Teen Gets Life In Prison for Killing a 9 Year Old Girl - Polidicks

Good, bitch deserves to rot for what she did, there's no excuse for killing someone as innocent as a fucking little kid.

[QUOTE=Pace.;34610688]I think there needs to be some sort of official inquiry into the side effects of antidepressants...[/QUOTE] the side effects of antidepressants are well documented, there needs to be an inquiry into the qualifications of the psychiatrist the prosecution called upon in this case

Goddamn. Didn't know Prozac was capable of making people natural killers. Put her in rehabilitation, she's a victim in this too. A victim of Big Pharma and Capitalism. No regard for testing those drugs for what it does to people's minds. Absolutely no regard. The greed of big pharmaceutical corporations has gotten an innocent 9 year old killed and fucked up a teenager into a lust for killing.

[QUOTE=certified;34611053]Goddamn. Didn't know Prozac was capable of making people natural killers. Put her in rehabilitation, she's a victim in this too. A victim of Big Pharma and Capitalism. No regard for testing those drugs for what it does to people's minds. Absolutely no regard.[/QUOTE] Believe it or not, not all drug side effects are part of a huge conspiracy sometimes effective drugs simply react badly in certain people all mainstream antidepressants have been extensively tested and studied and in the vast majority of cases don't cause this kind of thing it's like finding one person who snapped after smoking weed and using that as a reason to ban weed oh wait this happens

[QUOTE=Zeke129;34611071]Believe it or not, not all drug side effects are part of a huge conspiracy sometimes effective drugs simply react badly in certain people[/QUOTE] I never called conspiracy, I called a rush to the market with poor regard for how it works on people.

[QUOTE=certified;34611088]I never called conspiracy, I called a rush to the market with poor regard for how it works on people.[/QUOTE] Prozac has been on the market since 1987

[QUOTE=Ultra Violence;34610843]Because her key developmental years were traumatized by having addict parents and being abandoned. Because she was mentally disturbed, and was taking psychoactive drugs that have a limited amount of study in developing children. Because she was indoctrinated in zealous religious culture. (Which is why I find the "gotta go to church now, lol" thing so creepy--I can just kind of feel her dissociation from reality from that statement). Basically she had no moral compass and was an extremely broken girl. The same potential lies in all of us, it's just unfortunate that her life had such a sad string of circumstances as to cause this to happen. Honestly I feel bad for her. As she matures and is more capable of empathy I imagine this will tear her up inside and only damage her further.[/QUOTE] In metaphor, Its like a knife inside of her body, which will - as the metaphoric body grows - thrust and cut a little deeper.

I got mixed feelings on this. On the one hand it was planned, on the other shes nuts. She really should be in a psychiatric institution however it is cheaper just to keep a person like that in a regular prison. Many prisons do have a psych unit of some kind though. Life in prison seems very harsh to some degree, however being she will be 48 by the time she is eligible for parole she will probably be better off staying institutionalized. Chances of her ever having a normal life at that point are slim. Possible but slim.

[quote]read in court by a [B]handwriting expert[/B][/quote] wat

it's depressing that not only is the life of the little girl lost, but this little girl's life is lost too (even if she ever gets paroled, she will never be a properly functioning member of society, not after prison and clearly untreated mental illness)

Not sure if she deserves life in prison. She sounds extremely mentally ill. Then again she killed a little girl and [i]enjoyed it[/i]. I'm torn.

[QUOTE]"I strangled them and slit their throat and stabbed them now they're dead," Bustamante wrote in her diary, which was read in court by a handwriting expert. "I don't know how to feel atm. It was ahmazing. As soon as you get over the 'ohmygawd I can't do this' feeling, it's pretty enjoyable. I'm kinda nervous and shaky though right now. Kay, I gotta go to church now...lol."[/QUOTE] I lol'd at the last part. Crazy how she can write all that as if it's normal.

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;34610160]I don't believe in life sentences. I believe in rehabilitation.[/QUOTE] I believe in this to an extent.

[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;34611410]Everyone deserves life.[/QUOTE] i think he meant 'life in prison'

[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;34611410]Everyone deserves life.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Lachz0r;34611418]i think he meant 'life in prison'[/QUOTE] What he said. Editing that in.

ugh is it bad this makes me want to watch dexter

she doesn't deserve that sentence

[QUOTE=Ultra Violence;34610843]Because her key developmental years were traumatized by having addict parents and being abandoned. Because she was mentally disturbed, and was taking psychoactive drugs that have a limited amount of study in developing children. Because she was indoctrinated in zealous religious culture. (Which is why I find the "gotta go to church now, lol" thing so creepy--I can just kind of feel her dissociation from reality from that statement). Basically she had no moral compass and was an extremely broken girl. The same potential lies in all of us, it's just unfortunate that her life had such a sad string of circumstances as to cause this to happen. Honestly I feel bad for her. As she matures and is more capable of empathy I imagine this will tear her up inside and only damage her further.[/QUOTE] I don't believe being religious served any purppose in causing this. If anything atheism would have removed one logical reason not to do it, were she an atheist. Granted there is the odd gay killing because God but this doesn't seem to be any such case. [editline]8th February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=@@;34611242]wat[/QUOTE] A handwriting expert would be the guy who is qualified to determine if the handwriting on the, for example, ransom note is close enough to that one other documents by the suspect to constitute evidence.

