Teen awaits sentencing for killing 9 y/o girl

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STOP PUTTING THE BLAME 100% ON HER IT['S] PATHETIC

It's not pathetic at all.

If she had gone and killed herself because of depression then I could feel sorry for her. But at the end of the day she kept her own life and decided to take someone else's life instead. Would you give any other murderer the same sympathy that you want to show her?

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It's not pathetic at all.

If she had gone and killed herself because of depression then I could feel sorry for her. But at the end of the day she kept her own life and decided to take someone else's life instead. Would you give any other murderer the same sympathy that you want to show her?

Now that she in the law hands that not really for me to decide now is it?

it would be the parole board if she dosn't get life without parole sentence wise

also my posts above speaks volume on this matter

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[...] Also, this guy is serving 35 years + 1,035 years (LOL) without parole: http://en.wikipedia....i/Martin_Bryant

Hang in there! :p

Just be patient, your bones will be! :D

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This is a clear sign of being a psychopath.. She needs to locked away for life. That's here below, look at her wrist :wacko:

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It seems she didnt know the proper way to cut herself. Which looks more like a cry for help. Either way, she should be locked up for life.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri teenager who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbor girl wrote in her journal on the night of the killing that it was an "ahmazing" and "pretty enjoyable" experience -- then headed off to church with a laugh.

The words written by Alyssa Bustamante were read aloud in court Monday as part of a sentencing hearing to determine whether she should get life in prison or something less for the October 2009 murder of her neighbor, 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten, in a small town west of Jefferson City.

Bustamante, 18, sat silently -- occasionally glancing at those testifying about her, often looking down or to the side -- as law enforcement officers, attorneys and forensics experts read aloud her inner most thoughts that she had recorded as a 15-year-old high school sophomore.

The most poignant part of Monday's testimony came when a handwriting expert described how he was able to see through the blue ink that Bustamante had used in an attempt to cover up her original journal entry on the night of Elizabeth's murder. He then read the entry aloud in court:

"I just f------ killed someone. I strangled them and slit their throat and stabbed them now they're dead. I don't know how to feel atm. It was ahmazing. As soon as you get over the "ohmygawd I can't do this" feeling, it's pretty enjoyable. I'm kinda nervous and shaky though right now. Kay, I gotta go to church now...lol."

The journal entry was presented to the judge not long after Elizabeth's mother and other relatives pleaded with Cole County Circuit Judge Pat Joyce to impose the maximum sentence. Bustamante pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action last month and faces at most a sentence of life in prison with a chance for parole. The least she could get is 10 years.

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Alyssa Bustamante sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole

(CBS/AP) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri teenager Alyssa Bustamante has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in the killing of a 9-year-old girl.

The 18-year-old was sentenced Wednesday in Cole Country Circuit Court. She pleaded guilty in January to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the October 2009 stabbing and strangling of her neighbor, Elizabeth Olten.

Bustamante's defense attorneys said in court that an abundance of the drug Prozac could have been a catalyst to her behavior. A consulting psychiatrist testified Monday afternoon that Bustamante's prescription for Prozac may have helped lead her to kill.

Missouri's News Tribune reports Dr. Edwin Johnstone told Cole County Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce that Prozac and several similar drugs were "showing an abundance of suicides and violent events, including homicides," he said.

Johnstone also testified that Bustamante received several different dosages of the drug over a two-year period -- including an increase to a higher dosage than ever before, only two weeks before the murder.

Prosecutor Mark Richardson noted the FDA never has determined that Prozac cause people to kill.

Law enforcement officers, attorneys and forensics experts read aloud the journal entries written by Bustamante when she was a 15-year-old high school sophomore.

The now 18-year-old wrote on the night of Elizabeth's murder:

"I just f------ killed someone. I strangled them and slit their throat and stabbed them now they're dead. I don't know how to feel atm. It was ahmazing. As soon as you get over the "ohmygawd I can't do this" feeling, it's pretty enjoyable. I'm kinda nervous and shaky though right now. Kay, I gotta go to church now...lol."

Bustamante, who was 15 at the time, had been charged with first-degree murder. However, by pleading guilty to the lesser charges, she avoided a trial and the possibility of spending her life in adult prison with no chance of release.

http://www.cbsnews.c...lity-of-parole/ [CBSNEWS]

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http://www.google.co...biw=940&bih=873 [Google Search] as alot of news outlet are picking it up

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