Posted on 01/13/2009 5:26:29 AM PST by MrEdd
* Girl abused for years * Kills stepfather after forced into oral sex * May not have acted in self-defence, court told
A VICTORIAN teenager has been ordered to stand trial for the murder of her stepfather who allegedly took nearly 10,000 pornographic pictures of her in four years.
The Shepparton Magistrates' Court was told that on March 13 last year, the stepdaughter shot the 34-year-old in the back of the head to put an end to daily sexual abuse that began when she was 14.
The man's dismembered torso was unearthed in a shallow grave in the backyard of their Mooroopna home on April 9 and further remains were discovered two days later at a campsite nearby at Old Toolamba, in Victoria's north.
The teenager, now 19, has pleaded not guilty to murder.
Her defence barrister Peter Chadwick told the court on the night of his death, the woman's stepfather ordered the accused to go to a shed at the back of their home where he demanded she perform oral sex on him.
Mr Chadwick told the court when the teenager declined, citing a sore throat, the stepfather removed a shotgun from his gun cabinet, loaded it and asked her to rethink her answer.
After she performed the act, she moved behind him and seeing the loaded shotgun lying on the ground, picked it up and fired it at the back of his head.
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Maybe you're not stupid but in denial..
Were you abused as a child (or adult) ?...
You're probably right. Even if the killing did not technically fall under self-defense, I can't see a prosecutor putting this in front of a jury. All the defense needs is a couple of people on the jury who believe (rightfully so, IMO) that the "victim" here was a waste of oxygen.
Agree but why didn’t she tell the cops or someone else that may have helped her?
Because most victims of sexual abuse, especially women, can't "just walk away". The stepfather had years of power over her, and probably made her believe the authorities wouldn't help. This is why she's going to need some heavy-duty counseling for a long, long time.
Your cluelessness is only exceeded by your hubris.
He had been abusing and raping the child for years. "So she didn't have to do it again" sounds like self-defense to me.
Who knows the kinds of threats he had made toward her if she refused him or threatened to run away...that he would find her and kill her? He certainly threatened to kill her if she didn't obey him this time. She used the evidence of that threat to kill him so he wouldn't do it again.
Are you a guy?
Sounds like self-defense to me.
Re: just what’s so stupid about walking away
First, where is she going to go?
Second, what about the 10,000 pictures?
No guilt in any way if the facts in the article are even remotely true. In fact, the prosecutor should be brought up on charges for inflicting additional guilt on the poor girl.
And now the authorities are proving it, and other victims are taking note. Even a shed full of bondage porn may not suffice to prove a child is a victim.
Good for her, justice has been served.
That is why grown women will not walk away from sexual abuse and the physical threat of a shotgun is a real reason to accede to the sexual demands.
So yes I feel you are a male and it is easier for a male to leave once he becomes old enough.
This girl delivered her own justice and he deserved to be killed. I understand the dismemberment was to relieve her anger.
Since the state now is going to pile on the prosecution, I will be pleasantly surprised if she survives to trial. She is likely to suicide under the prosecution from authorities that failed to save her in the first place.
Not sensitive. Calling you out. What you posted is an outright lie. Care to dispute it with the truth? You denigrate my adopted state with falsehoods and expect me to allow you and the many other FReepers cast aspersions upon those of us who call CA home for better or worse?
I don’t think VA is much better FRiend, rocks and glass houses come to mind.
SZ
I think that is a case of bad writing. I assume (I know, I know) that what is meant is thst the stepfather had forbid her seeing this guy but she took up with him 3 days after dear old stepabusers death.
Excellent!
Good news. Thanks for the update.
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