Sunday, December 7, 2008

Baby-stabbing Teen Claims She "Panicked"

I wasn't going to comment on this one since it's been widely reported everywhere, but the latest headline in this saga just chapped my ass SO much that I had to say something.

Minnesota teen Nicole Beecroft was recently convicted of stabbing her newborn baby girl 135 times in April 2007. She gave birth in her mother's home in the wee hours of the morning, stabbed her baby repeatedly then dumped the tiny, mangled body in the trash can outside the house. She waived her right to a jury trial and a judge found her guilty of murder. Last Monday (Dec. 1) a judge sentenced her to life in prison without parole.

Her excuse for stabbing her baby 135 times (can't repeat that number enough, can we)? She "just panicked." No, no, no. "Panick" is screaming like a fool, dropping the baby, dumping it alive in the trash, something like that.

Stabbing a tiny, helpless baby 135 times is evil. The kind of evil that I am sure has earned Nicole Beecroft a nice, warm spot in hell.

You can read the "I panicked" excuse and watch a video here: http://ksax.com/article/stories/S690325.shtml?cat=10230

Of course, her attorney, realizing the "I panicked" defense probably wouldn't cut it in court, went with the "she stabbed an already dead baby" defense. That's right folks, her attorney said the baby was already dead -- stillborn -- so it was OK for her to stab it 135 times.

Maybe I'm off base here, but I think anyone who could inflict that kind of damage on a newborn, even a dead one, is a seriously evil, sick individual who needs to be kept away from the rest of society forever.

Thankfully, it seems justice was served in this case. Beecroft, who'd made a list of more than 150 things she wanted to do when she got out of prison, including get her nails done, will never leave prison alive. It's that sense of entitlement to going free -- her assumption that she'd get off on a murder rap and go unpunished for this vile crime -- that raises Nicole Beecroft to the level of supreme teen terror in my book.

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