Man Allegedly Kills Son to Avoid Paying Support

January 5th, 2009

Danny Platt

A 22-year-old New Orleans man is accused of killing his toddler son because he was ordered to pay child support, The Associated Press reports. Danny Platt, who initially told police that men with guns had snatched his 2 ½ -year-old son, not only confessed but told investigators where to find the child’s body, according to Police Superintendent Warren Riley. “He had said he would kill either his wife or his child before he paid child support,” which he recently had been ordered to do, Riley said. Even though Platt had visiting rights, Riley said, he never visited little Ja’ Shawn Powell until Friday, the day he picked up the boy. Police said that they did not know the amount of the child support and that the official cause of death would be revealed after the autopsy was complete. “The mother is in a safe place,” Riley said. On Saturday, police put out a bulletin seeking three men with dreadlocks and AK-47 rifles, whom Platt said poured out of an SUV around midnight Friday and spirited his son away. “His story never really added up,” Riley said. “He was a suspect from the very beginning. …”How does an individual — because he’s ordered to pay child support to take care of a kid … believe that this is so much pressure that he would face — he would do this hideous act to his own child, or to any child, and think that is a remedy to paying child support? I mean there are some sick individuals in this society, and this gentleman is clearly one.”

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Paradise Said on

I am so saddened by this action, my heart goes out to the mom and her family. i have been reading some of these comments and it amazes me how some of you individuals feel that it is the moms fault or the systems fault. Whomever you lie down with is a potential baby momma or baby daddy. if you find yourself a parent before you are ready then deal with it, life happens you are not going to be ready for everything it throws at you. Some individuals are good at planning and most are not. Children need to be taken care of and whether you go jump into another relationship, you can not forget about your first obligation, which is to your child. Men seem to lose that when they get involved with new woman, sometimes its because the woman is insecure and other times its because the men are weak. Stop the excuses, step up to the plate and be men, fathers, daddies. So what if you hate her, if you have to pay between 50.00 to 400.00 a month so what deal with it. We have to deal with getting them ready for school, taking off from work, going to school plays, games and sometimes doctors offices and missing work, mothers give up their lives for their children and most men only give up a few dollars. I am devastated about any child losing a life by a parent, but one day, one day soon, Jesus will say “wake up” and all those babies who have lost their lives because of a selfish parent will wake up to a Paradise earth. So these children are just sleeping now, they will be back and if i live my life according to the bible standards I will be there to welcome them back on a paradise earth, the way God intended it to be for us. Read your bibles!! Show love to fellow man, stop the hatred!! As long as you have breath in you, its never to late to change!!



JazzyLadyv Said on

It’s a shame his mother didn’t do the same to him, had she or his father known that they were going to produce such a monster



Ki-Ki Said on

DEMON- this world is coming to an end. He should die by lethal injection!!!!



Moe Said on

Absolutey SICK!! He will fry in HELL if the prisoners don’t get to him first.



Rhonda Said on

this is horrible……………. absolutely ridiculous……………..



Robbin Bailey Said on

What kind of sick monsters is this man? Anyone that cheap, evil and/or selfish doesn’t deserve to live!



seschris Said on

Obviously this man is evil and will be roasting in hell for eternity. However, I have to agree with one of the posters above. The system is not fair to men who have to pay child support. For example: they often enforce severe penalties on the father if he doesn’t have a job but allow the mother to live off welfare. It’ s unbalanced and needs to be fixed so that the child get’s the maximum benefit and BOTH parents are held financially responsible equally. The father should not be demonalized BOTH parents should be forced to WORK and PAY!



dalysed Said on

MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE YOUNG BOYS FAMILY. GOD BLESS



latarsha Said on

i would have pay his child support for him to avoid that child’s life being taken away from him….regardless to what the issue was..people we need to pray for this world..because people are during some crazy things these days..



snowflake Said on

What a coward lousy father he needs to be in the electric chair.I know why don’t they just put his ass in general population where they will teach him a lesson.If not he will learn a lesson and he will definitely answer the almighty god for his mistakes and definitely regret where he is heading so i am going to leave that to god the father.He is the judge not me.



ms goldie Said on

Men like him is one of the reasons I wont have kids.



Kesha Said on

Nothing is to my surprise anymore. Black, White, Hispanic, Asian it doesn’t matter what color you are. I’m sorry insanity doesn’t comes with a color!!



ANNDRIA Said on

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE LAST COMMENTS OF THE ARTICLE. THE BROTHA NEEDS HELP. STAY STRONG SISTAH. GOD’S ON YOUR SIDE.



jrbdrb Said on

he needs his a## woped that was ignorant, burtial, selfish and very undeserved



Bobby Bats Said on

As I look at this article I see that he was supposed to pay $150 per month. That’s a Lie, I’ve nevert heard of anything that low. Child Support was made in the light of making it a hardship for the payor. It was probably $150 a week.



Mikki Said on

The Entire Chid Support/ Chid Visitation System should be AMENDED.
Often desperate women have children (often times via coercion or manipulation) to “Tie-Down” the man of their choice. Who cares if they are the “choice” of the man…it doesn’t matter. Once the “accident” happens and they become pregnant and the “I don’t know how it happened” is over…the torture of “control and manipulation” begins. First, the pregnancy is used as a “rouse” to secure marriage with a man who didn’t want marriage with that woman. Once the woman figures out the father who doesn’t want to marry her now that she is pregnant (85% of the cases)…just like he didn’t want to marry the woman before she got pregnant…the woman turns bitter and vengeful. The child is then used by the mother as a “pawn” to TERRORIZE, CONTROL, AND EXTRACT MONEY from that father who refused to marry her after she pulled the oldest trick in the book.

If the man then marries another woman, the “Baby Mama” feeling she has “rights” of some sort, begins the cat and mouse game with the Father and the child. If the father meets all the Baby Mama’s requirements, the father gets to see the child. If the father does not entertain all and anything the Baby Mama demands he do, the mother takes the child away from the Father as a means of “punishment”. Nevertheless, she expects her check. He better do what she says, pretend to like her, play “boyfiend” to her loney self and pay monthly or she will be his worse ENEMY. The child is the one who suffers. The child is used as the reason, although for many of these desperate women, it is all about them, and CONTROLLING THE MAN.

Lesson: Always wear a condom and watch it flush. If a man won’t marry you without being pregnant, he certainly won’t marry you after you try to force him into being with you via a pregnancy trick.

The Court: Courts should penalize women if the man can prove that the woman is terrorizing him, harassing him, invading his life, or using the child as a “pawn” against him, or preventing him from seeing his child at will. If a “Baby Mama” does this, she should have to forfeit Child Support for at least 12 months…to teach her that a child has a right to both parents without interference, desperation and bitterness from the other.



Y Lord Said on

I missed this entry so my comment is late, but he should be put on death row and made to pay child support out of penitentiary pay or any money that his family sends him. Then he should get exactly what he gave his child — only slower.



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