Victim’s Mom Gives Stunningly Ferocious Impact Statement At School Shooter’s Trial: ‘To The Waste That Took My Daughter’s Life’

Nicole Beausoleil gave a blistering impact statement at the sentencing of Ethan Crumbley, the school shooter who killed her 17-year-old daughter Madisyn Baldwin.

Crumbley was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2021 killing of four students at Michigan’s Oxford High School: Baldwin, 16-year-old Tate Myre, 17-year-old Justin Shilling, and 14-year-old Hanah St. Juliana.

On Friday’s edition of CNN News Central, anchor John Berman was moved after watching Nicole Beausoleil’s unsparing impact statement — which ended on a note of forgiveness:

NICOLE BEAUSOLEIL, MOTHER OF MADISYN BALDWIN: To the waste that took my daughter’s life, that name will never come out of my mouth. That life will cease to exist to me, and just like trash it will be forgotten. So, while the attention that he has been seeking for this horrendous crime, you will get no reaction from me. But, again, this is the life he chose. If he really wanted to make a different outcome, he would continue to — he wouldn’t continue to make the excuses he does now.

The suffering will come when he least expects it. The regret will consume you as you sit alone with the only voice — only voices in your head. Guilt would eat away at your soul. This might not happen tomorrow, next year or ten years, but it will happen. As you get older, you will realize the path you’ve chosen, and it will haunt you. Just like the idol that you admire so much, both of you forgotten in the system.

And when these emotions flood into your body like you’re bleeding out, no one will be there to save you. No one will forgive you. Your hand will not – will no longer be held as you claim insanity. Your outburst for attention will go unnoticed. No one will love you and no one will come.

As I don’t wish death upon you, that would be too easy. I hope the thoughts consume you and they replay over and over in your head. The thoughts won’t stop. I’m sure you heard that paraphrased before. I hope the screams keep you up at night and they cause real hallucinations. You won’t be able to write it on paper for the attention that you so badly seek. Those four walls become your home, suffocating in guilt.

It will come, I promise you. I’m happy you decided not to be a coward that day and take your own life. I’d much rather you stick around to see what the life you have chosen for. What suffering really feels like and that your significance is not above anyone else. I truly feel sorry for you that you thought this would be a better life choice.

So, your honor, I have chosen forgiveness. We live in a world where forgiveness is not deserved but needed. Forgiveness.

BERMAN: That is the mother of Madisyn Baldwin, who was killed at the age of 17 two years ago. You can hear the emotion in her voice there.

Watch above via CNN News Central.