Wednesday, October 12, 2011

What fools these mortals be!

Jabraylon Bables had a short and troubled life and endured a death that is heartbreaking to contemplate. Jabraylon was 16 months old when his mother's boyfriend, convicted felon Carlnelus Delaney Simmons, dropped him into a pot of boiling water. Jabraylon's father, Byron Bables, is also a convicted felon.

This was not Carlnelus's first murder. He killed a man in 1994 during a fight outside a South Dallas bar. He was sentenced to 15 years, and was released in 2007. In 2009, he was charged with dealing PCP from his apartment. Jabraylon's mother (and I use the term loosely) knew Simmons was a convicted murderer and a drug dealer, but she left her sons with him anyway. "That was way before he knew me," she says. "He treated Jabraylon like he was his," she claims. If that's how he treats his own children, I do hope their mother has better sense than Jabraylon's does!

Jabraylon's mother makes the case for forced sterilization. Even when confronted with the evidence and with her critically injured child, Jabraylon's mother said Simmons was a "good person." Lord, what fools these mortals be!

"Toddler dies 5 weeks after being scalded." The Dallas Morning News; December 14, 2010; p. 1B.

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