When she had her hands around that little kids neck squeezing the life from her she had contact with reality. She felt a warm struggling little life fighting to keep breathing. While media/tv/games erodes away at our human values there has to remain some spark of human decency in each of us if we are to remain loose in society. This wretch failed the most basic test. For her to somehow redeem herself is desirable yet I have a hard time thinking of her staying in society and breeding. I would be greatly concerned for any life in her hands. To punish the other culpable players in this would be to indict the media system as it works in our society. That will not happen for greed is the god and guide in america. We'll all shake our heads wring our hands and gradually forget the little girl who stuggled. As for the wretch, who know? Great minds will struggle to find a redeeming spark in her, others will want her blood on their hands. I think for myself I'd give her to the little kids loved ones and tell them. "she's yours, do as you see fit."
Someone said-"think how horrible it would be to be in prison--ect-ect-. Think how horrible it was to be a little girl with her whole life ahead of her. To be happy that someone wanted her to come outside to play. Then to find herself struggling for her life, feeling the pain of being stabbed and slashed. For what? For what? For nothing other than to satisfy some weird,evil desire to KILL SOMEONE. Murder is the ultimate act of betrayal that one human can do to another human, since life is all we have--disregarding all the theories that attempt to "prove" otherwise. I'm sure she'll "find god" eventually ,as many transgressors claim when it is shown unequivecally they have no excuse for their horrendous actions. Then she'll be turned loose. And forgiven.
Sadly the murdered youth will not get life back or parole. There really is no punishment that will change what has happened or reverse it. This is truly a sad situation for everyone involved and my heart goes out to the families that have to deal with the aftermath of it all.
Well, a lot of good it did for her to go to church....she seems to have just trotted off to church with no remorse and no contrition...that's really creepy
The whole thing is just sad, sad, sad. When I think of that girl who killed the 9 year old, all I keep thinking of is that movie "La Femme Nikita" or the US version "Point of No Return".
Obviously this girl had a harsh sentence coming but i can't help but feel sorry for her with the weight of years she has to spend behind bars. It's almost as if she wont have a life at all, not that she deserves one after what she did but it nevertheless still feels like a waste...and only 18 Hopefully she'll find something fulfilling to occupy the long time she has a head. ...or maybe i'm just really high right now and feeling a bit too empathetic lol
To think people are out there like that (and children at that) gives me the heebiejeebies. My heart goes out to the victims family and friends, that's absolutely saddening
I can understand that. Now we have another wasted life. Be it that she deserves the sentence or not. I think most feel that she felt no remorse and that is probably harder to grasp than even committing such a crime. Each time one of these type of cases come to light the thing most people find difficult to deal with is the inability to understand what could drive someone to do these types of crimes. The randomness of the logic of the perpetrator defies what people can understand. Sadly, no punishment will make it "better" for the families or the victim.
not that I want to defend ICP, (I fucking hate ICP), but all the comments on that website are Dr. Phil mothers that are worried now about clown-friends and being a juggalo (lol it's funny to see them type it) just more things for Oprah to talk about and make sure mothers everywhere are armed to the teeth to defend against! oh and of course there is numerous mentions of drugs - HOW THE FUCK ARE DRUGS RELATED?! anyways - this is my homestate - woop! fucking meth families.
I pretty much totally agree with this. If you don't know by the age of 15 that murder is bad or wrong, then you never will know it. In my country at least, I think a big problem is, there are no consequences for kids when they do bad, sometimes even horrendous things. They are desensitized to violence. Not only by media, but because modern justice will only ever give them a slap on the wrist for despicable actions. So, many kids grow up with no sense of right or wrong anymore. I also think blaming parents/media/society instead of the individual in most cases at least, is a bit of a cop out. I had an awful childhood, was mercilessly bullied at school, had mental issues from an early age, and had terrible parents. I also watched horror movies at a young age regularly. Yet I'm timid and placcid as they come, and wouldn't hurt a fly. I believe outside factors merely act as a trigger for a mind that is already deeply disturbed. If you're old enough to do the crime, you're old enough to do the time. And sentencing should always reflect the severity of the crime, regardless of the age of the perpetrators. I knew when I was in primary school, that it was wrong to kill. If you don't know by 15 that is wrong, then there is very little hope for you. And I oppose the death penalty.
I was just about to say I'm surprised no one has mentioned that she was on prozac yet. Obviously prozac does not a murderer make. However, I do feel that when you combine a disturbed mind, a developing brain, and a drug like prozac its certainly a recipe for disaster. I wouldn't want her medication to take away from the severity of what she did, but I do hope this serves to open a dialogue about the fact that doctors are overmedicating our youth.
She may have been living in a black out or some sort of trance. For instance. I was given Benadryl by my parent for some itchy rash thing when I was around 12. I had to have been really dissociated, because I stole some things out my uncles house and dont remember doing it. And I didnt remember the things I took either. These Psychoactive drugs on a young mind could be like opening doors to the twilight zone. Im sorry that another child died because of this. But in reality we dont know what reality is in the twilight zone. Are they going to punish her in the twilight zone? Will she undergo years of psychiatric therapy and more (zone out drugs) Anti depressants make you not wanna give a fuck. ITs what they are made for. Wife left you, take anti depressants, house burnt down anti depressants, wanna kill someone and not feel bad anit depressants. It dont take a genius to see what the drug is typically used for. So what they do is, lock criminals up and give them "Who Gives A Fuck Pills". I really dont see the logic in that.
One of the biggist faults with these drugs, which are life savers for some of us, is that they are provided without any counseling or therapy. Most of the literature from the drug companies state clearly that therapy and guidance some be concomitant with the medication or else not used at all. Unfortunately there are no funds available for the care of the young and poor. You need to be excessively wealthy if you want free help with anything. I've fought major depression since my teen years but only got on anti-depressants through the intervention of a therapist who walked me through the new world my mind found. Do I love anti-depressants. No, I hate to concede I need them. Without them though I am capable of doing harm to self and others. Who knows what that lost 15 year old kid stumbled into when her brain responded to these powerhouse drugs. Regardless she is now as lost as the dead kid. It just sucks in every way imaginable.
If she was on Prozac at the time of the murder, there is still the issue of whether this girl had soiciopathic/psychopathic tendencies before the intake of the drug. There are many, many young people and kids who have committed horrendous acts without the consumption of such drugs being a catalyst for them. Even if Prozac did hasten the likelyhood of her committing a senseless act of violence, that does not mean that sooner or later, she would not have done something similar even without the "aid" of anti-depressant medication. I'm not saying the drug played no part in this act, maybe it didn't, maybe it did. But something that many people simply do not want to admit, or face, is that some youngsters are simply pathologically evil. Many people think that to brand kids as such is wrong. But have no problem in classing an adult in those terms. What these people tend to forget, is evil, psychopathic adults were not born adults. They are simply an end product. Most adults who commit horrendous deeds did not suddenly become wicked and only capable of such acts as soon as they hit adulthood. They were like that as children as well. Hitler, Stalin, serial killers, et al were all children once. I will admit that despite being offered anti depressants more than once during my adult life by my doctor, I have never taken any. Simply because I am scared of them, and also do not want to develop a life-long dependancy to them. I have heard of some of the side effects of some of these medications, and honestly, it makes me too petrified to take them.