After being abused by her mother’s boyfriends for years, including allegedly being raped and burned with cigarettes when she was nine, Ashlee Martinson killed her mother and stepfather. In prison, she said she felt safer and happier than she ever did at home. 
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It should never have had to come to this but good for her. If only there had been a community around her that could have identified the abuse and rescued her before it got so bad that a child had to commit murder to protect herself... 👀
