Teen Expected to Die as Baby Graduates

[ccharles000]

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (June 6) - Brryan Jackson has been left out of birthday party invitations and asked not to use water fountains. His daily routine at one point included 23 pills, three IV medications and two injections. But the toughest part of growing up with AIDS for him may be knowing how he got it.

When he was a baby, his father entered his hospital room and injected a syringe of HIV-tainted blood into his tiny body. At times during his childhood, he was expected to die.

Now 18, he'll put on his black cap and gown Saturday and graduate from Francis Howell North High School in St. Charles, near St. Louis. Shielded from the public for much of his life since his father's high-profile criminal trial a decade ago, Brryan is now an outspoken advocate for people with AIDS, and the power of faith and forgiveness.

"I expect to break the barriers between what people think this virus is, and what it really is," Brryan said Thursday during an interview at his home. "I hope to eliminate a lot of ignorance and change people's minds."
Then he breaks into a few lines from a Lazlo Bane song: "I can't do it all on my own; I'm no Superman."

Brryan's mother, Jennifer Jackson, and his father, Brian Stewart, were together for about two years, off and on, in the early 1990s. After Jackson became pregnant and had the child, Stewart denied he was the father. Paternity tests proved he was.

http://news.aol.com/article/dad-injected-son-with-infected-blood/516493

[Deja Q]

1. Brryan's father is one degenerate sick bastard who doesn't care about life.

:(

What a shitty way to have to go through life... and on top of all that, knowing his father just wanted a fling and say him as some disposable burden...

Just sick. Goddamn sick. x(

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I remember him!

Good to see he is doing well.

[anigbrowl]

3. This headline is badly in need of punctuation

I blame AOL, not ccharles.

[pnwmom]

5. That's for sure. I wondered how a dying teen could be watching

his baby graduate. . . .

[CTyankee]

39. Two well placed commas could have made all the difference here.

I think meaning is imperiled as the proper usage of commas has declined...

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. Yeah, it confused me, too .........

I clicked on to see which one was graduating and which one was dying.

What a story. That man should never be let out of prison. This kid is one terrifically special individual. I wish him a long, strong life - and he's a good-looking boy, too!

[BlooInBloo]

9. Yesterday I saw a dollar bill walking home.

:P

[shireen]

17. LOL! you're funny ....

:D

[BlooInBloo]

22. :) It's the example from like 5th grade that always stuck with me.

[Statistical]

19. You didn't offer it a ride? n/t

[BlooInBloo]

23. Pfft. I was like "get a job you damn deadbeat!"

:rofl:

[Liberal_in_LA]

32. snicker.

[robinlynne]

36. I want some of whatever you are smoking!

[BlooInBloo]

37. Heh. Just bloo being bloo.

[robinlynne]

38. I'm still laughing.

[1955doubledie]

43. That's nothing!

I sat here all day with my dog reading Democratic Underground.

[Ilsa]

14. I had to get most of the way through the post before I understood it.

I couldn't put it together to make sense, either.

[Regret My New Name]

21. heh.. I scratched my head at first too...

[BrklynLiberal]

28. Me too. That is one horrible man. Hope there is no parole for him. There won't be any for his son

[LisaL]

27. Yep. The way it reads, baby is graduating while the

teen is expected to die.

[Faryn Balyncd]

29. I was mentally diagraming that sentence incorrectly as well.

[Liberal_in_LA]

33. Everytime I see this thread title I have to straighten it out in my head

[PDJane]

4. Bittersweet..........

I will never understand people like the father, and I've had contact with them in my life. It's frightening, frankly.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. Oh my gawd! Brian Stewart is a monster

[MadMaddie]

8. Did you read the comments linked to the article?

There is always one nutbag fundie who trys to link all aids related crimes to gays. Nothing about the hetereosexual father who tried to murder his "alive" child!!

This young man is an inspiration!!

[kath]

10. Brryan with two "R"s?!?? I mean, WTF??

I'm soooo sick of Cre8if names.

[cmf]

13. The boy himself chose it

He changed the spelling of his name to distance himself from his father and sheild his own identity. He was originally named after his father.

[femrap]

25. I'm so glad someone else

agrees with me.

[grace0418]

42. That's what you chose to take away from this story?

As someone mentioned, he chose to change it to distance himself from his creep of a father. But still, so insignificant in the scope of this story.

[xchrom]

11. recommend -- it's a strange strange world we live in master jack. nt

[grantcart]

12. what a great kid

[aikoaiko]

15. The headline kind of freaked me out until I read the story.

I read it as: A teen is expected die as some baby graduates.

I think there is a word for that (figuring out the breaks in sentences) in linguistics -- prosody or something.


Cheers to the graduate -- may he have a long and happy life.

[Blue Diadem]

16. I remember that story.

It's good to hear the young man is graduating and has a mission to educate the ignorant.

I'll never understand what could possess a father to do that to his child. I see he's up for parole in a couple years, I hope they throw him back in and keep him where he belongs, in prison.

[Statistical]

18. A remarkable kid.

"God wants us to forgive people," he said. "Am I going to make myself as low as he is? ...
I've got to be the better person."

Much better than me.

My personal belief and it makes me a bad person but I can't stand people hurting or trying to kill children.
Dad sentence should have been a confirmed infection of the AIDS virus and life sentence with no medical treatment (for as long or short as that might be).

[orleans]

20. what a story! i don't remember this at all. i heard it on the radio

today and was stunned to hear such a thing.

and now this motherfucker is up for parole in two years? omg!

[Rowdyboy]

24. A remarkable story...I remember being sickened when the story broke and am happy to be the 5th vote

for the full story of this kick-ass young man.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

26. Strangely enough I remember this

I was in high school in Australia at the time and it made the news there. I remember thinking what a despicable, vile, pathetic excuse for a human being the father must have been

He sounds like a wonderful, talented, gifted, beautiful soul. He's had to go through so much in his life because of the selfish and perverted actions of his creep of a father and yet he has forgiven him. He's a much better person than I am.

I hope his father never sees the light of day again.

[Control-Z]

30. Not strange at all, imo.

How would one forget a story as horrifying, or a man so despicable? It is good to hear that his son doesn't carry the same evil or harbor any hatred. Actually, it's really quite amazing.

[reggie the dog]

31. you can live to 70 with aids now

so long as you get proper treatment.

[proteus_lives]

34. Weird headline.

Anyway, good for the kid. He's marching on.

The father deserves all the suffering in the world. Parole in two years? He should never be free.

[and-justice-for-all]

35. Good for Brryan...

his 'father' needs to be in jail for manslaughter.

[uppityperson]

40. k&r for Brryan and the headline.

had to click to find out what the teen's baby was graduating from, find instead a really nice story

[fujiyama]

41. Good story

It's amazing he's come this far. He's quite inspirational. That father of his is one sick bastard.

That is a really poorly written and confusing headline. What is with these news articles now? It seems like editing standards are being lowered. I'm reading more articles with misspellings, poorly worded and incoherent headlines, and the wrong use of words. Soon, I expect them to use text lingo and shortened words.