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

She still deserves the sentence. Doesn't matter if you were mentally compromised, you ended someone's life. She may require help, but honestly all that faces her from now on is a life behind bars, whether it's a prison or a mental institution.

i think this is the first time where a girl actually looked like a guy with long hair

She looks just like young Michael Meyers in the Halloween remake.

[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] Don't do the crime, If you can't survive the time.

[QUOTE=.FLAP.JACK.DAN.;34610444]I though it was a boy when I saw the picture then I read the article....[/QUOTE] I thought it was a friend of friend. I paniced for a second thinking he killed someone.

[QUOTE=Lachz0r;34612529]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.[/QUOTE] no child should be given antidepressants without extremely close supervision from a professional, if you're under 18 negative side effects are magnified

[QUOTE=TestECull;34611034]Good riddance. I don't really care why, someone who goes after a defenseless nine year old doesn't deserve to see the light of day ever again. Personally, I'd have banished her to bikini atoll or something. Fly her out there, dump her on the island, bugger off, let her fend for herself.[/QUOTE] Yeah put her on a extremely radioactive island. Radiation that she would have no defense against. You would be killing a defenseless 18 year old

[QUOTE=Lizard Of Guilt;34614950]Yeah put her on a extremely radioactive island. Radiation that she would have no defense against. You would be killing a defenseless 18 year old[/QUOTE] It isn't radioactive anymore, it's safe to walk and live there, except the fruits and other food sources are still radioactive.

[QUOTE=cat man;34610877]I wish rehabilitation was possible, but I feel like the only choice here is a lifetime spent outside of society for this person. Pettier crimes are one thing, murdering a 9 year old girl with your bare hands is another. Things like this are sad, but what else can you do with a murderer even if she is just a young girl herself.[/QUOTE] Spend the decades she has ahead of her helping her relearn what it is to be a stable and functioning member of society. As the post above you highlighted, there was significant disruption to her formative years, so they obviously need to recur somewhat artificially. I'm not saying she should be free and go to therapy once a week, but a lifetime being rehabilitated is better than one sitting in a cell.

[QUOTE=Gordy H.;34610084]An increase in dosage can't cause this:[/QUOTE] you've never been on any mood-altering medication, have you? Back in middle school, I was taken off MPD after being caught self-mutilating shortly after an increase in dosage. I was a different person on the drug and it changed me permanently. If I could make one change in my life it would be to have never started taking MPD.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;34614885]no child should be given antidepressants without extremely close supervision from a professional, if you're under 18 negative side effects are magnified[/QUOTE] heck, medication should be the last resort when it comes to children under 18. psychiatry would be far more beneficial i feel. i guess that's the problem with america when it comes to mental illness, they'd rather just sell expensive medication than actually get to the root of the problem. (see: all the kids with adderall prescriptions)

[QUOTE=Lachz0r;34615529]heck, medication should be the last resort when it comes to children under 18. psychiatry would be far more beneficial i feel. i guess that's the problem with america when it comes to mental illness, they'd rather just sell expensive medication than actually get to the root of the problem. (see: all the kids with adderall prescriptions)[/QUOTE] and there are medications safer to use on children than prozac

[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;34610143][img]http://i.imgur.com/hGd3p.png[/img][/QUOTE] I'll bang that... In prison! :dance:

[QUOTE=Crpto2007;34610422]except psychopaths can't be rehabilitated or even treated.[/QUOTE] sir you are incorrect.

I'm torn here. Fuck you guys for bringing up valid points on both sides.

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;34610160]I don't believe in life sentences. I believe in rehabilitation.[/QUOTE] I believe some people are not fit to live in society.

Send her to China=insta death sentence. Don't fuck with life,you can't change somebody,people fix themselves or never get fixed. DEATH SENTENCE. I sent a chopper to take her and throw her of a cliff on razor sharp obsidian. Have a good day.

She's probably going to commit suicide in prison.

[QUOTE=calle7112;34610596]Just [highlight]WHY[/highlight] would you want to kill a innocent 9 year old. Theres no reason for it[/QUOTE] I feel the exact same. I don't see what drives people to do that kind of stuff. I guess some people are just fucked up like that though, and there are a lot of them out there.

[QUOTE=jbthekid;34618547]I feel the exact same. I don't see what drives people to do that kind of stuff. I guess some people are just fucked up like that though, and there are a lot of them out there.[/QUOTE] It's called medication Whether you know it or not medication tends to change the paths of the neurons in your brain causing a change in behavior and habits.

[QUOTE=cat man;34610877]I wish rehabilitation was possible, but I feel like the only choice here is a lifetime spent outside of society for this person. Pettier crimes are one thing, murdering a 9 year old girl with your bare hands is another. Things like this are sad, but what else can you do with a murderer even if she is just a young girl herself.[/QUOTE] there is no way to know whether or not rehabilitation for an individual person is possible until it is tried. There was a guy in norway who killed a few people with a chainsaw, and ended up being rehabilitated fine and now works in a lumber yard using chainsaws for their correct purpose. Just an anecdote, but the point is that we should always "try". instead of per-emptivly going "this person can never be rehabilitated based on the severity of their actions" without understanding the underlying psychology.

[QUOTE=famasfanalt;34618302]I believe some people are not fit to live in society.[/QUOTE] Do you also believe people have reasons for their actions? Because they do. Everyone does. It just happens that a lot of reasons for things like this aren't entirely sound, so we cannot understand them as well. If I were to do something like this I would most likely be insane to the point where it seems an understandable thing to do. However, since you are not insane, you would not share my reasoning. Everyone has a reason for the things they do. But everyone also has a lens to look at that reason through, and sometimes it can distort things.

Its situations like this where everybody loses.

[QUOTE=!TROLLMAIL!;34618385]Send her to China=insta death sentence. Don't fuck with life,you can't change somebody,people fix themselves or never get fixed. DEATH SENTENCE. I sent a chopper to take her and throw her of a cliff on razor sharp obsidian. Have a good day.[/QUOTE] I'd imagine all that obsidian must have been expensive. Though I guess it can't cost more than [URL="http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-cost"]what the death sentence already costs[/URL].

[quote]"...Kay, I gotta go to church now...lol."[/quote] If you do a confession I'm pretty sure the priest is going to flip out.

[QUOTE=!TROLLMAIL!;34618385]Send her to China=insta death sentence. Don't fuck with life,you can't change somebody,people fix themselves or never get fixed. DEATH SENTENCE. I sent a chopper to take her and throw her of a cliff on razor sharp obsidian. Have a good day.[/QUOTE] Are you 10? [editline]9th February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=jbthekid;34618547]I feel the exact same. I don't see what drives people to do that kind of stuff. I guess some people are just fucked up like that though, and there are a lot of them out there.[/QUOTE] That's what psychology is for. It's not acceptable to just say "these people are fucked up" and move on. We'll never learn about how to help these people or prevent these types of thoughts/actions if we do that.

[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;34610143][img]http://i.imgur.com/hGd3p.png[/img][/QUOTE] you moron thats the girl he killed

[QUOTE=meppers;34620021]you moron thats the girl he killed[/QUOTE] Uh... No? From the site: [QUOTE]In this Dec. 8, 2009 file photo, Alyssa Bustamante, 15, listens during a brief hearing where her attorney entered not guilty pleas on her behalf to charges of armed criminal action and first-degree murder in Cole County Circuit Court in Jefferson City, Mo. Bustamante, who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbor girl, wrote in her journal on the night of the killing that it was an "ahmazing" and "pretty".[/QUOTE] Also it was a girl.