A disturbed Florida teen accused of plotting to kill a classmate to bizarrely “resurrect” Sandy Hook monster Adam Lanza penned a sob story to the decide in her case — blaming the web for making her a “horrible, horrible individual.”
Isabelle Valdez, 15, had initially cracked jokes with accused co-conspirator Lois Olivios Lippert, 14, after their arrest, saying they’d turn into well-known for his or her sizzling mugshots and go on to be a “lesbian couple in jail.”
However Valdez modified her tone this week, sending the decide in her case a three-page handwritten notice claiming that being “remoted from folks, the web” since her arrest in January left her “remorseful.”
“I used to be uncovered to the web at a really younger age, and all that was dangerous stemmed from it,” Valdez advised the decide in a letter filed in Seminole County Court docket.
“The web made me a horrible, horrible individual.”
She additionally insisted she was “not the identical woman I used to be these three months in the past,” when she was accused of plotting to ambush a male classmate within the faculty lavatory to stab him within the abdomen or reduce his throat — then depart flowers and smoke a cigarette.
“I’ve been eager about my life and my decisions and I please beg and ask of you to please have some sympathy on me for as I wish to change and I’m altering as an individual,” Valdez wrote within the letter.
Valdez wrote that she grew to become an lively member of the twisted True Crime Group on-line — which glorifies faculty shootings like Columbine and the Sandy Hook bloodbath — in 2022-2023.
She felt “seen” within the group, she wrote, “however in actuality it was deteriorating me.”
“I acquired groomed on this group additional into believing that violence was good, the people who have been my so-called mates solely ever needed me to hurt myself or others,” she wrote.
She additionally described her struggles with being bullied, and claimed she’s been suicidal for the reason that age of seven.
Valdez and Lippert, from Altamonte Springs, have been arrested on Jan. 22 after a tipster advised police about their sick plans to homicide a classmate at Lake Brantley Excessive Faculty, officers stated.
Valdez had deliberate to attend for the boy in a rest room, stab him within the abdomen or reduce his throat, depart flowers on the scene after which smoke a cigarette afterward, investigators stated.
The sufferer reminded Valdez of Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty shooter Adam Lanza, who murdered 20 youngsters and 6 adults in 2012 — and he or she thought killing the boy “would resurrect him from the useless,” in line with court docket paperwork.
After they have been arrested, Valdez and Lippert have been caught on digicam cracking cringey jokes concerning the homicide plot at the back of a police automotive.
Valdez advised her greatest good friend she needed to put on make-up to look enticing in her mugshot, however couldn’t discover any that morning, in line with court docket paperwork.
“Valdez then stated ‘At the least they are going to see me within the mugshot a way or one other,’” — suggesting that they’d turn into well-known within the true crime group, in line with the report.
Additionally they joked about changing into a “lesbian couple in jail.”
Each teenagers are charged with tried first-degree homicide.
