Susan Atkins
Yep - she that followed Manson - has applied for compassionate release due to terminal illness. Originally sentenced to death in the 1969 Tate slayings - her sentence was commuted to life.
At the time - she said that after Sharon Tate begging her to let her unborn child live she told Sharon Tate that she had no mercy for her or the child. (For those that have read Helter Skelter - you will know this was prefaced with 'Bitch').
Funnily enough - now she feels she is entitled to mercy from the California Board of Parole Hearings?!
There is always a lot of opinion about this case and many others as to whether such people should be released on compassionate grounds etc - after all they would not do the same thing again yada yada - and everyone is entitiled to their opinion.
For me - I say no - regardless of her maybe being a different person - hindsight is always a wonder - but her victims were not allowed the luxury of mercy or dying within the comfort of their families - one was not even allowed the right to be born.
Mine is but one opinion.


Czech cult
Most of you will have heard about this by now. It is one of the worst cases of abuse I have seen in a long time - what happened with the children was sickening - one has to wonder whether other children were in the same conditions - or whether it was just this womans own children. I confess to not having done much reading yet on the Grail Movement cult - so am not going to pass judgement - except on the mother of these boys - heck woman! If you want to 'please the leader' - there are other ways! Of course - now she was 'brainwashed!'
The guy that saw the images on the monitor he installed must have felt sick to his stomach - especially as he had installed it to be able to keep an eye on his own child sleeping.
Thanks to him - the boys will now be safe and begin the long journey of some kind of recovery - at least for their physical wounds.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,369464,00.html


The Lemonade Stand Robber
Oh yes - someone was sad enough to rob a lemonade stand being run by a group of children. When an 18 yr old grabbed the money - sassy Dominique (age 12) chased his ass down to a nearby house and called the police - who spent approx 45 mins coaxing him out.
All I have to say is WAY TO GO GIRL!!!!! This is one young lady that is going to go far!
Don't ya just want to be a fly on the wall where the 18 yr old robber is in jail - after being chased down by a 12 yr old girl???!!!!
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/5841994.html


Child Molested in a Jail
Apparently by her father - Eugene Bond - serving a life sentence for sex crimes.
The mother brought the child in allowing her to sit on his lap - etc. The mother has had charges filed against her for enabling child abuse.
Who do the thanks go to for this being stopped and reported ........... the prison staff? Other visitors?
Nope - the thanks go to other inmates who reported it - nice one!!!!
http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?s=8528972