Staten Island Teen Beats His Dad Into a Coma Over Curfew

A Staten Island teenager is in custody after beating his father within an inch of his life over the weekend. James DeLeo, Jr. was charged with attempted murder after attacking his father so severely that it put James DeLeo, Sr. into a coma and included bashing his father's head in with a shovel. Police say that the son was sent into a rage when his father confronted him about staying out too late (the victim was found by police following the fight at 8:30 a.m. Sunday). The teenager first threatened his father with a knife, knocked him down with a punch to the face, stomped and kicked him until he lost consciousness and finally went outside to get a shovel that he would then bash his father's head in with. A roommate who lived with the two DeLeos in Willowbrook called 911 and the son was quickly arrested after an initial unsubstantiated claim that someone else carried out the attack. The elder DeLeo is currently listed in critical but stable condition. A public defender for the son requested his client receive a psychological evaluation before his next court appearance.

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By Billy Parker in News on May 27, 2009 3:01 PM

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NannyState

Ok, I'll do it:

Stay classy, S.I.

Edy

Hemmm... kids man is it worth it?

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Snoopy

Bad boy little Jimmie. Go to your room and no cartoons for a week. Bad boy. Wait till your father gets home.

If I was his father as soon as I was up and about I would put out a contract on the little bastard. I hope for James Sr. a speedy full recovery.

REALITY CHECK

It's obvious the father used to beat the son when he was younger. And the father's father used to beat him. Child abuse is a cycle and has no winners, especially when the child grows old enough to fight back.

Snoopy

I agree with you 100%. I never hit either of my two boys (one is 18 the other 20) and at the same time never had a problem with either one. Just one look from me or their mother and they both knew they were at the edge.

Neither had any formal religious up bringing either. They are both talented and have respect for their elders and also know when the elders can be assholes. I couldn't be happier than I am with the way they are.

A friend of mine said, "If it doesn't hurt them or others, let them do what they want to do." It appears it works.

Back to the case at hand. If the kid is 18 years old, he will be going away to college in the fall and he doesn't have to come back to the dorm for days. In this particular case the kid is not going anywhere except Rikers for his post senior year. And the curfew that his father got all upset about is mute.

sweatyelectric

Are your kids blazing racists like their dad? Model citizens, I'm sure.

Snoopy

They are their own worse enemy. Sorry.

Snoopy

Racists like their dad. Here now son. I have been involved in Little League, Junior and Senior baseball for ten years and half or more of those players were of ethnic backgrounds. I treated them as equals on and off the field. They respected my opinions and I found that the "white" kids were more of a problem than the ethnics. And the "white" kids paid for being stupid. The guys I coached with were dark skinned hispanic and I had no problem going into a bar in downtown Mule Fart Pennsylvania with these guys and having a couple of cold ones with them.

But when I see a bunch of stupid individuals doing the "American Dream stereotype black" stuff I speak up. They are there own worse enemy.

BTW, both of my sons went to New York Public schools so I guess they know about ethnics, including Chinese and other Asians who don't go around mugging people as a sport.

theevilone

What time was curfew? Maybe the kid had a point...

Snoopy

What time is curfew at Rikers?

jaycjay

"A public defender for the son requested his client received a psychological evaluation before his next court appearance."

Right idea, but unfortunately too little and too late.

wowthatsucks

Must be all the toxins from the landfills that makes SI folks batshit crazy.

r1b2

Way to dig yourself into a hole, kid. They'll shovel on the indictments.

Rocknrope

Kids man, is it worth it?

felixthecat2

"[Deleo Sr.'s] face was inside out, it was so badly beaten," said neighbor Marlene Casillo.

Felix Hoenikker

His mom said he was a good boy.

Radtard

So will we ever hear news that it was a sunny day in Staten Island and everybody lived happily ever after?....

No, okay bring on the lynch mob.