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Originally Posted by Jagger
I'm sorry but I have no sympathy for somebody like this. It was a completely ruthless and heartless crime. I simply cannot feel compassion for this individual, regardless of her age.
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She's 13 years old! No normal 13 year old does this crime. The wires are not connecting.
I have a 14 year old girl who makes poor decisions fairly regularily. That's the nature of 14 year old girls. We do the best we can to correct the behaviour, show her the possible consequences, and allow her to make a better choice the next time. Sometimes it doesn't happen the way we would like and we try again. Sometimes, more often lately, it does and she gets triumph of her accomplishment.
Now, there has never been anything even sort of remotely close to this magnitude. This is WAY beyond anything I can even understand or imagine. If, however, she made a choice with this terrible, horrific, tragic outcome, I would like someone to have compassion.
That doesn't mean I feel that this girl should be let off easy. And this doesn't express how I feel about her sentence. I'm not convinced that 6 years is enough. And it doesn't mean I feel empathy for her. But I can have compassion for a child, any child, that now faces a past and a future that may be long and bleak.