This is another story that I've been following here at the News of Doom. It's the story of Esmie Tseng, a 16-year-old Kansas girl who is accused of stabbing her mother, Shu Y. Tseng, to death. Unfortunately I haven't gotten a chance to post the previous entries since The Great Website Meltdown of 2005. What makes this story attention getting is the support she is getting from friends and strangers alike who do not want her tried as an adult, which is basically what this article is about. I have yet to hear an official motive for the killing but it maybe because I haven't researched too hard. I just post dribs and drabs of what I get through the media. However Esmie's mom has been portrayed as this overbearing mother putting way to much pressure to succeed on her daughter...
"Her mom leaves a note on her bed that basically said, 'If you don't take the state championship, we're taking the piano away,'" Horwitz said. "(Esmie) puts in (her journal) a couple times that the only thing that defines her is piano and her escape from life is to sit down and play Bach for a few hours."
While her mother sounds like a control freak it's still no reason to stab her repeatedly if that is in fact the motive. Unless I hear a better explanation of why she killed her mother I have no problems at all with her being tried as an adult.
You call this mother, who thinks her 16 yr old should stand naked as a form of punishment, a control freak.
You need to reassess your tool of measurement here. If you at the age of 16, with top grades in school and other achievments in hand, were dished the same punishment would you call your mum control freak? what if you were made to stand naked (now at this time in your life as an adult (well you want to consider her to be an adult)) by your parent for not getting 1 million in income. Would you consider that control freak behavour or sexual abuse?
you want to try her as an adult, standards that you or I would be held to. So, let's for a day assume we are to serve the same punishment would we categorise those punishments as contorlling or as sexual abuse.
It always amazes me how horrors done to minors are considered so much less than if the same were dished out to adults.
Perhaps it's like this genetic flip that Esmie got from her mum that both made them prone to acts of insanity??