- pinheadfaygot:
- I know that those things don't require you to not have mental disorders. I'm not stupid. I have a fucking cousin who tried to kill her mother and brother, and she had no mental issues. Never diagnosed! She just has no morals.
And I also don't think she should go to a mental institution then be let out instead of going to freaking prison. I've known people who have had needed to go to institutions for "mental" help, were released, and it did absolutely nothing. For all you know, she could be let out and then go kill someone else. Murder deserves prison. If this nine year old girl were your friend, or your sister, or your relative, would you be okay with the fifteen year old girl getting no punishment besides being sent somewhere for "help" and then released? I highly doubt that. She may need help, but a murder does deserve punishment.
I feel bad for the victim, not the murderer. .
She can go to a mental institution and not be released. It would be like prison, but she would be provided with the help and medicine she needs instead of killing more people in prison. Because despite what this country obviously thinks of their criminals, they are
people. Yes, some of them have done some really terrible things and deserve to rot in there. But most of them are just people who made some mistakes, and the only difference between us and them is that they got caught.
That's why people who are mentally ill and kill people are put into institutions, not prisons. And also, the reason people started mentioning that you don't have to be poor to be mentally ill is because you mentioned you doubted her insanity simply because of her appearance. Mental illness is a genetic thing, and does not discriminate against class. It is very possible that she has a perfect life, but because her brain has a chemical imbalance, she does things like kill little girls for fun.
PLEASE do not think that I am excusing this in any way, shape, or form. What this girl did was disgusting, and no matter what it is--mental illness or otherwise--she should not be released into the general public because she is obviously a very unstable human being. I have a little sister who is almost five, she is one of the most beautiful things in the world to me, and if anyone ever did to her what happened here, I would die. However, from that same point of view, I can honestly say that if the girl
was clinically insane, I would want her to go to an institution for the rest of her life, not be foisted onto a bunch of potential victims in a prison where no one cares for the inmates' well being.