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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 6214050"><p>Again, I think the leaving introduced a number of complications and we are dealing with a woman who had been abused by the man. So I just don't think she had the luxury of thinking through this from our safe vantage point. Also, you are assuming the best case scenario. If she left and went to the cops, it was not a certainty the police would get a warrant and not a certainty that they would find the child porn (he could have gotten rid of it for example----same with the bomb material). The bottom line is, if she wanted to ensure the safety of her daughter from this man, the most effective thing to do was kill him in his sleep. And that is what she did. Now she could have gone to cops, she could have tried to leave, and I think those are preferable options, but I understand why she might not have, and I think it is unjust to imprison her when she was trying to stop an abusive man who expressed interest in pedophilia and was amassing bomb material. The problem with your calculation is had she made this her last resort, she might not have had the chance to employ it. He could have killed her or molested the daughter in the interim.</p></blockquote><p></p>