Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison for the drowning murders of her two young sons. Susan claimed she was carjacked by a black man and made dramatic pleas using media coverage to beg for
Then in 2007, is what the police believe, Sowell started killing the women he brought back to his home on Imperial Avenue. During Anthony’s childhood he was raised by his single mother. Anthony’s mother had three children, Anthony a daughter and another son. Anthony’s mother also took in her seven grandchildren. Sowell’s childhood consisted of watching his mother beat on his nieces and nephews while he and his brother watched, from a different room.
Thompson and Venables were arrested and controversially tried and convicted in an adult court. They were both found guilty of murder and sentenced to custody until the age of 18. 8-Year-Old Boy Kills Father and Friend: In 2008, an 8-year-old boy, whose name was not released, was arrested and charged with shooting and killing his father and his father’s friend in their St. Johns, Arizona home. The
Gault’s mom came home that day from work and could not find her son anywhere. She then sent Gault’s oldest brother out to look for him. With no luck, they went to Gault’s friend Lewis’ house where they found out the dreadful news. The Lewis family also told them that they had a hearing in the Juvenile Court the following day. (Gerald punishment) The Supreme Court made their decision.
Testimony of Trina McDonald, who was 18 when she was stationed in Alaska and assaulted.” Another example was not a girl who had been sexually assaulted but a boy, “Heath X reported that he was gang raped, told he was lying, threatened, bullied, assaulted again and tried to commit suicide all during his first month in the service. He left, became homeless, was incarcerated and was diagnosed as
We've been fucking freeloading off her boyfriends parents for 4 years now. I can't diligently stand it here. Annie's a fucking whore who can barely get by in school and she's still the fucking golden child and so is Mia. Everyone just looks at me like I'm dirt at the bottom of the barrel. And none of them even care what happens to me.
JonBenet Ramsey’s murder still remains a mystery. One still asks the burning question, ‘Who killed JonBenet?’ Substantial amounts of evidence against JonBenet’s parents have made them the primary suspects. Based on neighbors’ testimonies, the behavior of the Ramsey’s, and the conditions of the ransom note, one can conclude that John and Patsy Ramsey murdered JonBenet. On Christmas night 16, in a quiet neighborhood in Boulder, Colorado, a beauty queen was murdered. Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found strangled in the basement of her parent’s home (Wecht and Bosworth ).
"White Oleander," by Janet Fitch is a book that viciously grabs my mind and emotions and plays with both my intellectual and emotional comfort. It is a heartbreaking story of a young, twelve year old girl, who is taken away from her mother whom she is deeply attached to and placed in a series of abusive and harsh foster homes. This is because her mother is sent to a life-sentence in prison for first-degree murder of her boyfriend. Having grown up in a loving, caring household, I cannot imagine having to endure the suffering the main character, Astrid, did. Throughout her foster homes, she was forced into child labor, starved, and even shot at with a gun by one of her foster mothers.
She doesn’t want to go to Florida, but to Tennessee instead, and to get her way she tries to scare Bailey and puts him on a guilt trip with reports of a criminal on the loose. “’Just you read it. I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn't answer to my conscience if I did.’" (277). She does anything in her power such as lying just manipulate to get her way, she purposely says something false to ensure the children will persuade their dad, "’There was a secret panel in this house,’ she said craftily, not telling the truth but wishing that she were, ‘and the story went that all the family silver was hidden in it when Sherman came through but it was never found .
Pattyn, being unable to take the stress of home, begins to question her role in life, especially through her father’s eyes. She knows what is going on at home is wrong, but when she tries to reach out for help, she finds the religious community defends her father, She’s named a liar by her bishop when she speaks about the abuse in hypothetical, and Pattyn (unknowingly) begins to search for outlets to get away from her home life. Eventually, she starts to experiment with dating behind her parents backs, but is caught in the desert by her drunken father. Derek, her boyfriend, leaves her for another girl, whom Pattyn get in a fight with. The fight results in broken glass and a broken nose for Derek’s new girlfriend.