Posted
4/17/2007 06:39:00 AM
by Douglas
Ten years.At age 18, she wept in 2005 after being convicted of murder for running over a Katy-area kindergarten teacher. She wept again a day later, after a sympathetic jury gave her probation instead of a prison sentence.
But after hearing Zipf's emotional testimony Monday that she had violated probation because she was overwhelmed by an unexpected pregnancy, state District Judge Brock Thomas sentenced her to the maximum 10 years behind bars.
"You sent yourself to prison," Thomas told Zipf.
Good lord, this has been going on for a
while. And isn't there a difference between an unwanted pregnancy and unexpected one?