Posted on 11/18/2009 11:23:31 AM PST by freespirited
Alyssa Bustamante, 15, has been certified as an adult and will stand trial for the murder of Elizabeth Olten, 9, of rural Cole County.
Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem ruled today the crime was vicious and the state’s juvenile facilities are inadequate to deal with someone who would commit such a crime.
Law enforcement testified that Bustamante had led them to the shallow grave in the woods where Olten’s body was found two days after she went missing. One officer testified in court today that Bustamante had told investigators she did it “because she wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone.”
The grand jury indictment accuses Bustamante of killing Olten by strangling her, cutting her throat and stabbing her. She’s also charged with armed criminal action for using a knife in the attack.
The charges were shortly after Bustamante had been certified to stand trial as an adult. She’s being held in the Cole County jail with no bond.
Records show the suspect has attempted suicide in the past and has had ongoing mental evaluations.
Olten’s family members attending the hearing wore pink T-shirts with her picture.
Bustamante’s defense attorney asked the judge to let her stand trial as a juvenile, saying trying her as an adult would be a death sentence.
Olten disappeared Oct. 21, when she was on her way home from a friend’s house about a half a mile from her home.
The left believes what they believe because of a very basic error -
“people are basically good”.
All of their beliefs stem from this basic erroneous assumption.
“Bustamante’s defense attorney asked the judge to let her stand trial as a juvenile, saying trying her as an adult would be a death sentence.”
As opposed to the mercy she showed her victim?
I think that's only when s suspect is set to be tried as a juvenile, the idea being that a juvenile isn't to have the crime "follow" him or her into adulthood. If they're being tried as an adult, it wouldn't matter.
Mark
I am far less interested in opinion psychology than physical examination.
That is, there are maybe 200 neurochemicals, 150 cytokines in the immune system, 65 or so hormones, and 50 or so liver chemicals in the human body. There is also a blend of hundreds of different species of viruses, bacteria, and other microorganisms producing a vast number of chemicals and interactions in the body. It is nonsensically complex.
And amazingly powerful. Change the levels of a single hormone, and you could gain or lose 50 pounds in three weeks, grow hair all over your body. Futz around with some neurons in your brain, and your leg will kick, you will smell lavender, or you will see demons about to eat you.
Sure, you can learn things by talking with people. But you can write books if you clinically examine them.
Hang the little bitch dont care what was bothering her when you hurt some else you should be hung this girl was the poster child of innocence she killed!
Little cunt give me a baseball bat and 5 minutes alone with her!
yes, it’s a picture from his trial or one of his appeal trials, I have some of the newspaper articles from back then.
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