Bob Jag shot his wife in the face six times in 1988. He now resides in the Texas Department of Corrections. Bob has three step-daughters -- the children of the woman he killed. They now run a movie production outfit in California.
They recently came to Texas to "mediate" with Bob about the heinous crime he committed all those years ago. They wanted to do a documentary about the mediation process. Maybe I'm a little clueless, but just what is there to mediate with a man who murdered your mother? At any rate, the sisters say they have been "re-victimized" by the TDC because they will not allow them to film the mediation.
If their real motivation is some sort of reconciliation with this man, why is it so important to them to film it? In fact, I can see that filming it could inhibit the man to confess and beg their forgiveness. And if they're really talented film-makers, don't you think they could re-enact these scenes for their documentary? Other documentary makers do it all the time.
Kelley Whitis, one of the sisters, says that she went in without any expectations, and she's glad she did, because no apology from Bob was forthcoming. However, she said, she began to feel empathy for him. Really? A man who shot her mother six times? She said, "I saw a lonely and scared 12-year-old. I saw a little boy who had been lied to and manipulated by women . . . since he was a child. Because of this, he assumed all women would lie and cheat. He reached his wits end with my mother. Because she wanted to leave him, he decided no woman would ever leave him again." I don't know about you, but I think that either this woman is a publicity hound, or she's missing a whole bunch of her marbles!
"Sisters confront their mother's killer." The Dallas Morning News; January 8, 2012; p. 7A.
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Another example of our "tolerant" society. It is sickening!
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