Sydney Powell
America doesn’t seem to be working very well.
You’re always going to have bad things happening. We have a fallen state, as man outside of Eden.
But these bad things are getting much more frequent and also much more bizarre.
A 23-year-old Ohio woman killed her mother by beating her with an iron skillet and stabbing her dozens of times — because she’d found the younger woman had been kicked out of college.
Sydney Powell of Akron was found guilty of murder, felonious assault, and tampering with evidence in the brutal death of healthcare worker Brenda Powell, 50, according to the Summit County Prosecutor’s Office.
“In March of 2020, Powell struck Brenda Powell in the head with an iron skillet, then stabbed her nearly 30 times in the neck,” the office said in a release.
Powell, a former Mount Union University student, sobbed in the Summit County Common Pleas courtroom after a jury found her guilty Wednesday, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.
Police found Brenda inside her Scudder Drive home with severe injuries on March 3, 2020.
Brenda Powell
She and her then-19-year-old daughter were taken to a hospital, where Brenda died.
Prosecutors said Powell attacked her mother — a child life specialist at Akron Children’s Hospital — while she was on the phone with officials from her school.
During the trial, the defense argued Sydney suffered from schizophrenia and therefore could not be held accountable for the murder.
James Reardon, one of three defense experts who made the diagnosis, said Sydney suffered a psychotic break when she killed her mom, whom she had considered her best friend.
But Sylvia O’Bradovich, a psychologist hired by prosecutors, disagreed with the diagnosis and said Sydney didn’t meet the legal definition of insanity at the time of the crime.
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Powell’s sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 28.
That’s tomorrow.
We’ll see what happens.
I expect serious leniency because she’s a woman and she cried.