Dad ordered to pay child support kills son

La. father accused of killing son owed $4K - Yahoo! News


NEW ORLEANS – Danny Platt said he was under a lot of pressure. He apparently owed his estranged wife $4,000 in back child support.

But there were no signs of stress when the 22-year-old father, accused of killing his 2-year-old son over the child support debt, went to pick up his little boy for a weekend visit, his mother said Sunday.

On Friday, several hours after her son, Ja' Shawn, left, Daniella Powell received a phone call. It was Platt. He said their son had been kidnapped and quickly hung up.

Powell called back in disbelief. She said her husband gave different accounts of the kidnapping. She asked if he had called police. He said he had, but when she called authorities, they hadn't heard from him.

Police said Platt made up an elaborate story about his son being kidnapped by three men armed with AK-47 rifles late Friday night. Platt eventually confessed to the killing, telling authorities he "would kill either his wife or his child before he paid child support," Police Superintendent Warren Riley said Saturday.

Later, he led police to the boy's body. He has been booked on a charged of first-degree murder.

On Saturday night, as he was being led to jail in handcuffs, Platt said he was under a lot of pressure and acknowledged killing his son, but disputed the slaying occurred solely over the debt to his estranged wife.

"I'm sorry about killing my baby," Platt told reporters. "I had a whole bunch of reasons."

It's not clear whether Platt has an attorney. Telephone messages left Sunday for New Orleans police and the coroner's office were not immediately returned.

Powell said Sunday the two never had any violent fights and Platt wasn't going through any emotional problems.

"He knew what he was doing. He killed my 2-year-old son," she said.

Powell said her son's body was found in a plastic bag at a park. She and her family were busy preparing her son's funeral arrangements.

"I don't have money for anything. We are trying to come up with it now," Powell said.

Police said Saturday in announcing the arrest that Platt hadn't seen his son in quite some time. Powell said Platt had taken the boy trick-or-treating on Halloween, but acknowledged they hadn't spoken for a couple of months. However, she didn't think it was odd Platt wanted to spend the weekend with his son.

Ja 'Shawn was excited about seeing his father, she said. "He went to the door and said, 'Daddy' when he came to pick him up," she said.

 

The arresting officer should have put a bullet into the back of his skull. What a piece of sh$t!

 

I only hope he gets ass raped with a broomstick 1000 times before they kill him in jail......

 

I sometimes wish justice was more like this 911...it would save money on prison maintenance and would get pieces of $hit like this off the earth...4,000 or kill your son? What is sad is that not as many people would choose paying the 4,000 as we would all like to think...this world is becoming something else, i dont know i want to raise children in a few years

 

I agree, should have shot the stupid jack@$$ and been doen with it, now we have to spend 30 grand a year to keep this guy alive in jail.

 

The silver lining is that he'll probably only survive one year if he's lucky.

 

I have a son who's a year and a half. I can't even fathom something like this. My brain can't even process it. What really scares me is people like this that are out of jail and capable of similar offenses. It's a scary world to raise a child in right now.

 

That's just sick. Fairness would be doing to him as he has done to others...

 

Unbelieveable Just Unbelieveable...mg:mg:mg:

 

Here's a picture of the scumbag...



That story disgusts me.

 

What an incredible douchebag. I mean seriously people have financial problems and pressures of life all the damned time and they don't go around killing innocent children. He should have offed himself instead.

 

big old +1

 

HOLY FRIGGIN CRAP.....what kind of person does that.....

 

I don't even call $4K financial problems. If he took on a second job, he could have made that in NO time. Or how about selling his car???

For four thousand dollars, someone's life. Wow.

Does anyone watch The First 48 here? There have been killings on that show for less than $50, it's scary...

 

I hope he gets shanked coming off the jail bus.

 

That bastard should be hanged by the b@11$ in jail

 

Things like this shoulden`t happend!

 

We need to pray for the mother. I couldn't even come close to imagining how she feels right now.

 

WOW that is totally unbelievable! i still hold hope in humanity and would like to think he was disturbed more than they claim. not that it makes killing his son ok but more so because i could never think of killing one of my kids. i have 2 kids from a previous marriage and raised them for 15years with no help from their biological mother. i would never think of killing them or myself. and i have been in bad spots before. i think you have to be mentally disturbed to take a human life, unless it is necessitated to preserve your life or that of a loved one. much less for $4000.

 

people in jail love child killers, i'm sure he'll be treated with respect once he gets there.