Uh, that’s a little harsh?

“Paden’s adult son, Anthony, has also been charged with sodomizing the victim. His case is currently pending.”

If you’re really into STEM and hanging out with your mother, is a virginity pledge really necessary?

For that matter, how many girls are clamouring for an opportunity to dance with their fathers?

I would assume roughly the same number as there are girls who are really psyched about going to a dance with their dads.

I was wondering why they even needed a mother-son equivalent for boys... how many boys are clamoring for an official event with their mothers?

“How do we tell young girls their academic pursuits will be worth the struggle?”

EXACTLY. Like, what was the PTA up to?

I agree with you, although seriously, he does NOT belong in a female prison. Why would you take someone who raped a 13 year old girl and then put them in a prison full of more women he can rape? This guy knew that if he was ‘transgender’ he would get special protection from the general population in a male prison, or…

HE should be placed in a male prison in his own cell. Not solitary, just his own cell. They need a separate wing for the gender-nonconforming for their own safety, plus their own yard. That’s as far as I would go for him though. HE RAPED AND MURDERED A FEMALE AND YOU WANT HIM IN A FEMALE PRISON? Right.

...And also pretty conclusively shows that she has not actually been in solitary for 20 years.

No, because he isn’t white. Many Latinos are, and are 100% European. Like my cousins. Like Pope Francis. Like millions of other Latinos. You’ve seriously never met Latinos who are white? Of course they have white privilege, both in Latin America and here. What the hell does Barack Obama have to do with any of this? In…

All my cousins in Cuba, Brazil, Ecuador, Uraguay, and Argentina whose grandparents or great-grandparents happened to go South upon crossing the Atlantic. Pope Francis. 95% of the people in Argentina.

Actually no I’m not contradicting myself. I’m remaining consistent, In both case I acknowledge that she is a woman, and a garbage who deserved nothing but the bare minimum. She should be treated like any other criminal.

Really? LOL go ask black latinos about white privilege and come back we will talk.

White Latinos exist there are literally millions of them. Learn the difference between race and ethnicity.

I’m just not here for someone like her being used to ask for those changes.

Since this interview was conducted, Synthia China Blast has been transferred to Mid-State Correctional Facility, a men’s facility near Utica. She is now on a long-term IPC wing, and is able to spend the vast majority of each day out of her cell and around other prisoners. Blast finally has access to programming and…

I’m confused. I read this article that seems to have been published in 2014 and doesn’t mention anything about solitary - in fact, the focus of the article is on her relationship with another prisoner. How does this fit with her having been in total solitude for the past however-many years?

From the NY Times, August 30, 1993: