Holly Aeschlimann Holly Aeschlimann, 19 was murdered in Connecticut in April of 2015. This case is amazingly close to that of Rachel Wade. Holly and her killer, Heather Birden, 20, had a longstanding dislike for each other. Heather had stabbed another girl, a juvenile, once before in 2014. She was held in Niantic Correctional Facility for next three months before the murder as a result of a violation of her probation, and was then released to an in-patient substance abuse rehabilitation facility. Reports state that Birden asked her boyfriend for his knife and then left his house to find Holly stating "I have to end this tonight." Witnesses say Heather arrived and the two began to fight, ending in Holly being stabbed in the head and neck at a crosswalk outside an apartment complex in Torrington, CT. Her friends rushed her to the hospital where she died. Heather was hiding under a vehicle a short distance away and feigned confusion when police found her. She spen...
Sounds to me as if some holier-than-thous have found a way to punish her for being a single mother.
ReplyDeleteI bet if she were married and middle-class that the law wouldn't go after her.
The story was taken down before I had the chance to read it, but I'm assuming that this was an accidental death.
We had a case in Indiana where a child was removed from a home where the parents weren't married. I believe some trumped-up charges of neglect were placed on at least the mother.
Ironically, while in foster care, this toddler got out in the middle of the night and drowned in the family pool.
The grieving mother made the statement that nothing like this had happened in the almost two years that her child was in her home and that it was ironic that it would happen in the "safe" home to where he had been taken.
As for the foster parents...they weren't charged with a thing. It was just--according to authorities--an "unfortunate" accident.
I believe that the toddler's birth parents should have sued the system that removed the child from their home!