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Originally posted by gregor@May 3 2006, 01:53 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4967340.stm
Huh, they really seemed to push her. I don't think she should go to prison. She should get some psychiatric "treatment" thought. If someone abuses you and you kill them how is that a "serious" crime?
edit... time to go home... been working too long... to many spellink mistakes... can someone fix them???
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The problem is that what she did was unamerican. A true american would suffer this humiliation in silence; until they reached the age of majority, then sue the parents into bankruptcy .
More seriously, the abuse she received, while good enough to get the local children's aid services to take her out of the home, was not enough to justify a fatal knife attack.
I heard a story of tragic incident involving drunken rage and firearms. The abusive father was drunk and had finally had enough of something and had decided to shoot his wife and some of his children. After he loaded the first of several weapons, he handed it to another of his sons to free his hands to load a second weapon. Before he finished loading that weapon, his son shot and killed him. In this instance, a clear case of necessity, the boy was not even charged.
If the girl's mother had been beating her at the time of the attack, a case of self defence could be forwarded, but she was not physically harmed, so the law takes a dim view of killing.