Marianne Bachmeier, Loving Mother or Vigilante?

[♥Eva♥]

I'm posting this in the "Victim Issue" section since Mrs. Bachmeier was an MVS! Some fanatacial, extremist pros actually believe that Mrs. Bachmeier should have been executed! Shocking that some would want her dead! I remember SkyLoom once saying that all of us could be driven to commit a homicide! Do we all have a breaking point somewhere?

These are images from the 2 films made in Germany about the Bachmeier case!

In May 1980 7 year old Anna Bachmeier was abducted, raped and murdered in Germany by a recently released sex offender. The evidence against the sex offender was overwhelming and so instead of trying to claim innocence he used a particularly evil tactic very common among such predators. The predator proceeded to cruelly lie claiming that he was the victim because the 7 year old girl flirted with him and tried to blackmail him for money by threatening to tell that he touched her indecently. The predator also slandered this little murdered girl by claiming that she offered to show the predator how her father fondled ( abused ) her and asked him if he wanted to do that too.

A year later Anna's mother Marianna Bachmeier, brokenhearted and horrified that she was expected to dignify the predator's evil slander with her testimony, smuggled a pistole ( Beretta ) into the courtroom and appearing very calm and composed open fire on the predator in the courtroom killing him and then surrendered her weapon. Several films where made about this tradegy. "Anna's Mother"
www.mtv.com/movies/movie/114667/plot.jhtml and "The Bachmeier Case-No Time for Tears".

[nora]

While it is understandable what she did was it not right. She planned this murder and this makes it first degree murder. This man wasn't found guilty of this crime because she murdered him before the court decided whether he's guilty or not. Like I said, we all can understand why she did it and some may consider it as morally right, but the law applies to all of us, Mrs. Bachmeier inclusive, and therefore did she deserve punishment. It was her luck that she was in Germany where the courts consider the whole situation, because in other countries she would've gotten LWOP or worse a death sentence. Some people lamment about the German government and how it punishes people, others try to find lame excuses for Mrs. Bachmeiers wrongdoing by blaming the government, but after all is she alone responsible and a murder is a murder.

[♥Eva♥]

Apr 30, 2008 14:55:02 GMT -5 nora said:

While it is understandable what she did was it not right. She planned this murder and this makes it first degree murder. This man wasn't found guilty of this crime because she murdered him before the court decided whether he's guilty or not. Like I said, we all can understand why she did it and some may consider it as morally right, but the law applies to all of us, Mrs. Bachmeier inclusive, and therefore did she deserve punishment. It was her luck that she was in Germany where the courts consider the whole situation, because in other countries she would've gotten LWOP or worse a death sentence. Some people lamment about the German government and how it punishes people, others try to find lame excuses for Mrs. Bachmeiers wrongdoing by blaming the government, but after all is she alone responsible and a murder is a murder.

Oh nora! You're very wrong there! A death sentence?? Only in the fantasy world of a few extremist pro dp ghouls on planet ghoulsville would a death sentence result! The same goes for LWOP!

Actually there was a case of a mother shooting a violent predator in a US courtroom! There was a film made about this case too!

www.moviesunlimited.com/musite/product.asp?sku=D42725 QUOTE:
Christine Lahti delivers a scorching performance as Ellie Nesler, the California mother who, in 1990, killed the man who molested her son. Based on a shocking true story, this gripping telefilm follows Nesler's tragic tale as she comes to realize that even while standing trial for assaulting her child, the fanatical Daniel Driver (Robert Bockstael) is determined to emotionally terrorize the boy.
www.lovefilm.com/product/56993-Judgement-Day-The-Ellie-Nesler-Story.ht