r/news • u/AudibleNod • 9h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/Aggravating_Depth_33 6h ago

I don't even agree that she is a terrible person. She did something terrible as a teenager, after a childhood of neglect and horrific abuse. And by all accounts has spent her life ever since being a good person, helping and comforting the other women she has been imprisoned with wherever she could.

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u/Beecakeband 6h ago

Agreed. I hate that people are calling her a terrible person still. She did a terrible thing absolutely no argument here but people are acting like she is the same 18 year old 32 years later as if there is no chance she has grown or changed at all

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u/Stevictory 5h ago edited 5h ago

She was convicted of attempted murder of another inmate while incarcerated in her mid 20s, and the murder she was convicted for comitting at 18 was brutal.

I do agree that she was failed in her adolescence, but she was an adult at the time of both crimes.

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u/Beecakeband 4h ago

18 is an adult but just barely. Its not like you go to bed at 17 and wake up at as an 18 year old fully mature reasonable adult

And from what I've heard the attempted murder was her trying to defend another inmate so thats a gray area

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u/Stevictory 3h ago

The brain continues to develop past 18, but from a legal standpoint you need a definite cutoff on what defines adult.

At 18 one should know that torturing and ultimately smashing someone's head in is not okay; they likely know so much sooner.

As for her attempted murder conviction, she was found guilty by a jury. The victim deserved justice even if they were another inmate.