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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PCG Said on

Now I will believe anything about people. This is unspeakable.
That poor child. This is someone that really should be put to death!



denise Said on

what has the world come to when you kill your own child to avoid paying child support….IT’S CALLED A DAMN CONDOM! WEAR ONE



Rob C Said on

What a sorry, pathetic son of a b!@#$!!!

I hope he burns in hell for this!



TT Said on

I am with you mswin, this boy is truly evil! He is going to get his, trust and believe, how crazy! Lord Jesus cover the child’s mom and family, but anybody who turns a gun to a baby is SICK!



LADYKALO Said on

HE WILL NEVER HAVE A DAYS REST. HE THOUGTH CHILD SUPPORT WAS BAD. WAIT TILL HE GOES TO PRISON AND HIS NEW FRIENDS FIND OUT WHAT HE DID.



rtrv7 Said on

This is when you know when you have it bad



RON Said on

PUT HIM IN A JAIL WHERE THE INMATES WILL TAKE CARE OF HIM. AFTER THAT, HE WOULD WISH THAT WAS ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT.



orlando Said on

All we can say now is that he has bigger problems than child suppport especially with god if u know what I mean



Jobarson Tyrone Jenkins Said on

Uhhhhhhhhh, how about just don’t pay it? Guess he didn’t want to lose that good job wiff them good benefits- it seems his plans didn’t work ouf as planned.

Truthfully, that was a brilliant idea…………………………………………….for a jakazz. He must of swallowed some of that toxic Katrina water messing up his rationale. I know the baby mother is devastated, especially since she has to lose all of that baby fat for nothing now. His family probably had to move after that stunt. I wonder how was he raised? Classic ignorance.

JTJ



KAREN Said on

SO STUPID….. OH THEY ARE GOING TO GET HIS A@@ IN JAIL…. CHILD KILLER …..WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE….



della Said on

I hope he burns in hell,but the system will let him go and he will kill the mother of his child. At this point he does not care. What is left for him in life…..



April Said on

This is an act of ignorance, stupidity and heartless. He’s not a father, just a sperm donor do such a hate of crime, because of child support. I send my prayers and gratitude to the child’s mother and her family, during this time of grief.



HOUSE NEGRO HUNTER Said on

FIRST THE BEAUTIFULL LITTLE GIRL CAYLEE. NOW THIS BEAST KILLS HIS OWN CHILD!! NO BLAC OR WHITE ISSUE HERE!!. A CHILD IS A CHILD AND I MUST ADD WHEN THE CHILD GROWS UP INTO A ADULT THE SAME THING APPLYS



bolegg Said on

iTS SAD TO SEE A BABIE LEAVE THIS WORLD OF CHS. BUT LOOK AT THE FACTS HW WAS THE MOTHER TOO. IT CLD HVE BEEN SHE ALOT OF THINGS INVOLVE IN THE RELATIONSHIP…………BUT THIS WHT GET ME WOMAN CAN ALWAYS SAY I LOVE MY MAN BUT WHN HARD TIME COME FIRST THING THY DO IS RUN AND STICK FOLKS IN THERE BUSINESS.

RULES NEED TO CHNG NO ONE WAS IN YOUR BUSY B4 U WAS TOGETHER AND HELL MAYBE SHE PUSH HIM CUZ HE CLDNT HANDLE PEOPLE IN THERE BUSINESS SO LOOK AT THE HOLE THING NOT THE FACT THE MAN SHOT THE BABIE CUZ BOTH PARENTS R RESPONIBLE



ERICKA Said on

IF HE DIDIN’T WANNA PAY CHILD SUPPORT HE SHOULD OF GAVE UP HIS RIGHTS TO LIL’ JA’SHAWN THEN TO DO THIS HORRIBLE THING TO A LITTLE CHILD . MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO THE MOTHER BE STRONG ….

PRAYING 4 U IN ILLINOIS……………



sugar spice n everything nice Said on

Its a shame how a father can do that 2 his own child or the fact of takin someone’s life it terrible



shay Said on

That son of a b**** needs 2 be given the chair why couldn’t he have just tookin care of his responsibilities there’s always 1 n**** who makes us look bad



TAYLOR MADE Said on

REALLY IS THIS WHAT THIS WORLD IS COMING TO FOR OUR BLACK MEN AND FUTURE BLACK MEN NOW WHERE KILLING OFF OUR OWN TO TRY TO GET AHEAD WAKE UP WE ARE A DYING BREED



What Said on

This is sooooo sad……..I am speechless god bless the little boys family……But what is David talking about you people said whites only commit crimes like this ???? this is abigger issue more than race…let t go the race card is over…violence has no color…god bless everyone.



geminitwinworld Said on

TO ALL BLACK YOUNG MEN WHO ARE HAVING UNSTABLE RELATIONSHIPS AND CONTINUE TO HAVE THESE BABIES WITHIN THAT
RELATIONSHIP IS A BACK PLAUGE THAT IS CONTINUING TO DESTROY
US! IF YOU CANT HANDLE FATHERHOOD FINANCIALLY DONT HAVE THEM!….. PLAIN AND SIMPLE! GET YOUR SELF TOGETHER FINANCIALLY
FIRST BEFORE ANY CHILD IS IS EVEN CONCIEVED OR DISSCUSSED
HAVING PLANING IS MUST WITH BOTH PARTIES AND IF THAT MAN IS
JOBLESS OR IN BETWEEN OR SEARCHING FOR ONE.. A CHILD AT
THE MOMENT IS OUT OF THE QUESTION TO MAKE LADIES!
EVERY CHOSEN MAN HAS A CONSEQUENCE AS WELL AS A WOMAN
BUT IT MUST BE A WISE DECISION!