Regarding your April 30 headline, “Attacker’s mother apologizes,” in reference to that convicted man from Huntsville who broke parole, committed a most violent crime on an unsuspecting and helpless female, was captured, then escaped, and continued a crime-spree only to be recaptured and eventually charged, I think you have seriously missed the grave nature of this horrific crime.

I understand fully how any parent must feel when placed in this situation, but such an apology should not become the lead comment of a lead story highlighting a series of unlawful incidents that have changed people’s lives for the worse.

Will an apology change anything for the victim? Is it meant to save the mother’s criminal son from a harsher sentence? Would an apology still be offered had the man fatally hurt his victim?

How dare your newspaper take this case so lightly, creating a headline and twisting its connotation to insinuate that everything is peachy, that Huntsville has not been rocked, and that one innocent woman and her family have not been shattered?

How does this mother’s apology relate to anything? Not only has her son refused to speak, but he has shown no remorse. Your reporter has not covered the story professionally. Perhaps sports should be his beat, not beatings.

Gary Edward,
Baysville