Okay, try this statement on for size:

Jeffrey Dahmer wasn’t a cannibal. He just bought the wrong cook book and made a few bad choices.

Because, to an admittedly ridiculous extreme, that’s what Joy Miller is saying about her daughter, 19 year old bank robber Ashley Miller.

“I want [people] to know that her and Heather both are not bandits,” Joy Miller told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Monday.” “They’re little girls that made a bad choice.”

I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but it has to be said: it’s the choices that you make that define who you are. If you’ve chosen to rob a bank, that pretty much makes you a bank robber. Excusing your little bank robber is making a choice, too. It’s choosing to be a bad parent.

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