SARA KRUZAN: Sentenced to Life Without Parole at Age 16

in school I excelled I was on the honor roll and the principal's on a row and I was like an overachiever I ran track I ran for student body president I wrote a book on drugs and its effects and I want a young authors award did you was start to take me or my little friends to the roller skating or to the mall and stuff and everything and he was like a father figure Gigi was there that sometimes and he would talk to me and he take me out and I give me all these lavish gifts or do all these things for me and stuff and then he would tell me that sex wise he said you don't need to give it up for free he would try to put in my head all these different things and how men really think and how men are in so I would believe him he had sex with me when I was 13 and he's a very home he uses his manhood to hurt like break you in I guess GG's hours were from 6:00 and evening to about 5:30 to 6:00 in the morning the girls would bring them their money and give it to him he was like married all of us I guess is how they do everything everything was his the judge sat up there and my remember my lawyers saying that he wanted to ask for me to be sentenced as a juvenile because why a had found me amenable and susceptible to the treatment but the judge said that because of my crime and he said it was a well thought out that I deserved the life without that means I'm gonna die here I definitely know I deserve punishment I mean you don't just um take somebody's life and think that is okay I'll say yes definitely it is our punishment how much I don't everydays it's something that's not going to ever go away you know I'm very sorry to take his life like that Oh you I've always tried to educate myself flow as far as reading books and things like that but I didn't think I could excel you know and who wants to excel in prison I mean be all you can be it's not much I guess my little heart would tell me that I was worth more my judge had told me I lacked moral scruples and I understand that I had no clue what morals were and I had no clue what scruples meant so I had to find that in a dictionary and put the two together you know so integrity or you know honesty and all these things and I needed to learn I went ahead and started to build this is that a parole hearing I would want to tell the people that first of all I've learned what moral scruples are second that every day is a challenge but I realized that I can I don't know nervous um that I found the ability to believe in myself and then I have a lot of good to offer now the person who I am today at 29 I believe that I could set a positive example I'm very determined to show is that no matter what you've done or where you've come from or what you've experienced in life it's up to you to change you

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Keywords: sara kruzan, Riverside (City/Town/Village), crime

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Length: 6min 9sec (369 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 28 2013