[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;34611076] She wasn't mentally stable. Do you really think she just felt like go stab her neighbour just "because"? She wasn't functioning normally and the [b]Prozac made it worse[/b].[/QUOTE] Not necessarily. Read this again: [quote]After a suicide attempt on Labor Day 2007 as she was starting eighth grade, Bustamante was prescribed the antidepressant Prozac. Her dosage had been increased just two weeks before Elizabeth's death. A defense psychiatrist testified that [b]the medication [i]could have[/i][/b] made Bustamante moodier and more violent and contributed to the murder — [b]a [i]theory[/i][/b] rejected by a different psychiatrist testifying for prosecutors[/quote] It's not definitively proven that Prozac actually had any effect in this case. She may not be functionally "normally" (whatever that definition is) due to a rough childhood but it's clear that it's a premeditated murder when she lures this young girl into the woods for a "surprise" and then finishes her off and then writes about it pleasingly later. So yes, I believe she did just feel like she'll go stab her neighbor on her own pretense and not under the influence of Prozac. I mean, this girl couldn't even provide a reason WHY she did it other than it being quite a thrill to go through. Yeah, it's sad that she's so young and all that crap but that's too bad. You get one life, you make the best of it and you don't waste it. She wasted it by doing something so obscene and vile that you get punished for it. Maybe if she was actually under the influence of the said drugs or medication then yeah, rehabilitation would make sense.

[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;34610914]I don't think you folks get it Obviously she wasn't mentally sound when this happened Do you really believe she just felt like go murdering the neighbour just for shits and giggles?[/QUOTE] People who kill for the rush are mentally ill. Where did I indicate otherwise? Doesn't change the fact that such murders are ultimately more chilling (even if the mind-set was possibly temporary in this case).

[QUOTE=purpleswag;34611480]ugh is it bad this makes me want to watch dexter[/QUOTE] Yeah, that show is TERRIBLE now

[QUOTE=soccerskyman;34611386]Not sure if she deserves life in prison. She sounds extremely mentally ill. Then again she killed a little girl and [i]enjoyed it[/i]. I'm torn.[/QUOTE] you act like a crazy person who enjoys doing crazy things is different from a crazy person who doesn't enjoy doing crazy things.

[QUOTE=Jim_Riley;34611759]Not necessarily. Read this again: It's not definitively proven that Prozac actually had any effect in this case. She may not be functionally "normally" (whatever that definition is) due to a rough childhood but it's clear that it's a premeditated murder when she lures this young girl into the woods for a "surprise" and then finishes her off and then writes about it pleasingly later. So yes, I believe she did just feel like she'll go stab her neighbor on her own pretense and not under the influence of Prozac. I mean, this girl couldn't even provide a reason WHY she did it other than it being quite a thrill to go through. Yeah, it's sad that she's so young and all that crap but that's too bad. You get one life, you make the best of it and you don't waste it. She wasted it by doing something so obscene and vile that you get punished for it. Maybe if she was actually under the influence of the said drugs or medication then yeah, rehabilitation would make sense.[/QUOTE] a 15 year old that slits a 9 year olds throat is clearly not mentally stable. the fucked up childhood just exacerbates this and the drugs (especially for a 15 year old) would have also made it worst. prozac is a fucked drug it's ridiculous that it can be prescribed for a 15 year old.

good riddance, and take your psychosis with you

it's obvious that most if not all of the people in this thread saying things along the lines of "good riddance" have never dealt with a mentally ill person people like her can not be held accountable for their actions

[quote]A Missouri teenager who had described the slaying of a young neighbor girl as an "amazing" thrill[/quote] Disgusting.

I'm not too happy with this sentence. All it does is reinforce the idea that we should just lock mentally ill people up and throw away the key.

Honestly? A life sentence? The kid was OBVIOUSLY not functioning right. I imagine the "rush" she felt was a combination of being messsed up in the head and the rush you usually get from tense situations. [sp]Personally, I think that the rush would feel like the mixture of terror and thrill you get when you ride an extreme rollercoaster or waterslide or stuff like that, that "I'm doomed, time to kick back and watch how it plays out" feel.[/sp] It's still wrong that she killed a 9 year old, there's no doubt about that. However, she definitely doesn't deserve to get locked up for life. At least give her a proper mental examination.

i'm curious about the medication issue, why only two people were consulted to analyze it, and why the opinion of one was taken over the opinion of the other.

[QUOTE=abananapeel;34611015]I hate these kind of cases. First you have a dead 9 year old, then you have an 18 year old who now has to spend the rest of her life in jail. 70+ years in jail will suck.[/QUOTE] You reap what you sow, she brutally murdered a child, even if she could be rehabilitated, that would be a dick move to the family that is probably seriously emotionally traumatized.