Today, a worthless creature named Alyssa Bustamante is back in court, in Cole County, Missouri, because in October of 2009, when she was fifteen years old, she violently murdered nine year old Elizabeth Olten, dumped her into a hole which she had already dug, and left her for two days, before finally telling authorities what had happened to Elizabeth. The court has already accepted her guilty plea to second degree murder, although this murder was obviously planned and therefore first degree murder, and today's appearance in court is for sentencing.
It's pretty much going as could be expected......the defense wants as much mercy and leniency as possible because their client has a mental illness and was on prozac at the time of the murder. The prosecution wants to put Bustamante away for life. It's a shame Bustamante is not eligable for the death penalty. She was fifteen when she murdered a nine year old, so she can only get life with a possibility of parole after eighty-five percent of her sentence is served. Elizabeth Olten's mother, Patty Preiss, stated while testifying, that Bustamante is an "evil monster". That statement seems pretty logical and accurate, since prozac does not incite murder, despite what the defense would purport. But the defense objected to a grieving mom calling a murderer a monster, because insane killers are obviously just misunderstood, not monsters.
Well golly gee! She's not a monster.......and it's all the prozac's fault! In that case, here's an idea: why not make the prescribing physician take responsibility for what happened to Elizabeth? If mental illness and the drugs used to treat it are that dangerous, shouldn't a responsible doctor have ordered Bustamante into a locked facility? She did, after all, have a history of violent behavior. No? That's not practical or possible? Ok, then; Bustamante must be an evil monster, and it should be okay to say so in court. Or perhaps, since she has a mental illness and is just "misunderstood", we should call her a mentally invalid monster. Maybe even an unsupervised spoiled brat.
Since I do not think Bustamante deserves any more attention, I will not post any pictures of her here. Below are some pictures of Elizabeth Olten, and of the funeral.
Update: the monster in question was sentenced today to life with the possibility of parole.
It's pretty much going as could be expected......the defense wants as much mercy and leniency as possible because their client has a mental illness and was on prozac at the time of the murder. The prosecution wants to put Bustamante away for life. It's a shame Bustamante is not eligable for the death penalty. She was fifteen when she murdered a nine year old, so she can only get life with a possibility of parole after eighty-five percent of her sentence is served. Elizabeth Olten's mother, Patty Preiss, stated while testifying, that Bustamante is an "evil monster". That statement seems pretty logical and accurate, since prozac does not incite murder, despite what the defense would purport. But the defense objected to a grieving mom calling a murderer a monster, because insane killers are obviously just misunderstood, not monsters.
Well golly gee! She's not a monster.......and it's all the prozac's fault! In that case, here's an idea: why not make the prescribing physician take responsibility for what happened to Elizabeth? If mental illness and the drugs used to treat it are that dangerous, shouldn't a responsible doctor have ordered Bustamante into a locked facility? She did, after all, have a history of violent behavior. No? That's not practical or possible? Ok, then; Bustamante must be an evil monster, and it should be okay to say so in court. Or perhaps, since she has a mental illness and is just "misunderstood", we should call her a mentally invalid monster. Maybe even an unsupervised spoiled brat.
Since I do not think Bustamante deserves any more attention, I will not post any pictures of her here. Below are some pictures of Elizabeth Olten, and of the funeral.
Update: the monster in question was sentenced today to life with the possibility of parole.
