This story is so tragic and although none of us can right the wrongs in her life we can help in a small way.
In the middle of the summer 14-year-old Bresha Meadows did something unthinkable, she killed one of her parents. She took her father’s gun and shot him in the head. Of course this is ‘alleged’ because she is locked behind bars waiting for her trial.
The think is, she did pull that trigger, she did choose to murder a man, a man who was her father.
If the allegations are true though, which a fair amount of evidence suggests they are, her father had terrorized the family, given brutal beatings to her mother.
The weapon used to kill him was one he had used to threaten the live of the family, according to claims.
For four months she has been in pretrial detention at Trumbull County Juvenile Detention Center in Warren, Ohio. She is carged with aggravated murder.
On Tuesday her court hearing was suspended even further and she is set to stay in detention until that date in January. She will miss family Christmas, stay in a cold dark unforgiving place, you could argue she has been in a cold dark unforgiving place for much of her life.
Her mother had been to the police before about Bresha’s father and him threating to kill them, she has claimed to have many injuries at his hands and hails her daughter a family hero.
Bresha confiding about the abuse with an Aunt.
Of course she murdered this man but if surely she should be home before her trial?
The Huffington Post reported that there is something we may be able to help with:
The #FreeBresha campaign, a group of individuals and organizations raising awareness about her case and the intersection of domestic violence, race and incarceration, released a statement on Tuesday blasting the decision to delay the hearing:
“As of today, Bresha has already spent 117 days in jail. By the time January 20th comes around she will have spent over 175 days in a cell. This is truly unconscionable and we are furious. Bresha should NOT have to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas away from her family in a jail cell. Bresha should be home for the holidays … Rather than support Bresha with resources to recover from her experience of extensive violence, prosecutors continue to punish and incarcerate her for defending her life.”
As she sits behind bars, a national movement to free Bresha has slowly gained steam. Over 100 domestic violence organizations have endorsed a call to drop the charges against her and grant her an immediate release. A petition with the same request has over 23,000 signatures. A fundraising site has raised over $50,000 for her and her family.
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