#Justice Mary Kay O’Brien

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Illinois is set to become the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail after the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a landmark criminal justice reform law did not violate the state’s constitution.

The opinion was released more than six months after the Pretrial Fairness Act was halted by the Justices just hours before it was to go into effect Jan. 1 in response to legal challenges. The high court said the law should now go into effect in September.

In its 5-2 ruling, the court said the state’s constitution “does not mandate that monetary bail is the only means to ensure criminal defendants appear for trials or the only means to protect the public. Our constitution creates a balance between the individual rights of defendants and the individual rights of crime victims. The Act’s pretrial release provisions set forth procedures commensurate with that balance.”

The majority rejected claims that the Legislature had overstepped its authority by eliminating bail through the Act, writing that “the legislature has long regulated the bail system.”

The court’s only two Republican Justices dissented, saying “the legislature’s abolishment of monetary bail is in direct violation of the plain language of our constitution’s bill of rights and, more specifically, the vested rights of crime victims. ... This court has an absolute obligation to declare the pretrial release provisions of the Act to be invalid and unenforceable no matter how beneficial the abolishment of monetary bail may be.”

The bail system overhaul was one of the most controversial provisions of the widely scrutinized SAFE-T Act, a major bill that mandated wide-ranging reforms to policing, court proceedings and victims’ rights in the state.

The court’s ruling stems from a flurry of lawsuits last year brought by roughly 60 sheriffs and state’s attorneys who argued that eliminating cash bail would reduce public safety, put law enforcement in harm’s way and violate the state’s constitution.

In December, Kankakee County Chief Judge Thomas Cunnington agreed with the groups and ruled the cash bail provision unconstitutional, though his ruling would have only applied to counties that had sued.

An appeal by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul sent the matter to the state Supreme Court, and the Justices ordered that the entire Pretrial Fairness Act wouldn’t go into effect until further notice “in order to maintain consistent pretrial procedures throughout Illinois.” 

In the ruling Tuesday, Chief Judge Mary Jane Theis said Cunnington’s decision ignored the plain language of the bail clause in the state’s constitution, which never included the term “monetary, so does not cement the practice of monetary bail, however long-standing and prevalent across Illinois, into our constitution.”

Raoul released a statement Tuesday morning saying “someone’s experience with the criminal justice system should not vary based on their income level. The SAFE-T Act was intended to address pervasive inequalities in the criminal justice system, in particular the fact that individuals who are awaiting criminal trials — who have not been convicted of a crime and are presumed innocent — may spend extended periods of time incarcerated because they cannot afford to pay cash bail.”

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who supported the bail reform, said the ruling “is a monumental milestone toward achieving equal justice for all in Cook County and Illinois. ... Ending cash bail is in line with our values and is a critical step toward economic and racial justice in Cook County and Illinois.”

But McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally, an opponent of the bail act, called the ruling “a sad reflection of state of ideological capture in our three branches of government. ... We at the state’s attorney’s office will continue to do everything within our power to ensure that dangerous offenders remain behind bars pre-trial or that other measures, such as electronic monitoring, are in put in place to minimize risk.”

Despite a two-year ramp-up before bail reform was to go into effect, opponents waited until late last year to mount a serious effort to overturn the law, as well as a political pressure campaign before last year’s statewide elections.

In the weeks before the election, opponents derided the SAFE-T Act as a “purge law” and claimed it would make the state — with a particular focus on Chicago — less safe by releasing more violent criminals to prey on the public.

Supporters of the Pretrial Fairness Act said its provisions would simply remove cash bail as a condition that could be set by a judge when considering whether someone was likely to return to court for their hearings or posed a danger to the public.

Studies of jurisdictions that have nearly eliminated cash bail have shown no significant increase in crime generally, nor by defendants released while awaiting trial. In some cases, defendants were more likely to return to court.

The elimination of cash bail does not mean people charged with crimes cannot be held in custody pending trial.

Under the act, the courts will continue to hold detention hearings for people accused of serious crimes to determine whether someone poses a safety risk if released and whether someone is likely to show up for their hearings — the same considerations that now often determine cash bail.

People charged with misdemeanors and other minor offenses will be released without bail or pretrial conditions. In more serious cases that meet standards where a person can be held in custody, prosecutors will be required to request a person be detained and make arguments on public safety and the risk of flight.

In cases where prosecutors seek to hold a person in custody, the defendant’s attorneys will be given more time to prepare for the hearing. The decision on whether a person should continue to be held in custody pretrial can also be revisited by the court at future hearings.

Cook County had planned to move forward with bail reform on Jan. 1 until the Justices halted its implementation. “I feel very confident that we will be ready to go in 60 days,” Pretrial Division Presiding Judge Marubio said Tuesday.

Until Sept. 18, judges will continue to set bail in cases in Cook County, just as they had been doing up until Dec. 31, Marubio said.

DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin, the lone Republican appointee on a state Senate panel that recommended revisions to the bail reforms in the SAFE-T Act last fall, said changes adopted in the December veto session largely addressed “glaring deficiencies” and expanded judges’ discretion to detain defendants who might pose a danger to the public if released.

Berlin did not join the lawsuit that led to Supreme Court case because of the potential conflict with his role on the panel.

“At this point, I would say (the public) shouldn’t be panicked,” Berlin told the Sun-Times. “With the amendment (passed in December) I am confident that violent criminals are going to be detained.”

Berlin said he expected an influx of defendants seeking hearings when the law takes effect, and that his office will petition judges to hold any person his office deems a threat to public safety.

He also noted that even multimillion-dollar bail amounts are not a guarantee of safety. “I have seen people put up $200,000 and walk out of jail on a $2 million bond,” he said.

Berlin said he and his fellow state’s attorneys planned a conference call Tuesday afternoon to discuss options, but personally he felt that another lawsuit was not likely. “I think we need to move forward with the General Assembly and use the legislative process,” he said. “At this point, I’m not sure legally what else there is to do.”

Berlin said he would advocate for changes that would make the Act resemble bail statutes in New Jersey, which largely did away with cash bail in 2017. New Jersey’s laws allow judges to set a cash bail when prosecutors show “clear and convincing evidence” people are likely to flee, threaten or intimidate others if set free before trial, or otherwise pose a threat to safety.

Harold Krent, a professor at IIT-Kent Law School who has studied the separation of powers, agreed there likely is no path for further challenges in the courts.

“There is no traditional injury they can point to that is going to get them through the doors of federal court,” he said. “This is a case where a state law was found constitutional under the state constitution. I’m not sure what their federal claim would be.”

The bail reforms were just one part of the SAFE-T Act, some of which have already taken effect. Other measures include requiring all police departments to equip officers with body-worn cameras by 2025, expanding services for victims of crimes and changing how people who are incarcerated are counted for redistricting maps.

Many Republican candidates made the SAFE-T Act a focus of law-and-order campaigning last year, but Democrats held off most challengers in what was expected to be a bruising midterm election for the party across the country and even expanded their majority on the state Supreme Court.

The elections of Justices Elizabeth Rochford and Mary Kay O’Brien were believed to be significant to preserving Illinois’ strong abortion protections, as well as the future of the SAFE-T Act. Both Justices sided with the majority of the court.

Justices Lisa Holder White and David Overstreet, the high court’s only Republicans, joined in the dissent.

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Mw faces and child. Mw parent

This will be pretty long, so brace yourself!

