Michael Morris

"Another question to be asked here is why didn't the state's child protective services ever step in."

Actually the 300+ pounder from CYFD, Art Otero, did testify that he went to the home after a report was made. The worker testified that while Delbert and Tryone stood on the porch he took Cody about 25 feet away and asked if there had been any abuse with daddy watching.

Seriously now, the reason this case and not another is the parties involved. Dirt poor and functionally illiterate would describe Verlin Posey. Dirt poor living in a trailer would describe the elderly Pat Basham. Basham came to people's attention when he stood up at the sentencing and essentially claimed Cody Posey was a pimp and child molestor because he engaged in some oral foolery with a like aged girl. We wondered at that point about his sanity. At the same time we learned his son Brian who testified that he had shared the intimate details of his insanity with Cody is really incapable of caring for himself.

While this explains the motive the ravings from these folks that they are not in it for the money, but rather some higher purpose are, at best, comical. For instance, Verlin later admitted knowing of the abuse yet was silent. The Basham's daughter Tryone was not raised in the morality being espoused by her would be millionaire father. Some do recall that Tryone met Delbert working nights at the cheese planr in Roswell. It was there that the married Tryone began servicing the married Delbert in the parking lot.

Jack T. could not have found a better set of survivors. For them this is a chance at escaping lifelong destitution. Couple that with no genuine sense of right or wrong and you get full cooperation.

As for Marilea, testimony at the trial clearly indicated that she took money and other favors to report on Cody committing household offenses like talking to Mexican descended kids or wearing a t-shirt at school. These were beating offenses.

The point is that the video game had no hand in this whatsoever.

Research the attorney - LMAO. You really miss the point of who you are dealing with here. While I never claimed to have been objective in this case I did cover every single moment of it from the day of the arrest. The only way to describe the family situation as a whole is completely dysfunctional.

Every day of the trial is documented here http://mountainmailcountry.com . I warn you though it is heavily laced with sarchastic commentary. The point is this had nothing at all to do with Cody's occasional interaction with any video game. Unfortunately the "Alamogordo Daily News" cited above is fully in the pocket of the DA here, so the story came out a bit differently. Even now the company is slanting their way. The main media says the prosecutor made the contact with Thompson which would be a disbarrment offense while the local sanitized version says she merely gave a phone number.

Dishonesty is the favored tool of the crusaders of our world. It allows them to smooth over the facts that do not fit their agenda.