A 16-year-old was babysitting his girlfriend’s 23-month-old son. The baby wouldn’t stop crying so he covered the boy’s head with a pillow and punched him in the head until his brain bled. The child died. At trial, the teen sobbed and screamed that he’d loved him. Then the judge read out a phone call he’d made from jail and it ended him.
The boy’s name was Austin Smith. He was 23 months old. The 16-year-old, Dylan, was left alone to watch him and when Austin wouldn’t settle, he smothered him with a pillow and beat him in the head with his fists. The toddler suffered a brain hemorrhage and died.
In the courtroom, Dylan put on a performance. He cried hard. He screamed that he never meant to kill anyone, that he loved little Austin, that it was all a terrible mistake. For a moment, it almost looked like it might work on the jury.
Then the judge pulled out a recording a call Dylan had made to his own mother from jail, before the trial. On it, in his own voice, he’d laid out the plan: “I’m a 16-year-old blond kid. I just need to cry in front of the jury and they’ll feel sorry for me.”
He hadn’t been grieving. He’d been rehearsing.
The judge handed him the maximum: 25 years to life.
So here’s what splits people: is 25-to-life too heavy for a 16-year-old who still has a whole life ahead of him or does a boy who kills a baby for crying, then coldly games the court with fake tears, deserve to never walk free at all?
@JensenHuang will start something else.
Elsewhere if it needs to be.
Somewhere with less restriction and lower production cost.
It doesn't have to be here.
@KaceeRAllen Everyone in Asia believes she's a Chinese spy. They said her husband introduced her to Jensen Huang and he's fine with the affair. 🤮
Sadly, its-real controls everything, except the CCP, which is just as e-ful
@roaneatan When Asians in Western countries keep a low profile, they’re criticized for being selfish and introverted.
When they step up and fulfill their civic duty by joining the military or police, they’re criticized for that too.
Honestly, what are they supposed to do?
ISIS burnt the biggest Church in Iraq.
They failed to burn it to the ground.
"There was no cross when I came here... I removed it and placed the cross."
ISIS burnt over 132 Church properties & Iraq has only restored a handful.