generally I am an opponant of the death penalty...
...but reading a description of how Haleigh Poutre was treated by her adoptive parents makes me believe they should be killed. I cannot find a part of me that tolerates the life of people like that. It may exist somewhere but it's nowhere accessible at the moment. She was 11 years old.
Some of descriptions of the abuse from the nytimes:
Mr. Strickland's criminal case further complicates things. He is charged with assault and battery, accused of striking Haleigh once with an open hand and once with a plastic toy, and of not stopping Ms. Strickland when she committed more serious assaults, like hitting Haleigh with a baseball bat and kicking her existing bruises.
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A baby sitter and friend of the Stricklands, Alicia Weiss, testified at a pretrial hearing in Mr. Strickland's case that Haleigh frequently hoarded food, behavior that enraged her parents and caused them to hit her.
Ms. Weiss ... testified that last summer she saw Ms. Strickland kick Haleigh down the cellar stairs three times in a row.
"Holli had told me that Haleigh's behavior was so bad that this was the means of discipline," said Ms. Weiss, who did not report such incidents at the time.
Rebecca Blanchard, a nurse at Baystate Medical Center, testified that when Haleigh came in with the brain injury, Ms. Strickland told a story that was medically impossible, saying that Haleigh had been speaking that morning, and that the Stricklands said they believed Haleigh was suffering from "flulike symptoms."
Ms. Blanchard said, "They made no mention of the cut in the back of the head, the burns on her chest, the broken teeth."
Some of descriptions of the abuse from the nytimes:
Mr. Strickland's criminal case further complicates things. He is charged with assault and battery, accused of striking Haleigh once with an open hand and once with a plastic toy, and of not stopping Ms. Strickland when she committed more serious assaults, like hitting Haleigh with a baseball bat and kicking her existing bruises.
...
A baby sitter and friend of the Stricklands, Alicia Weiss, testified at a pretrial hearing in Mr. Strickland's case that Haleigh frequently hoarded food, behavior that enraged her parents and caused them to hit her.
Ms. Weiss ... testified that last summer she saw Ms. Strickland kick Haleigh down the cellar stairs three times in a row.
"Holli had told me that Haleigh's behavior was so bad that this was the means of discipline," said Ms. Weiss, who did not report such incidents at the time.
Rebecca Blanchard, a nurse at Baystate Medical Center, testified that when Haleigh came in with the brain injury, Ms. Strickland told a story that was medically impossible, saying that Haleigh had been speaking that morning, and that the Stricklands said they believed Haleigh was suffering from "flulike symptoms."
Ms. Blanchard said, "They made no mention of the cut in the back of the head, the burns on her chest, the broken teeth."
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