Fcs:

Dylan O’Brien, Chris Evans, Logan Lerman, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Jordan Fisher, Niall Horan, Max Thieriot, Santiago Alejandro Segura, Tyler Posey, Tyler Hoechlin, Tyler Blackburn, Justin Bieber, Louis Tomlinson, Luke Hemmings, KJ Apa, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Liam Hemsworth, Brant Daugherty, Keegan Allen, Ian Harding, Charlie Gillespie, Booboo Stewart, Austin Butler, Cody Christian, Dylan Sprayberry, Theo James, Nat Wolff, Sam Claflin, Gregg Sulkin

Female

Adelaide Kane, Ashley Benson, Blake Lively, Troian Bellisario, Shay Mitchell, Camila Mendes, Chloe Bennet, Sofia Carson, Eleanor Tomlinson, Alexandra Daddario, Ally Brooke, Alycia Debnam-Carey, AnnaSophia Robb, Ashley Tisdale, Barbara Palvin, Becca Tobin, Camila Cabello, Cara Delevigne, Crystal Reed, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Katherine McNamara, Karen Gillan, Katie Cassidy, Lily Collins, Lily James, Madelaine Petsch, Marie Avgeropoulos, Natalie Dormer, Shailene Woodley, Sydney Sweeney, Vanessa Morgan, Victoria Justice, Willa Holland, Zoey Deutch - and there are so many not on either of these lists.

Families:

Damon + Elena

Elijah + Hayley

Enzo + Bonnie

Kai + Katherine

Klaus + Cami

Kol + Davina

Oli + Lexi

Stefan + Caroline

Parents:

Alaric Saltzman

Cami O'Connell

Freya Mikaelson

Hayley Marshall

Jackson Kenner

Jo Laughlin

Katherine Pierce

Lexi Branson

Marcel Gerard

Stefan Salvatore

Tyler Lockwood

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Teen Choice Awards 2018: The Complete Winners List

TBH, I don’t really understand the Teen Choice Awards. The winners? Not teens. The voters? They don’t have to be teens either — anyone with Internet access can cast a ballot. The dress code? Wear whatever you want. The trophy? A colourfully patterned surf board.

Yeah, it’s a little confusing — but the practical prize and youthful categories are far more interesting than what they’re doing over at the Oscars. Forget “Best Lead Actress in a Motion Picture”: the Teen Choice Awards recognizes the “Best Action Movie Actress,” the “Best Sci-Fi Movie Actress,” the “Best Fantasy Movie Actress,” the “Best Comedy Movie Actress” the “Best Drama Movie Actress” and the “Best Summer Actress.” (There’s a whole other category for actresses on television!) And, if you don’t make it on stage to collect one of these awards, you might have a shot at “Choice Hissy Fit” and “Choice Snapchatter.”

This year’s Teen Choice Awards honoured the best in film, television, music, sports, fashion, comedy and the internet based on more than 150 million votes cast on Twitter and FOX.com. Here’s the full list of winners from last night’s event. (Spoiler: Riverdale won pretty much everything.)

Movies:

Choice Action Movie

WINNER: “Avengers: Infinity War” “Justice League” “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” “Pacific Rim: Uprising” “Tomb Raider”

Choice Action Movie Actor

WINNER: Robert Downey Jr. – “Avengers: Infinity War” Chris Evans – “Avengers: Infinity War” Dylan O’Brien – “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” Henry Cavill – “Justice League” John Boyega – “Pacific Rim: Uprising” Tom Holland – “Avengers: Infinity War”

Choice Action Movie Actress

WINNER: Scarlett Johansson – “Avengers: Infinity War” Alicia Vikander – “Tomb Raider” Amy Adams – “Justice League” Elizabeth Olsen – “Avengers: Infinity War” Gal Gadot – “Justice League” Zoe Saldana – “Avengers: Infinity War”

Choice Sci-Fi Movie

WINNER: “Black Panther” “Blade Runner 2049” “Rampage” “Ready Player One” “Thor: Ragnarok”

Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actor

WINNER: Chris Hemsworth – “Thor: Ragnarok” Chadwick Boseman – “Black Panther” Dwayne Johnson – “Rampage” Mark Ruffalo – “Thor: Ragnarok” Ryan Gosling – “Blade Runner 2049” Tye Sheridan – “Ready Player One”

Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actress

WINNER: Letitia Wright – “Black Panther” Danai Gurira – “Black Panther” Lupita Nyong’o – “Black Panther” Naomie Harris – “Rampage” Olivia Cooke – “Ready Player One” Tessa Thompson – “Thor: Ragnarok”

Choice Fantasy Movie

WINNER: “Coco” “A Wrinkle in Time” “Peter Rabbit” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

Choice Fantasy Movie Actor

WINNER: Anthony Gonzalez – “Coco” Gael García Bernal – “Coco” James Corden – “Peter Rabbit” John Boyega – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Mark Hamill – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Oscar Isaac – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

Choice Fantasy Movie Actress

WINNER: Carrie Fisher – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Daisy Ridley – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Mindy Kaling – “A Wrinkle in Time” Oprah Winfrey – “A Wrinkle in Time” Reese Witherspoon – “A Wrinkle in Time” Storm Reid – “A Wrinkle in Time”

Choice Drama Movie

WINNER: “The Greatest Showman” “A Quiet Place” “Midnight Sun” “Murder on the Orient Express” “Truth or Dare” “Wonder”

Choice Drama Movie Actor

WINNER: Zac Efron – “The Greatest Showman” Hugh Jackman – “The Greatest Showman” Jacob Tremblay – “Wonder” Leslie Odom Jr. – “Murder on the Orient Express” Patrick Schwarzenegger – “Midnight Sun” Timothée Chalamet – “Lady Bird”

Choice Drama Movie Actress

WINNER: Zendaya – “The Greatest Showman” Bella Thorne – “Midnight Sun” Daisy Ridley – “Murder on the Orient Express” Julia Roberts – “Wonder” Lucy Hale – “Truth or Dare” Saoirse Ronan – “Lady Bird”

Choice Comedy Movie

WINNER: “Love, Simon” “Daddy’s Home 2” “I Feel Pretty” “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” “Overboard” “Pitch Perfect 3”

Choice Comedy Movie Actor

WINNER: Dwayne Johnson – “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” Eugenio Derbez – “Overboard” Jack Black – “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” Kevin Hart – “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” Mark Wahlberg – “Daddy’s Home 2” Will Ferrell – “Daddy’s Home 2”

Choice Comedy Movie Actress

WINNER: Anna Kendrick – “Pitch Perfect 3” Amy Schumer – “I Feel Pretty” Anna Faris – “Overboard” Hailee Steinfeld – “Pitch Perfect 3” Karen Gillan – “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” Rebel Wilson – “Pitch Perfect 3”

Choice Movie Villain

WINNER: Michael B. Jordan – “Black Panther” Cate Blanchett – “Thor: Ragnarok” Josh Brolin – “Avengers: Infinity War” Adam Driver – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Aidan Gillen – “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” Bill Skarsgård – “It”

Choice Breakout Movie Star

WINNER: Nick Robinson – “Love, Simon” Olivia Cooke – “Ready Player One” Sophia Lillis – “It” Keala Settle – “The Greatest Showman” Kelly Marie Tran – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Letitia Wright – “Black Panther”

