spoon
07-21-2012, 09:35 PM
Read this story about what one of my friend's family is going through out in Michigan. His brother, dead, sister-in-law, severely injured, nephew (still in and out of ICU/operations on his spine, head and more) and niece (PTSD and so wrecked with mental trauma she almost never sleeps or smiles). Long story short, Bob Cipriano was a great guy who took a much lesser paying job to help out his kid's school district's financial issues, only to be killed at the hands of a child they adopted to free from a terrible start in life.
They did all they could from the kid born to two drug addicts in the area 19 years ago, only to have more and more issues as he grew older. Even now, after all they have done, gone through and the major loss, they love the kid and plea for others to forgive the kid. Bob's brother has been my accountant and real estate attorney in the NJ/NY/CT area for over a decade and I can't tell you how sad this whole thing is. I'm closing on a home and selling my own as well right now and he's doing it all FROM Michigan bc he's been there since this happened.
I can't even begin to explain just how good these people are, but just watch some videos linked to this story to here just how much they were loved and it's amazing to me they truly forgive their adopted son for this gruesome act, as the kid has had problems linked to his natural parent's drug/alcohol use since the day he was born. As he got older he "self-medicated" and couldn't defeat his demons no matter how much help or restraint the Cipriano family put on him legally. At 18 he was an adult and they lost a lot of control and say and the whole thing steamrolled real quick to the tragedy you read here.
Brutal Details (http://www.freep.com/article/20120502/NEWS03/205020425/Reports-on-Cipriano-attack-reveal-horrifying-details)
They did all they could from the kid born to two drug addicts in the area 19 years ago, only to have more and more issues as he grew older. Even now, after all they have done, gone through and the major loss, they love the kid and plea for others to forgive the kid. Bob's brother has been my accountant and real estate attorney in the NJ/NY/CT area for over a decade and I can't tell you how sad this whole thing is. I'm closing on a home and selling my own as well right now and he's doing it all FROM Michigan bc he's been there since this happened.
I can't even begin to explain just how good these people are, but just watch some videos linked to this story to here just how much they were loved and it's amazing to me they truly forgive their adopted son for this gruesome act, as the kid has had problems linked to his natural parent's drug/alcohol use since the day he was born. As he got older he "self-medicated" and couldn't defeat his demons no matter how much help or restraint the Cipriano family put on him legally. At 18 he was an adult and they lost a lot of control and say and the whole thing steamrolled real quick to the tragedy you read here.
Brutal Details (http://www.freep.com/article/20120502/NEWS03/205020425/Reports-on-Cipriano-attack-reveal-horrifying-details)