Cargill Case Summary
Summary
Kimberly Cargill a licensed vocational nurse who used to work in East Texas Medical Center (ETMC) is serving her death row sentence for the murder of Cherry Walker. Cargill was married in 3 separate occasions and had 4 children. At the time of her arrest and trial she was 45 years old. Cherry Walker (39) was the babysitter and was mentally disabled (she had the mentality of a nine year old). In early June of 2010, a body was found near Smith County Road in Tyler, Texas. After many tests done to the body, it was identified as Cherry Walker’s body. Cherry Walker used to babysit Cargill’s four-year old child before her death. Cargill at the time was on a child custody fight against the court system of Texas. She was on trial and charged for abusing her child. On June 18, 2010 a subpoena was giving to Walker to testify in court against Cargill on June 23, but never appeared. Since Cargill knew that she could …show more content…
The media did portray this crime as heinous and did made people aware that the “white middle class female” is capable to commit a crime just as the “black lower class female.” Even though society mostly sees African American women as more ‘criminal’ than other races it should not be the case but it is like that. According to Chesney-lind, M. & Eliason, M. (2006), “The construction of some women as ‘bad’, particularly African American girls and women, supports racist notions that are arguably at the core of US culture” (37). Society has manipulated the face of the criminal woman and how she is “suppose” to look like but that is not true. Cargill is the other face of the criminal woman, she is white and not black and she is the ‘bad’ girl (woman). She is paying for her crime just as any other criminal out there it should not matter whether her skin color is white or black, it’s still a
Kimberly Cargill a licensed vocational nurse who used to work in East Texas Medical Center (ETMC) is serving her death row sentence for the murder of Cherry Walker. Cargill was married in 3 separate occasions and had 4 children. At the time of her arrest and trial she was 45 years old. Cherry Walker (39) was the babysitter and was mentally disabled (she had the mentality of a nine year old). In early June of 2010, a body was found near Smith County Road in Tyler, Texas. After many tests done to the body, it was identified as Cherry Walker’s body. Cherry Walker used to babysit Cargill’s four-year old child before her death. Cargill at the time was on a child custody fight against the court system of Texas. She was on trial and charged for abusing her child. On June 18, 2010 a subpoena was giving to Walker to testify in court against Cargill on June 23, but never appeared. Since Cargill knew that she could …show more content…
The media did portray this crime as heinous and did made people aware that the “white middle class female” is capable to commit a crime just as the “black lower class female.” Even though society mostly sees African American women as more ‘criminal’ than other races it should not be the case but it is like that. According to Chesney-lind, M. & Eliason, M. (2006), “The construction of some women as ‘bad’, particularly African American girls and women, supports racist notions that are arguably at the core of US culture” (37). Society has manipulated the face of the criminal woman and how she is “suppose” to look like but that is not true. Cargill is the other face of the criminal woman, she is white and not black and she is the ‘bad’ girl (woman). She is paying for her crime just as any other criminal out there it should not matter whether her skin color is white or black, it’s still a