You are a pretty good juge of character. I had planned on coming on here and not telling who I was and asking you who saw the trial which of the inmate witnesses seemed most credible and kind of beat around the bush but have changed my mind and will tell you now that Mr. Howell is someone I know well as he is my 15 year old son's father.
He is one of the mose decent people that I have ever met in my life and while out where he could be, he was a wonderful, caring, father and husband. He is someone who truly cares about people, particularly the young and innocent and I can imagine what was going through his mind as he sat and listened to Hinton basicaly telling him in a round about way of what he had done.
His arrest and detention has pretty much destroyed our family in that our son no longer has his father, we are pretty much barely getting by, nearly being homeless a good number of times due to his incarceration. Distance as well as my failing health has kept us from even getting to visit him, but they say that in every cloud there is a silver lining and if the things that we have been through are in any way responsible for putting him into the situation to where he could learn what he did and tell it to have this monster taken off of the street to help the Melendi family and probably save other families from this same nightmare, then I will take that as our silver lining.
I see too where some of you have noticed the astounding mere 4 year sentence that Hinton got for abducting a 14 year old girl, putting a knife to her throat and insinuating that he had indeed killed before, and that he only had to serve 15 months on that sentence, which was not his first along those lines either, when the drug offenders who were testifying were serving much longer sentences. There is something terribly wrong with this picture. Why on earth would they let a man who would harm a child out in 15 months?
