It’s good to see that the Florida Highway Patrol has reprimanded trooper Kathleen Grossett-Tate for failing to report a missing service weapon. It’s puzzling, though, that she wasn’t also reprimanded for being so careless with weaponry in the first place.
Grossett-Tate is the mother of Lionel Tate, who, when only 12, beat to death a younger playmate while his mother, who was supposed to be baby-sitting the little girl, slept upstairs. Tate was sent to prison for life, appealed, and ultimately drew probation.
The last thing someone on probation needs is to be around guns. Yet Tate is now facing prison again after being charged with an armed robbery about the time his mother’s gun went missing again. Too bad there’s no official reprimand for bad parenting.
