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It’s nice to hear that she was such a nice person but nice people can do very bad things. Anytime a murderer is caught there is usually no shortage of people to say “what a great person so-and-so was,” “can’t beleive it was them,” etc. I’m sure they are telling the truth from their perspectives. One doesn’t have to be a monster to do monstrous thingds.

We are not eager to attack as you say but we do have to admit that if we were to draw up a list of things that make us very mad–tossing kids in dumpsters is near the top. The fact that this is not a universally held opinion strikes us as odd to say the least.

I am currently a student at USC. I am currently a friend of Holly Ashcraft’s. I am currently a resident of the street on which that baby was abandonned. While I have had all ties with Holly cut off thanks to the media and the judicial system, I still stand by my friend. While I wholeheartedly agree that the abandonment of a child is a horrific crime, a terrible injustice to one who cannot chose for himself, I would ask you to please consider the stones that you are throwing. Place yourself in this girl’s shoes. I understand that it is absolutely unimaginable to destroy a life, one created of your own flesh and blood, think for a moment what it would also be like to be alienated from your family, to have been a honors student and find that window of opportunity closing, to be completely lost in a cold and superficial city, not knowing where to turn and who to turn to. A previous posting mentioned an apparent lack of understanding of birth control: yes, that was the environment in which Holly was raised. Many articles mention the Safe Haven Act: poll the students of USC, of any university, town, or city before Holly’s case came to light and discover for yourself the number of young pople that are aware of such a solution. I am just as baffled and disgusted as you by what the media has portrayed at double homicide, but I also know a Holly Ashcraft who was a pillar of understanding, compassion, and friendship in my freshman dorm. Also, consider the recent acknowledgements of the LA Times that the two apparent “murders of full term babies” was flaudulent, that these were in fact fetuses of around 32 gestation. While this is no excuse, no reason that Holly should be pronounced innocent, I beg that you not be so eager in your condemnations and your judgements. If you must judge, if you must hate and spit, please do so after having considered all possible facets. You may hate me and call me a murderess-loving California-born idiot, which is fine, but think twice about Holly. Thank you.

A panpal friend of mine, life-inmate of MCI, wrote me: ” Holly Ashcraft faces murder charges now in California. The reason I am interested is because she is from Billings. I do not know her, but I would like to write her because I think she and I are in similar situations and perhaps I could give her some words of encouragement. Please find out in which jail she is and what the address is”.

Would you please help.
Gunter Kelm

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  Posted 10/30/2005 at 6:1 […]