PORTLAND, Maine — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has been asked to decide if the parents of an adult daughter were legally obligated to prevent her from committing suicide.
Kristin Cummings, 25, was staying with her parents, James and Jadzia Davie, at their Norway home when she shot herself with her father’s loaded gun on Oct. 10, 2008.
As the representative of her estate, Cummings’ husband, Mitchell Cummings of Bethel, sued his in-laws in May 2010 in Oxford County Superior Court on behalf of his two children, according to briefs filed with the Portland court.
In May 2011, semiretired Maine Supreme Judicial Court Justice Robert Clifford granted summary judgement to the Davies.
“Even when construed most favorably to the plaintiff, plaintiff has not presented sufficient evidence to demonstrate the existence of any legal duty on the part of the parents giving rise to liability for their competent adult daughter’s tragic suicide,” Clifford wrote.
In his appeal, Edward L Dilworth III, the Norway attorney representing the estate, argued that the Davies did owe their daughter a legal duty of care because they had discussed her mental state with a local police officer, called when she went missing for a few hours, and her medical providers — including workers at Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway — on Oct. 8 and 9, 2008.
“The factual record demonstrates Jadzia and James Davie agreed to and were told by numerous medical providers that Kristin was being discharged to their home, released to their care and must be watched constantly,” Dilworth wrote in his brief. “By taking charge of someone who is unable to adequately aid or protect herself, Jadzia and James Davie assumed two duties: to exercise reasonable care to secure Kristin’s safety while she stayed with them; and to ensure Kristin was in no worse condition than she was in when they took her from [the hospital].
“The facts show that Jadzia and James Davie did not adequately secure Kristin’s safety and put her in a worse condition than she was in by leaving a loaded gun out in the open and unsecured, which allowed Kristin to quickly access the loaded gun and shoot herself.”
Elizabeth A. Germani of Portland said in her brief that the Davies had the loaded gun in their kitchen because they were afraid of their son-in-law.
The parents learned on Oct. 8, 2008, that Mitchell Cummings was abusing their daughter, according to court documents. They also found out he allegedly had threatened to kill her entire family if his wife left him.
“The primary concern was Kristin’s safety from her abusive husband,” the Davies’ attorney said.
When Kristin Cummings turned the gun on herself, her parents were in separate rooms, just a few feet from the kitchen, where the gun was kept, according to Germani’s brief.
“Parents cannot be held liable for failing to prevent their competent 25-year-old daughter from committing suicide,” the lawyer concluded. “Indeed, where medical and law enforcement professionals trained in suicide prevention fail to foresee the imminent suicide of an adult, the parents certainly cannot be held liable for failing to prevent that suicide.”
Oral arguments in the case will be heard on Jan. 10 at the Cumberland County Courthouse in Portland. There is no timeline for when the justices must issue a decision.
I feel nothing but sorrow for these parents, rip young lady
like they don’t feel bad enough already. Leave tehm alone.
Wow, what kind of a loser would blame the parents in a situation like this?
and, more often than not, those that are quick to place blame are just looking to divert whatever guilt they harbor onto someone else. if he was abusive, then it makes sense for him to continue to emotionally abuse those close to this poor girl…I feel terrible for the children… losing a parent is a terrible thing, but to lose their relationship with the two grandparents as well is heartbreaking.
what does he hope to gain? are they wealty?
I don’t think so… but think big and you might smell a dual lawsuit or future lawsuit to be filed against the hospital for releasing her to incompetent care.
They don’t have to be wealthy. All they need is a homeowners insurance policy. That’s what plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyers look for – liability insurance coverage – and you can be sure that the dead girl’s parents have coverage in this case.
I was under the impression that insurance companies never pay out for suicides.
You’re probably thinking about life insurance policies, which generally have suicide clauses voiding the policy if the insured commits suicide within a specified period of time. I was referring to liability insurance coverage, provided in homeowners insurance and auto insurance, that provide defense and indemnification for damage claims against the insured.
If you’re going to start blamming the parents you need to read a book or seek professional help, before doing so. You can’t blame the parents it’s no ones fault. When a person is in this much pain they decide this. Leave the parents alone. They are going thru enough pain .
