Mommy killed Daddy and now she can visit us!

[MichaelD]

Mommy, why did you kill Daddy? <--the question I hope all three kids ask her like a broken record for the next 15 years. :|

JACKSON, Tenn. -- An appeals court has removed a barrier to supervised visits between convicted killer Mary Winkler and her children.
A Carroll County judge ruled in September that Winkler could begin visits with her three young daughters, but the children's paternal grandparents appealed that order.
The Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the visits while considering the grandparents' request.
But the appeals court ruled in Jackson on Tuesday that the lower court can go ahead with allowing Winkler's visits while she tries to regain custody of her children.
Winkler was convicted this year of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of her husband, Matthew Winkler, a minister in Selmer.

Yeah, the court has temporarily blocked the visits, but you already know she'll get them. :|

I think it's crap to begin with that she got such a light sentence to begin with. She had great lawyers, obviously.

It never ceases to amaze me how my country, the greatest country in the world, can have such a broken system.

Firstly, she should be in jail for life...or damn near it. Secondly, she should never be allowed to see her kids again. Hurting the kids? Of course. So did their Daddy getting a shotgun blast to the back of the head.

So, now she'll slowly convince the kids "that Daddy was a bad man and God hated him", they'll believe her and eventually DEFEND her in private and in public.

All courtesy of a broken system. I love my country...but damn...we need fixes like yesterday.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
All courtesy of a broken system. I love my country...but damn...we need fixes like yesterday.

It needs the mother of all service packs.

 

[Pepsei]

it's kill or be killed. but i think if it was the other way around. he'd be jailed for life.

 

[mobobuff]

Backstory? Why'd she shoot him in the back of the head?

She certainly looked distraught on the stand, wasn't speaking from rehearsed memory at all :rolleyes;

The grandfather seemed pretty convinced.

 

[compuwiz1]

Just because she killed an abusive husband does not mean she'll kill again or harm her children. There are both sides to a story.

 

[glutenberg]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Mommy, why did you kill Daddy? <--the question I hope all three kids ask her like a broken record for the next 15 years. :|

JACKSON, Tenn. -- An appeals court has removed a barrier to supervised visits between convicted killer Mary Winkler and her children.
A Carroll County judge ruled in September that Winkler could begin visits with her three young daughters, but the children's paternal grandparents appealed that order.
The Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the visits while considering the grandparents' request.
But the appeals court ruled in Jackson on Tuesday that the lower court can go ahead with allowing Winkler's visits while she tries to regain custody of her children.
Winkler was convicted this year of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of her husband, Matthew Winkler, a minister in Selmer.

Yeah, the court has temporarily blocked the visits, but you already know she'll get them. :|

I think it's crap to begin with that she got such a light sentence to begin with. She had great lawyers, obviously.

It never ceases to amaze me how my country, the greatest country in the world, can have such a broken system.

Firstly, she should be in jail for life...or damn near it. Secondly, she should never be allowed to see her kids again. Hurting the kids? Of course. So did their Daddy getting a shotgun blast to the back of the head.

So, now she'll slowly convince the kids "that Daddy was a bad man and God hated him", they'll believe her and eventually DEFEND her in private and in public.

All courtesy of a broken system. I love my country...but damn...we need fixes like yesterday.

You should probably read up a bit on the Winkler case.

 

[Skunkwourk]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper

Originally posted by: MichaelD
All courtesy of a broken system. I love my country...but damn...we need fixes like yesterday.

It needs the mother of all service packs.

Congrats, I laughed

 

[QED]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Just because she killed an abusive husband does not mean she'll kill again or harm her children. There are both sides to a story.

Funny how the only side of the abuse story we'll ever get to hear is hers.

Perhaps he was abusive, but other than her word, there was no proof of it.

It's just as likely though she murdered him because her shaky financial dealings
were starting to unravel and ruin the family, and she just wanted a way out.

The fact that he was shot in the back, while in bed (he had probably just woken up
or was still asleep when shot) tells you all you need to know about the character
of this woman.

 

[alkemyst]

what goes on between parents should be kept between them. It has nothing to do with the kids.

IMHO if the kids want to see her they should be allowed with the dictated supervised visits in such a situation like this.