Killers

This morning when I woke up I did what I always do. I made coffee, checked email, made breakfast for the boys and got the newspaper. As we sat down to eat, I flipped through the paper. As I was doing this, I noticed the title: Visalia man arrested after girl dies of a head injury. Then I looked at the picture. I had to catch my breath. The guy accused of this murder, was the brother to David's old co-worker in Farmersville. I sat there for a few minutes looking at the picture of Ryann Jones, brother to Farmersville PD cop, Kenny Jones.
Kenny dated my sister in law for about a year, so David and I went to several events with this guy, Ryann. How strange that it was now close to home. He always seemed to be a personible guy, but apparently had some issues under neath it all. I walked into the bedroom and told David the news. He blew it off and went back to sleep.
I still can't believe that someone would have such a temper to take the life of a 3 1/2 year old. Everytime these things happen, I feel like I should be doing something. What could I do, what could society do, to remedy these types of situations. There have been so many lately in the news, there needs to be possibly more eduction on the subject in high school or more counseling progrmas to help disturbed individuals.
Then I got to thinking, Kenny used to beat his little boy like no ones business for being naughty (or acting like a child), which sometime, yes it's necassary, but not always. I wonder then, if there were issues within the household that would lead up to this type of behavior. Sometimes it's learned and sometimes it's a result of soemthing else, like drug use, etc.
So as I sit here, I wonder how many people that I deal with on a regular basis have these problems. It makes me want to lock my kids in the house and not have any outside contact with anyone. I'm cynical, right?