I have found it hard to listen to anything about this trial. Something has always felt off for me. I can not say with any amount of certainty if she was truly abused or not. But I do believe her plight has set us back…
Even more than that I wonder why the media has so sensationalized the murder of an intimate partner by a woman. Where is the outrage, extensive coverage, and awareness of the 3 women that are murdered each day in the US by their male intimate partner?
Do you remember the story of the boy who cried wolf? If you don’t, you surely understand the concept of it. If you pretend like you are in need of something, but you really aren’t, eventually people won’t pay attention to you any more.
While the boy in the story ultimately harmed himself because of his falsehood, it doesn’t always work that way. There are times when others are placed in harm’s way because of the selfishness of others.
I believe this is going to be part of the ‘fall-out’ from the Jodi Arias murder trial. Arias is on trial for the murder of her boyfriend, Travis Alexander. After telling all sorts of stories about what happened on the day of Travis’ death, Jodi ran out of stories that involved other people. Her narrative then switched to herself. She claimed that she killed Travis out of necessity because she was…
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Alice Harmon 