Abused girl, 14, gets probation for killing her father

A 14-year-old Pennsylvania girl will be on probation until she is 21 after admitting she killed her father with a blast from a 12-gauge shotgun.

The girl accepted an offer to be adjudicated delinquent, the juvenile court equivalent to guilty, according to reports.

She admitted killing her 34-year-old father rather than face more years of sexual and physical abuse. Authorities said the father and daughter lived in conditions that they described as incredible.

"The district attorney's office has been very progressive and enlightened regarding this issue. We're grateful to the DA's office for understanding that even though my client committed a very serious offense, she was also a victim and endured substantial and repeated trauma at the hands of her father," defense attorney Patrick Nightingale told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

To find out more about the case and the deplorable conditions in which the girl lived, you can read the Post-Gazette's article here.

-- Lance Murray

Comments

[Ms.Angry]

I feel that the young lady should not have gotten anytime.The reason I say this is because her father the man that was suppose to protect her from danger was causing her harm.If you cannot trust your parents who can you trust? By giving this young lady probation you are telling her that it was okay that her father was abusing her.I feel he got what he deserved.

[Steve Hutchings / Ft. Worth]

I believe this is a fabricated story by special interest groups like NOW to brainwash society's view of men and get more bias policy in favor of women, but IF the story is legit, it just proves how backwards america is by not holding women and 14 year old girls accountable for their actions to the same degree, like this pathetic country does men and 6 year old boys.

I will be surprised if this comment makes the post. Moderator is another word for censorship.

[TLC]

Good grief!!! Steve - did you read what you typed before you submitted it?? The good for nothing father was forcing sex on his DAUGHTER... he should have been shot. You obviously have never had anything like that happen to you or you would feel the same way. These days the men that do this to their own children don't get punished as they should and the children suffer. This young girl will NEVER be normal, she will (I hope) learn to cope but her father ruined her life.