{"id":54260,"date":"2016-05-04T00:16:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T00:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_kate_grosmaire-i_forgave_my_teen_daughters_killer_interview_by_morgan_l\/"},"modified":"2016-05-04T00:16:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T00:16:06","slug":"ct_kate_grosmaire-i_forgave_my_teen_daughters_killer_interview_by_morgan_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54260","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Kate Grosmaire&#8211;I Forgave My Teen Daughter\u2019s Killer (Interview by Morgan Lee)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The same week that Kate Grosmaire visited the hospital where her 18-year-old daughter lay in a coma from a gunshot wound to the head, she visited the jail where the shooter was being held by police.<\/p>\n<p>Even before they took Ann off life support, the Grosmaires knew wanted to forgive her murderer, her high school boyfriend Conor McBride.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConor has said that act could not have been anything but from God because people alone can\u2019t do that; it has to be from God,\u201d\u009d said Kate, who still talks to McBride on the phone once a week. \u201cThat was the start of his salvation.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Since Ann\u2019s death in 2010, Kate and husband Andy Grosmaire have become advocates for an approach to criminal punishment called restorative justice. In their daughter\u2019s murder case, the Catholic couple learned they could push for lighter charges than life in prison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/women\/2016\/may\/i-forgave-my-teen-daughters-killer.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same week that Kate Grosmaire visited the hospital where her 18-year-old daughter lay in a coma from a gunshot wound to the head, she visited the jail where the shooter was being held by police. Even before they took<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54260\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,175,101,162,438,168,114,98,184,177,129,108,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-christology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}