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Barbie Latza Nadeau, author of the Beast Book Angel Face, about Amanda Knox, has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.
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Is the real Amanda Knox the sex-obsessed, cold-blooded murderer that the prosecution depicted? Or worse?
Amanda Knox should be finishing college and polishing her résumé for her first job. She should be buying Christmas presents for her friends. She should be falling in love. But so should Meredith Kercher, the British woman Knox was just convicted of killing. Knox, who was sentenced to 26 years in prison for sexual assault, murder, staging a crime scene, and criminal defamation, will one day walk out of prison. She will likely be out in time to marry and have children, should she chose to. Kercher has been wiped from existence.
“You are a mother, too,” she often said. “How would you feel if this was your child? You have got to believe me. She didn’t do this.”
• Barbie Latza Nadeau: Amanda Knox’s Next MoveKnox is a convicted murderess but she is not necessarily an assassin. She is a 22-year-old woman who followed a dream to study in Perugia, but instead found herself in an unthinkable situation that led her to Capanne Prison just outside of town. She has a recognizable face, but she is no longer the young woman from the pictures taken on November 2, 2007, snuggling outside the crime scene with her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who was also convicted for Kercher’s murder. Back then, Knox seemed naïve and carefree. Now she is withered. The lines in her face are deep with concern.
Just who Amanda Knox really is has been the most difficult puzzle to solve in the two years since Kercher was killed. Her family is so certain of her innocence, so completely sure she had nothing to do with the murder. They happily flip through scrapbooks and laugh with stories of her childhood. “She is quirky, sure,” Curt Knox once admitted over a Coca-Cola at a café in Perugia. “She is an original, but she is not a murderess.”
Even before the verdict came in, Amanda’s mother, Edda Mellas, could not stop crying. She cried constantly, a mother’s pain almost unbearable to watch at times. “You are a mother, too,” she often said. “How would you feel if this was your child?” Last summer over too many beers at the Joyce Pub in Perugia, she held my hand and pleaded that Amanda was misunderstood. “You have got to believe me,” she cried. “She didn’t do this.”
Parents will often do anything—even lie—to protect their children, but there is no doubt that Knox and Mellas are telling what they believe is the truth. They believed Amanda. In intercepted prison visits, they discussed what they called “the mistake.” Amanda felt so sure that she would get to go home. She told her mother time and time again that “they will figure this out.” And that “they will realize it wasn’t me.” Amanda’s parents were assured along the way that their Italian lawyers could break down the prosecution’s “weak” case. They were given reason to believe that Amanda would use the December 9 airline ticket they bought her. “There is no way the jury can find her guilty based on the evidence presented,” Curt Knox said recently. “There is absolutely nothing that ties her to this case.”
The jury thought otherwise. They convicted her unanimously, the disagreement was only on whether or not to give her a life sentence. “A life sentence would have been a death penalty,” one juror said. “They were too young and there was no motivation for the murder.”
Still, they believed wholeheartedly that she was involved. They valued the forensic evidence that Amanda’s parents say does not exist. They wondered why Amanda’s DNA and Meredith’s blood was wiped away and recovered with Luminol. They thought it was Raffaele’s bloody footprint on the bathroom rug and his DNA on Meredith’s bra clasp. They believed the prosecutor’s testimony that Meredith’s DNA was on the blade of the knife that had Amanda’s DNA on the handle. They had the forensic evidence they needed to tie her to the murder, they said in off-the-record interviews after the hearing. They believed that if she did not kill her, she knew enough about who did to warrant the conviction. The inconsistencies in Knox’s story were too many. Her lack of corroborated alibi just too much to overlook. How Amanda explained these same things to her parents is a well-kept secret. “She says she wasn’t there,” her father claims. “We just know she wasn’t there.”
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DakLak
Another Italian miscarriage of justice.
Now we await the appeal court process.
notaplant
Finally, an opinion piece that doesn't think she's innocent just because she's American. If the victim were American and the perp were British, the USA would be screaming for her to be burned at the stake. Sometimes Americans are such naive sheep.