Choice Summer Movie

WINNER: “Incredibles 2” “Adrift” “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” “Life of the Party” “Ocean’s 8” “Solo: A Star Wars Story”

Choice Summer Movie Actor

WINNER: Chris Pratt – “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” Sam Claflin – “Adrift” Julian Dennison – “Deadpool 2” Alden Ehrenreich – “Solo: A Star Wars Story” Donald Glover – “Solo: A Star Wars Story” Ryan Reynolds – “Deadpool 2”

Choice Summer Movie Actress

WINNER: Bryce Dallas Howard – “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” Zazie Beetz – “Deadpool 2” Sandra Bullock – “Ocean’s 8” Emilia Clarke – “Solo: A Star Wars Story” Melissa McCarthy – “Life of the Party” Shailene Woodley – “Adrift”

Choice Movie Ship

WINNER: Zac Efron & Zendaya – “The Greatest Showman” Chadwick Boseman & Lupita Nyong’o – “Black Panther” Sophia Lillis & Jeremy Ray Taylor – “It” Dylan O’Brien & Kaya Scodelario – “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” Nick Robinson & Keiynan Lonsdale – “Love, Simon” Bella Thorne & Patrick Schwarzenegger – “Midnight Sun”

Television:

Choice Drama TV Show

WINNER: “Riverdale” “Empire” “Famous in Love” “Star” “The Fosters” “This is Us”

Choice Drama TV Actor

WINNER: Cole Sprouse – “Riverdale” Freddie Highmore – “The Good Doctor” Jesse Williams – “Grey’s Anatomy” Jussie Smollett – “Empire” K.J. Apa – “Riverdale” Sterling K. Brown – “This Is Us”

Choice Drama TV Actress

WINNER: Lili Reinhart – “Riverdale” Bella Thorne – “Famous in Love” Camila Mendes – “Riverdale” Chrissy Metz – “This Is Us” Maia Mitchell – “The Fosters” Ryan Destiny – “Star”

Choice Comedy TV Show

WINNER: “The Big Bang Theory”  “Black-ish” “Fuller House” “Jane the Virgin” “Modern Family” “The Good Place”

Choice Comedy TV Actor

WINNER: Jaime Camil – “Jane the Virgin”  Andy Samberg – “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” Anthony Anderson – “Black-ish” Elias Harger – “Fuller House” Hudson Yang – “Fresh Off the Boat” Rico Rodriguez – “Modern Family”

Choice Comedy TV Actress

WINNER: Gina Rodriguez – “Jane the Virgin” America Ferrera – “Superstore” Candace Cameron Bure – “Fuller House” Kristen Bell – “The Good Place” Sarah Hyland – “Modern Family” Yara Shahidi – “Black-ish,” “Grown-ish”

Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor

WINNER: Matthew Daddario – “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments” Bob Morley – “The 100” Dominic Sherwood – “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments” Finn Wolfhard – “Stranger Things” Gaten Matarazzo – “Stranger Things” Joseph Morgan – “The Originals”

Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actress

WINNER: Millie Bobby Brown – “Stranger Things” Eliza Taylor – “The 100” Emeraude Toubia – “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments” Katherine McNamara – “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments” Lana Parrilla – “Once Upon a Time” Rose McIver – “iZombie”

Choice Action TV Show

WINNER: “The Flash” “Arrow” “Gotham” “Lethal Weapon” “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” “Supergirl”

Choice Action TV Actor

WINNER: Grant Gustin – “The Flash” Chris Wood – “Supergirl” Damon Wayans – “Lethal Weapon” David Mazouz – “Gotham” Lucas Till – “MacGyver” Stephen Amell – “Arrow”

Choice Action TV Actress 

WINNER: Melissa Benoist – “Supergirl” Caity Lotz – “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” Candice Patton – “The Flash” Chloe Bennet – “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Danielle Panabaker – “The Flash” Emily Bett Rickards – “Arrow”

Choice Animated TV Show 

WINNER: “Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir” “Bob’s Burgers” “Family Guy” “Rick and Morty” “Steven Universe” “The Simpsons”

Choice Reality TV Show

WINNER: “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” “Lip Sync Battle” “MasterChef Junior” “The Four: Battle for Stardom” “The Voice” “Total Divas”

Choice Throwback TV Show 

WINNER: “Friends” “Gossip Girl” “One Tree Hill” “That ’70s Show” “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”

Choice TV Personality

WINNER: Chrissy Teigen – “Lip Sync Battle” Derek Hough – “World of Dance” DJ Khaled – “The Four: Battle for Stardom” Hailey Baldwin – “Drop the Mic” Kelly Clarkson – “The Voice” Meghan Trainor – “The Four: Battle for Stardom”

Choice TV Villain

WINNER: Mark Consuelos –”Riverdale” Anna Hopkins –”Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments” Cameron Monaghan –”Gotham” Gabrielle Anwar –”Once Upon a Time” Mind Flayer –”Stranger Things” Odette Annable –”Supergirl

Choice TV Ship

WINNER: Cole Sprouse & Lili Reinhart – “Riverdale” Grant Gustin & Candice Patton – “The Flash” K.J. Apa & Camila Mendes –”Riverdale” Matthew Daddario & Harry Shum Jr. –”Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments” Millie Bobby Brown & Finn Wolfhard –”Stranger Things” Stephen Amell & Emily Bett Rickards –”Arrow”

Choice Summer TV Show

WINNER: “So You Think You Can Dance” “Beat Shazam” “Cobra Kai” “Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger” “The Bold Type” “Total Bellas”

Choice Summer TV Star 

WINNER: Olivia Holt – Marvel’s “Cloak & Dagger” Aisha Dee – “The Bold Type” Aubrey Joseph – Marvel’s “Cloak & Dagger” Katie Stevens – “The Bold Type” Meghann Fahy – “The Bold Type” Xolo Maridueña – “Cobra Kai”

Movies & TV:

Choice Liplock

WINNER: Cole Sprouse & Lili Reinhart –”Riverdale” Chadwick Boseman & Lupita Nyong’o – “Black Panther” Chris Pratt & Zoe Saldana – Avengers:”Infinity War” Gina Rodriguez & Justin Baldoni –”Jane the Virgin” Millie Bobby Brown & Finn Wolfhard –”Stranger Things” Zac Efron & Zendaya –”The Greatest Showman”

Choice Hissy Fit

WINNER: Madelaine Petsch –”Riverdale” Adam Driver –”Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Jack Black –”Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” Joe Keery –”Stranger Things” Kevin Hart –”Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” Mark Ruffalo –”Avengers: Infinity War”

Choice Scene Stealer

WINNER: Vanessa Morgan –”Riverdale” Charlie Heaton –”Stranger Things” Katie McGrath –”Supergirl” Nick Jonas –”Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” Taika Waititi –”Thor: Ragnarok” Tom Hiddleston –”Thor: Ragnarok”

Music:

Choice Male Artist

WINNER: Louis Tomlinson Bruno Mars Drake Ed Sheeran Niall Horan Shawn Mendes

Choice Female Artist

WINNER: Camila Cabello Ariana Grande Cardi B Demi Lovato Dua Lipa Taylor Swift

Choice Music Group

WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer Fifth Harmony Florida Georgia Line Maroon 5 Migos Why Don’t We

Choice Country Artist

WINNER: Carrie Underwood Kane Brown Kelsea Ballerini Maren Morris Thomas Rhett

  Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Artist

WINNER: Cardi B Childish Gambino Drake Khalid Nicki Minaj Post Malone

Choice Rock Artist

WINNER: Imagine Dragons Panic! At the Disco Paramore Portugal. The Man twenty one pilots X Ambassadors

Choice Breakout Artist

WINNER: Khalid Lauv Logic Marshmello SZA

Choice International Artist

WINNER: BTS Black Pink CNCO Exo Got7 Super Junior

Choice Song: Female Artist

WINNER: Camila Cabello (feat. Young Thug) – “Havana” Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left To Cry” Demi Lovato – “Sorry Not Sorry” Dua Lipa – “New Rules” Halsey – “Bad at Love” Taylor Swift – “Look What You Made Me Do”

Choice Song: Male Artist

WINNER: Ed Sheeran – “Perfect” Charlie Puth – “Attention” Childish Gambino – “This Is America” Drake – “God’s Plan” Justin Timberlake (feat. Chris Stapleton) – “Say Something” Kendrick Lamar (feat. Zacari) – “Love.”

