Shake her hand.
Then hang her.
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There is no statute of limitations on murder crimes.
The shrink can go to hell. What a stupid simp.
“He said he suspects Trottier’s actions were motivated by fear and self-preservation.”
Times were very different then. We had not gotten to the child sacrifice level we are now. This defense does not hold water. She committed murder, and I wonder how she has lived with herself unless she is a sociopath.
For all you out there wanting to blame only her - think about all the people who would have condemned her for having a baby out of wedlock. Family members too. Maybe her husband.
Girls who got pregnant in those days were severely punished. The guys just walked away, sometimes with a smile.
Let whoever is without sin cast the first stone.
Charge her.
Candidate for a presidential pardon is an option, presuming penitence.
41 years later, she still lives with the guilt but served no time in prison.
At this age, what good does sending her to prison do? Isn't one of the purposes of prison to rehabilitate the guilty? I think she has already fulfilled that requirement. The only ones who are going to suffer now with her going to prison are her existing family who had nothing to do with her crime.
I don't want to be on that jury, I'll leave any judgment of her up to God......
“The baby, whom the police named Rebecca, was discovered in the woods on the Valley City State University campus in April 1981. The body had plastic covering her face, and the umbilicle cord was still attached.”
No good deeds can erase Nancys cold callous actions, or failure to step forward after all these years.