Anyhow, I'm glad she didn't get off on technicalities, like OJ did in the good ol' 'just' and 'progressive' US of A!
befriendz
That just is not true. Remember the young, attractive British nanny, Louise Woodward, that was accused of the shaken baby murder? A US jury convicted her, but the judge realized how unfair the verdict and sentence, second-degree murder and 15 years to life sentence. He reduced it to manslaughter and time served. It seems that there was the same sensationalism was at work in Amanda Knox's trial in Italy. Noteaplant, we are not naive sheep. Americans are like people everywhere.
roadhunter
OJ did not get off on technicalities. He got off due to a racist jury.
No one thinks she's innocent because she's American. Come on...we're the most murderous modernized nation in the world. They think, rightfully so, that she wasn't proven guilty under American standards. Yes, she was in Italy, but she's an American citizen, and deserves the same standard of justice as all Americans get. America has, like it or not, a BETTER justice system than Italy. This sham of a trial proved that to me.
activeduty
notaplant
Poppycock.
johnnywest
Good that you are not a plant because you could understand that his young woman was the victim of moral punishment for her "liberal" behavior. Should this event had taken place in Rome she would be free. Similar to talking about "Americans" when an ultraconservative from the Bible Belt blast on homosexuals, would be to judge the "Italians" for the behavior of a small town of ultra-conservativo catholics. Fanatics are the same in any religion, either Muslin or Christian.
The woman didn't kill this poor British girl but she was giving 26 years for "moral misconduct." How many years should receive the pastor that was caught seeking services from a prostitute?
Please, go an read on the hanging of the Jew (Leo Frank) by a KKK mub...he was removed from a jail a killed in public. Years later Georgia made a public apology and stated he was innocent but his prosecutor was elected Governor of Georgia a year after that atrocity.
Loretta
There is no credible evidence that puts Amanda Knox or Raffaele Sollecito in the room at the time of the murder: not one fingerprint, not one footprint, not one shoe print, not one hair, not one fiber, no sweat, no saliva, no blood, and no DNA of any kind that puts Amanda Knox or Raffaele Sollecito in the room at the time of the murder.
Please take the time to discover the truth today.
Visit: http://www.injusticeinperugia.org
louis4louis
Its funny how some people will over look overwhelming evidences all pointing towards Knox and yet say she's innocent simply because she looks innocent, or she has no motive (remember almost all first time killers do not have a record or motive), and because she's American. This case has all the evidences pointing towards her just like OJ. Lets face it. There was a poor girl brutally killed and her name is Meredith. She also belonged a family just as Knox and her family is grieving for her just as you read this piece, and she also was as innocent looking as Knox.
january13a
She's a text book sociopath. Read "The Sociopath" next door. Very insightful.
Lulamaebroadway
The evidence was hardly "overwhelming" - Knox would never have been convicted in an American court based on the evidence presented - regardless of any national differences.
johnnywest
It is impressive how many experts in psychology and forensic sciences are participating in this debate.
"Overwhelming evidence"....such as?
Please, show me the money...but seriously, without fanatism. Serious discussion. Pretend you are an old-fashion journalist that only inform and don't go "FOX News."
Loretta
Q: Why is there no credible evidence linking Amanda Knox or Raffaele Sollecito to this crime?
A: The answer is very clear. There was no evidence putting Amanda Knox and Raffaele sollecito in the room at the time of the murder because they were NOT there.
FACT: Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have been wrongly convicted. Please look past the distraction of the media frenzy. Please take the time to discover the truth today. Visit: http://www.injusticeinperugia.org
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msw444
I can't help thinking that a beautiful young American student in Italy, accused of this crime, if that student happened to be a male - would hardly have garnered the same interest and hardly the same press. We don't want to believe it, but mothers do smother their babies, and females are just as capable of moment-of-passion crimes as males. Young students abroad can easily be caught up in the fantasy life of glamour that living in a foreign culture inspires. If it was a young man convicted of this crime, I doubt very much that he would be so thoroughly defended. And isn't it unlikely that a state Senator would become involved enough to call and chat with the Secretary of State about it? Maybe Amanda Knox is innocent, but there is a dead English girl who will never again draw breath, and her grieving family will never be able to forget the life she might have lived. Come to think on it, the story would be even less interesting if the dead party were a young man ...
