Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "Convicted killer Ronnie Oneal opts for legal help during death penalty phasev" video.

  1.  Gerald Snyder  Ronnie O' Neal Jr was 8 when he witnessed his 9-year-old disabled sister murdered by his abusive father in a bloody axe attack. He saw his terrified mother flee for her life as an enraged Ronnie Sr pursued and shot her, before beating her to death with the rifle on a neighbour's doorstep. That Ronnie Jr survived that horrific family annihilation is nothing short of miraculous. He suffered multiple savage stab wounds from his dad, which left his intestines hanging out - and severe burns, when he set fire to the family home. The psychological and emotional damage to him remains to be seen. When police arrested O' Neal he was covered in his victims' blood, reeked of accelerant, and had barely a mark on him to support his ridiculous claim of killing his girlfriend 'in self defence'. As any child psychologist of note will attest, a childhood trauma like that often stays with an individual vividly for life - and Ronnie Jr was asked to recount those terrible events just 3 years later. Absolutely no coaching was required! But it was only too predictable that the defendant, whose long and ugly history of domestic abuse is well documented, would seek to exploit his child's tender age to claim he was 'coached' to tell lies against him. In fact the greatest risk to the now 11-year-old boy, was that the tense, courtroom encounter with his abusive parent and would-be killer would intimidate him into silence. Not surprisingly, he was cowed by seeing his father again, even with the distance afforded by 'Zoom'. But when O' Neal brazenly asked his little boy: "How did I hurt you?", and the child replied calmly and clearly: "You stabbed me", it was a damning, 'slam-dunk' moment for the prosecution. With just one, devastating sentence, the sole survivor of the family annihilation proved he really was the prosecution's star witness. And from that point on, O' Neal's laughable 'defence' was dead in the water. I trust that courageous little boy will receive the ongoing professional psychotherapy he undoubtedly needs, to help him come to terms with the murders of his mother and sister, and his own near death at the hands of his evil father.
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  2.  GMan5090  The child's colour is 100% irrelevant in legal terms, and in terms of public opinion too. He would have been made to face his father/attacker and be cross examined by him whatever his colour, because those are the rules when a defendant represents himself. And the many outraged comments here prove lots of people care that an 11 year old child was put through that ordeal - whether he's purple with red spots, he's a child! Colour has nothing to do with any of it - your comment was dumb and nonsensical.
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  3. Dumbest comment ever.
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  4. Huh?! Sudden Bob???
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