In November 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk, desperate to make friends, joined a group of teenagers drinking under a bridge in British Columbia, Canada.
She never made it home.
That night, eight of the teens, seven of them girls, attacked her. One girl put out a lit cigarette on her forehead while the others punched and kicked her.
Bleeding, Reena managed to get away and started crossing the bridge toward home.
But two of her attackers, 15-year-old Kelly Ellard and 16-year-old Warren Glowatski, a boy Reena had never even met, decided to follow her into the dark.
They beat her unconscious and held her head underwater until she drowned. Her body was found eight days later.
Six girls were convicted of assault for the first beating. Ellard and Glowatski were convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
In prison, Glowatski showed remorse. He met Reena's parents and apologized for helping kill their daughter. In 2010, he was granted full parole.
It took three trials to convict Ellard, and for years she insisted she was innocent. In 2016, while still in prison, she got pregnant during a conjugal visit. A year later, she was granted day parole.
🇸🇦Saudi: You 🇺🇸America, you destroyed our future. Before you bombed 🇮🇷Iran everything was great. Now our $100 billion investor dream is dead.
🇺🇸US: We armed you and shared intel for years against the Houthis.
🇸🇦Saudi: Your Iran war let the Houthis rain missiles on our airport and kill civilians.
🇸🇦Saudi: Now Exxon, Shell and the rest canceled our energy summit and our $100 billion investor target is collapsing.
🇺🇸US: Blaming us won’t reopen the airport or fix the security hole that scared them off.
🇸🇦Saudi: You promised we’d be protected and then left us exposed while the missiles kept coming.
🇺🇸US: We have midterms right now, maybe after that we can look at it.
🇸🇦Saudi: So Vision 2030 is just a fantasy if we can’t even keep Riyadh open for business.
Context: ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, and others were dropped from a major energy summit in Riyadh.
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