This woman of 26 was walking home from a party in Taupo, New Zealand, in January 2008 when she was wantonly attacked by a boy of 14. He struck her over the head with a baseball bat, killing her. Fourteen months later, her attacker was sent to life imprisonment, with a minimal term of 12½ years. He is one of the youngest convicts ever to receive a life term. Karen came from Orkney, and her family was there to hear the verdict in New Zealand. Her father, speaking on BBC Scotland, said he was smiling broadly - because he had known her. Although he was very sad that instead of seeing her in her wedding dress, he now had to see her in her coffin. She was buried in Holm, Mainland Orkney, in late January '08. RIP.
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What a sad thing for both families. Sometimes I think the aliens have taken over the minds of some people on this planet. A 14 year old kid should still have an innocence about him...but yet this one is a condemed murderer. Linda in Washington
ReplyDeleteYou have to wonder what would make a 14 year old do such a horrible thing. Karen looked like a lovely girl, may she rest in peace now that justice has been served.
ReplyDeleteThere is now an 11 year old headed for trial in the western part of our state for killing his fathers girlfriend and her unborn child. He is in a adult facility - first time someone that young has been in federal prison here in PA.
Such a sick world these days.