Lupoe Family
(pichani - Lupoe Kids) Wadau, hao watoto pichani wote ni marehemu. Wameuawa na baba yao mzazi baada ya yeye kuachishawa kazi na kampuni ya Kasier Permenente, huko California. Baba mwenyewe, Ervin Lupoe kajiua baada ya kuua watoto wote watano na mke wake. Mke wake pia aliachishwa kazi na kampuni hiyo hiyo, hivyo walibaki bila kipato. Hivi jamani, watu wanaweza kuwa na roho mbaya kiasi cha kuachisha kazi mke na mume!!! Huko wanajua wana watoto watano? Na wanajua hali ilivyo ngumu Marekani kwa wenye watoto wadogo. Bora moja angeachishwa at least wangekuwa na uhakika wa kupata hela ya chakula!
Hiyo kampuni ya Kaiser inadai kuwa eti waliwaachishwa kwa vile walijaza uwongo kwenye fomu za kuomba day care kwa ajili ya mapacha yao. Hatujui waliandika nini lakini huenda waliandika kuwa wana kazi ya chini sana kusudi wapate day care ya bei nafuu. Kumweka mtoto day care hapa inaweza kuwa hela zaidi ya kumsomesha mtoto Chuo Kikuu! Lakini hiyo kampuni ina historia mbaya na watu weusi. Waliwahi kushtakiwa kwa kunyima watu weusi bima ya afya, tena mama moja alikuwa anaumwa Kansa. Walisema sema eti tiba yake ni ghali mno!
Kwa kweli hali ya maisha imekuwa ngumu kwa wengi hapa Marekani. Si mchezo yaani hali haijawa mbaya kiasi hiki tangu Great Depression ya miak ya 1930's. Yaani kila siku tunasikia watu wameachishwa kazi, na makampuni na mabenki yanakufa.
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Los Angeles: In suicide note, father blames layoffs for decision to kill children
January 28, 2009
Kwa kweli hali ya maisha imekuwa ngumu kwa wengi hapa Marekani. Si mchezo yaani hali haijawa mbaya kiasi hiki tangu Great Depression ya miak ya 1930's. Yaani kila siku tunasikia watu wameachishwa kazi, na makampuni na mabenki yanakufa.
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Los Angeles: In suicide note, father blames layoffs for decision to kill children
January 28, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In one upstairs bedroom, the bodies of twin 2-year-old boys were found beside their dead mother. In another bedroom, 5-year-old twin girls and their 8-year-old sister lay next to their lifeless father.
Officers discovered the horrific scene after rushing to a home in Wilmington, prompted by the father’s distraught letter faxed to a TV station describing a “tragic story” and a call to authorities.
Police believe Ervin Lupoe killed his five children and his wife before turning the gun on himself. Both adults were recently fired from their hospital jobs.
“Why leave our children in someone else’s hands?” Lupoe wrote in his letter faxed to KABC-TV. The station posted the letter on its Web site with parts redacted. (Editor's note: There's a link to the letter in the column to the right)
The station called police after receiving the fax and a phone call from Lupoe, and a police dispatch center also received a call from a man who said, “I just returned home and my whole family’s been shot.” Police are unsure who the male caller was, but they suspect it was the father.
Officers rushed to the home in Wilmington, a small community between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and found the bodies.
All the victims were shot in the head, some multiple times, coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter said. The killings may have occurred between Monday evening and early Tuesday, based on neighbors’ accounts of firecracker sounds, he said.
Although the fax — addressed to “whom it may concern” and explaining “why we are dead” — asserted that the wife, Ana Lupoe, planned the killings of the whole family, police Lt. John Romero said Ervin Lupoe was the suspect. A revolver was found next to his body.
It was the fifth mass death of a Southern California family by murder or suicide in a year. Police urged those facing tough economic times to get help rather than resort to violence.
“Today our worst fear was realized,” said Deputy Chief Kenneth Garner. “It’s just not a solution. There’s just so many ways you find alternatives to doing something so horrific and drastic as this.”
Ervin Lupoe removed three of the children from school about a week and a half ago, saying the family was moving to Kansas, the principal told KCAL-TV. Crescent Heights Elementary School Principal Cherise Pounders-Caver said nothing seemed to be troubling Ervin Lupoe, and she did not ask why the family was moving.
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center West Los Angeles released a statement confirming Lupoe and his wife were fired as medical technicians more than a week ago. The hospital said the firings followed an internal investigation but would not specify why they lost their jobs.
The letter indicated that Lupoe and his wife — both 40 — had been investigated for misrepresenting their employment to an outside agency to obtain childcare. He claimed that an administrator told the couple on Dec. 23: “You should not even had bothered to come to work today you should have blown your brains out.”
Lupoe’s letter said the couple complained to the human resources department and eventually were offered an apology but two days later they were fired.
“They did nothing to the manager who stated such and did not attempt to assist us in the matter, knowing we have no job and five children under 8 years with no place to go. So here we are,” the note said.
