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By: Mother of a 15 year old Poway high girl

Mother of a 15 year old Poway high girl — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:28:45 +0000

Tommy-
I agree with everything you said. It is very difficult for me watch what my daughter and her friends deal with this. I don’t know what to do or say to help them, because I am having a hard time dealing with this terrible tragedy that could have been avoided. My family has spent many hours in that same park. The kids have all run around there and Poway with freedom. Now I don’t want them to even cross the street alone! How do we get past this? My heart breaks every time I think of the Chelsea and her family.

God Bless the King Family!!

By: mary mac

mary mac — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:39:37 +0000

Tommy, Your anger is so justified. We all need to turn that energy
into doing something to save the next child. One comfort I have
found is just listening to Christina Aguilera (Hope For Haiti Now)
YouTube song LIFT ME UP. Somehow it reflects on this trauma. Tomorrow
will make us stronger to make up for the terrible wrong Chelsea
suffered. We will all make a difference very soon. MMc

By: Mother of 19 year old runner

Mother of 19 year old runner — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:38:33 +0000

I stand right next to you Tommy with everything you have said…
Gob bless the King Family during this very difficult time.

By: ray clark

ray clark — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:00:06 +0000

when this bastard was prosecuted for the assault on the 12 year old Paul Pfingst and the san diego prosecutors office gave him a lesser sentence, through a plea bargin,than the psychiatrist who examined him recommended. this happens everyday and these monsters are all around the county, state, and nation. until pressure is put on the court system from everyday citizens to change the way these people are handled once they are identified this will happen again and again. these bastards are broken and they cannot be fixed. they must be kept away from our children. If you want to do something to remember chelsea you must become proactive in changing the way these sick sons of bitches are handled. the state of california is releasing prisoners everyday because of overcrowding and budget concerns and this must stop.I sit here writing this trough tears for someone i don’t even know, but as a parent i anguish whenever i hear about someone who didn’t deserve to die in this way. god bless chelsea and her family for they will always be a part of our lives forever. please, please get involved in changing the system so none of us will have to ask for volunteers to find our kids.

By: Father of 2 daughters

Father of 2 daughters — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:59:24 +0000

Tommy,

You have expressed my feelings EXACTLY. Now how do we mobilize to make certain this never happens again. You have the forum, I’ll assist in any way I can. You got thousands to create a human flag for love of our service men and women. Will they do it again for our children? Let’s send the message to our law makers.

By: Julie WIlson

Julie WIlson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:45:58 +0000

Death is too kind for monsters like him, I pray that for every minute he tortured and raped, he is tortured and raped. I hate our legal system, I hate that monsters like him are ever let out of institutions. I say we form a group and stand in front of the person/ peoples office that are responsible for letting that monster and monsters like him loose. Chelsea is ok now, but there are 1000s of children that are not. lets not let this happen again, lets band together before a search for another missing child, and get these predators off our streets NOW!

God bless the King family.

By: sandiego1ace1

sandiego1ace1 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:31:19 +0000

Tommy, I went to sleep so sad last night after seeing the news about finding Chelsea’s body on-line. (I have been calling my daughter to check on her) I have since relocated from San Diego and lived close to Rancho Bernardo and the surround area back to my home state of Wisconsin. I have followed the story. I have a beautiful daughter back in San Diego and remember all the times she would tell me about cars pulling up to her with guys whistling, making comments etc. She would be walking home from the grocery store that was only a few blocks away, walking to school (her dad lived close to the school, I had to drive my kids from where I lived so they didn’t walk when they were with me) walking home from school or just doing errands around town. I didn’t like her being home alone at times. I didn’t like her out at night hanging out with friends. I was constantly worrying…I still worry and I have good reason to. You never know who is lurking and grossly admiring from afar. As much as I don’t want to blast hatefully out loud, I am inside. I just don’t understand the system. I don’t understand attorneys who can justify defending known criminals and guilty ones at that! Is it for the money? Is it for the challenge? Is it really because they feel someone has been wronged? I will never understand how they can sleep at night and look at themselves in the morning. Especially the people involved in the prior Gardner cases. The girl who got away in December is lucky. But what is upsetting is they treated it as a robbery. Was she suppose to wait until it got further before it was a sexual assault? Or how about the couple who saw a suspicious man in the park while they were walking their dog and they contacted the police? Here we have community citizens trying to keep the area safe and report something suspicious and not much was done. Why can’t the police follow up with us once a report has been filed to let us know if anything has come of it? (I had a situation that was very upsetting to me, following an impaired driver for over 13 miles where this man almost was hit, he almost hit people, stopped in traffic, swerving and I reported it to the police and not one officer came from three different departments of the sheriff, and two different jurisdictions because of where it happened, communication and the lack of making it a priority (my cousin Alan Calvillo (41) and his 11 yr old son Bailey were killed by a 21 year old drunk driver on February 7, 2009 on their way to a Milwaukee Bucks game, so I am a little sensitive to people on the road) One department didn’t even pass it along to the Sheriff’s department like they said would. It never was followed up on. This happened here in Wisconsin, so no followup with me on what happened in the end…I searched the newspaper the next day to see if there was any auto accidents, someone hit or arrests) Although this is about something totally different, it is related to how police handle calls from the citizens from the community. I think about the couple that reported a suspicious man in the park. What they must be thinking today knowing that possibly the same person they saw in the park was Gardner. Even if it wasn’t Gardner…could it have been someone like Gardner lurking? Out of this tragedy I hope Chelsea shines the light on Amber DuBois and we find her and others like her so parents can have some closure. I know there will NEVER be closure on the violent loss of a child. I pray that out of all this tragedy that laws change and it will take the voices of the victims families and the community/state to be heard and it is time we are heard. Tommy, you just said what many of us are thinking and feeling. My prayers to the King family and the DuBois family and the community of San Diego as they start the healing process.

By: geri t

geri t — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:34:04 +0000

This animal and others like him. First offense – IF they are let out of prison – tattoo the forhead with CHILD SEX OFFENDER – also the tops of each hand ( I’d rather have them chopped off) make their families responsible.for watching them and reporting suspecious activity. I’d prefer they never see the light of day. Let the drug users out and keep those freaks forever in our prisons. No print media, no television, no radio, NO COMPUTeRS! No re-living, no gloating over the horror they rendered. Isolation from the outside.totally and completly alone, forever until they decend into the darkness of hell for eternity. There is NO forgivness for what they do.

By: OneFuriousMom

OneFuriousMom — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:14:45 +0000

Tommy

I couldn’t sleep last night, I keep checking on my two little girls…..You have expressed my ANGER, FRUSTRATION, and also my HEARTBREAK. This situation is horrible….BUT I feel that it should have not happeneded had our law makers given a crap abour our children! THank you for saying what you did! We must fight to lock up this predators and keep them away forever! God Bless Chelsea and Amber!