That's completely misleading to begin a news article: "A Dallas teenager was sentenced to 40 years in prison for drowning the baby her mother had been caring for" and then to end it with oh, but actually she's just going to juvie and she'll be eligible to be released in five years.
And sure, she'll walk when she's 19 because the only
education" she'll get locked up is that which she wants to get: How To Get Away With Murder 101. There'll be plenty of her kind in there teaching her how to fake empathy and remorse, and by the time she's up for release, she'll be so good at it that it'll be like taking candy from a baby (or drowning one, if you're her.)
I think normal people are born with empathy, absolutely. When my twins were just infants, I mean 8 months old or so, when one was in distress, the other would become
alarmed and look for me or my husband to make sure we were on it, and the concerned one would pat the other on the back as though to comfort her.... there was no question that when one needed help, the other had a "built in" something that just knew that helping was the right thing to do. But then, they were normal kids, not some self-entitled asshat who had the audacity to say of her mother, "She should've listened." When I read that I just wanted to slap her shitless. No, evil one, YOU should've listened... to any shred of a conscience you may have, or at least to some common sense that takes over when most people get a horrible notion like that in their minds.
She offered to take care of that baby the night before, and even so, still she slept soundly... knowing that she was going to take an innocent life in the morning.... the people she was going to destroy in the
process.... knowing that a young mother would, because of her actions, learn that her daughter was dead. She KNEW this and couldn't conjure a single fuck to give!
I don't think empathy can be taught and in her case, I don't really care. I hope that vile bitch Karma takes her out before she's free to harm anyone else. I don't care how old she is, her young age only makes it more frightening: a body can do a lot of damage when they've already begun murdering at age 14.
That baby wasn't even crying, ffs, it was asleep! So many of the stories here have in common "Well, the baby wouldn't stop crying so I threw it against the wall" or some other ridiculous excuse (the logic that harming a crying baby will soothe it and make the crying stop is so ludicrous, yet it's in so many of these stories.) But not in this one. All this one did was sleep quietly, and only cried when she was taken from her bed and began the process of being murdered.
Parole in 5 years my ass. Insufferable cunt.