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From: "teresa skokowski" <>
Subject: Re: [TXCem] teens caught for vandalism
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:34:38 -0400
References: <20060813010641.496.qmail@web38201.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


i agree! underaged teens parents are responsible to the law for all of their
actions. is this not one of them?
while we are searching for our ancesters and our past doing genealogy this
just puts us back and also we lose out on our heritage! with all of the
money we spend doing genealogy is this not fair?!!! parents are responsible
if their children brake the law. if the teens are of age they should be put
in jail!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liz Cunningham" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 9:06 PM
Subject: [TXCem] teens caught for vandalism


> Personally I say that the parents of the teens are just as responsible as
> the teens, and should have to repair or replace every memorial stones
> their teenage children damaged or destroyed.
>
> Terrorizing family members is wrong, and now the world is paying for the
> damages and hatred undisciplined children they have commented. Parents
> need to be held responsible for what their children do unless those
> children reach adulthood, and can be held fully responsible themselves.
> This may sound harsh, but someone held to pay for the memorials in the
> first place, and those who destroy should be held fully resistible for the
> replacement of them.
>
> Peggy Broughton <> wrote:
> I love your idea ! I wish I had thought it up several years ago, when
> vandals did 3300$ worth of damage to Purves Live Oak Cemetery in Erath
> county, one was already on probation, so he went back where he came from.
> We
> did get some restitution, but now they are both dead, both from
> overdoses..
> I had a different idea in mind and it wouldn't do to put it on the
> internet... we had a lot of grassburrs, that year...
> I am going to send to several other people with your permission.
> Peggy McCleskey Broughton
> Dublin, Texas
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Trevia W Beverly"
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 10:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [TXCem] Ash Creek Cemetery, Azle - teens caught for vandalism
>
>
>> We had this happen in our Evergreen Cemetery here in Houston --- the boys
>> were before a judge; I appeared. The boys had an attorney and when she
>> asked what I wanted in restitution I told her money could not buy back
>> the
>> damage ---- I wanted the boys! She told me absolutely that would not
>> happen. Guess what? probation --- and to me --- for six Saturdays ...
>> all day long! (8-5) Two of the boys proved they were just 'bystanders'
> and
>> got off with a reprimand. The one I got showed up the first Sat and
> wanted
>> to stay around --- I say No Way! But they could be assured that I would
> not
>> give him what he really deserved. They left and after that it was a drop
>> off; pick up. I had to keep him by my side because we were also using
> adult
>> probationers, so he got an all day long history lesson on specific people
>> buried in Evergreen as well as Houston and Texas history in general ....
> the
>> last day, I asked him if he had learned anything and he promised me never
> to
>> do something like this again - and I do believe he had enough interest to
>> have had good grades in school after that.
>>
>> Trevia Wooster Beverly
>> Houston, Harris County, Texas
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From:
>> To:
>> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 8:44 AM
>> Subject: Re: [TXCem] Ash Creek Cemetery, Azle - teens caught for
>> vandalism
>>
>>
>> > In a message dated 8/12/2006 8:14:42 AM Central Standard Time,
>> > writes:
>> > http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/15259549.htm
>> > This is such a heart breaking disgrace. While we are trying to locate,
>> > document and work toward preservation of cemeteries around the State,
>> > we
>> have a few
>> > members of the younger generation trying to destroy those same places.
>> >
>> > Either we don't have strong enough laws or they are not strongly
> enforced.
>> My
>> > personal opinion is that in these cases, the "children" and parents
> should
>> be
>> > required to pay some amount of restitution to replace the stones that
> can
>> not
>> > be uprighted and/or repaired. And they should be ordered by a judge to
> put
>> in
>> > community service hours until the cemetery has been cleaned and all
> stones
>> > that are repairable have been repaired. Force them to document the
>> cemetery and
>> > research and do a history of the cemetery and donate their work to the
>> local
>> > Genealogical or Historical Society. May sound tough to some but after
> all,
>> a
>> > cemetery is sacred ground.
>> >
>> > Nothing disgusts me more than reading an article such as this.
>> >
>> > Doris Lindblad, Pres
>> > Texarkana USA Gen Soc
>> >
>> > Please visit our website at www.rootsweb.com/~txkusa/GenSoc.html
>> >
>> >
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