AgathaX
Forget male; what if she had been black? Or unattractive? Or heavy?
johnnywest
Guys...this is about religion and a girl punished for been a sinner...small town justice, not Italian justice.
Her lawyer needs to move the appeal to a big city where open-mind citizens usually reside.
befriendz
The operant words of what you said were "Maybe Amanda Knox is innocent". And this woman is going to sit in prison for almost 30 years. In this country, we believe in fair trials. This jury did not even go through voir dire. They all could have biases the day they walk in the court room. If Amanda Knox had had an unquestionably fair trial, pretty, ugly or ethnic, I would support her sentence and even a greater one.
PeteInAstoria
Seriously, this is a wreckless piece of writing. You routinely ignore facts of the case as presented by both sides of the case. Why didn't you mention the prosecutor's assertion that Knox is a Satanist and that this was a ritualistic murder? Or that much of the forensic evidence presented has been disproven (as in what you call the murder weapon, which has been disproven). Or the mountain of evidence that was used to convict another, unrelated person to the crime? Utterly wreckless writing. I won't even call it journalism.
I don't know if Knox is guilty or innocent, but I see this entire case being blown up by the prosecutor, who has been under investigation for fabricating evidence and other miscarriages of justice for several years. Oh, but I guess that's irrelevant.
chalfonte
PeteinAstoria: You are right all around. Knox's conviction will not resurrect Ms Kercher.
Amanda Knox's crime is being young,, beautiful, a free spirit and American.
I'mhoping the State Dept. joins her appeal. chalfonte
Jack3206
Yes, I see what you mean. It is a crime how all these young, beautiful, free spirited Americans are being persecuted and prosecuted worldwide. "You're dumber than rock".
Dorothea
This article was written by Barbie. But I'm not judging.......................
johnnywest
And Barbie is a good journalist but she should be more imparcial in her reporting of events. It is clear she has an opinion...the public need facts to form an opinion.
artois
I don't know either whether Knox is guilty or not, but the fact that this prosecutor fabricated evidence in cases is hardly remarkable. Appeals courts in the US routinely dismiss such attacks on convictions by saying that does not mean evidence was fabricated in THIS case. The test is to PROVE that he fabricated evidence ion THIS case.
marinanyc
PeteinAstoria, it is your response that is the "wreckless piece of writing"as it insults the Italian system of justice. The murder weapon was not "disproven", it was disputed by the defense....as one would expect the defense to do. The same is true for the other forensic evidence in the case, the prosecution and the defense each presented different experts, and the jury decided which to believe and disbelieve.
superjurdan
The forensic evidence has not been "disproven." It has been called into question because of small sample sizes, but it has not been disproven.
The "other" person was not unrelated. Knox and Kercher both knew/had met Rudy Guede. There IS a mountain of evidence tying Guede to the crime scene, but there's also evidence of a clean-up. There is evidence that Amanda's blood was cleaned up. Why would Guede clean up Amanda's blood but not his own DNA evidence?
lojo63
What evidence of cleaning up Amanda's blood? The washing machine story? The police found nothing in the washing machine. Buying bleach? The only story is that the police "found receipts." The matching blood samples? There are none. Again, what evidence?
Lulamaebroadway
Actually there's no evidence whatsoever that Knox & Sollecito knew Guede. He's the obvious perpetrator. What's astounding is that the Knox case went to court despite the Guede conviction.
Allan264
I don't know if what PeteInAstoria says is true about the prosecutor, the forensic evidence or the conviction of another unrelated person, but if any of it is true, I agree with his conclusion that this is a (criminally) poor piece of journalism.
