Comments on: Lattie Mcgee

By: Natassja Phillips

Natassja Phillips — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:49:44 +0000

I heard this story and I was sick to my stomach, I’ve heard of child abuse but never a case like this. In year 1987 I wasn’t even born yet until 1988. I feel like this; a person like Johnny Campbell had no right or authority to put his hands on a child that was not his or in fact put his hands on the child even if Lattie was his son. The mother is just as sick in the head as he is, when I saw her on the Steve Wilkos special when he came to see her in prison she had no emotion and no guilt for the death of Lattie Mcgee. She and Johnny Campbell will both stand before God in the afterlife and God will ask them “What have they done for their fellow man?”, truely I don’t think they’ll have a true answer and that’s when God will have washed his hands of these two filthy souls and send them to hell to burn forever.

By: Susan Jeavons

Susan Jeavons — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:29:20 +0000

Thank you for doing such a great job on Lattie’s story. I( hope others see it and change the pictures to reflect the correct names. Blessings, Susan Maree

By: Beverly

Beverly — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:12:23 +0000

I’d never read Lattie’s story nor his brothers…how horrifying all these cases are..my heart actually aches for all these children

By: Susan Maree Jeavons

Susan Maree Jeavons — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:55:37 +0000

Remembering Lattie

His name was Lattie McGee.
I never met him, and he never met me,
but he touched my life in a profound way
when I saw his face on the news one day.

His little body was bruised and battered,
every bone in this child was broken or shattered.
He was tortured to death at the age of four,
on the south side of Chicago, like a prisoner of war.

He was beaten, he was gagged, then hung upside down.
He was burned, he was starved, and then he was bound
inside a dark closet to hang there and die,
for no one heard the little boy cry, no one heard the little boy cry.

Thirty years to life, Johnny Campbell received.
He showed no remorse, he never even grieved
for the tiny boy named Lattie McGee
who died so young and so tragically.

If the time ever comes for Johnny to be free,
I pray the parole board will look at him and see
that no man who tortured a child that way,
should ever again see the light of day.

Let him suffer alone, let him rot in his cell!
For what he did to Lattie, may he burn in hell!
Before he takes his last breath, before he can state his case,
I hope that he sees Lattie’s innocent face.

May he look terror in the eyes, may he feel Lattie’s pain.
May he struggle to survive, but let it be in vain.
When the last light goes out before Johnny Campbell dies,
may he forever and ever, hear Lattie’s cries…

forever and ever, hear Lattie’s cries…

By: Susan Maree Jeavons

Susan Maree Jeavons — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:27:16 +0000

I still have the newspaper repot and picture of Lattie from 1987. His story and the story of Tesslynn O’Cull inspired me to start writing on the topic of child abuse. I also have two poems about them if you would like top post them. Let me know.
God bless you for what you are doing for these innocent children.