It took a Brooklyn jury just an hour to convict Christian Ferdinand, 22, for the murder of this girlfriend Shaniesha Forbes, 14. The jury’s disdain for Ferdinand might have been cemented by the comment that he made to police after allegedly confessing to the killing of his girlfriend, burning her body, and stuffing it into a suitcase: “Do you think I can get some kind of community service?”
Ferdinand reportedly was upset after Forbes told him that she was pregnant. Ferdinand said Forbes had told him she was pregnant in a text and told him that she wouldn’t get an abortion because her mom is religious. Ferdinand responded in a text with “My n—a, are you serious? Kill that shit.” He then told police that he later became enraged after she continued to talk about the pregnancy as they laid on a couch. He smothered her will a pillow. He then doused her corpse with Axe body spray and then used a Bic lighter to burn the body. He then stuffed it into a suitcase and threw it into Gerritsen Bay. He then fled to Maine.
When asked later if she struggled, he responded “She tried, wasn’t much of a struggle, she was little.” The autopsy later showed that she was not pregnant.
The community service thing did not exactly work out. Ferdinand now faces up to 25 years to life behind bars.
Source: NY Post
So some ‘enlightened’ folks here believe one should mind their own business. Professor Turley’s blog would collapse if that advice was followed.
This young man murdered a young woman because he was going to “kill that shit” one way or another. This case is the epitome of a slippery slope when you have created a culture that has no respect for life. The moral outrage is absolutely hypocritical if you defend the choice to kill an innocent human being simply because it has not yet reached a particular age.
I’m interested to see how well this blog will function with everyone minding their own business. Good luck with that.
I have a feeling this guy needs some real help, not normal prison time. He clearly doesn’t see the severity in his actions. Something is wrong in his head and he needs help with that.
Paul:
When you listen to some agitators, it sounds as if all African American men behind bars are framed. They blame a high incarceration rate on the police, rather than rampant crime and they refuse to fight root causes. The law should be blind. As long as sentencing is equal regardless of race, and based on past history, severity of crime, and sentencing guidelines, then guilty is guilty.
The time to intervene with any youth, is BEFORE they go down the dark road to crime. By the time someone smothers his girlfriend, burns her body, and THEN wrestles the stiff, charred remains into a suitcase to throw in the bay, it’s a little late for rehabilitation. I’ve always felt the role of prison is justice for the victims, and locking people up who are a threat to public safety. If they get rehabilitated by a prison boot camp program, well, great. But rehabilitation/intervention programs are best before things escalate to that point.
Poor, beautiful girl. She was so young. Too inexperienced to be a good judge of men. Her family must be absolutely devastated.
What a monster.
Paul C. Schulte… I have been criticized on this blog for “Language”… You, on the other hand, have never been criticized for your mental attitude! If the level of this blog is ever to be raised, people like you, need to be dealt with… You are very twisted!
This mental giant deserves a very long “rest” behind bars for this atrocious crime. By the way, what Dave said.
A chain gang is community service. Grant him his wish.
Nick,
No need for a heated debate. I’m going to continue to speak out for the unalienable right to life; from the moment it begins to the moment it ends (naturally).
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
I got it.
The poor girl didn’t realize she was dating an Axe murderer.
Olly, I don’t want to get into a heated debate on my belief in men being part of the debate. YES, men should have a say in the issue of an abortion if it’s their child. But, ultimately it is the woman who carries that life in her body. I think women have more of a say. And, I think if men ON BOTH SIDES, get their testosterone out of the debate, the discussion would be less vitriolic and more reasoned. That’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.
It took the jury 1 hour? Did they have lunch first?
And NIck, the reason Men should be involved is because this is about being Pro-Life, first. Do men have any rights if they want to keep the child?
“Do you think I can get some kind of community service?”
The Ferguson rioters new demand.
This soulless monster will get community service, but the service he gets will be from a prison community….
Why wasn’t he charged with statutory rape on top of it?
She was just 14, he is 22.
Dave, Understand, I am one of these rare people who believe men should stay out of the abortion debate. They harden it. They make it violent. Pro life men killing doctors and blowing up clinics is an example on one side. This reprobate is an example on the other. I loved the moral taught in the movie, Juno. Being a couple that went through a decade of fertility treatments I see the solution for many unwanted pregnancies is such a life affirming “choice.”
I am sure the sentence is racist and it will be lowered to community service.
Combine them: “Mind your own business while I kill that shit!”
In any event, college kids now think it’s okay to kill children under 5, so just think of it as three post-term abortions.
Nick, I prefer the old pro-choice catchphrase: “Mind your own business.”
The new pro choice poster boy, w/ the catch phrase, “Kill that shit!”