Your 16-year old daughter has been led into using hard narcotics by a 24-year old man. What do you do? Would you be ready to pay the price of
10 years in prison to save her?
A Saskatchewan father was guilty of second-degree murder when he fired a volley of shots at his drug-addicted daughter's boyfriend, hitting him at least five times, a jury decided today.
Kim Walker was charged after James Hayward, a 24-year-old convicted drug dealer, bled to death in his home in March 2003. Walker's lawyer said his client was only trying to save his daughter from a life of drug abuse.
His daughter seems quite unconflicted about the whole thing.
"My father is my hero," Walker's daughter, Jadah, said as she left for home without her dad. "I'll swear that until the day that I die. He saved my life. He did what he had to do."
Of course, Mr. Hayward's family has a somewhat different take on this.
Hayward's family tried hard in the past few days to repair the image of their son, who the court heard was a convicted drug dealer, but who relatives say was a good and friendly person.
"Sure he wasn't perfect, but no one really is, so why was he so worthless? The mistakes he made were his."
I say, give him a medal.
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