ten year old shoots father with .40 pistol

[parental]

The boy is innocent. This was murder by proxy.

A ten year old boy shot his father in what many are saying is the worse case of parental alienation syndrome (PAS) ever seen.

The boys mother had alienated the boy from his father, Dr. Rick Lohstroh, and given the boy access to her loaded gun. The boy shot his father in the back when his father came to pick him and his brother up from their mother's home in Katy, TX.

The police had been to the mother's home just weeks before the shooting on a domestic violence call between the mother and her new husband, Matthew Swanson. Apparently Mr. Swanson had hidden all the guns in the home and Deborah was furious when he wouldn't tell her where he had hidden the weapons. When Swanson went to call police, Deborah pulled the phone out of the wall. Swanson ran to a neighbors house and phoned the authorities.

A custody hearing was held just weeks after Dr. Lohstroh's murder. The boys were removed from their mother's custody after a judge found the mother guilty of mental abuse due to the alienation of their father. The boys paternal grandparents now have custody.

The ten year old remains in juvenile detention in Houston, TX. awaiting trial for murder. Many believe that the boy's mother should be the one on trial, but the district attorneys office has not pressed charges against the mother.

If you want to hear more about the case and what is being done to help the boy and his grandparents, go to www.helpstoppas.com.

[A Karenina]

Parental, this is the third time you've posted this in 15 minutes. Please stop posting repetitive articles. Thank you.

[parental]

My apologies.

I didn't realize these boards were all connected.

[A Karenina]

That's ok Thanks! and welcome to the Garden.