When Kids Get a Life

I will be summarizing the video "When Kids Get a Life" seen on Frontline PBS.
In the early morning hours of December 17, 1992, 15-year-old Jacob Ind slaughtered his mother and step-father in their Woodland Park home. Pamela and Kermode Jordan were shot first in their bed by Ind's friend, 17-year-old Gabriel Adams. When that didn't kill them, Adams stabbed several times as they struggled to get away. Jacob finally finished the job when he grabbed his step-father's .357 revolver. Jacob got him and his friend to murder his mother and step father. Their family had a nice house that everyone in the city looked at and would call such a lovely home, people outside the house probably thought there was so much hapiniess in that family but everything seems better on the outside and no one knows about the inside.

Jacob's mother did not like him since he was born, she would always say I wish you were never born. Throughout Jacob's life cutting himself was the only way he could get away from everything. Jacob and his brother would always get sexually abused by his parents their whole lives. They would get raped in the bathroom and beat up by their father very often. All of that would happen a lot until Jacob couldn't take it no more and he killed them. Jacob didn't think it was all reality, he was worried about his school absences and also about the marijuana in his room. He thought he would get in trouble for that, he didn't think he would get in trouble for murder, he didn't even think about that. That is how unaware he was. He got charged for 1st degree murder and is in Colorado jail for the rest of his life.

That is just one of the stories about a teen who gets his life behind bars for the rest of his life. There are lots of kids who commit crime at an early age. At the age they commit the crime they don't know what they are doing, but then when they go to prison they hit consciousness. But do they belong in jail? they were just defending themselves. Here are two stories about 2 teens who get abused by their parents and the kids end up killing their parents. They are both very sad stories and keeps you wondering about what do u do when you get abused? they end up killing their parents and get put behind bars but do the really deserve that?