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lavender8787 — 19 years ago(August 07, 2006 01:46 PM)
To people who think you would kill because you had things happen to you like the things that happened to her:
I have been raped, beaten, molested, tortured, and tormented by members of my family and at the age of 26 have yet to kill or want to kill anyone. In fact, I got married, had a baby, and am now majoring in accounting and will graduate in 4 months. I did all this without professional help to. It's all a state of mind and what you are capable of. Once you become an adult, you can't blame your childhood anymore. That was the first step I took as an adult to get my life together. It would be easier to blame my childhood or others around me, but in the end my actions are my own.
It was obvious she needed help, but feeling pity for her is also not the answer. Pity doesn't help anyone. -
mr_j_morris-1 — 19 years ago(August 29, 2006 09:51 AM)
The entire story was sad. Was she killed by the Department of Corrections? How can one correct something one has just destroyed?
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Lady_Jeran — 19 years ago(September 03, 2006 12:03 AM)
An eye for an eye will leave everyone blind.
We have an amazing government that legalizes murder, in many forms. Rather than using money to help people in her situation before they become murderers, the government prefers to kill them after the fact to make it look like they are doing society some good.
I see Aileen's case as a sad example of someone who has slipped through the cracks of society, and no one was there to catch her. I don't think she needed to resort to killing people. I would hope that her case would spur programs and funds to help young people in bad situations before they get any worse. I think that it is pointless to speculate whether she was justified or not in killing those men, whether they deserved it or not, whether it was a product of her childhood, or of her mental ability to handle to situations. I think that, in order to prevent more deaths like this, we need to assume that something could have been done to stop her, and use that to help other people who are in situations like her.