If someone wants to take their own life, they are going to find a way to do it… if the gun was put up, she would have found a knife, or a rope or any number of things. Sure it’s negligent to leave a gun lying around for anyone, suicidal or not, but the parents didn’t put the gun in her hands, nor did they pull the trigger themselves… You can’t sue someone over someone else taking their own life. Wow.
I totally agree, except the part about the gun lying around for anyone . . . it’s their home and they can leave whatever they want ‘lying around’ unless there are ‘minors’ in the home. What next, are we going to tell people they have to put away knives, knitting needles, etc. so no ‘adult’ will injure/kill themselves? That’s a police state.
Their daughter was 25 years old, not a minor. Personally I wouldn’t leave a loaded gun around regardless of whether the people who had access to it were minors or adults but it happens… it happens every hunting season that thousands of people have loaded guns unattended in their homes.
Well, you could sue the ‘professionals’ who deemed her safe enough to be released from their care.
It sounds like the husband drove her to it and the people who released her should not have if she were truly suicidal. You can’t put the blame on her parents or expect them to care for someone who is suicidal. If the court finds the parents guilty they must also find the husband and the people who released her guilty, not to mention the police and anyone else who also knew she was suicidal. My God where does it end?
Where does it end? Good question. It ends when a lawyer and his client run out of deep pockets to sue.
Edward L Dilworth III, the Norway attorney representing the estate seems to be a fairly ignorant attorney looking for a big payday on the backs on the parents who, in reality, had no means to stop what happened. Mr. Dilworth III is a prime example of what is wrong with the system of justice in this State and Country. And we have no recourse against him!!
“Mr. Dilworth III is a prime example of what is wrong with the system of justice in this State and Country.”
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That is why they are called “courts of law” and not “courts of justice”. It’s all about these bottom feeding lawyers playing semantics at the expense of the people and has little to do with justice being done.
I could not agree more… he’s a perfect example of someone who has no interest in the law and would do ANYTHING for money or attention. Unless the grandparents are extremely wealthy the lawsuit will cost more than it’s worth and the attention it will bring is 100% negative. No one will think it’s the right thing to do to file suit against grieving parents especially when it’s obviously emotionally harmful and could do irreversible damage to the children. So, I’m thinking there has to be a motive for this lawsuit… some kind of bigger payday in mind. Perhaps a dual lawsuit has been filed against the hospital or maybe the hospital is next to receive a lawsuit. Otherwise this lawyer gets absolutely nothing from this case, not even respect for doing something right – he get’s nothing but the public’s ire and a high probability of a judge’s or jury’s disgust.
It’s likely that the parents have a homeowners insurance policy that covers this risk and defense costs. As long as there’s insurance coverage or another deep pocket, there’s usually some lawyer who will sue, regardless of the merits of the case, hoping that the insurer or other deep pocket will pay some hush money/defense costs settlement. The fact that the trial court granted summary judgment for the defendants is a good indication that the case has no merit. Let’s just hope that the insurance carrier keeps on defending this case – and doesn’t cave in and settle – and that the Supreme Judicial Court does the right thing.
The really sad and pitiful thing about these cases is that there’s no downside for the plaintiffs and their lawyer when they eventually lose. They just walk away, while the insurance carrier pays the costs of defending a frivolous suit.
Thanks for the detailed reply. I hadn’t thought about homeowners insurance. It is sad that there is no downside for the plaintiff because there is a downside for everyone else, and none more than his own children. I hope the Supreme Judicial Court does the right thing… in fact I think they will. If they find in favor of the Plaintiff I think they’ll recognize that they’re opening Pandora’s Box in that every time a patient is released from a hospital or other medical facility into the care of another person and something happens that it will trigger a chain of law suits.
There are some people I don’t think I could ever really understand or respect even though I try to find something good in every person. This father having no regard for the trauma he’s causing his children and no compassion for the trauma he’s causing her parents has made my short list of really selfish people. So has his attorney!!!
The attorney is doing his job.
Any attorney can advise his client that the cost of suing is greater than the “jackpot” he hopes to get. No amount of money is worth traumatizing his own children over by blaming their grandparents for the death of their mother. The attorney has a choice and he can decline to represent this father. He does not have to assist anyone with revenge and malicious intent.
But, you have a good point. Some attorneys really do see their “job” as nothing more than winning cases and acquiring money via any means and at any cost. It’s about greed – the exact same thing that drives the type of clients they choose to represent. Thank goodness these types of attorneys never make it to the judges bench! Here we need legal professionals with intelligence, good morals, good ethics and the ability to be fair and impartial who can’t be enticed by money.
