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<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3d3636"><strong>Jack Callahan allegedly, told cops he abandoned his drunk father in the pond, where he drowned, after giving him a choice</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3d3636"><strong> &#8216;I left him there to decide, you can come to heaven with me or hell &#8211; &#8216;I think he chose hell&#8217;</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3d3636"><strong>Jack Callahan, 19, is charged with murdering his father in a pond in Crocker Memorial Park in Duxbury, Massachusetts </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3d3636"><strong>Earlier Jack picked up his father, who had a traumatic brain injury that impacts his decision making abilities, already drunk, from a bar in Boston</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3d3636"><strong>First responders arrived on scene at the <strong>Island Creek Pond</strong> on Sunday night to find Jack&#8217;s father, Scott Callahan, 57, at the bottom of the pond</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3d3636"><strong>The son claims he drowned his alcoholic father while &#8216;baptizing&#8217; him at the<strong> Pond</strong></strong> because he<strong> &#8216;believed he was exorcizing his dad&#8217;s inner DEMON named Dirty Dan&#8217; </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3d3636"><strong>&#8216;He believed he was baptizing his father,&#8217; Plymouth Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham said in court </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3d3636"><strong>&#8216;He was holding his father in the pond on his back like a baby and that he continually dunked his head under the water about four to eight times,&#8217; the prosecutor told the court </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3d3636"><strong>Jack also said an altercation broke out between the two after Scott hit him &#8211; that he &#8216;blacked out&#8217; after being hit, and they moved to the pond where Scott was drowned</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3d3636"><strong>Jack Callahan is being held in jail without bail, and he&#8217;s due back in court August 12</strong> </h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#3d3636"><strong>He has been ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation <strong>by the Plymouth District Court</strong></strong>, <strong>after pleading not guilty to murder on Tuesday </strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Jack-Callahan-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383021" width="844" height="546"/><figcaption><strong>Jack Callahan, [photo], has been ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation after pleading not guilty to a murder charge Tuesday in Plymouth District Court . He&#8217;s accused of drowning his 57-year-old father, an alcoholic, on Sunday night in a pond while claiming that he was &#8216;baptizing him&#8217; because he &#8216;believed he was exorcizing his dad&#8217;s inner DEMON named Dirty Dan&#8217;</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p><br>A Massachusetts man drowned his alcoholic father while trying to exorcize his demons through a late night baptism at a pond on Sunday night, a court heard.<br>Jack Callahan pled not guilty to murder when he appeared in court Tuesday, accused of killing his father Scott Callahan, 57,<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/06/29/jack-callahan-duxbury-massachusetts-father-murder-exorcism-baptism-island-creek-pond-massachusetts/"> CBS Boston</a> reports.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Jack Callahan Charged With Murdering Father In Duxbury Pond</strong></p>



<p>The 19-year-old was arrested in the early hours of Monday morning after his mom called the police to report he was &#8216;acting erratically.&#8217; <br>The teen had arrived home at 2am, dripping wet, and told his mother his father was missing &#8211; despite Jack traveling to pick his father up from a Boston bar earlier that evening, a court heard.<br>He eventually directed the police to Crooker Memorial Park where officers found Scott Callahan at the bottom of Island Creek Pond. Scott was rushed to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Plymouth where he was pronounced dead.<br>Jack reportedly told the authorities that he&#8217;d been trying to baptize his father to rid him of his alcohol demons.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Jack-Callahan-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383026" width="836" height="473"/><figcaption><strong>According to Buckingham, Callahan held his father in the pond on his back like a baby, and continually dunked his head in the water about four-to-eight times </strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Scott-Callahan-was-drowned-in-the-Island-Creek-Pond-in-Massachusetts-by-his-son-jack-Callahan-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383027" width="835" height="452"/><figcaption><strong>Scott Callahan was drowned in the Island Creek Pond in Duxbury, Massachusetts by his son jack Callahan on Sunday night. Police seen at the scene after the missing man was fished out from the bottom off the pond</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>&#8216;He believed he was baptizing his father,&#8217; Plymouth Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham said in court. <br>&#8216;He was holding his father in the pond on his back like a baby and that he continually dunked his head under the water about four to eight times. <br>&#8216;When his father started to cough and choke, he would lift his head up. And when the father started fighting, he would strike him and push his head back down into the water.&#8217;<br>Callahan continued doing this until his father was no longer struggling and floating, Buckingham noted in court. <br>Jack allegedly explained he had been exorcising a demon named &#8216;Dirty Dan&#8217;.<br>He said he&#8217;d given his dad a choice; &#8216;I left him there to decide, you can come to heaven with me or hell. <br>&#8216;I think he chose hell,&#8217; he allegedly, said.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Island-Creek-Pond-Duxbury-Massachusetts-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383028" width="830" height="451"/><figcaption>When first responders arrived on scene, they found Jack&#8217;s father, Scott Callahan, 57, at the bottom of the pond. He was rushed to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Plymouth where he was pronounced dead </figcaption></figure>



<p>Authorities said that the incident began when Jack went to pick up his father who had left a treatment center for alcoholism, to go to a bar in Boston.<br>By the time Jack arrived to pick him up, his father, who had a traumatic brain injury that impacts his decision making abilities, was drunk.<br>The pair got an Uber at the bar and originally headed home to Duxbury, but Jack&#8217;s mother reportedly told him she didn&#8217;t want Scott at her home. So the car dropped them off at Island Creek Pond in Crocker Park.<br>According to Jack, an altercation broke out between the two after Scott hit him.<br>Jack claims he &#8216;blacked out&#8217; after being hit and they moved to the pond where Scott was drowned.<br>Hours later, Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz&#8217;s office said Jack was under arrest and charged with his father&#8217;s murder. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Scott-Callahan-was-drowned-in-the-Island-Creek-Pond-in-Massachusetts-by-his-son-jack-Callahan-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383029" width="840" height="468"/><figcaption><strong>When Jack picked up his father from a bar, Scott who had a traumatic brain injury that impacts his decision making abilities, was drunk. Jack claims</strong> <strong>an altercation broke out between the two after Scott hit him. He held his father in the pond on his back and continually dunked his head under the water about four to eight times, until he stopped struggling</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>In court Tuesday, Callahan&#8217;s attorney Kevin Reddington asked the judge to send Callahan to Bridgewater State Hospital for a mental health evaluation, adding that he is a danger to himself.<br>&#8216;He&#8217;s a very nice young man,&#8217; Reddington said, &#8216;He comes from a wonderful family … My client had a concern for his father, knowing that he would be drinking and knowing that he shouldn&#8217;t be drinking. He was going to try to take him back where he should be.&#8217;<br>The judge ordered the court clinician to evaluate Callahan, he is to be held in jail without bail until he&#8217;s due back in court on August 12.</p>

Massachusetts man, 19, who drowned his alcoholic father while ‘baptizing’ the drunken man in a pond, late at night, ‘believed he was exorcizing his dad’s inner DEMON named Dirty Dan’
