Christopher Pittman, # 00307734, Becomes A Man

Today, 9th April 2007, Christopher Pittman turns 18 years of age. He is incarcerated in an adult maximum security facility in South Carolina and may remain there for almost half of his allotted three score years and ten unless he lives on past the age of 70 years. At best he will be a prisoner of the state until he is around 40 odd years old as his tentative release date is 02/08/0035.

In spite of this very long and harsh sentence ( and please remember that he was but 12 years young when he apparently shot and killed his grandparents ) he has friends and supporters out in the real world and I am one of them.

I checked out his original website today and it has been transformed, so I have decided to make him a new webpage as a birthday present. Should he not like this idea please contact me and I will remove the page directly.

Once again a child's life has been ruined because parents do not seriously commit to their responsibility of raising their children in a secure and loving environment.

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...A Last Chance Goes Wrong

When Christopher Pittman arrived in Chester in October 2001 to live with his paternal grandparents, Joe and Joy Pittman, the move seemed like his last, best chance to find stability.

He felt abandoned by his mother, according to medical reports. And his relationship with his father, who raised him in Florida, was troubled. ''I haven't had that good a life; my real mom left when I was 2,'' Christopher Pittman told a forensic psychiatrist with the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice.

Psychiatric reports suggest that Christopher's tailspin began when his parents revived their relationship in 2001, only to end it yet again. After his mother left this time, he threatened to kill himself and was hospitalized. His diagnosis, records show, was mild chronic depression accompanied by defiant and negative behavior. He was put on Paxil.

But after about a week, his father, also named Joe, decided to remove him from the hospital and send him to live with his grandparents. There, a doctor put Christopher on Zoloft, the most widely prescribed S.S.R.I. antidepressant for pediatric patients and adults alike.

Initially, Christopher Pittman appeared to thrive. After a few weeks in Chester, though, he got into a dispute on a school bus and his grandparents threatened to send him back to his father. By the next morning, they were dead...

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I have saved new articles about his present life and times and have also decided to put the address of the facility he lives at on this page in case anyone else wishes to send him a card or letter or stamps..whatever.

"HAPPY Birthday, Christopher. Rest assured I am praying hard for you and for a successful appeal result.

God Bless You and have a good year in spite of your circumstances."

Christopher Pittman # 00307734
Broad River Correctional Institution
4460 Broad River Road
Columbia, SC 29210
USA

Tel: 803-896-2234

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