Bresha Meadows is sitting in jail awaiting trial later this month. However her lawyer is pushing for her release and a juvenile judge is mulling over whether to grant that at this time.

As the Huff reported:

Bresha, a 15-year-old Ohio teen, is charged with aggravated murder in the death of her father, Jonathan Meadows. She has been incarcerated since her arrest last summer, 279 days ago. Her lawyer, Ian Friedman, maintains she acted in self-defense to protect her family from her father’s unrelenting violence. Jonathan’s family denies that he was abusive.

At a hearing on Wednesday morning here in Warren, just 60 miles southeast of Cleveland, Friedman asked Judge Pamela Rintala to release his client pending trial, arguing that she is not receiving adequate mental health care in the Trumbull County Juvenile Detention Center where she is jailed.

Bresha has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. Her mental condition is being “exacerbated by the continued lack of receiving treatment,” he said. “We have seen the worsening conditions.”

As her mother had previously said of the absuive husband;

“In the 17 years of our marriage he has cut me, broke my ribs, fingers, the blood vessels in my hand, my mouth, blackened my eyes. I believe my nose was broken,” she wrote. “If he finds us, I am 100 percent sure he will kill me and the children.”

So many feel that this teen is being treated harshly for the crime and that it reflects the harsher punishments many feel are given to black women in the system that seriously needs reform.

Read more in the Huff post and please help spread this story so support can grow for her case.