Political Correctness or Just Plain Dumbness?
When “Jerry Joseph” blew into the West Texas town of Odessa, the assumed disadvantaged youth was virtually adopted by the townspeople. Homeless, an orphan, alone in the world, new to America, “Jerry Joseph” tugged at the heartstrings of Odessa.
Armed with falsified identification papers, “Joseph” was taken in by the town, home to Permian Odessa, the subject high school of Friday Night Lights.
As it turned out, Odessa was also taken in by Guerdrich Montimere, “Jerry Joseph’s” true name, and Montimere wasn’t the 16 year old that he pretended to be but rather a 22 year old Haitian immigrant and naturalized citizen who had a twin brother named Guerdwin and a mother living in Florida.
Montimere had something else going for him besides his sad life: He could play basketball in sports-oriented Odessa.
Whether that was a factor or not–and it seems probable that it was–Montimere, ostensibly 16 but with the musculature of a fully matured man, played some great basketball for Permian in the year and a half he was in Odessa. His basketball coach, Danny Wright, treated him as his second son and Montimere took up residence in Wright’s home for a year, sleeping in the same room as his “other” son and in the same house as his young daughter.
Joseph/Montimere is now incarcerated in the Ector County jail, not for his deception but for statutory rape for which he faces 20 years.
What’s most bewildering about this whole story . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1699)
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