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sixate · 05-09-2003, 08:33 PM

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Mother holds son at gunpoint in police standoff
By Elaine Monaghan in Washington

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Jail escaper Karen Lynn Lovell holding a gun to her son's head yesterday </center>

A MOTHER was shot and seriously wounded yesterday as she held a gun to her three-year-old son’s head after escaping from jail.

The boy was unhurt when the police deputy opened fire in Smithville, Tennessee, but Karen Lynn Lovell was taken to hospital on a stretcher. Lovell, who is in jail for stalking and harassment, had faked a seizure in prison on Thursday and been taken to hospital. On the way back to jail, she gave prison guards the slip, stole a patrol car and smashed through a roadblock, slightly injuring a policeman, on her way to her sister’s home to collect her son. The sister is his guardian.

Lovell then held the boy hostage at gunpoint as police closed in on her. The deputy shot her while she was holding the child, who was then hurried away in a policeman’s arms. He was blood-spattered and crying, but otherwise unharmed.

“The child is safe and that’s absolutely the No 1 thing,” Sheriff Lloyd Emmons said. “Unfortunately, she engaged my deputy with the handgun, and she was shot.”

Of Lovell, who was taken away by ambulance, he said: “We certainly hope she’ll be all right

I certainly hope she won't be all right. This woman should never have the right to see her kid or even be around any other kids.

gibber71 · 05-09-2003, 08:55 PM

Sometimes when you really fuck up, your on the receiving end of a bullet.C'est la Vie.

spectre · 05-09-2003, 08:56 PM

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Originally posted by sixate
This woman should never have the right to see her kid or even be around any other kids.

I couldn't agree with you more. But, knowing our fucked up court system though, she'll be allowed to see her kid while in jail and get custody once she's realeased.

SecretMethod70 · 05-09-2003, 09:38 PM

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I couldn't agree with you more. But, knowing our fucked up court system though, she'll be allowed to see her kid while in jail and get custody once she's realeased.

Three cheers for mother's rights

splck · 05-09-2003, 09:46 PM

that'sa wild pic...some people should never have kids. you gotta be pretty fucked up to pull a stunt like that.

godowomen · 05-09-2003, 10:03 PM

Just think of this what that kid's life is gonna be like now.

Lebell · 05-09-2003, 11:21 PM

Well, that poor kid is going to need a lot of therapy in his life, if he even gets that far.

"Suffer the little children..."

Phaenx · 05-09-2003, 11:38 PM

Sheesh. What do you say to that?

guthmund · 05-09-2003, 11:48 PM

Maybe it's the enormous amount of mass media slapping you in the face 24 hours a day, but it seems like more and more of this kind of shit (depraved inhumanity) goes on then when I was growing up.

Sad

jets · 05-10-2003, 05:18 AM

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Originally posted by SecretMethod70
Three cheers for mother's rights

**cheers**

raeanna74 · 05-10-2003, 05:36 AM

I wouldn't be surprised at all if she got the kids back. Of course if her sister is already his legal guardian then that might change things. I used to care for children in a day care mostly filled by social services kids. It was sad for most of them but the worst was a little boy and his older and younger sisters that spent every weekend with their bio mom. The oldest girl would come in Mon morning and retreat in a ball in her cubby for the whole morning. The little boy had to wear prothesis from his knees down. He'd lost his lower legs and feet. GET Why! His bio mom (who had custody of him every weekend) had gotten angry at him. Shoved him down on the ground and mowen over his legs with a lawn mower. It's sad how these kids are forced to see their parents again and again and we know the mother's emotionally abuse them. It gets me so burned. While I was able to care for these children I gave them all the love I could but I feel it was such a small thing considering all they went through every day because of this woman's anger and selfishness.

Liquor Dealer · 05-10-2003, 06:25 AM

Better send the deputy back to the range for practice - he should respect gun control better than to miss hitting something important.

If you saw the video the kid didn't appear to be upset at all while the mother was pointing the gun at his head - he didn't appear to be crying or scared until after the shooting when the deputy carried him off.

World's King · 05-10-2003, 10:50 AM

That has to win the "feel bad" story of the year.

SupahFreak · 05-10-2003, 12:39 PM

That is just horrible, how in the world could a mother do that to her child?? They should have shot her dead.

nefarious · 05-10-2003, 02:01 PM

what ever happened to motherly love?

silverback · 05-10-2003, 06:25 PM

this story is so messed up it is beyond words...i hope that mother never gets out of the pen, but im sure she will.

i wonder if womens prisons are like mens and if the other women in the prison will be sure she suffers for what she did to her child.