I also agree with msw444 about how frequently miscarriages of justice, as this may well be, are utterly ignored by the press and media in general if the perp or victim is a guy (white, black, or poor). The older I have gotten, the more I have come to realize how very often so-called justice, even in the USA, is plain, dead-assed wrong. I personally know two people who were convicted of something fairly serious (not murder), whom I would bet my house did not do it. And from what I have heard about the Italian justice system, it is often quite a bit worse than the US's.
jomama
'Death sex game' is the motive? Italians can be idiots, if you've ever been there you know how completely flaky they can be, it's a total shame to see a girl trapped in this ridiculous situation. The Italians acted like they were from a banana republic, they should be ashamed of themselves.
waldenasta
Yes, jomama, the italians are "flaky" because the verdict was not what you wanted. I have many Italian friends and know that they would take issue with that characterization. But then again this is coming from a country that elected G W Bush Jr. TWICE!! I hate Americans overseas most act like complete douche-bags. With no respect for the culture they are visiting. She was not in America where her been white, pretty, and having money would have saved her murdering butt!
roadhunter
My god, where do you people get off saying that having money can get someone in America acquitted for murder? Give me an example!
The Italians aren't flaky. The trial was flaky. Evidence handling was flaky. Had she been found innocent, Americans would be screaming at what a crappy job Italy did in handling the case!
NeillH
just check out Jersey Shore on MTV if you are curious about Italian-American Culture......ha! Everyone is entitled to their opinion except you!!
tolatetocry
she does look like Nicolle Wallace! Wallace just stabs you in the back, unlike Amanda who slits your throat!
FransBevy
Italians are intelligent, creative and caring but their judicial system has been the butt of jokes all over Europe for years. Any group who can continually elect and support a total buffoon like Silvio Berlusconi has to be suspect.
Sempronia
Italians have two modes: lax and militant. Perhaps because they are ineffective at enforcing a good many of their laws, they tend to go for overkill when they put them into effect. While I was living and working in Rome, I bought a student bus pass for the Rome metro, and got it checked. I knew American students are specifically banned from such discounts in Rome, but I didn't have a lot of money, and there's a 20 E difference between the student and normal rates. In addition, an American friend of mine who lived there around the same time that I did never had a problem when she got her student pass checked. Not only did I get the 100 E fine (which I refused to pay on principle), but when I reacted to the officer and his cronies mocking my American identification by switching to English, the guy issuing the ticket actually told me to f*** myself in Italian (hence the principle bit). I admit that I was legally in the wrong, but what I got for it was beyond what was reasonable for the offense. I don't know if Amanda really was innocent, but I suspect that the system might be more interested in making an example of her than letting her have a fair fight.
marinanyc
Hmm..coming from a citizen that had the ultimate buffoon, George W. Bush, I don't think Americans are in a position to judge the elected officials of another country
Sempronia
One of the most amusing things that happened to me in Italy was going into a store near Pzza. Vittorio Emmanuele to buy yarn for a scarf I was working on. There was an old lady talking to the owners, whom I greeted. They mentioned to the lady that I was American and a "brava fanciulla". Then the old lady, who didn't speak any English, and who clearly had opinions about America that she had been unable to express to an actual American, decided to lecture me on how American foreign policy "shoots people up" and goes places where it doesn't belong. I had a hard time disagreeing with her.
The unfortunate truth about Berlusconi is that he's been the only one who could pull together a large enough consensus to win. We both elected idiots, but our idiot had a big enough political platform to do more damage.
roadhunter
You are so mistaken. Do you think ALL Americans voted for and supported Bush? If so, you need to do some reading.
matt59
To all the people who think this is a miscarriage of justice:
Would someone please explain why on the morning after the crime she and Sollecito twice went to the hardware store to buy a bottle of bleach, and why they were cleaning up the apartment when the police arrived.
notaplant
Briliant. They say she's innocent due to American bias.
gofaster
The anti-American canard is particularly amusing considering her Italian boyfriend was also found guilty.
superjurdan
The grocery store owner who testified said he "thought he saw them in the household cleaner aisle," NOT that they came in twice to get bleach.
