Peter: I have read on other media outlets that a cousin living in that home reported to media that she heard Jason screaming and knew that Dante had been calling for him so she went to her mother about what she heard...have you heard anything about this? If this is true, it would seem that the family somehow knew what was happening and possibly could have prevented it?? I am a little confused and wonder how accurate that statement was and if true why I have heard less than nothing about it...she detailed that she heard screaming that did not get lower but just ceased....but no one went to the room where the screaming came from? You knew he was in there and screaming and you just...did nothing? I am trying hard to understand and my heart is heavy with grief for a young man it seems that his family failed...if you have any information about this "screaming" please let us know how it may figure into the story...

Thanks for the note. We haven't been able to confirm that account and the people inside the home where Jason was killed are not that inclined to talk about it. I spent a good deal of time at the house this week but they wouldn't let me inside nor would they talk much. I don't know where that account came from. There are many unanswered questions, not the least of them why Jason was in that house to begin with.

This is so said, I to believe that his family failed him. I also feel that there is alot of information that the family is holding out on. WHY? We are ssuppose to protect and love our kids yet we see thingss like this happen on a daily bases. My prayers go out to the family. As for the grandmother keep asking questions someone is gonna slip up.

The death of a child is ALWAYS filled with questions. My only question is How could family, friends or acquaintances allow that CHILD to deal with the seduction techniques from a grown man. I saw the television accounts from the family and they said that Dante consistently stated what he wanted to do to this child sexually. The family said that he was being stalked but he "could handle it." I child needs guidance, protection and direction. A child cannot handle adult issues and adult deviance. Old school values and Old school men would have handled that much differently.

Please tell me that it doesn't really matter whether or not the boy lived in the house or not. He was brutally murdered by a very savage individual. Who, might I add probably would have committed this crime be it any place. The fact that there is so much to say regarding his living arrangements after the fact seem pointless. Where was all that concern about where he was living before his death? Also, why did he not have a permanent home? Was it his lifestyle that seems to keep rearing it's head? I just believe with the state of the world today with families and their financial woes, drug addiction, absent parents, gang affiliations, etc., there is enough for a child to worry about. He/She should at least be able to be themselves around their family, all of their family. Let his memory be that of the good in his short life, I'm sure he would appreciate it.

Knowing the family, i call them the (house that Jack built) or the house of ill repult. almost half the family is jay, so why is it a problem if one more is. he still should have been loved and looked out for if not harder due to his age. all those that should have had his best intrest in mind needs to be looked at. i personally blame quite a few!!!

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Enough people know about Jason's DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY!!! The mother should be arrested for letting her child live from pillow to post and not caring about his welfare. The DRUGED OUT AND DRUNK SKUNKS in that house full of trash should be locked up for being so intoxicated that they could not have looked out for any of these childrens well beings. The place should be shut down. It is no way the so called grown people should get away with this. What next another kid killed in that HELL HOLE?

Sorry to see that he did not have a family that loved him unconditionally. If his mother loved him liike that he may still be alive. He would have probably came to her when problems first came about because he would have known that he had a friend as well as a mother. I am speaking from experience I am a mother of a gay son and I love him no matter what.He comes to me about everything. I would rather he come to me then a stranger and have to end up like Jason did.His mother is to blame she should have loved him no matter what. I know she is not perfect.