{"id":14206,"date":"2011-08-08T13:50:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=14206"},"modified":"2011-08-08T13:50:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:50:56","slug":"social-worker-ohio-serial-killer-deserves-sympathy-jury-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=14206","title":{"rendered":"Social Worker: Ohio Serial Killer DESERVES SYMPATHY &#8211; JURY REACTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=14206\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13689\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"anthony sowell header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/anthony-sowell-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ohio serial killer, Anthony Sowell, killed 11 women and dumped their remains around his property, but a social worker, Lori James-Townes, has testified that he has had an \u201cextremely horrible\u201d childhood, marked by abuse and an absent father.  Do you feel bad for him yet?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The jury convicted Sowell last month and now they must decide if the death penalty or life in prison will be his fate.  Sowell is expected to make a statement to the jury, but in reality, life or death, it doesn\u2019t matter as long as he is off the streets permanently.<\/p>\n<p>James-Townes did her best talking about generations of sexual abuse, promiscuity, absent fathers, epilepsy, heart problems, drug abuse, and mental illness.  The abusive home he lived in, where he was sexually abused as a youngster and physical abuse for minor infractions was also contended with.  \u201cThis was an extremely horrible house to grow up in,\u201d James-Townes testified.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the history of this abuse, there was no police reports documenting it, but if there was, or if there wasn\u2019t, it is irrelevant.  He is a serial killer that took 11 women off of this earth and there should be no sympathy for him.  The question should be: what\u2019s worse, life in prison or death?  The one that is considered worse, wins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11989\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11990\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geno McGahee The Ohio serial killer, Anthony Sowell, killed 11 women and dumped their remains around his property, but a social worker, Lori James-Townes, has testified that he has had an \u201cextremely horrible\u201d childhood, marked by abuse and an absent father. Do you feel bad for him yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4505,830,4325,1940,4506],"class_list":["post-14206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-anthony-sowell","tag-murder","tag-ohio","tag-serial-killer","tag-social-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}