Apparently Maya fell into prostitution while a teen. Her neck tattoo represents her Pimp "Daddy P". Her gang name "Luda" means crazy in Bosnian.
I'm not trying to further punish Maya or thwart her growth in any way. But, if you look at her track record, how she obtained a lesser sentence by testifying against her partners in murder, it all adds up to me that she'd be willing to 'go there' again to gain something for herself. I can't say/know that for sure but the odds are that a leopard doesn't change their spots that quickly when they are facing their whole youthful life locked up - it must be very motivating to try and find ways to break down the barriers to one's freedom.
I have a hard time understanding the eagerness of people to accept other criminal's stories at face value but in KC's case she's condemned no matter what. KC may very well be a Sociopath which explains why she is the way she is (not excuses) but these other characters are criminals as well and have ruined other peoples' lives. Why such blanket understanding? Rhetorical question but :waitasec: I don't understand.
Bring on the credible witnesses - PLEASE!
Think about this Woe.
Maya was in a country at war. She came to this country as a refugee at the age of 8. She was a run-away on the streets by the time she was 13. She fell into prostitution as you say as a teen. She wound up in a gang and on drugs and murdered someone else by the time she was 17. There is a history there that explains a lot. There is insecurity and obvious adjustment difficulties. It is hard to tell WHAT her life was like before she came here, and as a refugee? It could not have been that great after she got here. Strange country. New language. ALL new people around her. Complete unfamiliarity with the culture and everything else. Those things taken in total can kind of explain how this girl wound up doing what she did. She was living a life of crime since the TENDER young age of 13. That does not lead to good places. You almost expect a person like that to mess up big time, although murder is WAY beyond messing up I know.
As far as her "testifying" against her compadres in crime? Well, to tell her story she had to tell theirs too didn't she? And she was 17 and facing murder charges AND the death penalty. I don't know of one single person, myself included, who would NOT testify against someone else who was involved in the crime for which I was facing DEATH. I would sing so loud they would hear me in the next county. I know we would all like to think, no, I would never do that, but when you are faced with the possibilty of being put to death? I doubt there is one of us here who would not fold against THAT and agree to do whatever we had to do to save our own skins. So she did what anyone would do in that situation. She saved herself. BUT she still got sentenced to THIRTY YEARS...that is nothing to sneeze at. Granted, it is nothing compared to the life she took, but she will be an almost 50 year old woman once she gets out. She will never have children of her own. She will miss her own brothers and sisters growing up. Her mother/father could die and likely will while she is behind bars. She did save her own neck, but in the same circumstance, so would almost anyone.
And why did I believe her? Everything about her said I am calm, I am cool, I am collected. I am not stumbling over my words. I am maintaining eye contact with the interviewer. I am not looking shiftily from side to side. I am not fidgeting and squirming in my seat. I am a muderer and I am telling the truth. That is what I got.
KC? Well, I am not just now getting acquainted with her. I have waded through so much crap that that girl has put out there that it isn't even funny. Her lies tell lies. Her stories evolve from week to week. HER demeanor says something different than Mayas for certain. Her behavior while she was out on bond, wearing the very sunglasses she had written the bad check for? THAT says to me, I am NOT sorry. The lack of a valid explanation of where is your child? ALL the lies she has strung us all along with. In the beginning? I gave her the benefit of the doubt and thought it may have been an accident and she freaked out. Over the fullness of the time we have been invetigating this case? I have no more doubt for her. I KNOW she is a liar flat out. I KNOW she did not give her daughter to any nanny. I KNOW she is not sorry and I KNOW that she, unlike Maya, even faced with "buckets of evidence" will never confess her crime. I honestly think she would almost rather die than tell the truth of what she did.
