“I feel that my mom should stay in prison” – Son Writes Judge

A 10-year-old Ohio boy, Bradyn Takach, whose mum, Shannon Smith, is currently in prison, wrote a letter to a judge in Warren County, explaining why he doesn’t want her to be awarded early release at a hearing this week.

According to WLWT, he wrote:

“I feel that my mom should stay in prison because I seen her stab my dad clean through the heart with my sister in his arms. Life for me would be 10 times better if mom didn’t kill my dad. That took a big amount of happiness out of mine and my sister’s lives. I think it would be better for me and my sister if my mom would stay in prison cause I am afraid of her. I have seen what she did to my dad.”

Bradyn was reportedly 4 while his little sister was 15 months old in 2009 when their mum killed their 25-year-old dad, Robert Takach.

Their paternal grandmother, who is now raising them said Bradyn told a counsellor:

“His daddy put him in a corner because he had gotten in trouble and then his mother got mad. Robbie was holding his sister Brooklynn, and he said that she got a knife and she came at his daddy and he shoved her away and then she came back again and she stabbed him.”

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According to the New York Daily News, Smith, who said she stabbed her boyfriend in self-defense, was indicted for murder after the 2009 incident. She was convicted of manslaughter in 2010 and sentenced to 10 years by a judge who called her a ‘violent person.’

Bradyn’s grandmother says she wants Smith to serve the full sentence so the children will be teenagers by the time she’s released.