And where but the ranks of the lawyer profession do future judges come from.
Her life,her decision. Period. If the parents were not trained,licensed mental health professionals then didn’t their lega lresponsibility end when she turned 18?
Not in maine . maine thinks that the parents have to take care of thier kids until they die. That is why the kids now days are the way that they are.
If you have any love for your children at all it is hard to turn them away. My son is over 30 and where does he go when he gets in a pinch? Sometimes you can tell them the bank is closed but there are those times when you are the only one still open.
Sad that the parents have to go through this. My prayers are with them.
Sad that the children have to go through this too!
Never heard of such a thing in my life. These poor people need to be left alone. This is just what is wrong with this world today.
She took her own life. It was hers to do with as she wished.
I disagree, when one has a family and children, one has a responsibility to preserve and protect them and oneself from harm. By taking oneself out of the picture one is leaving those people to whom they owe this responsibility neglected. Or at least try to believe it enough to keep safe.
court should not entertain this. she was an adult and made her own decisions. must a parent be responsible for their adult children for their entire lives? give me a break.
NO, they are not responsible……….
No mention of what kind of medications the quacks had her on.
Too bad she didn’t shoot her husband first…
No one proved that her husband did anything . he wasn’t arrested or charged for anything.
He doesn’t have to be charged for HER to know!
they usually don’t until they put their wife in the hospital or a broken bone~the hubby is only looking for money if he was such a good hubby why was she not put in his care?? (so it is very possible that the hubby was abusing her) alot of abuse goes unreported until the worse of it has been done
My sincerest condolences to the children, parents, friends and other family of this young woman for their loss (no matter how long ago this occurred). That said, I find it absolutely disgusting that this suit was filed at all and sympathize greatly with the family who should never have had to endure any further pain…
Mitchell Cummings seems to be seeking revenge on his in-laws for shielding their daughter from his alleged abuse and absolutely is not considering the harm this does to his children. He clearly is not putting the best interest of his children first, second or anywhere in the mix. These kids lost their mother and they don’t need their dad rubbing it in their face with a lawsuit blaming their grandparents for her death. What kind of father does this????
Edward L Dilworth III, Attorney could have and should have declined to represent this man in this law-suit. In no way should the parents of an adult (or minor) child be held responsible for failing to prevent a suicide. They aren’t medical professionals or mental health professionals. The hospital that released this young woman to their care were aware of this fact and did not expect that she would receive the same level of care outside the hospital as she was receiving inside the hospital. So, it makes you wonder what else this scumbag lawyer had up his sleeve. What’s next??? Maybe suing the hospital for improperly releasing her to incompetent non-medical professionals (her parents)? My guess is that he’s already done this one too because no one said her parents were rich or even what the lawsuit sought. It’s doubtful that the big payoff would come from the grandparents so maybe the real big payoff is a potential lawsuit filed against the hospital either simultaneously or in the future (if this case is won).
It is beyond horrible that the husband sought legal assistance to sue these grieving grand parents and even more horrible that a lawyer took this kind of case. This is why people do not like lawyers – obviously some of them have no morals, no ethics and are in it just for money and attention. Shame on this attorney!!!! He should have advised his client that it was not worth the time or money to take this case to court, not to mention that it is not in the best interest of the children who will suffer throughout the course of these legal actions. Why not advise this father to just let the kids grieve the loss of their mother without blaming their grandparents!!!!
I seriously can’t think of anything more damaging to do to a child. This father should be held accountable if the children suffer emotionally or mentally now or in the future as a result of blaming their grandparents for their mother’s death. DHHS should be involved to continually monitor and assess the safety and well-being of the children throughout this suit. It can’t be healthy or in the best interest of the children to deny them their grandparents at a time when they most likely need all the love and family support they can get.
When this goes to court I hope that the BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN is in the forefront of the judge or jury’s minds. If it is they will see clearly that this lawsuit is disgusting and may very well cause permanent emotional harm to the children. The father should care more about his children than he does about getting revenge on his in-laws or getting money from either the grandparents or the hospital if that’s what he’s looking for. The lawyer… well, let me put it this way – some lawyers really are scumbags I suppose. Shame on him for not declining the case for the sake of the children.
