Wait: So the DA agreed to a plea deal where there was no allecution explaining why and how she did what she did? And if she was dead two weeks before she was reported missing, how could her father NOT know what had happened?

Someone posted that they can't see how the judge can sleep at night after sentencing the stepmother to just 18 years.

I can assure you that the judge and the prosecuters as well, will sleep soundly tonight. After all, they are politicians and politicians are a breed apart from the rest of us.

When a politician is running for office you can call his mother the most contemptible name you can think of while shaking his hand and he will smile at you and thank you for your vote. Check it out if you don't believe me.

Never in a million years could I go two weeks without laying eyes on my child.....and I'd be all up in it all. And, had I been in his shoes, I'd be on the stand for murdering whom abused my child.....not sitting back there crying and pouting. No way. And maybe, my child would still be here... there isnt much that goes on in my home i dont know about, simply from a walkthrough.

No one will ever convince me he didn't know.

BIG difference in not knowing, and ignoring.

The father should be charged with 2nd degree murder too, even if he had nothing to do with the murder. He knew about the abuse and did nothing. My theory is that the last time that Elisa was beating Zahra, it went too far and she killed her. She is dead as a result of abuse that the father had FULL knowledge of. Zahra would still be alive if he had a backbone and got that poor child out of that environment. He is JUST as much to blame. I have no sympathy for him whatsoever and he kind of sickens me.

so she killed, and chopped up an innocent child, and only got 15-18 years in prison???????? Our legal system sucks arsenic!

I am having trouble believing he didn't know he had a deceased child in his home. familyfour

The father had nothing to do with killing his child. It was the step-mother alone. Stop grabbing for nothing and pay attention in what you read and hear. wildcat

I'm not grasping at a thing. Fact: two weeks of death involved before mutilation and disbursement.

Was he not with his "wife", or child, or in his home for two weeks? Did he not ask to speak to his child if he was not home, or attempt to communicate with her in some way. Really? I'm grasping?

What is grasping is me trying to wrap my mind around how anyone could think NOT knowing what a child that LIVES under YOUR roof is enduring. Or realizing you haven't seen, hugged, or looked into your child's eyes for two weeks. Sorry wildcat. I am afraid you are the one grasping....at excuses. Are we not responsible for what happens in our home..to our children?

My goodness. I am going to pick my jaw from the floor

That poor girls life was only worth 15 years, no justice at all.

What!!!!!! 15 years!!! there are drug dealers doing longer sentences. Baby killer almost gets death penalty, nursing home shooter gets life, and this woman gets off with next to nothing!!! disgusting for the justice system, they should be embarassed to have made such a deal, they should have investigated and charged her with first degree and pushed for death.

if any case ever screamed out for the death penalty - or minimum, life in prison - this is it. This disgrace of a human being should never see the light of day. It disgusts me that she is able to plea down to a 2nd degree murder charge for doing something so heinous and reprehensible. A father that was obviously complicit in some aspect of this crime not being punished is beyond belief. I don't care where his phone was during the crime; where he was is more relevant, and people aren't attached to their phones. That's what we're using for proof of innocence these days? Poor Zahra was obviously dead when the father was lying about her whereabouts on the day he finally called 911. I don't see how common sense can't be used here to charge him with complicity in the murder or coverup. Unbelieveable.

The father was no innocent in this. He would have seen the signs of abuse for years and he did nothing about it. He could see that it was escalating yet chose to ignore it. He chose that woman over his daughter. He also participated in the kidnapping lie and ransom note scheme.

The police state his cell phone records show that he was not in the area when her body was scattered. Hogwash. I have calls on my cell phone bill that I never made. The company stated that their records show which towers the calls were made from and that I had to have made those calls. They were made in a county that I have never even been to. My cell phone records are constantly wrong.

18 years is not a punishment for this heinous crime. She will be out on parole in about 3 years; it will be just a holiday for her, she won't have to work, pay her bills, clean her house, take care of her family. She will have it easy at taxpayer's expense then will be set free to marry again.

page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
<prev	next>

sort order: oldest first | newest first