Teen who raped and murdered his teacher gets into the gulty box

teenager who raped and killed his maths teacher
while at school faces life in prison after being
convicted. A Massachusetts jury on Tuesday
found him guilty of raping and murdering his 24
year old teacher, Colleen Ritzer, at his suburban
high school in 2013, after about nine hours of
deliberations.
The teenager’s defence lawyers claimed he was
in the midst of a psychotic episode when he
stabbed her 16 times in the neck in the women's
bathroom.
Prosecutors said the schoolboy, who was 14 at
the time, used a box cutter to brutally stab the
24-year-old, before using a recycling bin to take
her body into the woods.

In finding 16-year-old Philip Chism guilty, the jury
rejected the defense's argument that he was
suffering from a psychotic episode at the time of
the 2013 attack and therefore not criminally
responsible for his actions.
Chism was 14 when he committed the killing at
his high school in Danvers, Massachusetts, but he
was tried as an adult and could be sentenced to
life in prison.
Prosecutors presented voluminous evidence
during the month-long trial, including school
surveillance videos, to support allegations that
Chism followed his teacher, Colleen Ritzer, into a
bathroom after school, strangled and raped her,
and carted her body in a recycling bin to a
wooded area off campus.
The trial at Essex County Superior Court in Salem,
Massachusetts, was occasionally delayed by
Chism, who at one point refused to return to the
courtroom after a break telling his attorney that
he was "about to explode."