I wonder how normal her life was over the last fourteen years of her life. She was in most part a teen mother or close to adulthood. I got to see what her age was relative to Gouker and their son. We know that Gouker was seventeen when Little Josh was born.
Typically in the late teens the range of girls when guys are sexually active is from early to late teens, with a good precentage active within their age group. What is troubling with guys fifteen to eighteen (roughly) is those who might either hook up with a young girl or a young woman. The one end with a younger girl looking at a older guy as more mature and more likely to support any baby that comes out of such union. The other end looking for a mature woman as a mother substitute. Tradition might hold that an young girl looks on the older boy as the father substitute and the younger guy looking at the older girl or woman as a mother substitute. Though both couples playing the sharp edge of society's view toward said relaitionships.
Take Christian Fernandez's parents for instance. At twelve years old, it was an older guy who impregnated Christian's mother and in effect paid the price for said pregnancy. In the effect on Christian's mother seeing both mother and son put in foster care, I see society not only going down hard on the daddy, but the mommy too. Such young pregnancy's disrupt both, posing its own unique circumstances for the parents and the child.
Take for instance the daddy. Such unions might meet with immediate disapproval from both sets of the parent's parents. Often the younger member's parents accusing the older member of the relationship for knocking up their daughter. (I wonder why it is the daddy that gets the worst of the social beating.) This is why the greater the age gradient, the bigger chance for the older male partner or the younger male partner to run from their part in the pregnancy and evential rearing of the child.
Also it is the older male parter or the older female partner to face a variety of criminal charges resulting in their sexuality. This often see these parents disadvantaged from the start of the parenthood. Often left with a jail sentence and registering as a sex offender, though as low as a level-one, least likely to reoffend, it could mean their means of supporting the child and the mother and themselves to be dead in the water. There goes their future in the heartbeat of the child produced from the relationship. Even if the pregnacy is ended via abortion or the child placed for adoption or even miscarried (this is a teenage girl), the record follows a person forever in many states. Ruined for life just as the state deems them as such.
Gouker was seventeen when his son was born, so how old was Josh's mom? Maybe from backtracking their couples misfortunes, along with their son's life can we maybe deduce how all three spiraled downward into this tangent which presents a reality where Josh Young is falsely accused of murder by his old man. Something in Gouker's life was disjointed in the year after Josh's mom and Gouker's ex-lover left this planet. I wonder what it was. The most-common explaination is jealousy of Little Josh's prospects compared to Gouker's own. Overlapping that was the growing suspecions in that of his stepson, who was suspecting that Gouker was physically and mentally abusing his mom, Amanda.
That night in May it just snapped for Joshua Gouker to the point that Gouker killed him, maybe behind the high school or somewhere close. Remember the area is in the middle of huge shopping area southeast of the airport with a nearby suburban neighborhood, so there would be few places Gouker could have done the dirty deed. Also, as I read these pages of drivel, I gauge that between eleven and one is the timeframe the crime might have occurred. So the victim did indeed sneaked out of the house while Gouker and Amanda had their alone time. One of them must have realized that Trey was not there. Whether Gouker went alone or had Amanda with him is anyone's guess, but I was erring on Gouker maybe by himself. If Amanda was with him, she was not with him when the murder occurred, but he would have either lied about it or told her of the deed, threatening to kill her too if she talked about it the cops. Why indeed that July would Gouker's cousin and boyfirend rob her of some property if they were not part of a conspiracy? Why did Amanda not do much talking either in Gouker's presence or alone with a cop? Her protective order was the first indication that something was out of the ordinary with Gouker and his treatment of her since the murder of her boy. Gouker's running off with one or two females and his son was equivalent of a signed confession. (The case of the dad in Seattle who blew himself up, along with his two sons in front of a social worker waiting outside is much as saying, I killed someone, now watch me avoid criminal responsibility.)
Gouker's talking with the cops after his arrest later that month and their waiting until he was back in their correctional system to formally charge his son is the result of a conspiracy of three people. Namely, Gouker's cousin and boyfriend (cousin in terms of relationship), who lied to the cops about Little Josh coming over to their house later that night. This is going on as Gouker changed clothes and dragged Amanda along for that Circle K ciggy run. This would have left Little Josh alone with his little step-sister, oblivious of what went on while they slept. It is quite possible that sometime between leaving the Circle K to the afternoon of the discovery of Trey's body that Gouker got together with his cousins Cassie and John to statergize and keep Amanda from spouting off to the cops about what he did to her boy. (Mr. Zwicker did notice at the scene of the crime, Amanda's appearence and emotions toward the crime and Gouker. He thought his ex-lover was being abused.) Gouker just got Amanda to pretend the moment the body was discovered that they were just getting home and found Trey has not gone to school that day. That they were not informed by Seneca High School of this anomaly before one that afternoon is pure speculation at if they even got the call. They knew a whole lot more than they let on to the cops that day or up to the middle of June when Amanda had enough of Gouker, filing the protection order. Afraid of his own arrest for murder, Gouker fled with Little Josh.
So in order to prevent his evential prosecution, the second part of his frame-up came into being, namely to spout of his falsehoods to a stumped lead detective, whom he had deceived from day one. The next was to use his cousin and their friends to intimidate any possible witness who could refute him, even down to what Cassie and John did to poor Amanda that July. The protection order shocked Gouker, who took Little Josh. That prompted the Amber Alert. Next Gouker and company's missteps on the road from Louisville to Tennessee to Alabama was guarenteed to eventially result in arrest. (It was the dumbest crime spree I ever heard of!) When it seemed that Little Josh was rid of his old man, the old man comes back and frames for Trey's death. Then it takes until November to even charge the boy with the murder. By that time, Gouker and company, not to mention the prosecution, had all their ducks in a row. They will not budge, not until this fall. God only knows if Josh, nearly the same age his old man was when he was born, will be found innocent. What will the State do to Gouker once they know they were duped? Even if the jury hears this one, what if the jury is hung, but the net effect the truth about Gouker is the reason? One would speculate innocence or a hung jury would result in Gouker be the time his son turns seventeen will be the one facing the capital murder charges, on top of the actions he and his people did to frame Josh, resulting in not just him but at least two other people getting jail time. It is a matter of time, Mr. Gouker, before your sin is paid in full in this world and in the next. The clock is ticking. The Death Chamber in Frankfort is awaiting a possible victim; it might be you.
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