Alyssa Bustamante: In jail since Oct. 23, 2009
It's been 13 months since Alyssa Bustamante was charged as an adult with murdering 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten. Since then, Bustamante has been at the Morgan County Jail, under the supervision of Jail Sergeant Cody Worthley. (Read more)
“Once they're certified as an adult they get treated like any other adult we house here,” Jail Sergeant Cody Worthley said. “The only precaution we do, and we do this with anyone that comes in for the 1st time, we monitor them for a few days and make sure they get adjusted."
Alyssa is being held in a cell pod. It's similar to a dorm room with bunk beds for more than 20 other women all living together with no privacy.
“They have phones in there,” Worthley said. “They have games, cards and checkers. They have a TV in there they can watch all day long."
Alyssa also has access to GED books, but a court battle is still going on whether she can take long distance learning courses to finish high school.
Alyssa usually stays in bed, with a blanket over her head said Worthley.
"I think 15, 16 is the youngest we've ever had,” said Worthley. “She's like any other inmate. They just sit there and do their stuff upstairs. And she does keep to herself. Until problems arise, then I'll get concerned about it. But as long as everyone is on their best behavior up there, then I have no concern for them."
Worthley said Alyssa has never caused a problem.
Psychologist Dr. Colin Duggan, who has worked with adolescents in the correctional system, said teens in adult jails is a delicate situation and it needs to be looked at case by case when dealing with a defendants' mental health.
“Hypothetically, a child thrown into an environment like that could suffer consequences: not learning to deal with stress appropriately, learning how to contain their impulses, acting out violently,” Duggan said.
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Does Anon think it was a sexual thing? A 'power' thing? An emo thing? What was her motivation?
I can relate to all of the above to some extent. I come from a broken home. Insane faggot parents, underachiever, on SSRI's, criminal record, raepraepraep, self-harmer, alcoholic, blah etc, but to do what she did? It's unimaginably extreme. To kill and bury a person, especially at her age? It's incomprehensible what the utter and absolute fuck she was thinking, and how/why she thought she'd get away with it, or perhaps why she wanted to get caught. To fantasize is one thing, to slaughter and bury someone is something else entirely.
Why d'you guys think she went to such extremes and, if you were to do it, what would be your motivation?
I often fantasize about murder, it helps me sleep at night and it calms me down when I'm stressed; more so than any chemical sedative; but to actually slit a girl's throat, bury her, then laugh about it? I'm entirely too much of a pussy. I've planned it meticulously, I cum litres aplenty while living in my fictional, imagined world, but I don't think I could ever do more than fantasize about it. I certainly couldn't laugh about it then go about my normal life having done it. I'd be utterly terrified.
Dahmer said that he was confused by the fact that people couldn't understand why he'd take pleasure from killing. Some emo fagabon 14yo killer ameriboy whose name I forget said that his desire to kill was "comparable to the craving of a hamburger". It seems that the desire to kill is hard to explain.
So what do you think inspired her, and what would inspire you?