Elmo123abc · 05-10-2003, 06:43 PM

thats sad that people need to resprt to holding a child to gun point, she deservs to be sent away for life

sapiens · 05-10-2003, 08:19 PM

Wow! That's disturbing. I worked with a kid whose dad killed his mom and his younger sister. He came home from school and found their bodies. His dad would call him every once in a while from prison to say hello. Some people should not be parents.

Atropos4 · 05-10-2003, 08:57 PM

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Originally posted by Liquor Dealer

If you saw the video the kid didn't appear to be upset at all while the mother was pointing the gun at his head - he didn't appear to be crying or scared until after the shooting when the deputy carried him off.

I seen the video and I noticed that too. Who knows when he gets older he could end up hating the police for doing that to his mom or he could end up hating his mom for doing that to him...you never know.

Quadraton · 05-10-2003, 09:49 PM

I noticed that all the news reports I saw on TV had the kid's head mosaic'ed out. Nice to see the same courtesy doesn't apply to newspapers.

juanvaldes · 05-10-2003, 10:04 PM

I sware to god (not really) people are getting dummer every day...

Hard8s · 05-11-2003, 07:29 PM

I don't know why the Deputy didn't use leathal force. If he was going to shoot her he might as well have finished the job. This kid is going to be screwed up now for the rest of his life. Not just for being in moms arms when she got shot, but because mom pointed a gun at him. This kid is going to think its ok to do since mom did it to him. Now he going to have to visit her too!!! Why? Because she'll insist and the DCFS will let the kid see her for his sake! What a joke! If the cop would have finished it it would be better for the kid in the long run. I'd rather see her dead than have to tell the kid, "Your mom loved you so much, she risked your life to try and get away by pointing a gun at your head. Yes she was willing to kill you to get away. Your mom loved you that much."

Snoogans · 05-11-2003, 11:05 PM

That's just fucking sick

Daval · 05-12-2003, 05:01 AM

I hope she never, EVER, gets out of jail.

Reese · 05-12-2003, 06:43 AM

It pains me to see kids that have to go back to parents that really cant/dont take care of them. My mom used to own a day care and you could see when a kid spent the previous day with the bad parent they would come in and cry all morning or be trouble makers, and when they stayed with the good parent they were angels. I just want to bitch slap some of these parents. I think no matter the kids age he should be able to decide who he visits, when, and for how long. Although that has nothing to do with this nutjob of a woman, If she wasnt already in jail I can only imagine what kind of screwed up parent she'd be.

rsl12 · 05-12-2003, 07:30 AM

would it have been better to shoot her dead? the kid might grow up REALLY hating cops.

05-09-2003, 09:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
splck it's jam Location: Lowerainland BC	that'sa wild pic...some people should never have kids. you gotta be pretty fucked up to pull a stunt like that. __________________ nice line eh?

05-09-2003, 10:03 PM	#6 (permalink)
godowomen Upright Location: nowhere special	Just think of this what that kid's life is gonna be like now. __________________ If God does not exist, then man must invent him - Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

05-09-2003, 11:21 PM	#7 (permalink)
Lebell Cracking the Whip Location: Sexymama's arms...	Well, that poor kid is going to need a lot of therapy in his life, if he even gets that far. "Suffer the little children..." __________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis The ONLY sponsors we have are YOU! Please Donate!

05-09-2003, 11:38 PM	#8 (permalink)
Phaenx The Northern Ward Location: Columbus, Ohio	Sheesh. What do you say to that? __________________ "I went shopping last night at like 1am. The place was empty and this old woman just making polite conversation said to me, 'where is everyone??' I replied, 'In bed, same place you and I should be!' Took me ten minutes to figure out why she gave me a dirty look." --Some guy

05-09-2003, 11:48 PM	#9 (permalink)
guthmund big damn hero	Maybe it's the enormous amount of mass media slapping you in the face 24 hours a day, but it seems like more and more of this kind of shit (depraved inhumanity) goes on then when I was growing up. Sad __________________ No signature. None. Seriously.

05-09-2003, 08:55 PM	#2 (permalink)
gibber71 Loser	Sometimes when you really fuck up, your on the receiving end of a bullet.C'est la Vie.

05-10-2003, 05:36 AM	#11 (permalink)
raeanna74 I'm not a blonde! I'm knot! I'm knot! I'm knot! Location: Upper Michigan	I wouldn't be surprised at all if she got the kids back. Of course if her sister is already his legal guardian then that might change things. I used to care for children in a day care mostly filled by social services kids. It was sad for most of them but the worst was a little boy and his older and younger sisters that spent every weekend with their bio mom. The oldest girl would come in Mon morning and retreat in a ball in her cubby for the whole morning. The little boy had to wear prothesis from his knees down. He'd lost his lower legs and feet. GET Why! His bio mom (who had custody of him every weekend) had gotten angry at him. Shoved him down on the ground and mowen over his legs with a lawn mower. It's sad how these kids are forced to see their parents again and again and we know the mother's emotionally abuse them. It gets me so burned. While I was able to care for these children I gave them all the love I could but I feel it was such a small thing considering all they went through every day because of this woman's anger and selfishness. __________________ "Always learn the rules so that you can break them properly." Dalai Lama My Karma just ran over your Dogma.

