Trigger for discussion of domestic violence and killing:






UGH. The case I mentioned before, the 14 year old who shot his father after his father spent years abusing the mother: that child is being charged with murder as an adult. The actual shooting happened just over the county line as it turned out, so the neighboring county with the super conservator zealot prosecutor had the case. I am so so so sad and angry for this boy. He's a child who grew up in a horrible environment and whose parents utterly failed him. This just sucks so much. I get that he had to be prosecuted because the killing was clearly premeditated and not even in the heat of passion, but there's no reason not to leave him in the juvenile system.