Fail:
When family members decided Monday's burglary of 75-year-old Frank Dusenka's home in Chisago City, Minn., was an inside-the-family job, they didn't wait for police to investigate, according to court documents filed this week.
Instead, Dusenka's son, Bradley Anthony Dusenka, and son-in-law, Marcus Lee Clay, allegedly took matters into their own hands.
Specifically, they're accused of taking an ax handle and a boat oar into their own hands, kidnapping their 25-year-old nephew and beating him so severely that he spent most of this week in the hospital.
My gut tells me that there is both more and less to this story. More regarding the background of the original theft and darling nephew, who I suspect is not exactly a sweet little angel, and less in that the details may have been overdramatized a bit. Still, roughing the kid up enough to put him in the hospital is obviously way out of bounds. Those guys are clearly not Uncle Hall of Fame material.
Update: Another Dusenka son has issued a statement. It still doesn't excuse anything, but it does add some perspective.
There is no excuse for Mark and Brad taking matters into their own hands, just as there is no excuse for Shawn breaking into Grandpa's house and robbing him. Unfortunately, it's not the first time, and in retrospect maybe if Grandpa hadn't been so lenient with him as a teenager maybe things would be different.
But who can blame Frank Sr. being to [sic] easy on Shawn. Shawn has been without a father since he was 12 years old and his Grandpa and Grandma have supported and literally raised him since then. Despite their best efforts he's been in and out of jail for theft and drugs for as long as I can remember. Grandpa and Grandma Dusenka tried to do their best, but obviously it wasn't good enough.
We are ashamed of Shawn for choosing a life of crime. We are ashamed of Brad and Mark for taking matters into their own hands. Ultimately we are all accountable for our own actions. When a person chooses to step outside the law they better be ready to pay the consequences.
The entire statement is at the link. The next question is whether or not that original story was blown a little out of proportion. When a reporter describes a two day hospital stay as "most of the week", I have to wonder.
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