Md. Girl Accused of Soliciting Dad's Killing on Bus

Foxnews ^ | 5/28/2009 | Staff

[Red in Blue PA]

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Danielle Black wasn't shy about it: She told her peers she wanted her father hurt, maybe even dead.

So when Billy Lee Black was fatally stabbed in the alley behind their rented duplex on Halloween, it didn't take police long to question his 15-year-old daughter, who told friends her father had physically abused her.

Danielle, a smart but troubled sophomore at South Hagerstown High School, is charged as an adult with soliciting first-degree murder by asking a boy on her school bus to kill her father.

A judge was to decide Thursday whether to refer her to juvenile authorities or order an adult trial with the prospect of a life sentence. Danielle maintains she's innocent, said her lawyer, Mary M. Drawbaugh.

[camle]

one wonders whether dad did mistreat the daughter, or if she’s using the ‘abuse excuse’

[DuncanWaring]

My vote’s on the latter.

[SJSAMPLE]

Danielle, a smart but troubled sophomore at South Hagerstown High School, is charged as an adult with soliciting first-degree murder by asking a boy on her school bus to kill her father.

Troubled? Sure.
Smart? The opposite has been demonstrated.

Do "journalists" get paid to write sophomoric prose?

[fso301]

I can imagine what payment negotiations were like

[camle]

barring independent confirmation of her ‘charges’ I’m with you, old cynic that I yam

[bill1952]

Danielle maintains she’s innocent, said her lawyer, Mary M. Drawbaugh...

Then she should have no problem with being tried as an adult.

[from occupied ga]

GUILTY

[gathersnomoss]

Far Out, Man!