HuffingPost : Man Starves Father To Death *Allegedly*

[Demiurgas]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/1 ... d%3D143969

PHILADELPHIA -- A Philadelphia man has been charged in the starvation death of his 82-year-old father, whose body weighed 79 pounds.

Paramedics responding to a call about 57-year-old Thomas Hauck's mother found the body of his father, Leonard Hauck, in the basement of the family's north Philadelphia home on Dec. 26.

Authorities say Thomas Hauck told the paramedics his father had died several days earlier and he didn't know what to do with the body. They say his mother was malnourished.

Prosecutors say Hauck was arrested Thursday and is charged with third-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, abuse of a corpse and other crimes in connection with his father's death.

Hauck is in custody. It's unclear if he has an attorney. There's no telephone listing for him.




Me, I'm concerned about something like this. What should be the penalty for doing this?

[PeZook]

Minimum sentence for third degree murder is 20 years in Pennsylvania, which sounds more than appropriate, and that's discounting all the other charges.

What do you think the penalty should be?

[Demiurgas]

I don't know. Come to think of it, 20 years sounds like it at the moment.

[Akhlut]

I'm kind of hoping the parents have some sort of disease that eliminates an appetite and the son was simply too ignorant/destitute to take his parents to the hospital instead of actively neglecting them (to say in a semi-oxymoronic way). Because, not knowing any better and accidentally having the parents die that way is much better versus simply letting one's parents waste away because, fuck it, who cares?

[Demiurgas]

Right.