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The devout Muslim mother claimed Aminat came at her with a knife in the sewing room where she prayed several times a day.
She reacted by wrapping the scarf around her daughter's neck and twice told the girl to put down the knife before the teen lost consciousness.
A knife was found in the room, but the daughter's fingerprints were not on it.
LoVecchio, who rejected a claim of self-defence, deemed the woman did not intend to kill the teen, even though medical examiner Dr. Sam Andrews testified that death as a result of such an act would have taken at least 2 1/2 minutes.
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If these are the facts, the lenient sentence just doesn't make sense.
P.S. If someone's coming at you with a knife in their hand, how do you manage to get a scarf wrapped around their neck without getting stabbed? .... unless that isn't the truth and you in fact came up from behind the person and wrapped the scarf around their neck...