I discovered this article pertaining to a 15 year old daughter accused of killing her mother. People magazine reports http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20340847,00.html that Tylar Witt, 15 who is charged with killing her mother Joanne Witt has entered her plea of insanity. Apparently her mother reported her then 14 year olds diary to the sheriffs department to charge her boyfriend, Mr Culver of statutory rape.
Now I know there are specifics in the legal system that define "insanity". One of which should be even having the idea to kill your own mother in the first place. This girl who was 14 at the time got caught having sex with her 20 year old boyfriend so they decide to drug the mother and stab her multiple times. I don't know about you but that seems totally insane to me. Unfortunately if she does get off on an insanity plea the punishment is lighter.
I think in the penal system if someone does decide to offer this plea maybe there should be different levels of insanity. That way it is not just automatically a lighter sentence and maybe those who truly aren't by the courts definition won't be so apt to offer it. You can visit a mental hospital and notice that the severity of mental illness is not the same between two different patients. Does that mean that one is more sane than the other or that there are simply different levels of care needed.
I don't remember when I was growing up hearing about children killing their parents or others as often as we do today. It makes me wonder what in our society has made it OK to do such a thing.
Is it promoted? Do we pat these kids on the back and say good job? It someone was so violently abusive and it was self defense then perhaps I can see self defense. Not though because you got caught having sex with a 20 year old.
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Wow! Insanity Plea! She drugged her mother than stabbed her repeaditly till she died and that's not pre-meditated? I don't know where to go on this story. Had the mother been a good mom; she would have known about her daughter and her daughter wouldn't be sleeping with a man of that age. So I think the whole think is just simply bad parenting!
ReplyDeleteOMG... So sad story.
ReplyDeleteI think we hear this kinds of news far to ofen. this is not just in America, either.this happens in Japan too.
This story is so sad...to think that a child could kill their own parent just because they got caught doing something wrong is a true tragedy. When the magnitude of her actions finally hit her, I hope she will be able to handle the repercussions, I know I couldn't. Everyone does things they are ashamed of, but to try to cover it up by murdering someone would have to be out of insanity because it doesn't make any sense to me at all. I pray that her mother can rest peacefully after the horrific way she passed on.
ReplyDeleteLet me tell you something. Both of these idiots should be locked in a tiny room strapped together and left to slowly starve. If their love compelled them to kill then the can love each other till the suffer the same fate. They can sit there and watch each other waste away, smell each other as they start to compose. That way the last thing they see before they finally pass on it the rotting corpse of the one they thought was so important, it was worth taking another persons life.
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