"I apologize for the pain I caused," she said.
I don't doubt that the Victims were in pain as they were being repeatedly stabbed , but she did not just cause "Pain" she caused Death !
when you commit Murder you should Pay , she got lucky and was spared the Death Penalty .
Continue to rot Leslie !
Detnews.com
Chino, Calif. -- The aging inmate, her face wrinkled with time and her gray hair drawn in a bun, listened as her lawyer argued that the Leslie Van Houten seated before the parole board is a changed woman from the young Charles Manson follower who participated in two savage murders 41 years ago.
"People can and do change," attorney Brandie Devall said.
But the two-member panel was unswayed Tuesday, and Van Houten was denied a parole date for a 19th time and told to come back to the board in three years.
Van Houten, who last appeared before a parole board in 2007, showed no response to the decision and was taken back to her cell.
The only words the 60-year-old spoke during the hearing at the California Institution for Women were from a prepared statement apologizing to the family of her victims. She also gave the family members a private letter.
"I apologize for the pain I caused," she said.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Manson follower denied parole for 19th time
Friday, September 25, 2009
Former Manson cult member Atkins dies in U.S. prison
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Susan Atkins, a leading member of Charles Manson's violent cult who carried out brutal murders at his behest in 1969, has died in a California prison, state corrections officials said on Friday. She was 61.
Atkins, imprisoned since 1971 for her part in eight Manson murders, had a brain tumor. State corrections officials this month rejected her request to be freed so she would not have to die in prison.
Atkins died at 11:46 p.m. on Thursday, the corrections department said.
"Susan passed away peacefully surrounded by friends and loved ones and the incredible staff at the Skilled Nursing Facility at the Central California Women's Facility," her husband, James Whitehouse, said by e-mail.
"Her last whispered word was 'Amen.' No one (on) the face of the Earth worked as hard as Susan did to right an unrightable wrong," Whitehouse said.
As part of Manson's following of hippies, runaways, criminals and misfits, Atkins once said he could see and hear everything she did. But during her time in prison she denounced Manson, and in 1974 became a Christian in a conversion inspired by correspondence with another former "Manson family" member.
At a 1993 parole hearing, Atkins described her time with the disturbed man who nicknamed her "Sexy Sadie" by saying, "It is almost impossible to understand insanity and that's what I was living with -- insanity."
Atkins was 21 years old when the career criminal Manson dispatched her and other followers to the Beverly Hills home of actress Sharon Tate and film director Roman Polanski on August 9, 1969, with orders to kill. Polanski was out of town but the heavily pregnant Tate and four friends were brutally stabbed, beaten and shot to death. Atkins later said she stabbed Tate after ignoring her pleas for mercy.
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