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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34016501/ns/us...ime_and_courts/

 

Mo. - Blessed with a Friday off school, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante dug two holes in the ground to be used as a grave, authorities said. For the next week, she attended classes, all the while plotting the right time for a murder, they said.

 

That time arrived the evening of Oct. 21, when Bustamante strangled 9-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten without provocation, cut the girl's throat and stabbed her, prosecutors said

"Ultimately, she stated she wanted to know what it felt like," Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. David Rice testified Wednesday during a court hearing over the slaying.

 

Rice, who interviewed Bustamante in the days after Elizabeth's disappearance, said she confessed to investigators and led them to the fourth-grader's well-concealed body in a wooded area near their neighborhood in St. Martins, a small town west of Jefferson City.

 

A Cole County judge ruled Wednesday that Bustamante, who has been held in Missouri's juvenile justice system, should be tried as an adult. Hours later, the teen was indicted on adult charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action for allegedly using a knife to kill Elizabeth. A judge later entered a not guilty plea on Bustamante's behalf and referred her to the public defender's office.

 

Could face life in prison

The court proceedings marked the first time that the suspect in Elizabeth's death had been publicly identified since a two-day search for the girl by hundreds of volunteers. When they found Elizabeth's body Oct. 23, authorities only said that a 15-year-old had led them to it and was in custody for the slaying.

 

Bustamante remained largely expressionless as she sat with her hands shackled around her waist in court Wednesday. She occasionally looked down beneath the brown bangs that covered her eyes and swallowed hard as a judge read the charges against her.

 

On one side of the courtroom sat her mother and grandmother, who has been Bustamante's legal guardian for about half of her life. On the other side sat Elizabeth's mother, relatives and friends, several of whom wore pink — Elizabeth's favorite color.

 

Bustamante was ordered held without bond pending her trial. If convicted of first-degree murder, she would be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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An act like this... for reasons such as this... equals an extreme example of premeditation... and is ultimate "adult-like" mindset and scenario... hence I have zero problem trying her as an adult and sentencing her to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Zero problem.

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An act like this... for reasons such as this... equals an extreme example of premeditation... and is ultimate "adult-like" mindset and scenario... hence I have zero problem trying her as an adult and sentencing her to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Zero problem.

 

- but do they always? - the 10yr serial killer was let back into society as an adult, given new identity etc...got married,and she had a child...another few cases where children that killed as a child went back into society as young adults..

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An act like this... for reasons such as this... equals an extreme example of premeditation... and is ultimate "adult-like" mindset and scenario... hence I have zero problem trying her as an adult and sentencing her to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Zero problem.
- but do they always? - the 10yr serial killer was let back into society as an adult, given new identity etc...got married,and she had a child...another few cases where children that killed as a child went back into society as young adults..

No, they don't always. I'm just saying they could and I wouldn't bat an eye if they did.

 

The case you point out is similar to the murderers of James Bulger also, in terms of their treatment as they grew older, etc.

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A 15 year old digs two graves and waits for the perfect time to kill. Then when the time is right strangles, stabs and slices the throat of a innocent 9 year old.

 

I have some words. That 15 year old needs to be sentenced to death. I dont feel there is room for people like her in any type of society, even prison.

 

What type of justice can be given to the family of the deceased? True justice would be the return of the 9 year old girl to her family, in whole. Obviously, there is no way for true justice to be served. What about justice in the form of money? I highly doubt the family of the killer has enough money to pay a monetary award equal to the life of a 9 year old girl. Life in prison? There is no reason to keep that P.O.S.

alive, none.

 

I say death penalty.

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Reminds of the 10yr old female serial killer...people wondered about her psychological makeup too

 

Wait, what?? Apparently I need to Google? :huh:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11...ims-mother.html

 

Child killer Mary Bell has become a grandmother, it emerged yesterday. Bell became notorious at 11 after being convicted of strangling small boys 'solely for the pleasure and excitement' of killing. Now 51, the woman at the centre of one of the most sensational trials of the 20th century later won a court order giving her the right to anonymity for life. The ruling is similar to those protecting the identities of Maxine Carr, girlfriend of Soham murderer Ian Huntley, and Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who killed two-year-old James Bulger in 1993. The identity of Bell's 24-year-old daughter will also remain a secret until her dying day. The order protecting her has been updated by the High Court in London to include Bell's grandchild, who was referred to as 'Z'.

 

The jury ruled Bell was suffering from diminished responsibility and therefore not guilty of murder. She received life in detention but was released at 23 and given a fresh identity to protect her daughter when she was born four years later She has had three assumed identities and has moved at least five times after being identified. In 1998, she was paid a reported £50,000 for collaborating with author Gitta Sereny's book, Cries Unheard, which detailed her life. She was tracked down amid calls for her right to anonymity to end. But in 2003 the child killer and her 18-year-old daughter were granted the right to live anonymously for the rest of their lives after a High Court ruling that outraged her victims' families.

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Reminds of the 10yr old female serial killer...people wondered about her psychological makeup too

 

Wait, what?? Apparently I need to Google? :rofl:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11...ims-mother.html

 

Child killer Mary Bell has become a grandmother, it emerged yesterday. Bell became notorious at 11 after being convicted of strangling small boys 'solely for the pleasure and excitement' of killing. Now 51, the woman at the centre of one of the most sensational trials of the 20th century later won a court order giving her the right to anonymity for life. The ruling is similar to those protecting the identities of Maxine Carr, girlfriend of Soham murderer Ian Huntley, and Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who killed two-year-old James Bulger in 1993. The identity of Bell's 24-year-old daughter will also remain a secret until her dying day. The order protecting her has been updated by the High Court in London to include Bell's grandchild, who was referred to as 'Z'.

 

The jury ruled Bell was suffering from diminished responsibility and therefore not guilty of murder. She received life in detention but was released at 23 and given a fresh identity to protect her daughter when she was born four years later She has had three assumed identities and has moved at least five times after being identified. In 1998, she was paid a reported £50,000 for collaborating with author Gitta Sereny's book, Cries Unheard, which detailed her life. She was tracked down amid calls for her right to anonymity to end. But in 2003 the child killer and her 18-year-old daughter were granted the right to live anonymously for the rest of their lives after a High Court ruling that outraged her victims' families.

 

I ended up reading the link you posted to TruTV.

 

Just flat out disturbing. :blink:

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