Choice Song: Group

WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer – “Youngblood” Imagine Dragons – “Whatever It Takes” Maroon 5 – “Wait” Panic! At the Disco – “Say Amen (Saturday Night)” Portugal. The Man – “Feel It Still” Why Don’t We – “Trust Fund Baby”

Choice Collaboration

WINNER: Zac Efron & Zendaya – “Rewrite the Stars” (“The Greatest Showman” soundtrack) Bebe Rexha (feat. Florida Georgia Line) – “Meant to Be” Bruno Mars (feat. Cardi B) – “Finesse (Remix)” Taylor Swift (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future) – “End Game” The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar – “Pray for Me” (“Black Panther” soundtrack) Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey – “The Middle”

Choice Pop Song

WINNER: “In My Blood” – Shawn Mendes “Delicate” – Taylor Swift “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” – Backstreet Boys “No Excuses” – Meghan Trainor “No Tears Left to Cry” – Ariana Grande “This Is Me” – Keala Settle

Choice Summer Song

WINNER: “Back to You” – Selena Gomez “Familiar” – Liam Payne & J Balvin “Girls Like You” – Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B “Nice for What” – Drake “One Kiss” – Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa “Youngblood” – 5 Seconds of Summer

Choice Summer Female Artist

WINNER: Camila Cabello Cardi B Selena Gomez Ariana Grande Halsey Meghan Trainor

Choice Summer Male Artist

WINNER: Shawn Mendes Kane Brown Niall Horan Liam Payne Charlie Puth Zayn

Choice Summer Group

WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer The Chainsmokers Dan + Shay Imagine Dragons Maroon 5 Panic! at the Disco

Choice Summer Tour

WINNER: Harry Styles – Harry Styles: Live on Tour Niall Horan – Flicker World Tour Jay Z & Beyoncé – On the Run II Tour Charlie Puth – Voicenotes Tour Taylor Swift – Reputation Stadium Tour Top Dawg Entertainment – The Championship Tour

Internet:

Choice Female Web Star

WINNER: Liza Koshy Merrell Twins Bethany Mota Lele Pons Lilly Singh

Choice Male Web Star

WINNER: The Dolan Twins Cameron Dallas Joey Graceffa Ryan Higa Collins Key Tyler Oakley

Choice Twitter

WINNER: Anna Kendrick Mark Hamill Mindy Kaling Kumail Nanjiani Ryan Reynolds Chrissy Teigen

Choice Instagrammer

WINNER: Selena Gomez Lucy Hale Dwayne Johnson John Mayer Will Smith Justin Timberlake

Choice Snapchatter

WINNER: Ariana Grande Ethan Dolan Grayson Dolan Kendall Jenner Demi Lovato Meghan Trainor

Choice YouTuber

WINNER: Liza Koshy DanTDM The Dolan Twins Merrell Twins Lele Pons Lilly Singh

Other:

Choice Style Icon

WINNER: Harry Styles Chadwick Boseman Blake Lively Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Migos Zendaya

Choice Female Hottie

WINNER: Lauren Jauregui Hailey Baldwin Selena Gomez Olivia Holt Kendall Jenner Yara Shahidi

Choice Male Hottie

WINNER: Cole Sprouse Chadwick Boseman Zac Efron Grant Gustin Chris Hemsworth Shawn Mendes

Choice Comedian

WINNER: The Dolan Twins Ellen DeGeneres James Corden Jimmy Fallon Kevin Hart Lilly Singh

Choice Male Athlete

WINNER: LeBron James Adam Rippon J.J. Watt Red Gerard Shaun White Stephen Curry

Choice Female Athlete

WINNER: Serena Williams Chloe Kim Lindsey Vonn Mikaela Shiffrin Mirai Nagasu U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team

Choice Dancer

WINNER: Maddie Ziegler Cheryl Burke Jenna Dewan Derek Hough Les Twins tWitch

Choice Video Game

WINNER: “Fortnite” “Fire Emblem Heroes” “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” “Overwatch” “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” “Super Mario Odyssey”

Choice Model

WINNER: Gigi Hadid Adwoa Aboah Romeo Beckham Kaia Gerber Bella Hadid Jaden Smith

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Teen Choice Awards 2018: See the full list of winners

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Teen Choice Awards 2018: See the full list of winners

Fans have voted online and hashtagged their favorite stars from film, TV, music, and the web all over social media in anticipation of the 2018 Teen Choice Awards, which was broadcast live on Sunday night from The Forum in Los Angeles.

Nick Cannon hosted the show with help from YouTube sensation Lele Pons. Performers included Khalid, Meghan Trainor, Lauv, Evvie McKinney, and Bebe Rexha, while appearances were made by the Riverdale cast, Zac Efron, Chris Pratt, Nina Dobrev, Lucy Hale, and many more.

Riverdale, The Flash, The Greatest Showman, and Love, Simon were among the night’s biggest winners.

Check out the full list of winners below.

MOVIES

Choice Action Movie  *WINNER: Avengers: Infinity War Justice League Maze Runner: The Death Cure Pacific Rim: Uprising Tomb Raider

Choice Action Movie Actor Chris Evans – Avengers: Infinity War Dylan O’Brien – Maze Runner: The Death Cure Henry Cavill – Justice League John Boyega – Pacific Rim: Uprising *WINNER: Robert Downey Jr. – Avengers: Infinity War Tom Holland – Avengers: Infinity War

Choice Action Movie Actress  Alicia Vikander – Tomb Raider Amy Adams – Justice League Elizabeth Olsen – Avengers: Infinity War Gal Gadot – Justice League *WINNER: Scarlett Johansson – Avengers: Infinity War Zoe Saldana – Avengers: Infinity War

Choice Sci-Fi Movie  *WINNER: Black Panther Blade Runner 2049 Rampage Ready Player One Thor: Ragnarok

Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actor  Chadwick Boseman – Black Panther *WINNER: Chris Hemsworth – Thor: Ragnarok Dwayne Johnson – Rampage Mark Ruffalo – Thor: Ragnarok Ryan Gosling – Blade Runner 2049 Tye Sheridan – Ready Player One

Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actress  Danai Gurira – Black Panther *WINNER: Letitia Wright – Black Panther Lupita Nyong’o – Black Panther Naomie Harris – Rampage Olivia Cooke – Ready Player One Tessa Thompson – Thor: Ragnarok