They weren't "cleaning up the apartment when police arrived," but they WERE standing outside with a bucket and mop, and Knox had just put a load of Kercher's laundry in the washing machine.
...Make sure to get your facts straight!
roadhunter
No, no, no! We know she did it. It just wasn't proven in the trial. Not even beyond a reasonable doubt!
johnnywest
The apartment where the body was found?
opedanderson
Im enjoying reading all of these posts.
Typical white, middle class reactions to what happens everyday in courtrooms. People get convicted on flimsy evidence all the time. Its just that if they are black, brown or yellow or white but poor we just don't seem to give a shit.
Maybe next time you read about the black kid sent away for 50 years for doing whatever you will think a little about poor Amanda and just how a justice "system" actually works.
Oh by the way. You wanna cry about lack of evidence against Knox? What about being put away in Gitmo for 8 years on NO evidence? Do you know how many people had to go through that?
We Americans have no right to criticize any other country's justice system.
Picachu
I take issue with the last comment. Any system that is labeled a "justice" system can and should be criticized by anybody, no matter what nationality the critic, if it is in fact not producing the justice it is supposed to. As many of the posts indicate people are convicted on flimsy evidence all the time. Those of us who are fortunate enough to never have a brush with the legal system are just insulated from the reality. I suspect this is a problem that is global, and not isolated to any nation. I think the USA, given its role as the dominant democratic country in the world, holds a stronger obligation to insure its justice system is just that - a system that produces justice, not just convictions so the legal beauracracy can close their books on a matter.
opedanderson
yeah and we are doing a wonderful job showing the world our sense of justice with Gitmo......
dreaday19
I understand your frustration, however, one bad justice system does not preclude the other from also being bad. They are not mutually exclusive.
Gitmo is a ridiculous case of due process being loopholed by the mere fact that they were *technically* not detained on American soil.
Both are shames.
roadhunter
Gitmo has nothing to do with American Justice. It has to do with criminals George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
johnnywest
Which should in prison for more than 26 years but we have a President that doesn't know how to swim with sharks...he is too nice.
Nicety is not a survival skill in the D.C. jungle!
dclaire
Playing devils advocate can put one in the line of fire. That is how I interpreted this piece of journalism. And I see the logic in this piece. What I read is where were the folks that should have advised Miss Knox on what to wear and how she should look and behave in a court room. I mean look at Casey Anthony she went from flirty workin the room type when she came into the court room. To later after her advisors clearly got ahold of her and she changed her game. I saw the photos and I heard Amanda in the court room thanking everybody including the prosecutor. She sounded as though she where addressing anything but her grave circumstances. Who the hell was consulting this young girl? Amanda's coolness in the courtroom concerned me. Her kissing her Italian boyfriend outside the crime scene I think was youth exposed. I agree with this writer in that Amanda's demeanor did not help.
loloo33
That's the way Americans work anyway, how to dress appropriately and acting in certain manners in court. But outside this country the justice system and mentality are different. I don't think she is too pretty anyway, but because she is an American doesn't help---especially this time and age.
AmericanPravda
Knox' parents are doing what parents do; that is, supporting their child in her time of great need. However, their proselytizations of her innocence should never be confused with the reality of this case.
Amanda Knox is guilty of something. Either murder (she drew that blade across Kercher's throat) or being a direct accomplice to murder (she stood over Kercher's body, while goading her accomplices in their act of homicide).
Those who post on this thread should explain a number of things, if they think that Knox is free of involvement in this crime (and anybody who has been following this case closely would find that concept totally ludicrous). But, principally, why did Knox frame Lamumba (the bar owner). Why did she say he was there and he committed the crime? Well...she did it to save her sorry ass, that's why.
