Sometimes, I see a criminal that just pisses me off.

[Archae]

Besides the Criminal-In-Chief, that is.

Girl Accused Of Fatal Hit-And-Run Reaches Plea Agreement
Erika Saylor To Be Sentenced April 8

POSTED: 6:27 pm CST February 7, 2005

KENOSHA, Wis. -- A Kenosha mother is angry that the girl accused of killing her daughter reached a plea deal.

"My daughter would be alive today had she just stopped that car as a reasonable, responsible adult," Rose Paolone said.

Paolone was speaking about her 18-year-old daughter, Stephanie (pictured, left), who was run over by a car and left for dead Christmas night of 2003.

Erika Saylor, 20, was driving the car.

"I really feel this girl feels no remorse whatsoever for what she's done. She has no conscience," Rose Paolone said.

Saylor entered a guilty plea in a Kenosha County courtroom Monday morning for running over Stephanie Paolone and leaving the scene.

Saylor told police she had been at a party and got into a fight with Stephanie Paolone and two other girls.

They were all told to leave.

Saylor said that was when Stephanie Paolone ran up the hood of the car she was driving and started kicking the windshield.

Saylor said she feared for her life and decided to drive away, which caused Stephanie Paolone to fall off of the car.

"She really feels she didn't do anything wrong," Rose Paolone said.

Here's the girl:



http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/4173989/detail.html

That look on her face, so smug. :mad:

[Dookus]

1. I think it's always

difficult to assume emotions from a photograph.

I feel bad for everybody involved in tragedies like this. She did something very wrong, but she certainly didn't set out to kill somebody - she reacted badly AFTER the accident. I hope I never get to find out how I'd respond in such a situation.

[alittlelark]

2. Young hormones/ emotions run DEEP

and erratically. The perpetrator looks as though she feels no guilt - 5 years from now she may kill herself out of unresolved internal conflict, or 'just get over it' AKA Laura Bush.

Laura Bush committed a similar crime (hormones, emotions).

She never had to pay.

[Gyre]

3. You're mistaking ugliness

for smugness. Not enough facts in this article to tell whether that plea was legit or too light.

Gyre

[alittlelark]

4. Too true, little meat to the story...

...does she have connections?

[fishwax]

5. I no nothing about the case other than what's in the article, but

it sounds from the story as if the victim was attacking the car and Saylor got freaked out and drove away, which might not be entirely unreasonable, depending on the circumstances. The story doesn't really give enough details to get a clear picture of how it went down. It sounds very tragic, though.

[petronius]

6. It's an odd expression

but they probably had hundreds to choose from, and could make her look however they wanted.

It sounds like an atypical hit and run - if the victim was standing on the hood, and maybe had friends around, it is reasonable that the driver was scared.

Too tough to call from this distance...