imthemom
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In 1992, Illinois became the first state to consider parents accomplices to first-degree murder if they don't protect their children. That's when an appellate court upheld the conviction of Kimberly Novy of Shiloh, Ill., saying that although she'd been battered by her husband and may not have caused her stepson's fatal injuries, her actions -- and inaction -- made her responsible for his murder. She is serving 30 years. The following year, Illinois prosecuted Kathy Cecil of Wood River for the first-degree murder of her 2-year-old son, Michael. She didn't participate in his fatal beating and had been repeatedly punched, choked and raped by her lover for months. Cecil, now 31, was sentenced to 35 years in jail.
http://my.brandeis.edu/news/item?news_item_id=103838&show_release_date=1
I don't feel a bit sorry for these women. They chose this, their children did not. I know they were trying to get this woman in Illinois freed. I hope she never gets out. I would let someone beat me to death before I would let them
harm my child and in such a horrible way!!
http://www.freekathy.org/law.shtml This is a link to overturn Kathy's conviction.
http://my.brandeis.edu/news/item?news_item_id=103838&show_release_date=1
I don't feel a bit sorry for these women. They chose this, their children did not. I know they were trying to get this woman in Illinois freed. I hope she never gets out. I would let someone beat me to death before I would let them
harm my child and in such a horrible way!!
http://www.freekathy.org/law.shtml This is a link to overturn Kathy's conviction.