05-10-2003, 06:25 AM	#12 (permalink)
Liquor Dealer Super Agitator Location: Just SW of Nowhere!!! In the good old US of A	Better send the deputy back to the range for practice - he should respect gun control better than to miss hitting something important. If you saw the video the kid didn't appear to be upset at all while the mother was pointing the gun at his head - he didn't appear to be crying or scared until after the shooting when the deputy carried him off. __________________ Life isn't always a bowl of cherries, sometimes it's more like a jar of Jalapenos --- what you say or do today might burn your ass tomorrow!!!

05-10-2003, 10:50 AM	#13 (permalink)
World's King Here Location: Denver City Denver	That has to win the "feel bad" story of the year. __________________ heavy is the head that wears the crown

05-10-2003, 12:39 PM	#14 (permalink)
SupahFreak Upright Location: GA	That is just horrible, how in the world could a mother do that to her child?? They should have shot her dead.

05-10-2003, 02:01 PM	#15 (permalink)
nefarious Insane Location: Tucson, AZ	what ever happened to motherly love? __________________ Si vis pacem, para bellum. - Vegetius "Do Re Mil.3, Prol.

05-10-2003, 06:25 PM	#16 (permalink)
silverback Registered User Location: texas	this story is so messed up it is beyond words...i hope that mother never gets out of the pen, but im sure she will. i wonder if womens prisons are like mens and if the other women in the prison will be sure she suffers for what she did to her child.

05-10-2003, 06:43 PM	#17 (permalink)
Elmo123abc Tilted	thats sad that people need to resprt to holding a child to gun point, she deservs to be sent away for life

05-10-2003, 08:19 PM	#18 (permalink)
sapiens Junkie Location: Some place windy	Wow! That's disturbing. I worked with a kid whose dad killed his mom and his younger sister. He came home from school and found their bodies. His dad would call him every once in a while from prison to say hello. Some people should not be parents.

05-10-2003, 09:49 PM	#20 (permalink)
Quadraton Addict Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada	I noticed that all the news reports I saw on TV had the kid's head mosaic'ed out. Nice to see the same courtesy doesn't apply to newspapers. __________________ "A witty saying proves nothing" - Voltaire

05-11-2003, 11:05 PM	#23 (permalink)
Snoogans Veteran Location: Uppsala, Sweden	That's just fucking sick __________________ Internet hint: If someone's asking if what they do is weird, it always is.

05-10-2003, 10:04 PM	#21 (permalink)
juanvaldes Banned Location: shittown, CA	I sware to god (not really) people are getting dummer every day...

05-11-2003, 07:29 PM	#22 (permalink)
Hard8s Addict Location: Wherever I am!	I don't know why the Deputy didn't use leathal force. If he was going to shoot her he might as well have finished the job. This kid is going to be screwed up now for the rest of his life. Not just for being in moms arms when she got shot, but because mom pointed a gun at him. This kid is going to think its ok to do since mom did it to him. Now he going to have to visit her too!!! Why? Because she'll insist and the DCFS will let the kid see her for his sake! What a joke! If the cop would have finished it it would be better for the kid in the long run. I'd rather see her dead than have to tell the kid, "Your mom loved you so much, she risked your life to try and get away by pointing a gun at your head. Yes she was willing to kill you to get away. Your mom loved you that much." __________________ If ignorance is bliss, then wipe this smile off my face!

05-12-2003, 05:01 AM	#24 (permalink)
Daval Junkie Location: The True North Strong and Free!	I hope she never, EVER, gets out of jail. __________________ "It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it." Winston Churchill

05-12-2003, 06:43 AM	#25 (permalink)
Reese Delicious	It pains me to see kids that have to go back to parents that really cant/dont take care of them. My mom used to own a day care and you could see when a kid spent the previous day with the bad parent they would come in and cry all morning or be trouble makers, and when they stayed with the good parent they were angels. I just want to bitch slap some of these parents. I think no matter the kids age he should be able to decide who he visits, when, and for how long. Although that has nothing to do with this nutjob of a woman, If she wasnt already in jail I can only imagine what kind of screwed up parent she'd be. __________________ “It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick” - Dave Barry

05-12-2003, 07:30 AM	#26 (permalink)
rsl12 On the lam Location: northern va	would it have been better to shoot her dead? the kid might grow up REALLY hating cops. __________________ oh baby oh baby, i like gravy.