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Article: Requiring battered women die: murder liability for mothers under failure to protect statutes.
- Article from:
- Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
- Author:
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Pauline Zile allowed her daughter to die. During 7-year-old Christina Holt's terrifying last weeks of lift, Pauline Zile wasn't a mother; she was a co-conspirator.(1)
I will never forget seeing Christina on the living room floor, nor her laying on the bed.(2)
INTRODUCTION
She was a sorrowful sight as she appeared before the nation on the evening news. A thin, modestly dressed woman with tired lines etched into her face. Every parent's worst nightmare had just come true for her. Her daughter disappeared that day from the bathroom in a flea market.(3) Pauline Zile looked into the camera and sent her daughter a consoling message: "Mommy's going to ...
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November 13, 1994 ;
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... ... damaging evidence against child murder suspect John Zile from his confession to the discovery of his stepdaughter ... persuade a change of heart, legal experts say. Both John Zile, 32, and Pauline Zile, 24, were indicted on first-degree murder and ...
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