The Ballad of Chris Lynch
His dad took his call, but being the one Chris got his responsibility from, he said he felt like it would help Chris grow up to finally answer for his actions. He stayed in there eight months before the DA remembered Chris was alive. They dropped the charge to a misdemeanor and gave him time served but he was never the same after that. “All I ever did was hit that kid two times,” he would say, and try to change the subject.