A terrible story broke locally yesterday about a 44 year-old mother who came home from work at 2:00am to find her 15 year-old daughter dead. She’d been stabbed to death and had her throat slit.

As bad as it was, it was hard to not notice what a piece of West Virginia white trash the mother is. Interestingly, the murdered girl was her only child and not one of many. Also interestingly, the girl’s father is a 78 year-old black man with many other children.

Anyway, the girl’s 19 year-old ex-boyfriend and a 17 year-old family friend are being held on murder charges. I caught a snippet on the local news last night about the case that ellicited the following slightly edited IM chat this morning:

Me: hey, do you watch local TV news?

Not Me: no it upsets me. i wont do it. why do people watch wjz? its the worst station ever. at least bal tries. but still.

Me: when I was a kid, wjz was the best. then the main anchor died and it was never the same.

Not Me: well, that was a long time ago.

Me: shut up.. anyway, that’s all besides the point

Not Me: why’d you ask?

Me: I caught a minute of the news by accident last night before I went to sleep and they were talking to the mother of the girl who got stabbed to death

Me: I really feel for her, but jesus christ what a dumb piece of white trash she is.

Not Me: oh i saw her on the sun. i saw the pics and read her quotes…figured that one out right quick

Me: well, they were talking to her about the suspects and the west virginia was just shining through her reaction.

Not Me: ugh.

Me: one of the suspects was the girl’s 19 year old ex. They dated for over 2 years. the girl was 15 when she died. Who lets their 12 year old daughter date a 16 year old? or 13 y.o. date a 17 y.o.? WTF is the matter with people?

Not Me: that was my thought exactly when i read it.

Not Me: well. not to be insensitive or anything but… that’s survival of the fittest right there. just like the kid who was sitting out on a stoop at 230am & got shot ‘accidentally’.

Not Me: the parents fail on a huge level and thus put their kids at risk.

Me: yeah… and, quite frankly, the girl wasn’t doing much with herself if she had already quit school by 15 and was doing threesomes in the house when moms was at work.

Not Me: yep. quit school in the 9th grade.

Me: not that she deserved to die

Me: but I don’t think we lost a future supreme court justice or anything

Not Me: yep. the city lost a future prostitute

Me: and a couple more kids on the welfare rolls.

Not Me: ugh

Me: although her white trash mother did only have one kid, and she’s 44 so I guess that’s something.

I don’t know what’s worse, that a 15 year-old life was snuffed out, maybe because of something as dumb as bitching about getting nutted in the eye at the end of dirty threesome sex with boys who were too old for her, or that there are people out there who, while sympathetic to the victim and her family, have the attitude that it was probably going to be a wasted life anyway. Cynical fuckers over here, no doubt.