Jack and Jillian
Author's Note:
This one is also
an adaptation of Jack and Jill but with a different plot.
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‘I never knew what
Jack does for a boy his age but he is not guilty of the charges.
Let us access my
client, Jack the Boy; born to a rich couple, they went separate when he was
aged two and he lived with his mother on the weekends and his father on the
weekdays. I guess the father’s attorney was better than the mother’s. His
father is so busy taking care of Jack and that he leaves him with his
caretaker; all three of them take care of his every need. By the age of five,
Jack has his jet plane and flying crew, although he is not allowed to fly
beyond the national boundary; Dad did not want his jet setting across the world
before he was eighteen. He gets driven to the pre-school in a bus, that is
owned by them; it comes with a playroom and built-in canteen. Dad was worried
he might suffocate on the school meals. French fries dipped in day-old oil can
be dangerous to the health of a growing kid, I can agree.
Dad wants him to
be a normal kid, which is why he gets send to the pre-school to study with
other kids. The school is owned by Dad so he vets every applicant from student
to teachers to ensure they are suitable to be near his son. I can understand
that too. On the day on which this trial is based, I have to re-enact the
events to show the extensive damage on the kid. Jack comes home from
pre-school; he just spend five hours there, and he is tired. He wants to take
his bath and so he ran to the swimming pool. But the pool is being cleaned for
the coming pool party that weekend. As it was a hot day, Jack then decided to
try the jacuzzi but that is not working. There is a water cut in the area. So
Jack was upset and being a small boy, he threw a tantrum. He threw his toys and
his food, and that was when the Father walks in. Now the father is not in the
mood to put up with such tantrums, so he told Jack to calm down. But Jack
wanted his bath so he threw more tantrums. So in the end, the father gave him a
four-gallon bucket and said; ‘fetch your water’. So Jack went out of the house
and asked the gardener where is the nearest water source. The gardener pointed
to the well at the top of the hill, and said ‘It's their yonder’. Jack asked
the gardener to assist him but the man insists it was not his job. There was an
argument between the two and Jack did try to assert his authority to tell the
Gardener that he worked for Jack’s father. Nevertheless, the Gardener refused
to assist Jack.
So Jack went up
the hill, carting his four-gallon pail. Pardon my expression; he had no cart.
It was an expression of mine saying he carried the four-gallon pail up there.
It must have been half a mile and the temperature was hot; I know as I was
driving in my jag to the house that day with the air-cond in the car at full
blast when I saw him walking up that hill. So Jack filled up the pail, throwing
in this large bucket attached to the rope on the winch. We weigh the bucket at
the well; it was about half a pound in weight. And the well was not well
designed for children; it had no cover on it and the wall around it was only
two feet high, plus the floor around it was wet. But Jack did his scooping of
the water from the well. He filled up the four-gallon pail and he slowly walked
back home. Here is a kid aged five carrying a four-gallon pail filled with
water. I mean this is inhumane.
More to it, he fell
and rolled down the hill, with his four-gallon pail and water. The four-gallon
pail hit the Gardener on the head and killed the poor man As for my client, he
knocked his head on the swing at the bottom of the hill. He suffered a
concussion from that fall. The death of the gardener was accidental and my
client had no motive to kill him despite his argument with the deceased. And I
am calling for a review of the father’s conduct and his failure to administer
total parent responsibility for the child aged five. I am submitting for a plea
of not guilty to the charges and adding in damages and costs deemed necessary
to the child. And my costs too. That is my submission, thank you.’
‘Ms. Jillian, you
ever have any kids in your life?’
‘No, your honor. I
am not married. And I have no kids staying with me. I prefer to be independent
of them.
‘Okay, counsel, I
hear you well.’
‘Since the defense
did not put up their case as the family of the deceased is too poor to pay for
an attorney. And given the circumstances of the evidence, I assumed they are
not required to do so. So I will proceed with the judgment. I find the child
not guilty of pre-mediated murder. As for the damages requested, I find the
father guilty of delinquent as of the guardian parent, which is why I divorce
him and let him have the son to take care of.
I award the son
the needed damages of the cost of medical costs and the replacement of his
damaged toys.
And for you, Ms.
Jillian, I find you delinquent in this trial. You saw the child walking up the
hill on a hot weather day from your air-cooled Jag and you did nothing to
assist too. You saw the argument and you also did not intervene as his
attorney. You saw the pail struck the gardener and on the report, it said you
assisted only the boy. And not the man who was dying on the ground. I find your
action very sad for a normal person.
So I will now
award you custody of the child to you as his attorney for 90 days so you can
understand what parents have to put up with brats like this and how to become a
normal person in an everyday life.
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