July 31, 2007
Erm… Right On Little Sister…?
I am just going to go up on this one and say, wow.
BUENA VISTA, Pennsylvania (AP) — A 13-year-old girl used a shotgun to fatally shoot her father in the head early Monday in a home overrun with animals and filth, police said.
The girl told investigators she used a 12-gauge shotgun to shoot 34-year-old Matthew Booth in the face while he was in bed, according to a police affidavit.
[…]Matthew Booth’s neighbor Suzanne Gruber told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the girl had told her she had killed her father because she “just couldn’t take it any more.” Gruber said the girl also told her she had been abused.
The child was living in squalor with her older brother and her father. She told neighbors and her estranged mother about sexual abuse. Ultimately, the child was the one who felt compelled to do something about it. I can only ask where all of the adults were in her life? I don’t have more to go on except that the mother did not have custody of her children. No one wants to imagine that this woman who was obviously aware of the already abusive situation, just left her children at the hands of this man but… did she?
My heart absolutely goes out to this little girl who is now being charged as an adult and is being held without bail.
So I say, good on you little girl, who saved yourself when no one else would. It is a real pile of shit that everyone who should have helped you failed you instead. Hopefully, you will be granted some justice this time around.
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