Just so you know, you know, this show is about scary stuff. So don't say I didn't warn you guys.

And remember, don't be scared. Oh, The Oh, Victim Impact Statement of Charity Lee

A lot of what we have discussed these last two days has had to do with time and blame.

How much time taken away from a life still being lived is enough to atone for a life taken.

Who to blame for this horror, these are the central questions for the court.

Since the time I need is short compared to the time my children face,

eternity in 40 years, I beg the court to give me the time I need to say

what I survived five and a half years of a surreal nightmare to say.

Because for me, the offender and the victim's mother, the central issue is what is the best way

to make something good come of my children's lives, not the amount of time we measure

out as punishment. I've been writing this statement in my head ever since the moment I learned

the first love of my life, murdered the second love of my life. I know what

needs to be said. I just don't want to say it much less believe it, but I have no choice

but to do either. Just as you have little discretion in enforcing the laws of the state of Texas, I'm left five and

half years after Paris murdered Ella, with little discretion but to follow the dictate

of both my conscience and my heart, and speak the words I still have a hard time

believing are about to come out of my mouth.

I cannot sit up here and tell the court how my son's decision to murder Ella has made me suffer.

Unless Paris proves otherwise to me, I believe one of the reasons he

murdered Ella and decided not to murder me was to hand me a lifetime of suffering rather

than 15 minutes of it. He has seen me suffer enough. Paris coldly and brutally took

Ella's life from her. He took the people I love away from me. Two years after

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