Students’ drawings honor St. Lucie boy allegedly killed by mom
January 7th, 2009 by TCPalm.com
Tristan Allegra
PORT ST. LUCIE — Students and staff at Mariposa Elementary School remember Tristan Allegra, 8, “very kind and helpful, cool and funny,” according to a counselor who helped them cope with the third-grader’s Christmas Day death.
“Tristan was a popular kid, very well-liked,” said Robert O’Neill, a St. Lucie County School District psychologist, one of three counselors who went to the school Monday and Tuesday as classes resumed after the holiday break.
Sign Tristan’s guest book.
According to a Port St. Lucie Police Department arrest affidavit, Tristan died after his mother, Eryn Allegra, of the 2200 block of Southeast Bowie Street, smothered him in his sleep early Christmas morning in a hotel room. She is held without bond on a charge of first-degree murder.
Read more about the Tristan Allegra case.
“It was an extremely unusual situation,” O’Neill said. “In my 15 years (with the district), I can’t recall a situation like this one.” As part of the healing process, O’Neill said, counselors had students talk about Tristan; and many did drawings or wrote cards, which will be available to his family.
By Tyler Treadway, TCPalm.com
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January 7th, 2009 at 11:46 am
What a serious waste this woman (I refuse to call her a mother) is. How do you justify this? Why did she just not kill herself, then the little boy would go to someone that could raise him. I just dont get it.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Dawn, I agree with you, why is it the children suffer? Poor little guy, he is so cute. There are so many people who would give anything to have a little boy like him, even his family, why and how could anyone do something like that. If you want to take your own life, go and do it, but to smother a little boy. The only thing I can say is he is now in loving hands with God. He is safe now. Isn’t it always the way, just like the guy who shot his ex wife that was 21 years old with his two children, and tried to shoot himself, but failed killing the mother. He lives, she died, go figure. Go kill yourself if you want but to take someone else’s life, that’s shameful. God Bless little Tristan. God Bless the family left behind to deal with such a tragic loss. I think the mother should be put to death for what she did, it’s inexcusable. And I don’t mean her sit on death row for 20 years, be done with her.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I grieve this story and the boy as I would anyone taken from here in the way of the world. I pity the family’s grief the murder has caused and as a man of faith am called to pray for the one who committed the sin of murder. I don’t know if the mother did in fact do this act of insanity but whomever it was and whatever possessed them to do it should be prayed against and the one who carried out this awful deed should repent and call upon the Lord to forgive them for their sin in totality. Tristan Allegra will be remembered in my heart and in my belief is in a far greater place than this world has or had for him. I pray that the Lord will have His hand in the lives of the grieving, in Jesus name.
Amen….