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Mo. teen gets life with possible parole in killing
AP ^ | 2/8/12 | David Lieb

Posted on 02/08/2012 8:24:18 AM PST by mgstarr

A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Bustamante was 15 years old when she confessed to strangling Elizabeth, repeatedly stabbing her in the chest and slicing the girl's throat. She led police to the shallow grave where she had concealed Elizabeth's body under a blanket of leaves in the woods behind their neighborhood.

"I know words," she said, pausing to take a deep breath and struggling to compose herself, "can never be enough and they can never adequately describe how horribly I feel for all of this."

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Elizabeth's mother, Patty Preiss, who on the first day of Bustamante's sentencing hearing called her "an evil monster" and declared that she "hated her" sat silently, staring forward during Bustamante's apology.

The teenager's defense attorneys had argued for a sentence less than life in prison, saying Bustamante's use of the antidepressant Prozac had made her more prone to violence. They said she had suffered from depression for years and once attempted suicide by overdosing on painkillers.

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"I strangled them and slit their throat and stabbed them now they're dead," Bustamante wrote in her diary, which was read in court by a handwriting expert. "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 then headed off to a youth dance at her church while a massive search began for the missing girl.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: cruel; evil; monster; wicked
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.

Who is ‘them’???

This girl was seriously freaked-out.


21 posted on 02/08/2012 11:25:16 AM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: heartwood
Since this is turning into a thread on prison conditions, I'll weigh in too. I am absolutely opposed to “prison rape” and allowing prisoners to be beaten or harassed by other prisoners, period. I don't care who the prisoner is — whether its this killer or John Wayne Gacy.

First, most people who are raped in prison are smaller, weaker inmates. Many are in for drug charges and don't remotely deserve to be raped — tortured — in prison. Second, even for people who commit more heinous crimes, its society's job to punish them, not the inmates. Inmates aren't raping or beating up other inmates to serve justice. They are doing it because they are sick, sadistic animals who get off on hurting people.

If we want a severe penalty for people like this killer, fine. Let society impose one. But putting people in jail on the hope that they get raped or beat up is wrong.

22 posted on 02/08/2012 11:37:56 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: GourmetDan

She needs to be kept in a cage for the rest of her life. What a horrible demonic creature.


23 posted on 02/08/2012 11:41:31 AM PST by HollyB
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To: HollyB

While I’m convinced that a ‘horrible demonic creature’ was involved, I don’t think it was her. She just opened herself up to it somehow. Either the drugs or the lifestyle or both.

God still loves her and her victim is safe.

Doesn’t mean I think she should get out, just don’t hate her. It’s not good for your spirit.


24 posted on 02/08/2012 11:45:48 AM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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25 posted on 02/08/2012 1:17:54 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: GourmetDan

Please GourmetDan, save the sermon about how I should or should not feel. This is about her, she’s a psychopath. I don’t care what was involved. Have you seen the videos of her laughing when she entices her little brothers to grab an electric fence? She’s a sick chick.


26 posted on 02/08/2012 1:52:01 PM PST by HollyB
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To: zerosix

That’s good to hear you aren’t cheering it. The male counterpart of the 300 lb. tattooed butch, the 300 lb. cellmate named Bubba, always makes an appearance here when some murderer deserving of the death penalty doesn’t get it, and far too many FReepers seem to regard prison rape as compensatory justice. Even for lesser crimes than rape or murder.

Our prison system could in fact greatly reduce the rape that occurs. Those who run it, those who work in it, choose not to.


27 posted on 02/08/2012 3:23:09 PM PST by heartwood
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To: heartwood
How prison are run or the crimes that are committed in them is yet another conversation.

This article from my neighboring state, MO, offends everyone's sensibilities. The fact that this teen could barely remember her lawyer's words of repentance was pitiful to the victim's relatives.

It should be obvious to many that this girl has yet to come to the realization that what she did was morally reprehensible to everyone, not merely the family of the victim.

Our local radio talk show following Rush was handling calls and making statements questioning the teen's grandmother, who is raising the girl.

Excuse me, but where this girl has spent most of her waking hours need to be receiving the most scrutiny - her school, friends and "entertainment (including all tv shows and movies.)

The hosts of the show questioned grandma's not having looked at the girl's shocking photos on her facebook page! I daresay, grandma might not even know how to get online much less, have her own acct. with facebook to even look at her granddaughter's photos!

What she has been learning (or not learning), teachers' opinions and lack of morality that is illegal in education, especially the NEA, shares a far greater blame but in the end, this girl is over the age of reason so she, herself, is responsible and therefore will be receiving the full punishment of the law, save capital punishment.

28 posted on 02/08/2012 3:51:49 PM PST by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
If your comment that sending her to prison "in the hope that she gets rape" might mean my comment but you are way off base there.

I did comment on the reality that she will face in an adult prison for serious felons like her did not in any way indicate that I think that she or anyone at all deserve any abuse, much less "rape."

As to the heinous and despicable acts of some in prison, it is my believe that it is these people who actually deserve a death penalty for they merely continue to victimize society, in or out of prison. It is they that do not deserve to live with humanity, the guilty or the innocent.

It is my prayer that this girl, come to recognize her poverty of morality, come to understand that her victim's life was precious and that she stole that life, that she come to understand that she deserves to be punished for her deeds and that asking for any kind of clemency(which she will probably get at some later date), but that as she denied the right of her victim to live, she should pay with her own life and accept that fact. Anything less from her is an injustice to murder victims every where.

29 posted on 02/08/2012 4:10:01 PM PST by zerosix (native sunflower)
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