Close Open Details "You've confessed to beating a child to death with a hammer, that's a little bit more than anger issues, wouldn't you agree?" Derstine asks.
Derstine says "beating a child to death with a hammer is more than anger issues" - wouldn't you agree?
McClinitic says" there were many things at play that day - I will not make excuses"
Derstine asks if the poems/letters are "deeply disturbing, violent imagery". She says they are
McClintic asked about threatening family members in letters. "Not proud of who I was" she says.
Derstine asks if the letters are just talk. She says she was a different person.
McClintic says before a stand off in a detention centre, she was a different person. She cried for the first time in ten years.
She was more in touch with her feelings after the incident. Before that "anything but anger was unsafe". Thought emotions made her weak.
McClintic said her personality changed She went 10 years without crying, got in touch with emotions "Anything but anger was unsafe
McClintic said her angry, violent image kept her safe for years, never wanted to feel vulnerable
Derstine: you have confessed under oath to beating a child with a hammer, that's a little bit more than anger issues, wouldn't you agree?