Control Was His First Love
Review by Kim Cantrell
I think it’s obvious by now that I’m an avid – and jaded - reader of true crime.
Yet, to date, not one book has touched me or evoked emotion from me as did this riveting tale from Irene Pence about John Battaglia who murders his 6 and 9 year old daughters as an ultimate act of control and revenge toward his ex-wife, Mary Jean Pearle.
While reading No Daddy Don’t!, I was taken from gut-wrenching sobs to intense anger; often times having to put the book down to regroup my thoughts and emotions.
The thoughts of those youngs girls’ last moments in the hands of their father bundled with inexcusable follies of the justice system that relates to domestic abuse kept me on the edge of my seat; allowing me to finish this book, starts and stops in all, within less than 36 hours.
Extremely intense!
If never before there has been such an argument for tougher domestic abuse laws that tie in with divorce proceedings and the determination of visitation and custody, John David Battaglia has set the stage for the changes made in Texas and the changes that will follow in many other states.
That is the only “credit” this lowlife bottomfeeder deserves for anything!
Updates on John Battaglia: It seems this stooge is still on death row.
And still blaming everybody from the Klu Klux Klan (KKK) to the Internal Revenue Service to the Angels in Heaven (only the latter is my own sarcastic interjection). (Full details available at www.jdvdbattaglia.com.
No updates could be found for Mary Jean Pearle. She no doubt continues to grieve the deaths of her daughters, but at least Battaglia cannot control her.
Although he continues to wait his execution, maybe, considering his personality, being at the whim of the Texas Department of Corrections is the best suited punishment.
Because the CONTROLLER has become the CONTROLLED.
