“Jackson goes on to detail her childhood which she said included sexual abuse, treatment in mental-health facilities and years spent in foster care.”
Well whaddya know. This was my first inclination as soon as I heard there was a woman involved. Not giving her a free pass BY ANY MEANS, but it seemed logical to conclude imo that something like that may have happened to her.
Do all women who are victims of abuse as a child turn out like this? Of course not. But we do know the cycle of abuse, that often the abused become the abusers.
ETA: This is assuming her assertions of abuse are in fact true, which they very well could be, moo. It would fit a pattern of her possibly collaborating with someone like this, imo.
Morning everyone!
While I agree with most all of what you posted on one thing I do not.
What I respectfully disagree with is when you say 'often' the abused becomes an abuser.
That's simply not true, and we need to recognize that fact.
There are over 6 million children being sexually abused EVERY year so if that was truly a deciding factor... we would see millions of both genders who were sexually abused, become abusers of other children or other various victims.
The overwhelming vast majority of childhood survivors do not become abusers, not only of children, but not against anyone else for that matter.
Now when they do find themselves in the criminal justice system will those offenders, and attorneys use this as an excuse for why they did so? Absolutely. Many will always place blame on others rather than squarely on all of the evildoers themselves. Its the same, yadda yadda, of don't blame ME...blame them. Ugh!
Imo the childhood abuse excuse is used trying to diminish the horrific violence they are charged with doing. This has become almost standard if the defendant is a female offender.
Ever wonder why it's rarely if ever, used as an excuse when the offenders are males even though boys in the millions are also terribly abused ? These excuses predominantly used by females are rarely successful in the trials or in the mitigation phases either, rightfully so, imo.
Like all horrendous murderers of both genders its only logical there will be those with an abusive childhood or some type of abuse in their adulthood, just like there is of numerous other individual murderers who brutally murder who have lived life without any abuse in it whatsover.
Imo, it's just a standard cop out excuse used by criminal female offenders trying to excuse the indefensible.
Jurors, rarely if ever.. buy it because it defies all commonsense, and logic. They know everyone has the same ability to make right or wrong choices about what they do, and who they decide they want to become in adulthood.
Millions of survivors of childhood abuses make the right choices to be better than where they came from when children.
Percentage wise only a few of them find themselves in the criminal justice system in comparison.
We can't ever lose sight of that fact. To do so it does a grave injustice to the many million of survivors who have become law abiding citizens never harming anyone, human nor animal.
Jmho
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I think it speaks volumes that we were able to overcome such trauma from our childhoods in order to have our own wonderful families. 