If this father really cared about his children, he would have loved their mother. I can only hope that this father does not rage against his children, which is possible, seeing that it is mentioned in the comments that he was abusive to their mother. And, indeed, abuse does not have to be visible to an outsider. Emotional and mental abuse hurt as much, if not more, than a black eye.
Bizarre . . .
the parents should NOT have had a loaded gun unlocked knowing that thier daughter of any age was was willing to kill herself. But on the other hand the parents have to live with that until they dir themselves. They should not have to pay money though. The real people to feel sad for are the children.
Who said they knew she was going to kill herself? She was released from the hospital and this implies that she was no longer considered to be a danger to herself or others. Don’t blame her parents for her death – they were home when it happened. It’s easy to criticize other people for having a loaded gun in the house but every fall there are many households with several loaded guns, i.e., hunting season.
Loaded guns don’t kill people… people kill people.
The parents said they had the gun ready to use in order to protect their daughter from an abusive husband. I believe them. I think something caused her to be suicidal and seeing how callous her husband is now… I’d have to say that it is more likely that he is largely responsible for her state of mind. I don’t see the husband acting in the best interest of the children now. Filing a lawsuit accusing their grandparents of being responsible for the death of their mother is a horribly traumatic thing to do to any child and certainly not in their best interest. It’s all about greed and money.
The husband was abusing her so he is the one to blame for her committing suicide! The husband is blaming the parents because he is trying to get the control he lost when his wife left him.. Pray for his children because once an abuser always an abuser!!
Come on you have no way of knowing this. Unless you are closer to the case than you are saying in your statement.
There is also the possibility that the deep pockets being talked about are refusing to accept any responsibility for motherless children. Perhaps the husband is merely trying to make sure the children have a future that is brighter financially even though they have lost one member of their support team.
I guess we will know the rest of the story when the decision comes in.
This is total nonsense. Where was the husbands responsibility? This person was of legal age and could do whatever she damned well wanted to do without anyone else bearing responisbility. Grow up Maine courts.
It is ridiculous that the court system would even hear this… think of what this law suit is doing to the children. Their father is accusing their grandparents of being responsible for their mother’s death. When do these kids get to grieve for the loss of their mother and the loss of their grandparents at the same time. I’m sure the relationship between the grandparents and the father is a strained one that doesn’t involve visitation rights for the grandparents – so the kids lost them too. It is total nonsense that has already undoubtedly done a great deal of emotional harm to the children. Just disgusting!
This is why so many people hate lawyers.
No people hate lawyers because they sometimes win. Would you prefer we toss out the constitution and bill of rights? Our system works well most of the time because we have advocates, judges, and juries.
“[P]eople hate lawyers because they sometimes win.” That’s absurd and nonsensical, and to answer your question – No. I hope you’re not suggesting that people that hate lawyers who bring lawsuits like this want to toss out the Constitution and Bill of Rights, because that’s what it sounds like. Yes, there are lawyers who try to hide their low standards behind the Constitution and Bill of Rights, but it doesn’t mean that we have to respect them.
I agree that the system works well most of the time, and it will have worked in this case if the SJC affirms the trial court’s summary judgment, except the defendants and their insurance carrier, if they have insurance, will still have been placed in the unfair postition of having to defend and pay the expenses of defending a frivolous lawsuit with no recourse against the plaintiff and his lawyer. So one of the reasons that people hate lawyers is that some of them bring frivolous lawsuits, and get away with it.
It seems that losing a child in and of itself would be the worst punishment in the world.
Leave a loaded gun around with someone that has mental health issues . Sue in behave of the children . Father gets nothing………………………………..
Sue the children’s grandparents? It’s not their fault their daughter took her life. If not a gun she would have done it another way. This family needs to grieve and this father needs to be held accountable for any emotional harm he is doing to his children by blaming their grandparents for the death of their mother. And… doing it for money? That’s just disgusting.
There is a diffrence between fault and responsibility.
Yes there is a very minor difference between the two words but certainly not one that is very relevant to this case. Here is the actual difference between the two
“Fault looks back, and responsibility looks forward.” So it seems they are NOW looking back they are finding fault in how the parents cared for the children’s mother. But, it is also possible that they are claiming that at the time the hospital released the mother into the care of the parents that they believed that the parents had a responsibility to provide the same level of medical care that she was receiving at the hospital. What’s wrong with this thinking is that the hospital would know that the parents could not possibly provide the same level of medical care to the patient and they would not expect the parents to be responsible for her mental health issues so why should he?
