Erring on the side of caution, Cory Ryder's folks are not so willing as those of Ashlee Pulcini to overlook their dangerously anti-social child's youthful indiscretion of hiring a hitman to kill them:
Like many middle-class, suburban American parents, Shannan and Joey Troiano worried about their son’s behaviour and his bad grades at high school. And like many wayward teenagers, Cory Ryder was grounded for weeks at a time, had a PlayStation confiscated and was banned from watching TV.Less typically, this 16-year-old was plotting to murder his parents by hiring a hitman, while his mother was organising a sting operation involving a police officer posing as a contract killer.
Cory’s trial is scheduled to begin today at the circuit court in St Mary’s County, Maryland. His mother is expected to testify as a witness for the prosecution.
On the upside, Gangsta Cory will now get his street cred by doing a stretch in jail, while his parents will no longer have to worry if he's waving a week's-worth of milk tickets over his head in some tempting overture to a would-be hitman - it's win-win for everybody.
And Ashlee's folks should make it very, very clear that she's not in the will.