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Jerry Jones, who plead guilty to murdering three relatives and his 10-month-old daughter, admitted he killed the baby out of revenge:

GBI agent James Harris said he questioned Jones at a hospital two days after his arrest. At the time, Jones was unable to talk because of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and wrote down brief responses.

Harris said that when asked if he committed the killings, Jones wrote “Yes, uh huh.”

When asked why he killed the infant, Harris said Jones wrote “revenge” across the page.

The Blaylocks, who were shot, were the mother and stepfather of Melissa Peeler, Jones’ ex-girlfriend. Bradley and the infant were strangled with a cord.

We may listen twice next time we hear a teacher complain they don’t get any respect from parents. A mother and daughter are being charged with violently attacking a high school teacher, supposedly because the girl was failing the teacher’s class and the mom wasn’t too happy about it. Gee, we can’t understand why the teen might be have problems in school when she has such a fine role model at home.

Police charged Georgia Thornton, 44, and her 17-year-old daughter Sequita with attacking Felecia Williams, a teacher at Southside High School on February 28. The official charges against the mother include battery on a school teacher, disrupting a public school, criminal trespass and theft by taking in connection with the alleged attack on teacher.

Sequita Thornton was charged with battery on a teacher and disrupting a public school.

Williams told WSB-TV Channel 2 that the teenager was failing her TV Production class. The teacher claims Georgia Thornton visited the school to complain about the girl’s treatment and attacked her during the meeting, knocking her to the ground, kicking and punching her and pulling her hair. Williams claims Sequita Thornton joined the attack.

“And then she threw the book back and just took me like this and then started flinging me everywhere,” said Williams.

Williams said eventually two of her students stepped in and stopped the attack.

OK, we’ll admit it — after covering a bunch of stories involving teachers getting attacked and beat up, their jobs might just be harder than we give them credit for. And if teachers think that they can play it safe and stick with teaching elementary school, think again:

A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday.

The plot by as many as nine boys and girls at Center Elementary School in south Georgia was a serious threat, Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner said.

“We did not hear anybody say they intended to kill her, but could they have accidentally killed her? Absolutely,” Tanner said. “We feel like if they weren’t interrupted, there would have been an attempt. Would they have been successful? We don’t know.”

The children, ages 8 and 9, were apparently mad at the teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, Tanner said. A prosecutor said they are too young to be charged with a crime under Georgia law.

Absolutely unbelievable. They even had the mindset to COVER THE WINDOWS? Where are they picking up this stuff?

Tommy Christopher Cox, 32, was convicted last November for selling an Atlanta boy for sex in Chicago hotel rooms. Yesterday Cox was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

In October, Cox pleaded guilty to possessing more than 800 stolen credit-card numbers that he used to rent hotel rooms in Chicago at which he would host parties and sell the boy for sex.

Cox’s attorney, Gal Pissetzky, asked the judge for a 5-year sentence, while prosecutors sought up to 15 1/2 years. Pissetzky said his client plans to appeal.

Two weeks after Columbus, Georgia man Eddie Harrington kidnapped his three children — 23-month-old twin girls Agena and Aliyah Battle and his 3-year-old son Cedric — they have all been found, but it’s not a happy ending:

A Columbus man and his three young children were found dead in some Muscogee County woods Wednesday, two weeks after the man took the youngsters and left letters threatening to kill them and himself, the FBI said.

FBI spokesman Steve Emmett said the four bodies were found just after noon in a wooded area of Muscogee County, which includes the city of Columbus.

Harrington was the children’s biological father, Emmett said. He did not know why the man took them. Their mother, Agena Battle, discovered them gone when she got home early March 5.

Battle called police because Harrington had left a note on the bedroom dresser saying he was depressed and didn’t want to live and that he planned to kill himself and the youngsters, the FBI said. Harrington’s father in Indianapolis got a similar letter.

Columbus police issued a warrant for Harrington’s arrest for child endangerment. A Levi’s Call was issued, and roadside alerts asked motorists to watch for Harrington’s dark green 2002 Chevrolet Impala.

Police are reporting that a 14-year-old in Savannah, Georgia, is believed to have been abducted by three men:

A Garden City police detective said Michelle Smith has not been seen since she and another girl were forced into a black car around 4 p.m. Sunday.

The other girl, a 12-year-old, told police they were driven into Savannah and that she was sexually assaulted but managed to get out of the car and run away. The 12-year-old said Smith was also able to get out but the suspects chased her.