Choice Fantasy Movie  A Wrinkle in Time *WINNER: Coco Peter Rabbit Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Choice Fantasy Movie Actor  *WINNER: Anthony Gonzalez – Coco Gael García Bernal – Coco James Corden – Peter Rabbit John Boyega – Star Wars: The Last Jedi Mark Hamill – Star Wars: The Last Jedi Oscar Isaac – Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Choice Fantasy Movie Actress  *WINNER: Carrie Fisher — Star Wars: The Last Jedi Daisy Ridley – Star Wars: The Last Jedi Mindy Kaling – A Wrinkle in Time Oprah Winfrey – A Wrinkle in Time Reese Witherspoon – A Wrinkle in Time Storm Reid – A Wrinkle in Time

Choice Drama Movie  A Quiet Place Midnight Sun Murder on the Orient Express *WINNER: The Greatest Showman Truth or Dare Wonder

Choice Drama Movie Actor  Hugh Jackman – The Greatest Showman Jacob Tremblay – Wonder Leslie Odom Jr. – Murder on the Orient Express Patrick Schwarzenegger – Midnight Sun Timothée Chalamet – Lady Bird *WINNER: Zac Efron – The Greatest Showman

Choice Drama Movie Actress  Bella Thorne – Midnight Sun Daisy Ridley – Murder on the Orient Express Julia Roberts – Wonder Lucy Hale – Truth or Dare Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird *WINNER: Zendaya – The Greatest Showman

Choice Comedy Movie  Daddy’s Home 2 I Feel Pretty Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle *WINNER: Love, Simon Overboard Pitch Perfect 3

Choice Comedy Movie Actor *WINNER: Dwayne Johnson — Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Eugenio Derbez – Overboard Jack Black – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Kevin Hart – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Mark Wahlberg – Daddy’s Home 2 Will Ferrell – Daddy’s Home 2

Choice Comedy Movie Actress  Amy Schumer – I Feel Pretty Anna Faris – Overboard *WINNER: Anna Kendrick – Pitch Perfect 3 Hailee Steinfeld – Pitch Perfect 3 Karen Gillan – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Rebel Wilson – Pitch Perfect 3

Choice Summer Movie Adrift *WINNER: Incredibles 2 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Life of the Party Ocean’s 8 Solo: A Star Wars Story

Choice Summer Movie Actor Alden Ehrenreich — Solo: A Star Wars Story *WINNER: Chris Pratt — Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Donald Glover — Solo: A Star Wars Story Julian Dennison — Deadpool 2 Ryan Reynolds — Deadpool 2 Sam Claflin — Adrift

Choice Summer Movie Actress *WINNER: Bryce Dallas Howard — Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Emilia Clarke — Solo: A Star Wars Story Melissa McCarthy — Life of the Party Sandra Bullock — Ocean’s 8 Shailene Woodley — Adrift Zazie Beetz — Deadpool 2

Choice Movie Villain Adam Driver — Star Wars: The Last Jedi Aiden Gillen — Maze Runner: The Death Cure Bill Skarsgård — It Cate Blanchett — Thor: Ragnarok Josh Brolin — Avengers: Infinity War *WINNER: Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther

Choice Breakout Movie Star Keala Settle — The Greatest Showman Kelly Marie Tran — Star Wars: The Last Jedi Letitia Wright — Black Panther *WINNER: Nick Robinson — Love, Simon Olivia Cooke — Ready Player One Sophia Lillis — It

Choice MovieShip Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger — Midnight Sun Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong’o — Black Panther Dylan O’Brien and Kaya Scodelario — Maze Runner: The Death Cure Nick Robinson and Keiynan Lonsdale — Love, Simon Sophia Lillis and Jeremy Ray Taylor — It *WINNER: Zac Efron and Zendaya — The Greatest Showman

TV

Choice Drama TV Show  Empire Famous in Love *WINNER: Riverdale Star The Fosters This Is Us

Choice Drama TV Actor *WINNER: Cole Sprouse — Riverdale Freddie Highmore — The Good Doctor Jesse Williams — Grey’s Anatomy Jussie Smollett — Empire K.J. Apa — Riverdale Sterling K. Brown — This Is Us

Choice Drama TV Actress  Bella Thorne — Famous in Love Camila Mendes — Riverdale Chrissy Metz — This Is Us *WINNER: Lili Reinhart — Riverdale Maia Mitchell — The Fosters Ryan Destiny — Star

Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Show iZombie *WINNER: Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Stranger Things Supernatural The 100 The Originals

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Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor Bob Morley — The 100 Dominic Sherwood — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Finn Wolfhard — Stranger Things Gaten Matarazzo — Stranger Things Joseph Morgan — The Originals *WINNER: Matthew Daddario — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments

Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actress Eliza Taylor — The 100 Emeraude Toubia — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Katherine McNamara — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Lana Parrilla — Once Upon a Time *WINNER: Millie Bobby Brown — Stranger Things Rose McIver — iZombie

Choice Action TV Show  Arrow Gotham Lethal Weapon Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Supergirl *WINNER: The Flash

Choice Action TV Actor (#ChoiceActionTVActor) Chris Wood — Supergirl Damon Wayans — Lethal Weapon David Mazouz — Gotham *WINNER: Grant Gustin — The Flash Lucas Till — MacGyver Stephen Amell — Arrow

Choice Action TV Actress (#ChoiceActionTVActress) Caity Lotz — DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Candice Patton — The Flash Chloe Bennet — Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Danielle Panabaker — The Flash Emily Bett Rickards — Arrow *WINNER: Melissa Benoist — Supergirl

Choice Comedy TV Show  black-ish Fuller House Jane the Virgin Modern Family *WINNER: The Big Bang Theory The Good Place

Choice Comedy TV Actor  Andy Samberg — Brooklyn Nine-Nine Anthony Anderson — black-ish Elias Harger — Fuller House Hudson Yang — Fresh Off the Boat *WINNER: Jaime Camil — Jane the Virgin Rico Rodriguez — Modern Family

Choice Comedy TV Actress  America Ferrera — Superstore Candace Cameron Bure — Fuller House *WINNER: Gina Rodriguez — Jane the Virgin Kristen Bell — The Good Place Sarah Hyland — Modern Family Yara Shahidi — blackish, grown-ish

Choice Animated TV Show  Bob’s Burgers Family Guy *WINNER: Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Rick and Morty Steven Universe The Simpsons

Choice Reality TV Show  *WINNER: Keeping Up With the Kardashians Lip Sync Battle MasterChef Junior The Four: Battle for Stardom The Voice Total Divas

Choice Throwback TV Show Dawson’s Creek *WINNER: Friends Gossip Girl One Tree Hill That ’70s Show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Choice TV Personality *WINNER: Chrissy Teigen — Lip Sync Battle Derek Hough — World of Dance DJ Khaled — The Four: Battle for Stardom Hailey Baldwin — Drop the Mic Kelly Clarkson — The Voice Meghan Trainor — The Four: Battle for Stardom

Choice Summer TV Show Beat Shazam Cobra Kai Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger *WINNER: So You Think You Can Dance The Bold Type Total Bellas

Choice Summer TV Star Aisha Dee — The Bold Type Aubrey Joseph — Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Katie Stevens — The Bold Type Meghann Fahy — The Bold Type *WINNER: Olivia Holt — Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Xolo Maridueña — Cobra Kai

