Babysitter’s Facebook:
Brittany Steward is a 19-year-old from Western Pennsylvania. She has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the drowning death of her 20-month-old sister Jenna Walker and another girl, 2-year-old Maggie Kovski. Steward was supposed to be babysitting the pair but too much partying the night before left Steward in a condition where she was unable to properly monitor the children. While Steward was asleep the children wandered off and drowned in a nearby man made pond.
Steward started a Facebook group for Walker’s funeral letting people know when it was and who can attend. However she also allegedly posted her account of the events in question on her personal Facebook. Any attorney will tell you that this is basically judicial suicide.
“I don’t know any lawyer that would ever prefer a client to have committed to writing what it is that their version of events is,” says defense attorney and legal analyst Tim Lucas.
He says information on the Internet is anything but private.
“Whatever the person said, they’re pretty much stuck with, they can’t take back the version that they have given and, therefore, as a lawyer, you’re stuck with working with whatever that version might be,” Lucas says.
Apparently someone has convinced her of that because when I went to her Facebook there was nothing there.
Thanks to Home Sweet Home for the tip.
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absolutely…just please don’t state your opinions as facts, that’s all
That, Anon, is precisely what I meant by the “I know her better” wars. It always seems to happen, and it’s kind of sad, but I’m starting to think it’s a normal reaction. Mostly because the people that’re trying to defend her, want to…well…defend her. And if they know her better than they think someone else does, it’s easier.
Food for thought, a lot of times we’re blinded by the people we love. This is why drug addicts can allow their children or SO’s to live with them so long. To an outside observer it’s obvious what should be done. To people in the thick of it, they tend to be not so sure, or sure that their feelings are right.
It’s sweet that her friends want to defend her. I just worry that this particular caring might be misplaced. I worry, if the things said about her ARE true, that they could all become pawns for her. If it isn’t true, then it’s nice she has friends like that.
Er. That’s why people allow their drug addicted SO’s and children to live with them so long, is what I meant to say.
I hate to do this but this thread has gotten out of hand. I’m closing comments.