GUILTY OH - Joan Green, 72, raped & murdered, Bellefontaine, 24 Dec 2005

[PonderingThings]

http://www.whiotv.com/news/5663833/detail.html

The 16 yr old lived in a group home for teen offenders that was located down the street.

 

[Challenger]

This does nothing to encourage group homes for teen offenders. Not in MY neighborhood...

 

[GreenEyedGirl]

What a tragedy!

 

[mssheila]

"Group homes" have no authority or control over the children they are charged with watching over. I know from first hand experience that these kids will often do as they please, walking away whenever they please with few or no consequences. I have no faith in our juvenile justice system whatsoever.

 

[OkieGranny]

From August 2011:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2007/08/11/LCSUIT.ART_ART_08-11-07_B3_KR7JC30.html

Christopher Tindall was 16 when he killed Joan Green, a 72-year-old mother of six, on Christmas Eve. She was beaten to death. Tindall had previously served almost two years in state custody for raping a 14-year-old girl...

He was charged as an adult and pleaded guilty to murder last year. He is serving a life sentence in prison.