When your child is born you do anything to insure their health, happiness and success. Unfortunately, we all are God’s individual creatures and have free will. Parents can do their best, but you never can tell how your kids will turn out. You just hope that things don’t go as badly as they did for Evelyn Shepherd.

An Ohio teen is in juvenile detention and two male acquaintances are in jail after detectives said the girl set up the armed home invasion and robbery of her mother early Thursday.

The 16-year-old daughter is charged with theft and conspiracy to aggravated robbery. Eddie C. Willis and Daniel Odell McElroy, both 21 and from Cincinnati, are charged with aggravated robbery and theft.

McElroy, a graduate of La Salle High School, is a member of the Bowling Green University men’s basketball team. As a senior at La Salle, McElroy was honorable mention all-state and first-team all-GCL South.

The arrests are linked to the report of a home invasion where Evelyn Shepherd told police that two black men entered her bedroom with handguns while she was sleeping and demanded money and her cell phone.

They tried to tape her mouth shut but she fought them off. The suspects fled with jewelry - some costume, some valuable - and Shepherd's phone. Shepherd sustained minor injuries during the scuffle and was treated at West Chester Hospital.

The girl met Willis and McElroy at a party and convinced them to rob her mother and has since has admitted her involvement.

The daughter and an older brother were home at the time of the incident and the girl apparently left a door unlocked for Willis and McElroy.

The teen told investigators that she was asleep on a couch next to the back door when she heard it open and saw two men. She said she ran into a laundry room and closed the door, then heard her mother screaming.

There was no indication the girl and her mother were having problems and the motivation for the robbery has yet to be determined. Hopefully, this will be a wake-up call for all involved. Each could use a good dose of theft class and dose of common sense.