European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Attorney defends kids in taboo crime parricide a attorney Paul Mones specializes in defending kids who  James Anderson associated press writer Pat jul Mones pulls a Handwritten letter from an office brimming with paper and reads aloud. Its from one of his clients a a teenage boy imprisoned for murdering a Parent. Quot it s still a hard question of Why i did it Quot he wrote. Quot i sincerely Hope that other kids out there will have someone to talk to like i have. If it s possible maybe we can set up a correspondence net throughout the United states for kids like us. Who knows it just might help in getting Over the guilt i know we All  Mones understands. He May be the Only attorney in the United states whose specially is defending kids who kill. To Many of his colleagues this is a strange vocation. But dozens around the country have called him in los Angeles for advice in cases. Quot they say with a nervous laugh of boy that s some specially you got there a said Mones who outlined his work in a Book when a child kills abused children who kill their parents. Parricide account for More than 300 of the nation s 20,000 homicides each year. Most of the killers Are White Middle class boys Between the Ages of 16 and 18 with no criminal record. Mones argues that most suffer silent years of sexual physical and psychological abuse before they act against a Parent. A these kids by and Large Are never insane. But it looks insane. It s viscerally insane. Why would you want to kill your parents Quot he said. Quot but when you come Down to the real unpleasant sad tragic reality there s a lot of logic to what the kid did. That s when everybody gets very  Donna Marie Wisener a Captain on her High school majorette team endured her father Glenn s explosive rages and punishing beatings until May 24,1991, when she shot the 49-year-old truck Driver six times with his revolver at their Home in Smith county Texas at her trial miss Wisener and her Mother Mamie testified about Glenn Wisener s abusive rages. The jury acquitted miss Wisener on feb. 13. Mones a co counsel in the Case said miss Wisener a defense was the first use of a Texas Law enacted in september that allows evidence of family violence to defend a killing. Texas is the Only state to have such a statute. But a Washington state appeals court in february overturned the second degree murder conviction of a youth in the shooting death of his Stepfather. The court readers action Lin disabled Soldier Given misinformation of my husband began his insert Heater Transfer assignment recently in Mannheim. When he spoke to the housing office concerning our need of a ground floor apartment due to a medical condition he was informed they would need letters from his command for exception to policy. They also stated that i d need to see a doctor in Mannheim for a recommendation. I am on Tyrl temporary disability retirement list from the army due to a form of migraine which causes sudden loss of consciousness Syncope. This occurs without warning and i m being seen by a neurologist at Lan Stuhl for treatment. My husband had a copy of my last Tyrl examination May 1991 As Well As letters from his previous commanders battalion and company who had witnessed one of my Quot episodes Quot he also had some of my medical records held that the jury should have been allowed to consider evidence about the Stepfather a abuse. Quot neither Law nor logic suggests any reason to limit to women recognition of the Impact a battering relationship May have on the victim s actions or perceptions Quot the court said in remanding the Case. In California evidence of battered women a syndrome is admissible in spouse murder cases but a similar Extension has t been made for children Mones said. As in miss Wisener s Case Many of Mones clients claim they killed in self defense because they knew their abuse would continue. A self defense argument usually requires a fear of imminent and deadly harm. But in Many parricide kids kill when the Parent is most vulnerable a sleeping or watching television a and As miss Wisener did by firing six times the murder often is perceived As  defense attorneys must prosecute the dead for their alleged violence against children. When called in on a Case Mones often will file a child abuse report to launch an investigation. A that s one of the few ways i can figure out to get the kid services Quot he said. Introducing a self defense argument at trial also is housing also cautioned him that despite these letters and exam the final approval would be theirs to make. My question is Why must i see another doctor a someone who would have one visit upon which to base an opinion a when i be been a patient at Lan Stuhl since 1989? would t a letter from Lan Stuhl officials answer any questions housing might have regarding my condition also Why would they deny a ground floor apartment or at least limited flights of stairs Peggy Singletary Karlsruhe Germany Ecol. G. Bickford Forrest commander 293rd base support in Kafer Tal Germany replies it is unfortunate that you were not fully informed of the procedure if the request is accompanied by medical documentation from an attending physician the request must Only be submitted to the Mannheim medical facility for verification. There is no need to schedule a visit and see a new doctor. In accordance with assignment procedure difficult because the Law a like society at Large a tends to take the word of an adult Over a child. Quot i believe children Are still to a Large extent occupying the same role they have had for 500 years which is basically the property of their parents Quot said Mones. Legal terminology reflects that status he said. Quot it s called child endangerment it s not called attempted murder when a child is slammed against a Wall Quot he said. Quot we Call it incest. As far As i m concerned we Call it wrong its  More than 1,200 children in 39 states died from abuse or neglect in 1990, according to the National committee for prevention of child abuse. Quot prosecutors say they have an extremely difficult time convicting parents who kill their children because. There a a Basic understanding except in the most egregious cases of the Parent who gets out of. Control Quot Mones said. But parricide cases nearly always Quot carry these symbolic connotations for the Community. Thou Shalt not kill Honor thy father and Mother a Quot Mones said. Quot prosecutors often invoke the Bible in closing  Quot these kids Are never getting off. They sentenced themselves the moment they pulled the  without an approved medical exception we could not guarantee the Soldier a first floor but would not deny a first floor if available when the Soldier is offered quarters. 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