At the bottom of the letter, Lupoe wrote, “Oh lord, my God, is there no hope for a widow’s son?” The phrase is frequently found in Internet discussions about the novel “The Da Vinci Code,” Freemasons and Mormonism.
Kaiser Permanente said staff was “saddened by the despair” in Lupoe’s letter “but we are confident that no one told him to take his own life or the lives of his family.”
Lupoe’s fax identified his children as Brittney, 8; 5-year-old twins Jaszmin and Jassely; and twins Benjamin and Christian, ages 2 years and 4 months. Winter confirmed the identities of the girls, but the boys’ names were pending.
To Amanda Garcia, everything seemed normal in the Lupoe house next door. Her neighbors always had a friendly wave and their five young children would play outside.
“They were happy, they had birthday parties,” the 22-year-old Garcia said as she choked back tears near her home. “The kids were always outside on bikes, riding on their wagon.”
Police believe Ervin Lupoe killed his five children and his wife before turning the gun on himself. Both adults were recently fired from their hospital jobs.
“Why leave our children in someone else’s hands?” Lupoe wrote in his letter faxed to KABC-TV. The station posted the letter on its Web site with parts redacted. (Editor's note: There's a link to the letter in the column to the right)
The station called police after receiving the fax and a phone call from Lupoe, and a police dispatch center also received a call from a man who said, “I just returned home and my whole family’s been shot.” Police are unsure who the male caller was, but they suspect it was the father.
Officers rushed to the home in Wilmington, a small community between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and found the bodies.
All the victims were shot in the head, some multiple times, coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter said. The killings may have occurred between Monday evening and early Tuesday, based on neighbors’ accounts of firecracker sounds, he said.
Although the fax — addressed to “whom it may concern” and explaining “why we are dead” — asserted that the wife, Ana Lupoe, planned the killings of the whole family, police Lt. John Romero said Ervin Lupoe was the suspect. A revolver was found next to his body.
It was the fifth mass death of a Southern California family by murder or suicide in a year. Police urged those facing tough economic times to get help rather than resort to violence.
“Today our worst fear was realized,” said Deputy Chief Kenneth Garner. “It’s just not a solution. There’s just so many ways you find alternatives to doing something so horrific and drastic as this.”
Ervin Lupoe removed three of the children from school about a week and a half ago, saying the family was moving to Kansas, the principal told KCAL-TV. Crescent Heights Elementary School Principal Cherise Pounders-Caver said nothing seemed to be troubling Ervin Lupoe, and she did not ask why the family was moving.
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center West Los Angeles released a statement confirming Lupoe and his wife were fired as medical technicians more than a week ago. The hospital said the firings followed an internal investigation but would not specify why they lost their jobs.
The letter indicated that Lupoe and his wife — both 40 — had been investigated for misrepresenting their employment to an outside agency to obtain childcare. He claimed that an administrator told the couple on Dec. 23: “You should not even had bothered to come to work today you should have blown your brains out.”
Lupoe’s letter said the couple complained to the human resources department and eventually were offered an apology but two days later they were fired.
“They did nothing to the manager who stated such and did not attempt to assist us in the matter, knowing we have no job and five children under 8 years with no place to go. So here we are,” the note said.
At the bottom of the letter, Lupoe wrote, “Oh lord, my God, is there no hope for a widow’s son?” The phrase is frequently found in Internet discussions about the novel “The Da Vinci Code,” Freemasons and Mormonism.
Kaiser Permanente said staff was “saddened by the despair” in Lupoe’s letter “but we are confident that no one told him to take his own life or the lives of his family.”
Lupoe’s fax identified his children as Brittney, 8; 5-year-old twins Jaszmin and Jassely; and twins Benjamin and Christian, ages 2 years and 4 months. Winter confirmed the identities of the girls, but the boys’ names were pending.
To Amanda Garcia, everything seemed normal in the Lupoe house next door. Her neighbors always had a friendly wave and their five young children would play outside.
“They were happy, they had birthday parties,” the 22-year-old Garcia said as she choked back tears near her home. “The kids were always outside on bikes, riding on their wagon.”
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ReplyDeleteMy heart goes out to those five poor little Children. What a selfish individual; I guess he should have looked at how millions of poor Africans survive on less than $ 1 a day, na maisha yanaendelea bila wasiwasi.
ReplyDeletemwombeni Mungu sana da chemi mabaya yashindwe kwa jina la Yesu.
ReplyDeletekuachishwa kazi hakuwezi kujustify kuuwa watoto na mke. bado ana dhambi ya kuuwa usimtetee hata kidogo. kosa lipo tu. kwani anatoa riziki ni yeye au MUNGU?
ReplyDeleteNgozi nyeusi ndivyo tulivyo. Kwa nini asingechukua bastola yake akaenda kuwa-shoot viongozi wawili watatu wa hiyo kampuni? kwa nini aue watoto wasiokuwa na hatia yoyote???????
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