Choice TV Villain Anna Hopkins, Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Cameron Monaghan, Gotham Gabrielle Anwar, Once Upon a Time *WINNER: Mark Consuelos, Riverdale Mind Flayer, Stranger Things Odette Annable, Supergirl

Choice Breakout TV Show 9-1-1 Anne With an E Black Lightning *WINNER: On My Block Siren The Resident

Choice Breakout TV Star Iain Armitage, Young Sheldon Luka Sabbat, Grown–ish Lyric Ross, This Is Us Nafessa Williams, Black Lightning Oliver Stark, 9-1-1 *WINNER: Vanessa Morgan, Riverdale 

Choice TVShip Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart — Riverdale Grant Gustin and Candice Patton — The Flash K.J. Apa and Camila Mendes — Riverdale Matthew Daddario and Harry Shum Jr. — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard — Stranger Things Stephen Amell and Emily Bett Rickards — Arrow

MUSIC

Choice Male Artist Bruno Mars Drake Ed Sheeran *WINNER: Louis Tomlinson Niall Horan Shawn Mendes

Choice Female Artist  Ariana Grande *WINNER: Camila Cabello Cardi B Demi Lovato Dua Lipa Taylor Swift

Choice Music Group  *WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer Fifth Harmony Florida Georgia Line Maroon 5 Migos Why Don’t We

Choice Country Artist  Blake Shelton *WINNER: Carrie Underwood Kane Brown Kelsea Ballerini Maren Morris Thomas Rhett

Choice Electronic/Dance Artist  Calvin Harris Marshmello Martin Garrix Steve Aoki *WINNER: The Chainsmokers Zedd

Choice Latin Artist  Becky G *WINNER: CNCO Daddy Yankee J Balvin Luis Fonsi Maluma

Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Artist  *WINNER: Cardi B Childish Gambino Drake Khalid Nicki Minaj Post Malone

Choice Rock Artist  *WINNER: Imagine Dragons Panic! At the Disco Paramore Portugal. The Man twenty one pilots X Ambassadors

Choice Song: Female Artist  Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left To Cry” *WINNER: Camila Cabello (feat. Young Thug) – “Havana” Demi Lovato – “Sorry Not Sorry” Dua Lipa – “New Rules” Halsey – “Bad at Love” Taylor Swift – “Look What You Made Me Do”

Choice Song: Male Artist  Charlie Puth – “Attention” Childish Gambino – “This Is America” Drake – “God’s Plan” *WINNER: Ed Sheeran – “Perfect” Justin Timberlake (feat. Chris Stapleton) – “Say Something” Kendrick Lamar (feat. Zacari) – “Love.”

Choice Song: Group  *WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer – “Youngblood” Imagine Dragons – “Whatever It Takes” Maroon 5 – “Wait” Panic! At the Disco – “Say Amen (Saturday Night)” Portugal. The Man – “Feel It Still” Why Don’t We – “Trust Fund Baby”

Choice Collaboration  Bebe Rexha (feat. Florida Georgia Line) – “Meant to Be” Bruno Mars (feat. Cardi B) – “Finesse (Remix)” Taylor Swift (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future) – “End Game” The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar – “Pray for Me” (“Black Panther” soundtrack) *WINNER: Zac Efron & Zendaya – “Rewrite the Stars” (“The Greatest Showman” soundtrack) Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey – “The Middle”

Choice Summer Song *WINNER: “Back to You” – Selena Gomez “Familiar” – Liam Payne & J Balvin “Girls Like You” – Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B “Nice for What” – Drake “One Kiss” – Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa “Youngblood” – 5 Seconds of Summer

Choice Summer Female Artist *WINNER: Camila Cabello Cardi B Selena Gomez Ariana Grande Halsey Meghan Trainor

Choice Summer Male Artist Kane Brown Niall Horan *WINNER: Shawn Mendes Liam Payne Charlie Puth Zayn

Choice Summer Group *WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer The Chainsmokers Dan + Shay Imagine Dragons Maroon 5 Panic! at the Disco

Choice Summer Tour Niall Horan – Flicker World Tour Jay Z & Beyoncé – On the Run II Tour Charlie Puth – Voicenotes Tour *WINNER: Harry Styles – Harry Styles: Live on Tour Taylor Swift – Reputation Stadium Tour Top Dawg Entertainment – The Championship Tour

Choice Pop Song Ariana Grande — “No Tears Left to Cry” Keala Settle and The Greatest Showman Ensemble — “This Is Me” Meghan Trainor — “No Excuses” *WINNER: Shawn Mendes — “In My Blood” Taylor Swift — “Delicate” The Backstreet Boys — “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”

Choice Country Song *WINNER: Bebe Rexha — “Meant to Be (feat. Florida Georgia Line)” Brett Young — “Mercy” Carrie Underwood — “Cry Pretty” Kane Brown — “Heaven” Luke Bryan — “Most People Are Good” Thomas Rhett — “Life Changes”

Choice Electronic/Dance Song Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa — “One Kiss” Clean Bandit — “Solo (feat. Demi Lovato)” Marshmello and Anne–Marie — “Friends” *WINNER: Steve Aoki and Lauren Jauregui — “All Night”  Topic and Ally Brooke — “Perfect” Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey — “The Middle”

Choice Latin Song CNCO and Yandel — “Hey DJ” J Balvin and Willy William — “Mi Gente” Jennifer Lopez — “Dinero (feat. DJ Khaled and Cardi B)” *WINNER: Liam Payne and J Balvin — “Familiar” Luis Fonsi and Demi Lovato — “Échame La Culpa” RedOne, Daddy Yankee, French Montana, and Dinah Jane — “Boom Boom”

Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Song Bruno Mars — ” Finesse (Remix) [feat. Cardi B]” Childish Gambino — “This Is America” Drake — “God’s Plan” Kendrick Lamar and SZA — “All the Stars” *WINNER: Khalid and Normani — “Love Lies” NF — “Let You Down”

Choice Rock/Alternative Song Alice Merton — “No Roots” Foster the People — “Sit Next to Me” Halsey — “Alone (feat. Big Sean and Stefflon Don)” *WINNER: Imagine Dragons — “Whatever It Takes” Panic! At the Disco — “High Hopes” Paramore — “Hard Times”

Choice Breakout Artist Bazzi *WINNER: Khalid Lauv Logic Marshmello SZA

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Choice Next Big Thing Black Pink *WINNER: Jackson Wang Jacob Sartorius MattyBRaps NCT Stray

DIGITAL

Choice Female Web Star Bethany Mota Eva Gutowski Lele Pons Lilly Singh *WINNER: Liza Koshy The Merrell Twins

Choice Male Web Star Cameron Dallas Collins Key Joey Graceffa Ryan Higa *WINNER: The Dolan Twins Tyler Oakley

Choice Comedy Web Star The Dolan Twins Collins Key *WINNER: Liza Koshy Miranda Sings Lele Pons Lilly Singh

Choice Music Web Star Anitta Chloe x Halle *WINNER: Erika Costell Jack & Jack Johnny Orlando Noah Schnacky

Choice Fashion/Beauty Web Star Dulce Candy *WINNER: James Charles Kandee Johnson Shay Mitchell NikkieTutorials Zoella

Choice Twit *WINNER: Anna Kendrick Chrissy Teigen Kumail Nanjiani Mark Hamill Mindy Kaling Ryan Reynolds

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Choice Instagrammer Dwayne Johnson John Mayer Justin Timberlake Lucy Hale *WINNER: Selena Gomez Will Smith

