Baby's death marks 2nd time Georgia mom loses a son to violence

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Baby's death marks 2nd time Georgia mom loses a son to violence
By Michael Martinez. Tom Watkins and Nick Valencia, CNN
updated 7:13 PM EDT, Sat March 23, 2013


Brunswick, Georgia (CNN) -- The fatal shooting of a 13-month-old boy in his stroller marked the second time mother Sherry West lost a son to violence, she said Saturday.

Her 18-year-old son was stabbed to death in 2008 in New Jersey, she told CNN.

"This is the second child that people have taken from me in a tragic way," West said. "I'm so afraid to have any more babies now. I tried to raise really good kids in a wicked world."

The day after two teenage boys were arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of her baby, West said she was planning to leave Brunswick and return to New Jersey. The boy's father has also been emotionally distraught, West said.

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[DrDan]

1. wow - what a shame

absolutely nothing worse than burying one of your children. It happened to my sister, and I know how much she suffered - for years.

[Morning Dew]

2. In the case of the other son, the son was the perpetrator of the violence

http://www.nj.com/south/index.ssf/2008/03/west_deptford_teen_killed_in_a.html

WEST DEPTFORD TWP. -- One of five teenagers who allegedly jumped another teen Tuesday night at 9:37 p.m. on the 600 block of Shields Avenue was killed in the resulting confrontation.


Bernie Weisenfeld, spokesman for the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office, identified Shaun Glassey, 18, of West Deptford Township, as the individual who died as a result of the confrontation from stab wounds received by a weapon that has been recovered and described as a steak knife. Glassey was found by police at Walnut and Frances Avenues.
He said the assault involved between five and seven people and that Glassey was taken to Cooper Medical Center in Camden with a stab wound. He died at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday at Cooper, Weisenfeld said.

Authorities said that five or six teenagers attacked a single teen, and that Glassey was one of the attackers.

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3. Poor parents... that is horrendous.

I feel bad now that I had a few misgivings about her story.