A person has turned to Reddit to ask fellow users if he’s incorrect for not wanting to call his son Charles, after his wife’s late brother, because his son’s name would apparently then be Charles Manson – the identical name that was given to the convicted murderer and cult leader of the Nineteen Sixties.
The anonymous Reddit user, ThrowRA_Names12, consulted the favored “Am I the A–hole” subreddit, where users submit queries on non-violent conflicts to see in the event that they often is the offender in a social dispute.
ThrowRA_Names12 wrote that his wife of 4 years, Melissa, 31, is eight months pregnant and was considering naming their son Charles in honor of her brother.
“A number of weeks ago her brother unexpectedly passed away of a heart attack on the age of 35,” ThrowRA_Names12 wrote on Monday, April 3. “We were each shocked and devasted [sic]. He was an important man who was all the time healthy, and we were very near him. No person saw it coming. He left behind his wife and three kids.”
“Melissa now desires to name our son after her brother,” he continued.
ThrowRA_Names12 wrote that he normally wouldn’t have an issue with the sort gesture, but since his last name is Manson and his wife has also legally taken his surname, that might leave their son with the name Charles Manson.
Charles Manson was formerly often known as Charles Milles Maddox, in line with the California case, People v. Manson. In July 1969, Manson ordered a member of his Manson Family cult to murder Gary Hinman, a California-based musician, which led to an investigation that uncovered the crime syndicate, in line with several news reports.
Authorities went on to find the Manson Family cult was also answerable for a string of murders committed in Los Angeles in August 1969, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, delivery salesman Steven Parent, Polish author Wojciech Frykowski, supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary and stuntman Donald Shea, in line with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s news release announcing Charles Manson’s death in 2017.
Manson was convicted of first-degree murder on seven counts and conspiracy to murder on Dec. 13, 1971, Fox News Digital previously reported.