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Well this is just despicable
When 18-year-old Charles D. Young found out that his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend was pregnant with his kid, he did what any reasonable young guy would do – he tried to hire a hitman to kill the fetus.
Oh, right, that’s not what any reasonable young guy what do. That’s deranged.
Young hit a snafu in his plan, luckily, when the hitman he offered $3,250 to turned out to be an undercover cop. The authorities had been tipped off by a classmate of Young’s who caught wind of the plan. The cop recorded Young saying that he wanted his ex hurt enough so that the fetus would die, and that he didn’t really care if the girl, herself, survived the attack.
Young pled guilty to first-degree solicitation to commit manslaughter, and he was sentenced to a healthy 76 1/2 months (over 6 years) in the clink.
Young’s attorney, Bevan Maxey [great name!], said his client is an intelligent young man who got bad advice.
I call bullshit. No matter what advice he gets, an intelligent young man doesn’t say, “yeah, attack my baby momma and try to kill the fetus - that’s totally the way to go here.” That’s what an unconscionable bastard says.
