Sunday, August 21, 2005

1390 I'm not saying they were bad parents. . ."

OK, then I will. They were bad parents who didn't know what to do with an evil kid. Someone on the jury that awarded the injured child's parents $10 million said that about Lane and Diane White of Indian Hills, a Cincinnati suburb. Whites had an out of control 17 year old, just weeks from becoming an adult, before he attacked a young teen-age girl. So even though White's son got a 10 year jail sentence for attacking and stabbing Casey Hilmer, the girl's parents also sued the Whites, worth in the neighborhood of 10-20 million.

"Lance and Diane White should have known their then-17-year-old son would turn violent when they drove off to dinner, leaving him alone in their Indian Hill neighborhood after he got into a violent fight with his brother two summers ago, according to psychologist's testimony in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court on Thursday.

Moments later, Benjamin White spotted 13-year-old Casey Hilmer jogging nearby, snatched her off the street, carried her into nearby woods and stabbed her four times, nearly killing her. Casey's account.

All the warning signs were there, said Charles Ewing, who was hired by Hilmer's family to evaluate White as part of their lawsuit against the Whites." Cincy Inquirer

The Whites own a sanitation service and have endowed a scholarship at Kenyon College, according to the Winter 2001 newsletter.

Update: Supreme Court of Ohio decision on the insurance payout on this case.

Update 2: From 2013, Casey is a survivor.

4 comments:

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Maverick said...

Yeah, I would call that negligence on their part.

Spitting in a Wishing Well

cyberjsx said...

I would say @ maverick that you sound ridiculous. A parents aptitude cannot be judged on whether or not their two boys get into a fight 2, two, II, years prior, and they decide to leave them alone together and go out and eat. That's ludicrous. In that case my mother and father were of Hannibal Lector proportions. What the boy did was unthinkable, but Lance and Dianne are hardly the ones that you should be pointing your pure little fingers at.

Norma said...

Benjamin White is now out of prison. Sale of the home next door caused a dispute. http://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2014/09/27/can-next-door-neighbor-home-sale-deal-buster/16366359/