I love when parents try to teach their kid a lesson

Necro

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Parents seek answers over son's death
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The parents of 17-year-old Liam Ashley, who was beaten to death en route to prison, say they were the ones who charged him with theft.

Ashley was found badly beaten in the back of a Chubb Security van on Thursday night. Although he was revived by paramedics at the scene, he died on Friday.

Ashley's family say his parents wanted to teach him a lesson about the consequences of breaking the law. He had taken his mother's car without permission so they had him charged him with theft.

On Thursday Ashley appeared at the North Shore District Court. The judge offered him bail but his parents chose to send him to prison as a deterrent.

But on the trip to Auckland Central Remand prison, he was believed to have been strangled and assaulted by two others in the van.

Ashley's family have issued a statement listing 10 questions they want answered, such as why was a 17-year-old with no history of serious crime or violence was transported unattended with more serious offenders?

Head of Public Prisons Harry Hawthorne says that "best practice would be that young prisoners should be separated from older prisoners. That may not always be possible."

Chubb Security says it is investigating the incident but will not comment further.

Police, the Department of Corrections and Chubb Security are all running separate investigations but no arrests have yet been made.

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

idiots. what a great job.

Beaker

Those parents should get the parents of the year award

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Mr. Hyde

well at least they dont have to worry about him stealing from them anymore

Necro

VIP Room Moderator

He robbed their wallets for the funeral service i bet. haha

Jodes

you can't blame the parents for him getting killed like that :erm:

Necro

VIP Room Moderator

It there fault to even get the kid in that situation. First of all the kid would have a felony charge on his record. That will fuck him, he'd have to write that on every application he filled out.

Danny Diamond

Founder/Admin

Exactly Jodes.

While taking the parents car is a stupid thing to have your child arrested for, surely they thought that he was starting a path (or already in it) of crime and lawless behavior.

It was a great idea in principle, but terrible in execution.

They should have just had him stay in the local cell by himself till Monday morning or something.

I was arrested once when I was 18 and spent a good 6 hours in a cell. It was seriously the worst thing ever. I couldnt imagine a max security jail.

Eeeek.

I swear its the inmates that are already in prison that deterred me from any serious crimes as a youth. The thought of getting locked up with some wack job with a desire for oral pleasure was all the deterrant I needed. It certainly wasnt the police or my parents that scared me.

Beaker

Oh well, the worlds over populated anyways

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Chewy

What ever happened to the good ol' wooden spoon.