TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Heather Trujillo avoids prison in "Mortal Kombat" death of half-sister:

I know I've been jumping around from site to site with this story so I apologize.

Anyway for those of you who haven't been following this story 16-year-old Heather Trujillo and her boyfriend, 17-year-old Lamar Roberts, were accused of killing Trujillo's half sister Zoe Garcia.

The pair were babysitting Zoe when they allegedly beat and kicked Garcia until she died supposedly imitating the game Mortal Kombat. My contention is that the game didn't make them do it and that they were just violent creatures bent on destruction. If it wasn't MK that they were imitating it could have been a movie or a TV show. I don't think the medium would have mattered.

Anyway Heather Trujillo escaped jail time at sentencing yesterday. She was sentenced to an18-year-suspended sentence which means if she violates the terms of her plea she'll be sent to state prison for the remainder of the 18 years.

No trial date has been set for Roberts yet.

I'll try to get all the old posts about this on this site.

Over the weekend I received an e-mail from Jennifer Deremus. If the name sounds familiar it's because she is the stepmother of Dakota Deremus. Readers of this sight should know that Dakota died at the hands of Dustin Howard. To make matters worse not only was his death recorded on a cell phone by some of Howard's stupid friends but 16-year-old Howard was charged as a juvenile. By now you should know my stance on that. (For newcomers I'm always in favor of trying juveniles as adults for murder.)

Conversely take the recorded beating of Victoria Lindsay from Florida. Luckily she survived her beating that was also recorded. Her teenage assailants were charged as adults.

In the case of Victoria Lindsay there was national outrage of Biblical proportions. In the case of Dakota Deremus not so much. Mrs. Deremus asked me why that is? Unfortunately it's too simple. It all comes down to saturation.

Do a YouTube search for Victoria Lindsay and 800 videos come up. Do one for Dakota Deremus and only 3 come up and none of them show what happened to him.

Why were Victoria Lindsay's tormentors charged as adults and Dustin Howard wasn't? Dustin Howard killed Dakota Deremus, Victoria Lindsay is alive and recovering. Victoria's attackers could be jailed for life. Dustin Howard will more than likely be released at the age of 19 and have his record erased.

The saddest part is that we shouldn't need a video to be outraged by Dakota's death.