I Want Her Gone

Two women, both mentally impaired, in love, living apart, wanting to be together. What’s stopping them? One, living in a care facility—her caretakers. The other—her mother, her caretaker.

The 32-year-old woman, born addicted to cocaine and methamphetamine, lived a challenging life—diagnosed with several serious medical conditions. at three. Adopted at three into a stable family with siblings. Her adoptive mother was her primary caretaker until age 27, when her parents placed her in a full-time care facility.

Her mother said she’d become too difficult to control—running away, threatening to kill her adopted mother, and expressing a desire to kidnap a young child she had a crush on.

While she lived in the care facility, she met a 21-year-old woman she fell in love with and wanted to marry. The feelings were mostly mutual. The younger woman, also disabled and autistic, was under her mother’s care, who closely monitored the budding relationship.

The younger woman’s mother became concerned about the older woman’s possessiveness toward her daughter and expressed her concerns to the woman’s caretaker in the woman’s presence. The older woman went on a parody website designed to appear like a hitman service. She requested the services of a hitman to kill her girlfriend’s mother, saying, “I want her gone.” When she didn’t get a response, she became increasingly impatient, finally messaging them to forget about it she’d kill the mom herself.

At that point, the website owner contacted the Bureau of ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives). An undercover agent contacted the woman. They spoke of what she wanted. She thought the service was free, learning it wasn’t she said she could pay $200—in reality, she had no money. She provided all the pertinent information about her girlfriend’s mother.

On the day of the intended hit, she also told the undercover cop she needed her caretaker subdued so she could flee. She and the caretaker scuffled. The caretaker informed the undercover cop—not knowing he was a cop—that the police had been called, so he left.

Local authorities arrested the older woman and charged her but then committed her to the Bureau of Prison for ten months to determine her competency to stand trial. When she was determined competent to stand trial with support, she pleaded guilty.

The judge sentenced her to 10-years in federal prison. Upon her release from prison, she will return to a 24-hour assisted living facility with internet restrictions and serve three years of supervised release.

Does this person’s mental illness change how you feel about the consequences for their crime?

Source: U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. Department of Justice, Oxygen True Crime

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