Yes, she is one of the most hated people in Massachusetts right now. Almost any jury would be so disgusted with the (mountains of) evidence in this case that I doubt they would be able to follow the law well at all and she could have ended up even worse off. Her lawyers were right to advise her to just go with a judge and skip the jury.
The real punishment is that she is infamous now in the Casey Anthony kind of way. She is never going to be able to get a reputable job and the only people that would go out with her are crazy as well. She did this partially because she wanted attention and friends for herself. She got the attention part but she isn’t getting any friends.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if she ends up killing herself as well - not because of any guilt from what she did but because she is smart enough to know that her life is basically over anyway. That crazy bitch only lives a few minutes away from me. I don’t know what I am going to do if I run into her in a checkout line or something. It will probably be the same thing everyone else will do - look horrified as soon as they recognize her and then try to get away as quickly as possible.
Welcome Plainville! That is a pretty small town to have such a high profile, nationally publicized case. I feel bad for the sane citizens that live there. It is a very nice place otherwise.
Don’t feel bad. Aaron Hernandez was my next door neighbor in Franklin - not literally but he maintained a sin pad about 500 feet away from me in a condo complex. I didn’t know about it until the news trucks started rolling in after he was arrested for murder.
I could be wrong, but my understanding is the big issue here is her not getting help when she knew he was dying. But I think this person needs more mental help than punishment. I don’t see her as a threat to society, going forward.
I don’t see why anyone shouldn’t think she might do it again, in the unlikely event anybody gets close enough, and depressed enough, to let her.
Not to say she shouldn’t get help. But her motivations for this aren’t the type that died with the victim, so I don’t see how you think she’s any less of a threat to society than your average person that’s talked somebody to death.
I haven’t followed this case, but is it possible that she felt that in light of his previous suicide attempts he was so miserable and not cut out for life in this world that she was only trying to help him to do what they had both come to feel he needed to do in order to escape the misery that was his life on this planet?
I’m somewhat suspicious of the prosecutor’s contention that she was unpopular and wanted sympathy for being the surviving girlfriend. If anybody ever had the sort of pretty, well-groomed, cheerleader and teacher’s pet type of appearance that usually goes into being a popular girl in school, it would be her. I’ve been leery of prosecutors’ claims ever since Marcia Clark tried to claim O.J. Simpson’s knit cap was a ‘disguise’.
As you prefer to take a contrarian view in things involving morality, this is not surprising.
Then you don’t actually think it is reprehensible.
I cut out the rest, because you don’t actually make an argument for why this is the case. In fact, you contradict yourself right way by saying that you’d be okay with it if there was a law against it, meaning you don’t actually think people shouldn’t be criminally accountable.
This woman preyed on a mentally unhealthy individual and took what might have been non-fatal and made it fatal. She is just as responsible as if she was actually there trying to put him back in the car so he’d die. She was an active participant in causing his death. The fact that she wasn’t physically there is irrelevant.
If this woman is not declared criminally liable, then she would be able to kill more people. That’s why we have the system. Furthermore, other people would see this, and think they can prey on the mentally ill and get them to kill themselves. That’s also not acceptable.
What this woman did was profoundly wrong, and society has ever reason to prevent this. We cannot have people preying on the suicidal and causing their deaths, preventing them from getting the help they need so that they likely won’t be suicidal anymore.
What she did is reprehensible, and that is precisely why the law should provide criminal penalties for it.
Don’t let looks fool you. She is pretty enough but that doesn’t have anything to do with it. People steered well clear of her because of her dysfunctional personality. Plainville, MA is an idyllic small town that is a suburb of both Boston and Providence, Rhode Island. It is almost impossible to grow up there and not have friends unless there is something seriously wrong with you. My best guess is that she is a true sociopath. Who listens to someone they care about dying on the phone and decides the major worry is how they will get in trouble themselves? That is only one of a few heinous things she did.
I feel that she should be under a suicide watch b/c she has mental health issues too and this could push her over the edge . I doubt that she will wanting to go out in public a lot after being found guilty ,people will be pointing at her and talking about her . I don’t think she would be able to handle that kind of attention . She should of thought this before she send her b/f to his death !
I actually agree with you sometimes BigT and this is one of those times. Taking advantage of people under extreme mental duress is a crime in many situations already and certainly should be if you cause them to commit suicide. Anyone that has been in a situation like that should know it. You need someone to talk you down and not yell “Jump you pussy!” to encourage suicide when help is available.
Thanks. As I said, I haven’t been following this case and was unaware of the dysfunctional nature of her personality, and/or how it impacted on her social life. When I get time I’ll look into the it more closely.
