Teenage Girl Kills Abusive Father

[lizbud]

Life is not meant to be destroyed.

If you had a cancerous growth inside of you, would you want it killed off?
It's alive.


I believe some people forfeit their right to live by being constant predators
on the world's most vulnerable people.

[wombat2u2004]

I believe some people forfeit their right to live by being constant predators on the world's most vulnerable people.

YES !!!!!!!! So True !!!!!!
Wom

[Catty1]

While murder is not the solution...after rape having started when this girl was 7, and continued for 6 years, she was more than incapable of rational thought, and not just because of her age.

Only my imagination here - but I think she did not want to actually kill a person - she just wanted everything to STOP, and acted out of a degree of blind despair and state of mind that I hope none of us ever comes near.

[lizbud]

I would never judge her at all, but get her the best defense lawyer
I could locate & let 12 other people decide after hearing her thoughts
that drove her to defend herself.

I wonder if these kids were attending school during this time? Did no one
ever notice how dirty & smelly they were.

[columbine]

This is why killing in self-defense is legally distinct from out-and-out murder. And this is also why the laws are flawed, because "self-defense" only includes defense against getting killed. Torture isn't covered, except clumsily and indirectly under the "by reason of insanity" clause.

I don't doubt that the girl is probably crazy as a bedbug after years of abuse. But I don't think that specifically killing her father was a crazy thing to do. She'd have met the same fate at someone else's hands if she ran away, and had no reason to believe that the Authorities would take any interest.

For those who have been tortured and toughed it out - hey, good for you. But I don't think it's at all realistic to expect that of everybody. If the guy had been, say, an enemy combatant, they'd be looking up the rules for awarding medals to civilians. But I think the fact that he was her father makes his behavior far, far more horrific.

Love, Columbine