But… in a real stretch there are a lot of others who could have constributed to the fault or responsibility for her care. For starters – he’s her husband and he should have been there to care for his wife. Secondly, the hospital released the mother into the care of the parents knowing that they could not provide the same level of medical or mental health care as they could and the hospital assessed her as medically ready for discharge – so let’s stretch a little responsibility that way too. And if we want to go a step father – the mother alleged that her husband abused her so if this is true it could be that he played the largest role in putting her into a suicidal state of mind – maybe he should sue himself too.
The bottom line is that this is a frivolous law suit that is emotionally harmful to the children whether you use the word fault or responsibility when pointing the finger at their grandparents. It’s DISGUSTING that a father would think MONEY before he’d consider the emotional toll this whole years long process will take on his children. But then… if he is at fault or in any way responsible for his wife’s suicidal state of mind this explains a lot. Maybe he’s just not much of a father or husband, but instead is more the greedy selfish type of person who doesn’t really care how his actions affect those closest to him just so long as he gets what he thinks other people owe him. Let’s just hope his children don’t end up feeling unloved, extremely depressed and eventually suicidal over the course of the years of lawsuit and appeals drag on. Life is way too short and family is way to precious to destroy it… even for the possibility that there might be a pot of gold just for him at the end of the rainbow.
I’m not saying it was thier fault . Just a stupid thing to do. Having a loaded gun with someone with mental health issues . My mother takes care of someone with mental health issues I would never let her have a gun in her house let alone a loaded one.
Having loaded guns in a house is always a stupid idea but the truth is lots of people make this mistake without any accidents. In fact, I know police officers who have made this mistake setting down their service revolver while using the “facility” and hunters… well, they always do it throughout hunting season – every morning, every lunchtime and every evening when they arrive home.
I have a feeling that the parents of this woman really didn’t know the extent of their daughter’s depression. She probably hasn’t been living home until recently since she’s married with children. From the sound of it she turned to them to protect her from the abuse of her husband. She was treated at the hospital but I don’t get the idea that the mental illness is anything greater than severe depression and if that is right and the hospital released her the parents would have reason to believe that hospital personnel had determined that she was no longer suicidal.
In the end, it’s not the gun that killed her… guns don’t kill people, people kill people, sometimes even themselves. It’s sad, really sad whatever brought her to this point in her life but I don’t see how a law suit filed against her parents does anything positive at all for anyone. In fact I find it repulsive that the husband sees this as a cash opportunity instead of the tragic event that it is. Even is he hates his wife… she is still the mother of his kids and if he cares for them at all then he should just let them love her – he can’t really stop them from loving her anyway – at best all he can do is have them conceal their true feelings to humor him. So, instead of conspiring with his attorney to get money from her parents or their insurance company… I think he should be consoling his kids and helping them through the grieving process. But then… that’s just me. I always think that people have more value than money, especially children and there is no amount of money that would ever have made me risk my kids or grandkids emotional stability.
Absoutly. If the grandparents or other interested parties refuse any support of these unfortunate children.
We keep a gun around …because of someone in our house with mental health issues. This kid has come after us with knives, threatened to burn us out and more…but the mental health system won’t fix him or put him somewhere where he can’t hurt anyone.
Why? Because mentally ill people have rights and they are supposed to be in the least restrictive setting.
Go to this website http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/
Go to “Preventable Tragedies” (on the right hand side of the web page)
Search for “Maine” and you will have a clear understanding of what I mean.
If this woman was a suicide risk, why don’t the parents sue the hospital for releasing her to their care? Shouldn’t she have been getting 24/7 professional care? As for the husband, he put these people in fear for their lives. A handy gun makes sense in view of that fact. The parents are being held to professional standards of care when they were just ordinary people trying to deal with all kinds of overwhelming fears: murder threats, suicide threats, & a hospital system that turned its responsibilites to them.
