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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MS.G Said on

A LIFE FOR A LIFE……NOW THAT IS A MAN WHO SHOULDN’T HAVE A #%$%@ IT NEEDS TO BE CUT OFF AND HIS BUTT HOLE CLOSED UP FOR LIFE AND LET HIM GO TO THE BATHROOM OUT OF HIS MOUTH FOR THE REST OF HIS SICK LIFE.



DAPHNE Said on

THIS ANIMAL NEED PAIN PUT ON HIS A**. HE IS THE LOWEST OF THE LOW. HE WAS BORN HEARTLESS. THERE IS NO WAY THIS ANIMAL WAS BORN WITH LOVE IN HIS HEART. MY PRAYERS AND HEARTS GOES OUT TO THAT MOTHER. I CAN’T IMAGINE THIS HAPPENING TO MY CHILD. HE’S NOT A MAN. WHATEVER WAS DONE TO THAT POOR BABY SHOULD BE DONE TO HIM.



Bob Said on

David,

You really need professional help and a strong sedative, the things you speak is only going to hurt you, God can see what your saying, you’ll be sorry you wrote the things you dis.



Stephanie Said on

God protect this 2-1/2 year old boy’s mother. My condolences.

As for ‘David’ you did not make any sense and therefore you are stupid for being apart of the human race; now whether you are of black skinned or of caucasion skin … you must have a hatred toward humans in general for you to come out of your ass like you had. You have not touched on the subject at hand so just be quiet … please and do us all a favor … keep your comments to yourself or to those who are like you and want to listen, because I don’t listen to people like yourself and cann’t speak for everyone else!!!

As for Danny Platt, God will take care of you as God does not like it when people place harm on others especially innocent children … you deserve what is coming to you when it comes.



mj Said on

He had to been high on them Drug and the first thing he going to say in court, the voice in his head told him to do it. Always trying to play the insane act. Prayers go out to this family .



deen205 Said on

FIRST OF ALL MY HEART GOES OUT TO THAT MOM AND HER FAMILY, MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND THE LORD WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU. BUT FOR THAT NO GOOD NOTHING OF A N**** YOU DON’T DESERVE TO GO TO COURT OR JAIL YOU JUST NEED BE HUNG BECAUSE YOU ARE WORTH LESS AND DESERVE TO TAKE ANOTHER BREATH. ALL BECAUSE YOU DON’T WANNA TAKE CARE OF A CHILD THAT DIDN’T ASK TO COME HERE. LADIES WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL OF WHO YOU HAVE UNPRTECTED SEX WITH YOU MIGHT GET THE DEVIL HIMSELF.



Slimm Said on

This is truly a sad story. Im speechless but jus wanted to say that he deserves to die today. Not tomorrow or the next day but they need to handle his ass behind the scenes b4 he even get a chance to stand in front of a judge. I mean kome on now. The lil boy had nuthin to do wit it. Ok Im done now bcuz its startin to piss me off all ova again



Thamara Said on

Thats the problem with these young girls who make children and can’t take care of them, and right of the bat want child support ,you don’t need a man to better for you and your child,you get off your ass and do it. now this poor child has to pay for it….i did it, she can.. they sleep with dead beats and have kids… well i Hope that MONSTER, does life or gets death, Hes an animal and he puts a bad lable on black man not wanting to care for there children…



Demetries Sister of Justice Said on

My prayers go out to the childs mother & family. To all of the mothers with children who have fathers that are not supporting their children. God will
make a way for those children. If the fathers are unstable,
emotionally,mentally unstable not responsible, please do not let them take
these children with out supervision. The father is a sick man, my heart goes out to his family as well. The child support System need Reforming!!!



dmc Said on

God bless your soul cuz, ur a** is p.c.’d up. ur chocolate tunnel has many years of trains hitting it!!



NH3 Said on

Due to some irreconcilable differences, I have a 13 y.o. son I’ve only seen 3X since ‘98(last time being 4.5 yrs.ago). Although I have regular contact with him, it’s not the same as being there. I regret missing him learning how to ride a bike, 1st day of school, just having the daily physical relationships a father should have with his children. Thank God that I never executed the thoughts this so-called man did, for it would have been a murder-suicide, orphaning the child. Although I’m not in the position I desire to be in, I have no problem having child support being deducted from my pay because, regardless of whatever situation his mother is in, HE IS MINE & I LOVE HIM VERY MUCH!!!! Can the REAL men get wit’ me on this one?!



Lola Said on

Grease him down with Crisco or Lard, and Fry him like a piece of chicken, WELL DONE!



tishia Said on

If paying child support was that big of a deal, he should have just committed suicide instead. I know alot of men are dead beat and don’t want to take care of their children but women sometimes trick men and have babies thinking that will keep the man around and when the plan back fires on them, they sue the man for child support to try to hurt them. I know alot of women that have done that. But the men are just as much to blame. You shouldn’t be sleeping around without protection whether she says she’s on the pill or not. I personally think you shouldn’t sleep with a person at all if you know you don’t wanna be with them or have kids with them. Sometimes you think you getting some free a$$ but that a$$ might end up costing you $500 a month. Nonetheless, my heart goes out the the mother because he did not have to take her child away.



Nicee Said on

My prayers and thoughts are with the mother… what a sick individual



latoya Said on

That man is so sick for doin that



Carol Dollison Said on

God Forgive me but a person like this should not be in this world..let the punishment fit the crime please. I am so disturbed by this news. I’m a mother.



Cateyes Said on

This is the most selfish thing I have ever heard of in my life. This is what happens to our people, when a man decides to leave his sons and let the streets or the single mothers take care of him. Nothing about this boy says he has grown up. I am urging our brothers that if you enjoy laying down with our women then please enjoy the consequences. I feel so sorry for this mother and her loss. I lost my son at 3 weeks so I know the pain, but it would be unbearable if I would have lost my son this way. This man needs the death penalty, because he clearly does not know what life is.



name Said on

Recession !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Issa Said on

Thats why women these days need to be very careful who they have a child with! You can get pregnant by a killer or a child molestor. Now she’s suffering the consequences. And then he never visited the baby to begin with. Why would you trust a guy that never visits the child and let him take the child alone? That was a sign right there!!!! I would have told the court that I dont trust him alone with the child and once he can prove to me & the court system that he is responsible father and person that can take care of a child. He never wanted to be a father! What would make him change his mind so quick? He was never to be trusted!!!!!!!!!!



donna Said on

How are the blacks going to twist this one and somehow blame it on the whites ?