like, it was a grown-up that did this, it s like now i don t trust grown-ups. it s like when you re a victim of something, no matter what it is, physical, sexual, verbal, no matter, when you live a life with so much trauma, that throughout life growing up, if someone else don t victimize you, you victimize yourself. i am my own worst enemy in that respect. flores eventually reestablished a positive relationship with his mother. come here, baby girl. cornett is less vocal about her son when she works with other victims and their families. it s not about me. it s not about jason anymore. our damage is done. there s nothing that s going to fix what we have. we re broken and i put it together the best i can with superglue and i have to move on. while flores says his shame he felt over his case going public helped lead him to crime, it was an earlier stay at the hillsborough county jail that led to another strange chapter
it was the worst thing that had ever happened to me in my life. it was devastating. it was extremely traumatic. because after this happened it s like my innocence was gone. he dropped out of football. jason stopped playing baseball. jason didn t want to go to school. there was no more kisses good night, there was no more hugs. jason started sleeping with weapons in his room. he would sleep with baseball bats. his whole life changed. once someone found out about it, i cut them out of my life. i wouldn t want to associate with them anymore because i knew that they knew. flores says it wasn t long before he joined a gang and began using drugs. he paid for his habit by stealing cars and breaking into homes. it was like this demonic seed that was planted in my son s soul. and we couldn t kill the weed.
that morning. one was in one courtroom at 9:00. the other one was 9:00. i was bouncing back and forth to the courtrooms and neither one of them was in the courtroom. sure enough he was talking to the officer. the deputy. they were standing next to each other having a conversation. i worked my way over to the water fountain which was three feet behind them. they had their backs to it. i turned around from the water fountain and walked up right next to him and i got off on him nice. i hit him in his jaw and he fell on the ground. i got on top of him. the officer grabbed me from behind. it was like an out of body experience. i stopped somebody in the hallway and say can you find out, i said jason s not in court, kevin s not in court. she come back out with a smile and a grin and she said that jason beat the [ bleep ] out of kevin kinder. all i remember telling him is remember me? remember me? remember me? he was laying on the ground. i don t think he really heard what i was saying
it was the worst thing that had ever happened to me in my life. it was devastating. it was extremely traumatic. because after this happened it s like my innocence was gone. he dropped out of football. jason stopped playing baseball. jason didn t want to go to school. there was no more kisses good night, there was no more hugs. jason started sleeping with weapons in his room. he would sleep with baseball bats. his whole life changed. once someone found out about it, i cut them out of my life. i wouldn t want to associate with them anymore because i knew that they knew. flores says it wasn t long before he joined a gang and began using drugs.
i worked my way over to the water fountain which was three feet behind them. they had their backs to it. i turned around from the water fountain and walked up right next to him and i got off on him nice. i hit him in his jaw and he fell on the ground. i got on top of him. the officer grabbed me from behind. it was like an out of body experience. i stopped somebody in the hallway and say can you find out, i said jason s not in court, kevin s not in court. she come back out with a smile and a grin and she said that jason beat the [ bleep ] out of kevin kinder. all i remember telling him is remember me? remember me? remember me? he was laying on the ground. i don t think he really heard what i was saying. it felt good to say it. i m wanting to say, yay, but how dare you, jason, do this? now you re going to get another charge and in trouble. i was in a panic. i didn t want to scuffle with him or grab him. i wanted to break his jaw. i wanted to punish him.