypersexualized behavior is glamorized. I’m no prude but I do believe that morals are important. Please look to the fall of Rome, Sodom and Gomorrah and other places where sin ran rampant and look what the result was. The boy’s father was protecting his daughter. And the American law protects the boy. A little therapy, some time in juvenile centers, and let go at 18 to continue his pedophilia. So, bottom line, there is one less child rapist in the world. It’s not unfortunate that this father killed his son—what is unfortunate that his son raped a 3 year old. It’s unfortunate that he had to do that. And for any who say “well at least a 3 year old won’t remember”, I would like to ask you to try and imagine your three year old being raped. Are you ok with it? Are you going to forget? And who cares if she does forget it???? It still happened and it’s disgusting. Most of you are idiots. I’m sad I have to be on this planet with such willfully ignorant people. I pray for truth to enter your lives so that you won’t be shrouded by such blatant ignorance any longer.
Finally a father who knows how to handle a pervert child. Too bad the same wasn’t done to the scumbag who beat a four year old to death for wetting his pants. The father should be commended. Mercy cannot rob justice. Christ himself said that if anyone offend these little ones, it would be better than a millstone be hung about their neck and they be drowned in the depths of the sea. Don’t get soft just b/c the child begged for mercy. Did the three year old getting raped beg for mercy. Obviously she received NONE from this pervert teenager. He surely would have done it again!! Justice was served and society protected.
Having worked with children we have been abused, it sounds like to me the father most likely molested his son and killed him to cover up the revelation.
If pressed further I’m sure the boy would have admitted he had be touched by someone too, and given the outcome, most likely his father.
So now we have a dead child, and another who will be raised without a father. Damn shame.
Surely He don’t think he did the right thing (correction). I think he wanted to protect his own well being. Judge please see this man as an animal. How can you point a gun at your own flesh and blood and pull the trigger or anyone for that matter. thats why we have the law. , while he begs for his life. And I pray that the little girl can have a normal life. And I believe she will. It should never have happen to her no!! neither should this child be dead. Those of you that condone this murder, you too are murderers, what if all the wrong you have done was seen. And the punishment was death without proof. And even with proof, maybe you did not deserve to die. You all are all sick people. I don’t even see how a lawyer can have the guts to try and get him off. But I know that they are only doing their job. I pray that he can found a way to forgive himself, since he denied a poor little 15 yr old to be forgiven. You crazy sick man. You must not be on the streets. But most of all I have to forgive you. My father said so. As angry as I am right now I forgive you. Its in Gods hand.But you are sick, but not insane so don’t try it!! you knew what you was doing. I see you trying to save yourself. I guess your sense came back. And i hope others see you for what you really are. A sane person will. The insane won’t. A Life For A Life.
people are so willing to say “how could he kil his own son?”. would yourather a stranger had come through the window and raped this 3 year old baby; then you all woul be saying “I would kill him if it was my child!”. Everyone is related to someone and if you are a childmolester you deserve to die brutally. The dead childmolesters mom wouldnt have wanted her son molested at 3yrs old. She should write it off as he got what he deserves.
why was a 3 year old left more them five minutes alone with a 15 year old? where was the adults? i can understand the father (temp) insane. but he should go to jail. the boys mother should have either called the cops or took the boy to the police. the sad thing is a child is massed up for life. a mother is with her son. and a father will go to jail. if the boy would have only went to a doctor he would have done it again!!! who ever was watching the child at that time should go to jail to!….
Yes the 15yr old was wrong but he’s the only one dead here not the 3yr old not the 37yr old. The 3yr old will go on with her life and so will the stupid dad. But its all done now the dad deserves the death penalty. Whether you like or dont like what jamar did he is dead now not coming back so it doesnt matter what you comments mean in reference to him.
all i want 2 say iz that i think it waz wrong 4 sum1 as old as he waz 2 abuse a kid that iz only 3 yrs old but also wrong that the dad killed him the way he did but think about it wat wud u have done i think in my case i wud have jst let him suffer in jail
What the boy did was wrong. However the father had no right to take his life. I am also supprised by the mother. Could she not have protected her own son? Why not call 911 or whatever help for her son. It is high time we mothers protect our children from morderous fathers like this one.
why is this thing posted on an ethiopian blog?