Police said Smith hasn’t been heard from since.

We’ll keep an eye on updates and provide them when available.

A Georgia man who is a convicted child molester took his 4 year old daughter without permission as he does not have custody of the little girl.

Minor Topics is thinking this might not turn out well. The child molester is wanted for bond violation. There is nothing good that happen with him having unfettered access to a small child. I can only imagine the kind of abuse he will likely inflict upon her.

She needs to be found.

ATLANTA (FOX 5) – Authorities were trying locate a missing child and her father Saturday.

Police and U.S. Marshals were searching for 51-year-old Jerry Jones who reportedly took off with his 4-year-old daughter, Madison Kerr Friday night and the pair hasn’t been seen since.

A mother, father and child crashed into a lake in Georgia, where the car sank, killing the entire family. I pray that they were unconscious when the car sank.

HARALSON COUNTY, Ga. — Georgia State Patrol has confirmed a mother, father and child were killed when their car crashed into a Haralson County lake Wednesday evening during wintry weather conditions.

Trooper Larry Schnall with the GSP said weather appears to be a factor in the crash. Weather conditions and roads in Haralson County were slick after sleet and snow moved through the area Wednesday evening.

A girl scout was robbed during a cookie sale, by one of her customers. Lucky for her, the suspect wrote down her name and address on the order form so that police could arrest her quickly.

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Girl Scout who was robbed while selling cookies led police straight to a 12-year-old suspect — who wrote her name and address on a cookie order form before the theft.

The Girl Scout, 10-year-old Nicole Grant, told police she was selling cookies with a friend Sunday when a girl ordered cookies from her, then snatched Nicole’s zip-top bag, containing $28 in cookie money, and fled on a bicycle.

“She’s still a little shook up, but she’s fine,” said Chris Grant, the Girl Scout’s father.

Are the people we entrust with the care of our children ever given background checks or psychological testing?

If not, a federal mandate is in order…

MARIETTA, Ga. — A coach faces charges after police said he led a group of students on a lewd Christmas prank in Marietta.

Police said John Hayes, 46, loaded several middle schoolers into the back of his pickup truck, and drove them around after dark as they damaged Christmas displays.

The group even made several homeowners’ displays X-rated, police said, including placing reindeer in sexual positions.

I think these tactics, which may have saved this girl’s life, should be part of our education curriculum. Gone are the days where we can bury our heads in the sand and not think about it…

TUCKER, Ga. — Quick thinking by a DeKalb County teenager may have saved her life, police said Monday.

Two men tried to kidnap the girl near Tucker Middle School Monday night, police said.

The 14-year-old was on her way home from dance practice when a black van pulled up, and the men tried to grab her, Police said, adding that the girl got away when she stabbed one of the men in the arm with a pencil. The girl was not seriously hurt, police said.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

In cases like these (not that there are a lot of cases like these to compare to), I fully support prosecuting the parents of these boys. These kids are 8 and 9 years old. You have to ask yourself how in the world they would even know HOW to rape another child and what would motivate them to do it and where the *%$# the parents were????

I can’t say there has ever been a moment when I didn’t know where my 8 or 9 year old was and my child has yet to wonder the streets unsupervised at that age.

Have they done DNA matches with the rape kit? This all seems so bizarre and because it’s so incredibly bizarre, I think we need to ask the tough questions. Praise the girl for coming forward, but solidify the accusations with evidence. I hope this isn’t true because it is completely revolting.

ACWORTH, Ga. — Three boys ages 8 and 9 were being held Monday in a detention center on charges of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old girl in the woods near a suburban apartment complex, officials said.

The alleged attack happened Thursday and the girl’s mother reported it to authorities Sunday, Acworth police Capt. Wayne Dennard said.

“The juvenile victim stated that an 8-year-old boy and two 9-year-old boys that she had been playing with earlier pulled her into a wooded area, where one of the boys raped her,” Dennard said.

ATLANTA — A young boy’s mother drove a getaway car for her son and other local teens involved in a burglary spree, police said Friday.

Police continue to look for Lakechia Woodard, 36, for driving her 12-year-old son and three friends to a house off Flat Shoals Road where they stole 14 rifles.

Suffice it to say, these kids don’t have a chance.

But the “understatement of the day” award goes to the victims son:

“You pick your son up after he’s done robbing a place? That’s bad. That’s bad on you,” said a burglary victim’s son, Willis Grant.