However, of course, she wasn't smart enough to figure out that Lamumba would have an airtight alibi. She saw she couldn't explain or excuse her way out of being implicated and she decided to 'frame the black guy'. Also, please explain why Knox and her boyfriend purchased bleach the morning after. Why did she lie about where she was; what movie she saw, and how she saw it (TV versus Internet)?
And you think she's innocent!!!
ttorrison
Amanda Knox is guilty of something. She's been punished for it. The crime? Talking to police without a lawyer. That is the lesson to take from this case. Amanda went to the police on her own volition (unlike the sole murderer Guede who fled immediately) and was interviewed, cajoled, berated and made to say a bunch of strange stuff. She contradicted herself, she was told to implicate Lamumba and so she did...and so on. She was told to 'imagine' what the crime scene was like and what it sounded like to be near the murder. After 30 hours of this ANYONE would say some strange stuff. Who doesn't mix up what they watched on TV after a night of pot smoking? Especially someone who could face a murder charge because they were close to the crime. The crime of implicating Lamumba is serious. But shouldn't the cops share some of that responsibility? My hope for all of this is that the one murderer will tell the only story that makes any sense. Do you really think Guede would have two rank criminal amateurs (who magically seem to have not deposited any of their DNA on or near the body despite the whole knife/sex thing going on) working beside him on the night of the murder? Occams' Razor tells us the simple explanation is usually the truest one. In this case, the razor cuts this Baroque prosecutor's case to bits.
johnnywest
Lumumba, with a U, like Patrick Lumumba the one that was killed because he was a liberator of his country.
AgathaX
I think the odds are that she did it. The primary difficulty is that no one wants to talk about the facts in this case. It's all about the parents who can't believe their beautiful little child did such a thing, or the prosecutor who isn't satisfied to prosecute a dangerous, drug-influenced child, and must paint her as something more than that. Amanda was a little idiot who, under the influence of drugs and in a group, became a dangerous bully.
The media has been far too willing to parrot the parents's deluded defense of their daughter, and far too unwilling to discuss facts.
It reminds me a bit of the reporting on Scott Patterson who killed his wife Lacy. The media makes much of what evidence does not exist and very little on what does. Moreover, they treat circumstancial evidence as though there is some problem with it. Nothing could be farther from the case.
almostlive
Anybody who would lie to implicate another person in a murder is not only desperate but truly evil. Thank you, AmericanPravda, for bringing up Knox's attempt to frame Lamumba.
Aside from the base character of the Knox woman, all the evidence points to her guilt (even though her defenders would dismiss all of it as manufactured by those unscrupulous, barely civilized, un-American Eye-talian prosecutors). The woman would have no defenders (other than her parents) if she were not a pretty, white, upper-middle-class American girl. Especially "American." I'm ashamed of the ignorance, arrogance, and xenophobia of so many of my fellow Americans.
Lido66
BAD FACTS AGAIN. The Italian authorities drafted the statement that implicated Lamumba. She was forced to sign it after 55 hours of interogation. At the time, her Italian was not even fluent.
loloo33
Thank you Barbie, for all those works and I appreciate your very hard working and good reading.
This is a good example not to commite crimes or being involved outside your own country= Lost in translation. Even if she did it I still believe it was an accident, they were high on drugs at the time and too ignorant to realize the coincequences, it's an unfortunate wasted of lives.
opedanderson
Getting high and killing someone is an "accident"?
piktor
The evidence alone was overwhelming.
Sollecito's silence at trial and Knox's changing story as facts arose made her not believable. Knox conveniently ''forgets'' prior statements and simply pretends her prior statements do not exist because she ''does not remember'' them, despite corroboration by witness on stand that she did say and did do what Knox now does not ''remember''.
This dismissive attitude when confronted with prior testimony by her sure looks ''innocent'', doesn't it?
- Washing machine was run on morning after murder, and cleanup attempted long after Guede had fled.
- Highly improbable story of Knox showering in house on morning after murder, unworried by broken window, open door, blood stains, unflushed toilet...
- Knife with victim's DNA in Sollecito's apartment.
- Sollectio's DNA on victims bra.
