Comments on: 16 Year Old Sentenced to Life for Killing Pimp – Justice?

By: Yuen

Yuen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:24:33 +0000

Tuty,

I agree with your comment….I see remorse, however..the judge passed the sentence saying that this was an especially heinous crime, and felt she had no morals. The “heinous” part raises and eyebrow. I tried to find the details of the murder, but I couldnt. I welcome any insight from anyone here that could point me in the direction to those details. The reason I think thats important is because..if the crime was commited in a such a gruesome way, as to damage the mind, by desensitizing herself to such a horrific brutely killing…it is possible that she can’t trully come back from that. I dont know this to be true of her, and she certainly does not seem the brutaly killer, but one never knows. Until we know the circumstances of her crime, which seems to have played a big roll in her sentencing, we cant really say whether she deserves to be free. Either way I look at it though, certainly she is a victim, but is society safe with her in it? Can she control herself in the future? I think it depends on how she handled it the first time around…at least in part.

By: missshay

missshay — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:00:33 +0000

Wow!!!!!I feel that she should not be sentence to life without parole there are adults today that do crimes that the situation are way worst than this.Dont get me wrong im not saying that it alright to break the law of any crime but she was a child that was being rape………A CHILD i dont think its far for her to have spend the rest of her life in prisons.She has already done 13 yrs for the crime……My heart just go out out to her because it just seem so unfair………

By: Elisha

Elisha — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:34:39 +0000

This story was so sad.
That poor child was has been mentally tortured when she was abused and neglected by her mother and raped and trafficked by her pervert pimp…this alone is a life a sentence.

She was definatly the victim in this case.. i cant believe that she recieved a life sentence how cold of the judge. In my country she would have been named a hero for taking the life of a monster as it would of lessend the amount of children who are abducted, raped and trafficked.

My heart goes out to her, and if this was my field of work i’d be doing all i could to get her justice and free from prison!

By: Achaia

Achaia — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:29:08 +0000

HI I am 14 years old and i feel that even though no one has the right to take another life and that its wrong to kill anything . I also feel that what she did was good Sarah is someone’s child, and if someone was hurting me in the ways I can only think they were hurting her for one day let alone six years I would to kill that person to . You also should think what if it was your kid being rapped repentantly by different men everyday what would be your reaction. Think about how Sarah feel shes the one that has to deal with not having a good childhood and having to live with the fact that she was yet another young girl put into prostitution now she has to sit in jail for the rest of her life and think about how she killed some one as well I feel she should get a punishment for what she did but not life in jail , she should be able to try to have a chances at a real life not put into jail with real monsters.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:42:04 +0000

They say killing someone is unjust and unnecessary…but isnt there some circumstances that qualify as just? She was warped as a young girl and trained to sell her body. MY question is, had she of went to the police what would they have done?

By: Tuty

Tuty — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:55:10 +0000

I believe this is terrible, but I must admit some red flags go up and I have some questions:

How did she kill him?

Was it a gruesome murder?

Clearly I can see the remorse in her now

By: eric

eric — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:16:23 +0000

This doesn’t seem very tough to me. A little girl was raised by an abusive mother who was a drug addict, and her innocence was stolen away at a young age when she was forced into prostitution & statutorily raped by the man who did it. And according to her, he had done this many times before, because he ‘had’ other girls. At 16, she felt the only way out was to kill the man who had made her life this way. Should she have been punished-yes. Should she have the rest of her life taken away-I don’t believe so.

But I am not the system, nor would I want to be. Because this same system recently found Dante Stallworth guilty of vehicular homicide & DUI, yet he was sentenced to 30 days. Why? One can only wonder. So I don’t think putting the life of a tortured child, who did not ask nor deserve to be brought into the life she was, into a system such as this should be acceptable anymore.

I like to put myself into a situation before I respond to it’s outcome. So for those of you who don’t outwardly disagree with the outcome, would you feel like you deserved what Sarah got? Would you agree with someone saying to you ‘murder is murder’?

The bottom line for me is I’m glad there are 11 year-olds that can now go out where Sarah once did and not have to meet Gigi. I don’t trust the system enough to believe the situation would be the same had they had the opportunity to deal with it.

By: Derrick Engoy

Derrick Engoy — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:45:35 +0000

Wow! This is a tough one. However, as a previous post said, I don’t want to seem heartless, but murder is murder. No matter how horrible a person’s conditions are, the extremes are never enough to justify taking another person’s life.

The pimp definitely should have paid for his trafficking ring, and if he was alive and convicted, perhaps he should have gotten life in prison or worse. But it’s not up to us to issue that judgement. We can issue the verdict, but the punishment is left to the judge.

I guess the upside to her punishment , if there is one, is she didn’t get the death penality.

The Apostle Paul spent the latter part of his life in prison and made the most of it. He did the most good he could possibly do in his bind and preached the Gospel to as many as hecould possibly reached. Was his imprisonment justified? Well, according to the laws of his day, it was. He accepted it and trusted in God.

My heart pours out for Sara. It’s one of those situations that totally sucks. Her innocence was taken away, her mother did a crappy job, and she was manipulated by a horrible man.

Just like Charles, I, too, am still processing this whole situation.

By: Karyn

Karyn — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:11:15 +0000

I am at a loss for words after watching her story and confused by the judge’s harsh sentencing. Did he not know the circumstances which led to her taking this man’s life (more appropriate would be to call him garbage) and what she must have gone through for 5 years??
Maybe someone can answer this next questions for me, if the judge gave her life in prison w/out parole for murder, did he also decide to punish the mother for allowing this to happen??? Where was the police when she was out at night at 11 and 12 years old, standing at street corners? Where was the school system when this 13 yr old was out all night, did no one notice her tired, withdrawn, etc?? What about CPS???
Have we become so caught up in our own little world not to notice what is going on in front of us anymore? As adults we should not be afraid to speak up in the defense of a child, even if we may be wrong. Better to err on the side of caution and be wrong than to watch a child have her life taken away from her by the scum of the earth.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:02:31 +0000

Well articulated Amy… good questions.