It does not surprise me one bit that after evaluation at a hospital, if she was deemed a threat to herself or others she would have been hospitalized. But these providers kick the can down the road. I know a kid who threatened a teacher, ran away from school and went to jump in front of an automobile. He gets evaluated at southern Maine med. and the case worker says to him…we have good news..your going home. Next morning he goes to jump in front of another automobile, gets pulled back by a student at the bus stop and goes back to the hospital. This time he attacks a security guard at the hospital and gets hospitalized.
The system is broken and if someone has an issue they need to treat it up front. Had this woman been hospitalized and treated she may still be here.
What a sad story… maybe if creeps like this guy weren’t so “sue-happy” hospitals might not need to spend so much to protect themselves and they might be able to afford to treat people until they are actually well. My guess is that if the husband is suing her parents just for insurance money that can’t be much compared to what they could sue the hospital for… maybe the next law suit will be against the hospital. Lawyers like this guy don’t do these things for free or just for possible insurance payouts when there is so much more to gain by suing the medical professionals.
Do you exect a paycheck at the end of the w0rk week for your efforts?
the only thing a hospital cares to evaluate is your insurance coverage.
Boy…that is so true!
So the parents say. The husband says otherwise. Time for the justices to weigh in.
Sometimes even with 24/7 watchful staff around, people manage to commit suicide, because they are hell-bent on doing so. It is so sad when people get that desperate that they feel suicide is the only way out. The husband should be thrown in jail for even thinking of filing a lawsuit against her parents. The lawyer should be ashamed of himself.
she was an adult and fully aware of her intention’s the parent should not be going through this and the hubby of the young lady should face charge’s for abuse~by abuseing her the hubby is to blame for her death~the hubby is just looking for money and nothing else ( MOVE ON WOMAN BEATER) u r gonna get nothing……
And I’m sure this wife abusing loser is letting the children see their maternal grandparents…..RIGHT!
Tragic.
Throw it out of court.
And put the “ambulance chasing ” lawyer on suspension
for being an ” ambulance chaser”.
Low lifes.
This case is an absurdity. The true responsibility lies with the mental health providers that cleared her for discharge when she was emotionally unstable and acutely suicidal. There is no way that this woman could have had a secure environment in a private residence. If a firearm had not been used, then another weapon or item of convenience would have been used as her death by her own hand clearly demonstrated her motivation to end her own life.
Atty Dilworth’s comment that the family was responsible to ensure that their daughter was in no worse condition than when she was discharged from professional care is specious at best and presumes that untrained family members have the ability and responsibility to conduct a psychiatric evaluation. It is also another demonstration that there are some people in the legal profession that are morally bankrupt bottom feeders that will prey on anyone for the sake of a buck.
So true, especially the last sentence. There should be a special place in hell for lawyers like that.
25 years old and married. Even if the husband is a complete AH, it was still her choice to take her own life. If someone wants to off themselves they will find a way. pills,cutting, or guns. whatever it takes to get the job done.
Are you kidding me? What the heck is wrong with this system if they allow this?
Mitchell Cummings actions are similar to a sociopath – he has no regard for anyone except himself. He allegedly abused and terrorized his wife, her family and no doubt his children. He is not satisfied that his wife is dead, his actions are designed to cast blame on the innocent (the grandparents who acted to protect their daughter) in order to shift blame away from his abusive behavior. His aim is to destroy the relationship between the grandparents and the children. Mitchell Cummings is a pathetic excuse for a human being. He is not a man, but a parasite who wants to gain monetarily for his wife’s tragic death. I’m sure he is a narcissist who feels sorry for himself now that he has to take care of his children alone.
so are the children with an abusive father?
yes. Abuse of the mother and grandparents (death threats, etc.) is exposing the children to emotional abuse. I’m sure the children want to grieve the loss of their mother and would like contact with the grandparents, but I’m sure this psycho will undermine their relationship. The kids are stuck with an abuser.
Abusers tend to blame everyone else for their problems. these parents are not to blame for their daughters suicide. her husband and herself are to blame. she apparently felt there was no way out but this way, he probably drove her to do it by the emotional and mental abuse.
As a victim of childhood abuse, I can tell you these children have no chance of coming out of this unscarred.
What has become of humanity? This is by far the most asbsurd case i have ever heard of. Why not blame the instiution that discharged her? Why not blame the abusive dolt that sent her running in fear and had her fearful parents keeping a loaded gun in the kitchen. My heartfelt prayers and sympathy goes out to Kristin’s family.
They court has to be high since they let this go to trail.