- Knox's blood mixed with victim's blood: in bathroom (3 places), hallway, room with faked break-in.
- Footprints in blood compatible with Knox in hallway, cleaned after murder, revealed with luminol.
- Footprint in victim's blood compatible with Sollecito on bathmat.
- Print of woman's shoe compatible with Knox's shoe size (not victim's) under victim's body.
And on and on.
thelonegunman
footprints in the victims blood?
sounds like knox and soliecito needed o.j. simpson's defense team... they could have addressed that...
johnstafford
=Hey, Barbie, I guess the Italian jurors (2 judges 6 citizens) weren't the only ones to think Amanda was guilty.
=But, doesn't some of the evidence they supposedly based their decision on bother you? For example, the fact that the l4 -hour police interrogation where Amanda, at first, said she was in the house at the time of the murder [she later claimed= the statement was coerced] was supposed to be video- and audio-taped, according to Italian law. But, in Amanda's case, neither was done.
=Be a doll, Barbie, and don't rush to judgment!
colonelhall
It has been established that there was no 14 hour interrogation. Her claim was not admitted in evidence, although her written statement mad later was.
The fact remains that she claimed she was in the house whilst the murder was being committed. If this is no the case, what kind of alibi was that!!!
piktor
After claiming she was hit in the head, she asks for pen and paper and writes in several pages what was ''coerced'' out of her and presents the handwritten story as a ''gift'' to the police. She again points in writing to Mr. Lumumba as the person attacking Meredith.
The oral confession was thrown out by the Court but the written story is admitted by the Court.
Dochennessy
If not sheer propensity, then ability to commit crime or do bad things is not a trait common only amongst males, but, where this is a man's world, and females bring life forth, more the shocking it then does seem, when females are involved in taking life AWAY, the female, supposedly, more able to empathise - it is thought - with other females, usually she thinks- it could be MY baby, my once-baby.
Yet, in reality, females can be equally wicked, because
no way do all females have this in-born ability to empathise.
Some young girls might lead a boy on, only with the intention of having her gang of males smash him up. Reality.
Nasty behaviour is not something that someone has the patent on.
Some women might two-time a boyfriend or husband, just like a boyfriend or husband might do too, but it is not uncommon for a girl/woman to get impregnated not by the boyfriend or husband but someone else, just for sex, and then have the boyfriend or husband think the child is his and let him bring that child up too.
Men and women can both behave like shits, it's not under any kind of trademark or copyright.
ApresSki
I agree with you 100%! Some women are born without the *empathy gene* and its hard for some to believe but this is true. The more this side of women comes out, the more we'll understand in some families.
Unfortunately, some of these women do grow up and give birth. At this point, I'm happy Knox isn't married or pregnant.
Finally, a post that can explain some of the nasty behavior Knox's parents fail to understand in their socio-pathic daughter.
DarkRaven
I'll be willing to bet, within 6 months, shes pregnant.
ApresSki
To DarkRaven:
I hope not! I know the Italians have a thing about jailing pregnant women. They let them stay at home until the baby is born. Sophia Loren did a movie about that.
Adelina of Naples
Set in the poorer Naples of 1953, Adelina (Loren) supports her unemployed husband Carmine (Marcello Mastroianni) and child by selling black market cigarettes. When she doesn't pay a fine, her furniture is to be repossessed. However her neighbours assist her by hiding the furniture. A lawyer who lives in the neighbourhood advises Carmine that as the fine and furniture is in Adelina's name, she will be imprisoned.
However, Italian law stipulates that a woman can not be jailed who is pregnant or within six months after a pregnancy. As a result Adelina schemes to purposely stay pregnant.
After seven children, Carmine is seriously exhausted and Adelina must make the choice of being impregnated by their mutual friend Pasquale (Aldo Giuffrè) or be jailed.
So we'll see if she gets pregnant. A Columbian singer pulled that trick. She got pregnant by a guard will in jail. The cut her sentence short. Knox's story is still developing . . .
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