Choice Snapchatter *WINNER: Ariana Grande Demi Lovato Ethan Dolan Grayson Dolan Kendall Jenner Meghan Trainor

Choice YouTuber DanTDM Lele Pons Lilly Singh *WINNER: Liza Koshy The Dolan Twins The Merrell Twins

Choice Muser Baby Ariel Holly H (Holly Horne) Loren Gray *WINNER: Mackenzie Ziegler Sofia Santino Valentina Schulz

OTHER

Choice Style Icon Chadwick Boseman Blake Lively Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Migos *WINNER: Harry Styles Zendaya

Choice Female Hottie Hailey Baldwin Kendall Jenner *WINNER: Lauren Jauregui Olivia Holt Selena Gomez Yara Shahidi

Choice Male Hottie Chadwick Boseman Chris Hemsworth *WINNER: Cole Sprouse Grant Gustin Shawn Mendes Zac Efron

Choice Liplock Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong’o, Black Panther Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana, Avengers: Infinity War *WINNER: Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart, Riverdale Gina Rodriguez and Justin Baldoni, Jane the Virgin Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard, Stranger Things Zac Efron and Zendaya, The Greatest Showman

Choice Hissy Fit Adam Driver, Star Wars: The Last Jedi Jack Black, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Joe Keery, Stranger Things Kevin Hart, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle *WINNER: Madelaine Petsch, Riverdale Mark Ruffalo, Avengers: Infinity War

Choice Scene Stealer Charlie Heaton — Stranger Things Katie McGrath — Supergirl Nick Jonas — Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Taika Waititi — Thor: Ragnarok Tom Hiddleston — Thor: Ragnarok *WINNER: Vanessa Morgan — Riverdale

Choice Comedian  Ellen DeGeneres James Corden Jimmy Fallon Kevin Hart Lilly Singh *WINNER: The Dolan Twins

Choice Male Athlete  Adam Rippon J.J. Watt *WINNER: LeBron James Red Gerard Shaun White Stephen Curry

Choice Female Athlete  Chloe Kim Lindsey Vonn Mikaela Shiffrin Mirai Nagasu *WINNER: Serena Williams U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team

Choice Dancer Cheryl Burke Jenna Dewan Derek Hough Les Twins tWitch *WINNER: Maddie Ziegler

Choice Video Game Fire Emblem Heroes *WINNER: Fortnite The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Overwatch PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Super Mario Odyssey

Choice Model Adwoa Aboah Romeo Beckham Kaia Gerber Bella Hadid *WINNER: Gigi Hadid Jaden Smith

Choice Fandom #Blinks *WINNER: #BTSArmy #CNCOwners #Directioners #Harmonizers #Swifties

Choice International Artist Black Pink *WINNER: BTS CNCO EXO Got7 Super Junior

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Teen Choice Awards: Full list of winners!

Teen Choice Awards: Full list of winners!

The armies have spoken and the votes are in on our favorite stars.

Teen Choice Awards: Full list of winners!

Fans voted online and spent a lot of time hashtagging their favorite stars from the industry.

Nick Cannon was the show’s host and the Teen Choice Awards had some amazing performers including Lauv, Khalid, and Meghan Trainor. But there were many more and they all did a fantastic job.

Paris Jackson sings for cancer, watch as her grandmother cheers her on!

The most notable winners of the night leave us with no surprise. They were Riverdale and The Flash.

You can check out a full list of the winners below. And if you’re enjoying the positive vibes, be sure to subscribe to our positive celebrity gossip newsletter. That way you can stay up-to-date on the latest positive celebrity news!

It was a hot night with so many fan-favorite celebrities in attendance including Zac Efron, Pretty Much, Meghan Trainor, Lauren Jauregui and many more!

Check out the list and let us know what you thought of the winners!

Blessed be!

List of Teen Choice Awards 2018

    MOVIES Choice Action Movie WINNER: Avengers: Infinity War Justice League Maze Runner: The Death Cure Pacific Rim: Uprising Tomb Raider

Choice Action Movie Actor Chris Evans – Avengers: Infinity War Dylan O’Brien – Maze Runner: The Death Cure Henry Cavill – Justice League John Boyega – Pacific Rim: Uprising WINNER: Robert Downey Jr. – Avengers: Infinity War Tom Holland – Avengers: Infinity War

Choice Action Movie Actress Alicia Vikander – Tomb Raider Amy Adams – Justice League Elizabeth Olsen – Avengers: Infinity War Gal Gadot – Justice League WINNER: Scarlett Johansson – Avengers: Infinity War Zoe Saldana – Avengers: Infinity War

Choice Sci-Fi Movie WINNER: Black Panther Blade Runner 2049 Rampage Ready Player One Thor: Ragnarok

Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actor Chadwick Boseman – Black Panther WINNER: Chris Hemsworth – Thor: Ragnarok Dwayne Johnson – Rampage Mark Ruffalo – Thor: Ragnarok Ryan Gosling – Blade Runner 2049 Tye Sheridan – Ready Player One

Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actress Danai Gurira – Black Panther WINNER: Letitia Wright – Black Panther Lupita Nyong’o – Black Panther Naomie Harris – Rampage Olivia Cooke – Ready Player One Tessa Thompson – Thor: Ragnarok

Choice Fantasy Movie A Wrinkle in Time WINNER: Coco Peter Rabbit Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Choice Fantasy Movie Actor WINNER: Anthony Gonzalez – Coco Gael García Bernal – Coco James Corden – Peter Rabbit John Boyega – Star Wars: The Last Jedi Mark Hamill – Star Wars: The Last Jedi Oscar Isaac – Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Choice Fantasy Movie Actress WINNER: Carrie Fisher – Star Wars: The Last Jedi Daisy Ridley – Star Wars: The Last Jedi Mindy Kaling – A Wrinkle in Time Oprah Winfrey – A Wrinkle in Time Reese Witherspoon – A Wrinkle in Time Storm Reid – A Wrinkle in Time

Choice Drama Movie A Quiet Place Midnight Sun Murder on the Orient Express WINNER: The Greatest Showman Truth or Dare Wonder

Choice Drama Movie Actor Hugh Jackman – The Greatest Showman Jacob Tremblay – Wonder Leslie Odom Jr. – Murder on the Orient Express Patrick Schwarzenegger – Midnight Sun Timothée Chalamet – Lady Bird WINNER: Zac Efron – The Greatest Showman

Choice Drama Movie Actress Bella Thorne – Midnight Sun Daisy Ridley – Murder on the Orient Express Julia Roberts – Wonder Lucy Hale – Truth or Dare Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird WINNER: Zendaya – The Greatest Showman

Choice Comedy Movie Daddy’s Home 2 I Feel Pretty Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle WINNER: Love, Simon Overboard Pitch Perfect 3

Choice Comedy Movie Actor WINNER: Dwayne Johnson – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Eugenio Derbez – Overboard Jack Black – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Kevin Hart – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Mark Wahlberg – Daddy’s Home 2 Will Ferrell – Daddy’s Home 2

Choice Comedy Movie Actress Amy Schumer – I Feel Pretty Anna Faris – Overboard WINNER: Anna Kendrick – Pitch Perfect 3 Hailee Steinfeld – Pitch Perfect 3 Karen Gillan – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Rebel Wilson – Pitch Perfect 3

