Amanda Knox, wrongly accused of murder.
Four years ago in
November of 2007, the year of the Fire Boar, a pretty University student from England, on a year’s
exchange study in Italy was brutally murdered in her room. Four days later, her
housemate from the United States,
fellow exchange
student AMANDA KNOX was arrested with her boyfriend RAFFAELE
SOLLECITO and two years
later, in December of 2009, both are found guilty and sentenced to a horrifying
26 years in jail. Thus began a four year nightmare for the beautiful, intellectually
smart but hopelessly naïve College student who had insisted to her parents,
“I want to get out of the safety net of home”.
A REVERSAL OF FORTUNE WITH A HAPPY ENDING – THE
AMANDA KNOX STORY L
by Lillian Too
ast month in this year of the Rabbit, Amanda Knox, now 24 years old and also a Rabbit was acquitted by an Appeals Court.
Te English woman gets her throat
slit. She is found dead in her own blood wrapped inside her comforter. Her vivacious housemate from America is quickly questioned, arrested, charged with her murder; then under police
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interrogation “confesses” to killing her. Amanda Knox’s “interrogation” had lasted 50 hours. Neither a lawyer nor parent was present. Alone and frightened, she could not fully comprehend her situation. Romantic Italy took on a new reality. Amanda Knox got her wish, made in the careless innocence of a secure scenario in familiar Seattle, Washington. How easy it was for her very innocence to
be her undoing. Smart but definitely not streetsmart, she is ignorant of the darker side of life. Nor had she ever encountered anyone like the “Prosecutor” who was to convince a Court she had killed her housemate in some kind of satanic sexual orgy. Amanda Knox was out of her
“safety net” of home and family. Beaten and sleep-deprived to exhaustion, she confesses to the crime, signs the fateful
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