Crazy Crime Week

So, it's been a pretty crazy week for the rehashing of old crimes. First, Susan Atkins (the despicable woman who murdered the pregnant Sharon Tate, and others) passed away with brain cancer, after having her appeal to be "compassionately released" due to her illness denied. And now I hear that Roman Polanski was finally arrested in Switzerland, though not on the charges of raping an underage girl. Hm.

Since I don't know all the details of the Polanski case, I'm going to decline to comment aside from this little snippet: If his arrest has anything to do with him finally taking responsibility for raping a 13 year old girl, then I hope he get what he deserves.

Moving on, I do have a few more opinions about Susan Atkins, who brutally murdered a pregnant, innocent, unarmed woman. Here is an extremely brief rundown of what happened. An upper-echelon member of the Manson Family, a cult began and led by Charles Manson, Susan Atkins was 19 when she began listening to the drug-fueled rants of the Family's leader. After being told to go with fellow members to the home of Roman Polanski and Susan Tate, she and her accomplices violently murdered every person in the house (a total of four). Eventually, she and her accomplices were caught and put on trial. At this trial, she taunted the courtroom audience by saying "You best lock your doors and watch your own kids..." She and the others were found guilty and sentenced to (death originally, but California removed the death penalty a few years later) life in prison. Over the course of her incarceration, she had nearly 11 parole hearings, at each of which, she was denied parole. During her nearly 40 years in prison, Susan found the Lord and began teaching Sunday School classes for other inmates. Upon being diagnosed with a brain tumor, she requested a "compassionate release" from prison so that she could spend her remaining days with her family (a request which was ultimately denied). Susan died on Sep. 24th, still in prison.

Ok. That wasn't as brief as I expected, but I tried. Anyway, this woman was a monster. I'm glad that she found solace in the Lord and spent some of her time in prison gathering others to do the same, but it was too little, too late. She murdered a pregnant woman. Seriously. And felt no remorse after doing so. She's lucky she lived a long, healthy life (getting married twice while in prison), receiving conjugal visits, 3 square meals a day, not working. That's more than Sharon Tate can say. I could really go on and on about this, but I won't. I personally don't like to think about it, but I just hope that the families of those that were murdered by Manson's followers someday find peace. That is all. For now.