Habitat For Criminals

What concerns me isn't that this group was helping a lady. What concerns me is that the lady's husband and 23 year-old son are both in jail from felonies. This group is donating its time to help a couple of criminals. When I pulled up, I asked them "Why are you helping criminals get better housing?"

They responded that they are hoping to help the lady get through a rough period in her life, and to help ensure that the two men won't have to commit a crime in the future. Won't have to commit a crime in the future? Were they being forced to break the law? Were they being forced to steal thousands of dollars worth of jewelry from houses in a low-income residential neighborhood? Were they being forced to sell drugs to a 13 year-old girl? That's what they got arrested for. Instead of breaking into homes and selling illegal drugs to middle school students, they should have been out looking for work.

Well, assuming they could get jobs. When I looked up their criminal records, I found that the husband had been fired from his last job for embezzling money from the company: $78,000 over two years. The son had been arrested and convicted of statutory rape just two years prior, and was still on probation when he was caught selling drugs to a 13 year-old girl. He admitted that he planned to have sex with the girl once she was high.

What did his mother do? She stood up for him, posted his bail, hired a lawyer, and even went to the local media and claimed that he "is a good boy who has never done anything wrong." Hmm. And what did she do when her husband stole tens of thousands of dollars?