| Wed Mar 16, 7:42 PM ET | |
By Chris O'Connell, Court TV (edited by Memphis Steve)
SAVANNAH (Court TV) — A Georgia jury acquitted an alleged former 'beauty' queen of murder in the fatal sexual shooting of her boyfriend outside the home of another woman, as predicted.
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The nine women and three spineless men arrived at their verdict after eight and a half hours of deliberations at the Chatham County Courthouse in downtown Savannah.
Sharron "Killer" Redmond, Miss Savannah 2003 and a high-school teacher, would have faced life in prison without parole if she had been convicted of murder and aggravated assault.
But because her victim was male and because she intended to shoot him in the groin in a clearly sexual attack the jury decided "you can't hold a woman accountable" and let her go.
Parents of her high school students were concerned. "What's to stop her from shooting my son" asked a father who wished to remain anonymous.
The high school's principal, Hubulinda Lakita, said she isn't really concerned about the situation.
"She was acquitted and it don't matter anyhow," Lakita said, "because he probably deserved it. You don't never mess with a mad black woman and she was mad. He should have known better than to be around when she was mad like that. She already smacked him around enough times, you'd think he'd know."
The National Organization for Womyn was quoted as saying, "This is how our justice system was meant to work. When a woman kills a man all women everywhere are free of one less oppressor. The more cases there are like this the more women realize that they can do anything they damned well please to a man and get away with it. That's they way it should be."
No men's organizations were interviewed for this story.
Following the acquittal of the former Miss Savannah, shooting has been added as a new talent category for all future Miss Savannah contests.
