I may be wrong, but I believe that we can mitigate disaster if we engage in conversations. I once talked about Prophet Jonah and Elijah struggling with depression. Mental health issues are real, and it has no regard for age groups or status whether social or spiritual. To stem the tide of suicide and all sort of tragedies in young people, we should begin to talk. The illustration I gave in the book happened in Kenya. Do not think this is peculiar to a race, no! Young people are throwing themselves into the lagoon jumping over bridges to their death in Africa. The rate at which teenagers intentionally end it all is alarming. It is no longer news that electronic devices and gadgets have come to worsen an already frosty relationship between parents and their teenagers. We can only pray that our negligence will not have a dangerous effect on us and our loved ones. If we do not do something about the teenagers we see today, they will turn into a problem tomorrow. These teens represent the future or tomorrow of the society we live in. My appeal today is to everyone with good will to think about the society we live in and how we can rescue one teenager at a time. Values need to be reassessed and reset button engaged to realize a better society that is free of violence and decadence that we all witness. To make America great, (like they say) family institutions must be revisited. While the government is doing its best through social institutions and interventions, the solution to these problems (I believe) lies with families. You are not likely to grow into a dangerous gun totting human if you live in a community that abhors hatred and promotes love for mankind irrespective of the color of their skin.Īmerica today has a myriad of problems plaguing her with gun violence unfortunately just one of them. The question I would like to ask is where are these shooters from? Do they have homes, families, friends, loved ones? Do they live in a community? The reason I asked is simple: It is easy to spot irregular behavior when you are in a community or relationship that cares about you. Those who came to America before us would testify that gun violence has become an epidemic of sort. I am not about to interrogate the issue of gun violence although it is one of the topics I covered in my book, ‘100 Trending Topics for Teenagers’. New York Governor Kathy Hochul told reporters that Gendron intentionally carried out his attack in a ZIP code with a high concentration of African Americans. We were told that the shooter, Payton Gendron, drove to Buffalo from Conklin, New York, around 200 miles away. Out of these 14 people that lost their lives, 10 were killed when an 18-year-old gunman opened fire with an AR-15 at a Buffalo supermarket. Over the last weekend in the United States where I reside, there were five mass shootings across the country, killing 14 people and injuring 39. Konrad Imirowicz reportedly had a drinking problem and was highly intoxicated when he arrived at Ascension Genesys Hospital several hours after the incident.Olusesan Adeniyi argues the need to engage children in talking Megan Imirowicz is scheduled to be sentenced July 25 by Oakland County Circuit Judge Victoria Valentine.Īccording to assistant prosecutor Jason DeSantis who tried the case, on the day of the assault Megan Imirowicz fought with her father because he was drunk and unable to drive her to a hair salon appointment that morning ahead of her planned 18th birthday party. He spent approximately five months hospitalized for chemical burns and related complications before coming home on hospice care and dying three days later. 1, 2021 assault on her father, Konrad Imirowicz. on the fourth day of trial, jurors announced a guilty verdict for 19-year-old Megan Imirowicz on one count of unlawful possession or use of harmful devices – imitation/irritants – causing death - a felony - and misdemeanor domestic violence for the Oct. After deliberating for approximately three hours, an Oakland County, Michigan jury returned with a verdict Thursday in the case against an Ortonville teen accused of throwing lye at her father, leading to his death.
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