12-YO Girl Cleared Of All Charges After Shooting Rapist Father
On February - 7 - 2012
A 12-year-old girl who shot her father dead while he was sleeping acted in self defense after years of sexual abuse, a jury has found. The girl from Katy, Texas grabbed Mark Nelson’s gun from under his mattress and shot the 38-year-old in the back of the head in April 2009. But after four days of deliberation, a jury cleared the girl, now 15, of murder, believing she had been choked and sexually abused by her father. READ MORE HERE
By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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