Man Allegedly Kills Son to Avoid Paying Support
January 5th, 2009

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.”
TAGS: child support, Danny Platt, kills, New Orleans murder
How pathetic a homicide of your own just b/c u don’t wanna handle ur biz! Unbelievable! The courts gotta tell that a*# ur child needs! Godbless little Ja’shawn Powell
This is one of the most heinous and selfish acts I have read in a long time. If the idiot didn’t want to pay child support, he should have just killed himself — I know, he didn’t have the guts to do that. He will eventually get what’s coming to him, because this was a flat-out premeditated murder of an innocent child!
I do send out my prayers to the mother of this child…….and to the father May The Lord have mercy on your soul…….child support was the earthly thing you had to deal with always remember there is a Higher you must answer to……I will keep all of u in my prayers
thats that hip hop generation
with all of comments left about this article, i believe in leaving everybody something to think about. if a person can do this to their own child whats to say about Americans period? what does this action say about us as a nation? these are just some of the questions other countries ask about us and wonder if we are righteous in our actions when it comes to foreign policies and other matters as such. its just something to think about ppl.
dats so fu**** messed up, y wud u do somethin like dat to ur own child? he really killed his baby jus because he had to pay child support…he makes black fathers look worse, he doesnt deserve to die dat wud be to good for him dat ni*** need be locked up for life so he can sit and think about wut he did to his innocent son dat right there wud drive him crazy cuz he da one dat gotta live with his self!! GOD bless Ja’Shawn Powell and his mother!!!
We all better stay close to Jesus. Those who do not know him better get to know him. The world will not, and cannot last long with all the crimes and incredible things that are happening daily. Satan is on the prowl trying to get everyone he can. This story is prime example that we live in a vindictive and immoral world. This is substantiation that we are truly living in the last days. I am stunned about this story, but I shouldn’t be, because truly we are living in the last days. To do something like this a person must be consumed with hatred and the devil. A man killing his own son, because he did not want to pay child support is an eye opener for anyone that does not believe that we really need to have Jesus in our lives. My heart goes out to the mother and the child’s family.
WORD ON THE STREET IS THAT HE SLASHED THE BABY’S THROAT!!! DEATH PENALTY IS TOO GOOD FOR HIM. I SAY SEND HIM TO ANGOLA (LA STATE PENT) AND LET HIM FIND OUT HOW THE INMATES DEAL WITH BABY KILLERS!!
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My prayers go out to the mother of this little boy, yes this is a sad situation and the only one that can judge this individual is God I am sure we will live in hell for the rest of his life for what he has done. I understand everyones fury and don’t think for a minute that I am on his side because I am not this act of cruelty was wrong. Trust me he end he will suffer more than we all can imagine.
This really hit me hard being that I’m from New Orleans and I have a two year old I would never take my child’s life if I’m struggling he didn’t ask to come here but I really hope he gets what he deserves while he’s in prison those types of people are not fit to live in soceity with us
I have never cursed in one of these forums but today its coming out like Terets..such a JACK AZZ!!!!!!!! He doesn’t need to be put to death just yet, he needs to suffer the consequences in a prison of men who do not tolerate child killers…then after he can’t bear it anymore…make him suffer longer. Then once he has dealt with it and learns to accept the brutality of it all, then put to sleep. Sorry excuse for a man…sorry excuse. The mother of little Caylee and the son of b**** that shot Jennifer Hudson’s little nephew need to experience the same fate. Ugghhhh…I’m just disgusted…what is wrong in the minds of these people? I don’t care WHAT RACE they are DAVID…(by the way, ur a jack azz too), CHILDREN do not deserve to be killed period especially in such brutal manners.
This is so sad. The mother should not have allowed the father to have unsupervised visits. If the father had not seen the child and then ALL of a sudden wants to see him, I would have been concerned. My son had visits with his dad at his dad’s parents house. Thankfully his parents knew he (the father) had some issues so they took it upon theirselves to make sure they were around. My son is a teenager and his grandmother still picks him up for his visits.
oh and as for Mr. David’s lil comment….its a child issue, not a black or white issue….there is a time and place for all comments as long as they apply…yours did not apply.
TO THE MOTHER,
IF HE WANTED TO BE IN THE CHILDS LIFE, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE FROM THE BEGINNING…LADIES, STOP OPENNING YOUR LEGS TO THESE LOOSERS, HAVING THESE KIDS WITH THEM WHEN THEY DON’T WANT TO BE BOTHERED BY YOU OR THE RESPONSIBILITY AND THEN FIGURE YOUR ARE GOING TO MAKE THE MAN PAY YOU AND USE YOUR CHILD TO GET YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO BE WITH THE FATHER FOR SELFISH REASONS. YOU CAN’T TRUST ANYONE ON THIS EARTH BUT GOD…IF HE DIDN’T WANT TO BE WITH THE CHILD YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT IT AT THAT…DANG…YOUR CHILD NEVER MEET HIM(HE WAS 2 YEARS OLD) AND YOU STUCK THE KID WITH A COMPLETE STRANGER…THE KID PROBABLY AGGRAVATED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS A STRANGER…WHAT DID YOU EXPECT. YOU OBVIOUSLY DIDN’T KNOW HIM EITHER
He didn’t want to pay child support?, now he has to hopefully pay at least, 15yrs in jail!!! How can someone be that stupid & evil at the same time…….My condolences to the childs mother.
Edward, this has nothing to do with hip hop, but everything to do with an individual who apparently didn’t have whatever coping skills he needed to handle the pressure of this situation. Let’s not be ignorant and make generalizations based on a particular genre of music that has been around long before this particular generation of young people. Countless numbers of killers who happened to be white listened to heavy metal and rock music…Do u say, ” That’s that rock and roll generation?”….Thought not.
dude seriously have problems…if ya a$$ can’t take of your a baby then wear a CONDOM how sick iz he dude is on sum teddy bundy s***…he should of known that child support iz a a major consequence of havin a baby…ol dumazz muf***a…GOD got somethng fa dat a$$ he needs 2 b put 2 sleep…I bet his retarded ignorant insane n da membrane a$$ wishd he payd that child support..kuz wen he go 2 prison he’s goin 2 suffer
It is very sad because a woman wanted child support a honest little life is gone. Sometimes damm these guys take care of our on kids,women on been doing it for years.It just really makes you think about people,WATCH WHO YOU PICK TO HAVE A BABY BY……my sympathy for the child
oh my god..this is terrible…i feel so sorry for the mother…he is a monster