Sarah Kruzan: Sentenced to Life Without Parole at Age 16

[Alkaz]

But then you would know that she was groomed and raped as a 13 year old girl and then raped again for 3 years because of that monster.
He also did it to other girls if you listen.

[Japan]

She looks just like someone from my school =o
Anyway, isn't that sort of thing for serial killers, not teenagers who kill their abusers/rapists?

[Jordy]

What she did was pretty much just killing someone in defence and it's completely wrong that the Judge didn't take the circumstances into consideration. It's also wrong the fact that she is treated as an adult when she was infact a juvenile and should be treated accordingly.

[UKIP]

If she committed a murder in cold blood, an if she doesn't have any mental issues then she was in the right state of mind and she deserves to die in prison. Justice has, for once, been served. Although reading futher, if she did do this in self-defence, its an entirely different issue.

[Frisky]

In all honesty, noone really knows why she killed him. Noone was there except for him and her and at the end of the day, I think she's a bright girl and most cases like these tend to black people in America who get these charges so it's most likely a racist judge. It's been said in many articles for her case.

Now be honest, if your in that situation where your whole life you've been bought up like that, treated like ****, you would eventually get that adrenaline rush and say "No, I've had enough" and you would do the same thing.

[GommeInc]

But then you would know that she was groomed and raped as a 13 year old girl and then raped again for 3 years because of that monster.
He also did it to other girls if you listen.

She still killed someone... No matter who it was, she still committed murder. It's hard to say if the rape charges and prostituition issues were taken into account, but murder is murder :/

[Alkaz]

Ye, I know its different laws, different countries but I was reading an official report from a court and someone got away with just 12 years for killing 2 people and incest. When you compare it to things like that it doesnt add up.

[kk.]

Ridiculous that people are saying she deserved it. She was 16 at the time of sentencing. Thats still only classed as a young adult, verging on child. She committed a murder yes, but under certain circumstances, murder is not the worst thing that couldve happened. She could have contracted HIV or AIDs, passed this onto several people and died a horrible death. She killed a man which had sex with minors, had a chain of prostitutes and recruited minors and trained them up to be prostitutes.

A completely 'justified' murder. Punishment, yes. life without parol? No. She was young at the time, had been raped by the man, and has realised her wrong doings.

[ifuseekamy]

It is good that they charge people irrelevant of age, but I don't think this specific girl deserves to be incarcerated alongside sick-minded individuals who kill for fun because it's not the same thing.

[adaym]

Nothing can justify murder. Nothing.

Self defence isn't murder. I don't know the ins and outs of this story but if she murdered him then she deserves life. Simple.