Missouri mother attacks son's alleged heroin supplier with a bat

[proud2BlibKansan]

HILLSBORO, Mo. | A Missouri mother is facing charges, but drawing sympathy, for attacking with a baseball bat a man she believed was supplying her teenage son with heroin.

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Gavan told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she tried everything to protect her son, Clayton, confiscating his cellphone, drug testing him frequently, even sending him to live with relatives and attend a different high school. When those efforts failed, she drove to the home of 21-year-old Joshua Loyd, whom she believed supplied the drugs, and struck him with an aluminum bat.

"I don't know if I can say that what I did was right," she said. "But it was the only thing I could do in the moment."

A Facebook support page, "Stand with Sherrie Gavan," sprang up anonymously and has generated nearly 350 "likes." Several people held signs outside the Jefferson County courtroom on Monday in support of Gavan.


Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/13/3486936/missouri-mother-attacks-sons-alleged.html#storylink=cpy

[snooper2]

1. Setting him up for a sting would have been better

But now she gets probation and the dealer gets a settlement...



Think before you....

[Rex]

2. Why not call the cops?

nt

[Cirque du So-What]

3. I can understand her desire to protect her son

but she would have been better served by focusing on her son's problem instead of attacking an easily-replaced supplier for his addiction. Not much she can do in the way of providing help for her son when she's cooling her heels in jail.

[surfdog]

4. Now there is one special idiot

Does she really think there's only one heroin dealer in the United States ?

She would've been better off taking the batt to her son

[JonLP24]

5. Could be the other way around

Seems Lloyd was desperate to get in contact which usually desperation in this form comes from the one looking to purchase. Or it could be that Clayton owed Loyd money.

Then again I don't know if Lloyd uses/sells Heroin and if he did, Clayton likely could have other connections especially if he has friends that also use.

[Brickbat]

6. I said god damn the pusher man.

[bemildred]

7. So, who is nuts here?

Her?
Or the drug war that makes it worth some weasel's time to stand around selling drugs?

[The Magistrate]

11. She May Be Driven To Distraction, Sir, But She Is Not Nuts

The 'drug war' is certainly insane, however, on any rational analysis....

[MADem]

8. Maybe her jury will nullify....it happens! nt

[surfdog]

13. If they let her skate ...

The drug dealer should take a bat to the mother

The courts would be giving him a green light to do so if they let her go

[MADem]

14. I'll bet HIS jury would not nullify. He'd go to jail. For a long, long time.

People, as a rule, don't like heroin pushers who sell that shit to kids.

It's like DU--he'd take his chances. My take? His chances would not be very good.

[NotThisTime]

9. I would like to hit my son's drug dealer upside the head with a bat....

That's my first impulse...... Not that I would act on it, but I sure as hell would like to, selling to an underage kid.... should be illegal, oh wait, it is... happens anyways.

[samsingh]

10. good

[Snake Alchemist]

12. Legalize it! nt