Re: 16 year old girl sentence to life without parole for killing her pimp
When you are placed in a situation as to where your parents don't care and they are drug addicts nonetheless Children look for some form of guidance from other places, they may be the wrong place but how would they know? Being on the streets at such a young age is not at all easy, never has been and never will be. By the time someone at such a young age finds/figures it out it's usually too late. Yes what she did was wrong, yes I do believe she learned her lesson, yes she does deserved to be punished for what she did. Does the punishment fit the crime at the age? Quite possibly she was not thinking clearly, her mind was clouded and she was thinking of all the negative things that he had done to her. True that might not have been her only option but that was the only option of getting out as far as she could see. She has done a lot of growing up, she knows what she did is wrong and as we can see in the video she is a person that shows some kind of feelings and emotions for what she has done. I think the punishment was a bit too much and she should not have to spend the rest of her life in jail. Truthfully and all honestly she never got to live at all.
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