Choice Summer Movie Adrift WINNER: Incredibles 2 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Life of the Party Ocean’s 8 Solo: A Star Wars Story

Choice Summer Movie Actor WINNER: Chris Pratt, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Alden Ehrenreich – Solo: A Star Wars Story Donald Glover – Solo: A Star Wars Story Julian Dennison – Deadpool 2 Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool 2 Sam Claflin – Adrift

Choice Summer Movie Actress WINNER: Bryce Dallas Howard, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Emilia Clarke – Solo: A Star Wars Story Melissa McCarthy – Life of the Party Sandra Bullock – Ocean’s 8 Shailene Woodley – Adrift Zazie Beetz – Deadpool 2

Choice Movie Villain Adam Driver – Star Wars: The Last Jedi Aiden Gillen – Maze Runner: The Death Cure Bill Skarsgard – It Cate Blanchett – Thor: Ragnarok Josh Brolin – Avengers: Infinity War WINNER: Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther

Choice Breakout Movie Star Keala Settle – The Greatest Showman Kelly Marie Tran – Star Wars: The Last Jedi Letitia Wright – Black Panther WINNER: Nick Robinson – Love, Simon Olivia Cooke – Ready Player One Sophia Lillis – It

Choice Movie Ship Bella Thorne & Patrick Schwarzenegger – Midnight Sun Chadwick Boseman & Lupita Nyong’o – Black Panther Dylan O’Brien & Kaya Scodelario – Maze Runner: The Death Cure Nick Robinson & Keiynan Lonsdale – Love, Simon Sophia Lillis & Jeremy Ray Taylor – It WINNERS: Zac Efron & Zendaya, The Greatest Showman

TV Choice Drama TV Show Empire Famous in Love WINNER: Riverdale Star The Fosters This Is Us

Choice Drama TV Actor WINNER: Cole Sprouse — Riverdale Freddie Highmore — The Good Doctor Jesse Williams — Grey’s Anatomy Jussie Smollett — Empire K.J. Apa — Riverdale Sterling K. Brown — This Is Us

Choice Drama TV Actress Bella Thorne — Famous in Love Camila Mendes — Riverdale Chrissy Metz — This Is Us WINNER: Lili Reinhart — Riverdale Maia Mitchell — The Fosters Ryan Destiny — Star

Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Show iZombie WINNER: Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Stranger Things Supernatural The 100 The Originals

Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor Bob Morley — The 100 Dominic Sherwood — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Finn Wolfhard — Stranger Things Gaten Matarazzo — Stranger Things Joseph Morgan — The Originals WINNER: Matthew Daddario — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments

Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actress Eliza Taylor — The 100 Emeraude Toubia — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Katherine McNamara — Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Lana Parrilla — Once Upon a Time WINNER: Millie Bobby Brown — Stranger Things Rose McIver — iZombie

Choice TV Villain WINNER: Mark Consuelos – Riverdale Anna Hopkins – Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Cameron Monaghan – Gotham Gabrielle Anwar – Once Upon a Time Mind Flayer – Stranger Things Odette Annable – Supergirl

Choice Action TV Show Arrow Gotham Lethal Weapon Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Supergirl WINNER: The Flash

Choice Action TV Actor Chris Wood — Supergirl Damon Wayans — Lethal Weapon David Mazouz — Gotham WINNER: Grant Gustin — The Flash Lucas Till — MacGyver Stephen Amell — Arrow

Choice Action TV Actress Caity Lotz — DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Candice Patton — The Flash Chloe Bennet — Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Danielle Panabaker — The Flash Emily Bett Rickards — Arrow WINNER: Melissa Benoist — Supergirl

Choice Comedy TV Show black-ish Fuller House Jane the Virgin Modern Family WINNER: The Big Bang Theory The Good Place

Choice Comedy TV Actor Andy Samberg — Brooklyn Nine-Nine Anthony Anderson — black-ish Elias Harger — Fuller House Hudson Yang — Fresh Off the Boat WINNER: Jaime Camil — Jane the Virgin Rico Rodriguez — Modern Family

Choice Comedy TV Actress America Ferrera — Superstore Candace Cameron Bure — Fuller House WINNER: Gina Rodriguez — Jane the Virgin Kristen Bell — The Good Place Sarah Hyland — Modern Family Yara Shahidi — blackish, grown-ish

Choice Animated TV Show Bob’s Burgers Family Guy WINNER: Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Rick and Morty Steven Universe The Simpsons

Choice Reality TV Show WINNER: Keeping Up With the Kardashians Lip Sync Battle MasterChef Junior The Four: Battle for Stardom The Voice Total Divas

Choice Throwback TV Show Dawson’s Creek WINNER: Friends Gossip Girl One Tree Hill That ’70s Show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Choice TV Personality Chrissy Teigen — Lip Sync Battle Derek Hough — World of Dance DJ Khaled — The Four: Battle for Stardom Hailey Baldwin — Drop the Mic Kelly Clarkson — The Voice Meghan Trainor — The Four: Battle for Stardom

Choice Summer TV Show Beat Shazam Cobra Kai Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger WINNER: So You Think You Can Dance The Bold Type Total Bellas

Choice Breakout TV Star WINNER: Vanessa Morgan – Riverdale Iain Armitage – Young Sheldon Luka Sabbat – Grown-ish Lyric Ross – This Is Us Nafessa Williams – Black Lightning Oliver Stark – 9-1-1

Choice Breakout TV Show 9-1-1 Anne with an E Black Lightning WINNER: On My Block Siren The Resident

Choice TV Ship WINNER: Cole Sprouse & Lili Reinhart – Riverdale Grant Gustin & Candice Patton – The Flash K.J. Apa & Camila Mendes – Riverdale Matthew Daddario & Harry Shum Jr. – Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Millie Bobby Brown & Finn Wolfhard – Stranger Things Stephen Amell & Emily Bett Rickards – Arrow

Choice Summer TV Star Olivia Holt – Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Aisha Dee – The Bold Type Aubrey Joseph – Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Katie Stevens – The Bold Type Meghann Fahy – The Bold Type Xolo Maridueña – Cobra Kai

MUSIC Choice Male Artist Bruno Mars Drake Ed Sheeran WINNER: Louis Tomlinson Niall Horan Shawn Mendes

Choice Female Artist Ariana Grande WINNER: Camila Cabello Cardi B Demi Lovato Dua Lipa Taylor Swift

Choice Music Group WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer Fifth Harmony Florida Georgia Line Maroon 5 Migos Why Don’t We

Choice Country Artist Blake Shelton WINNER: Carrie Underwood Kane Brown Kelsea Ballerini Maren Morris Thomas Rhett

Choice Electronic/Dance Artist Calvin Harris Marshmello Martin Garrix Steve Aoki WINNER: The Chainsmokers Zedd

Choice Latin Artist Becky G WINNER: CNCO Daddy Yankee J Balvin Luis Fonsi Maluma

Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Artist WINNER: Cardi B Childish Gambino Drake Khalid Nicki Minaj Post Malone

Choice Rock Artist WINNER: Imagine Dragons Panic! At the Disco Paramore Portugal. The Man twenty one pilots X Ambassadors

Choice Song: Female Artist Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left To Cry” WINNER: Camila Cabello (feat. Young Thug) – “Havana” Demi Lovato – “Sorry Not Sorry” Dua Lipa – “New Rules” Halsey – “Bad at Love” Taylor Swift – “Look What You Made Me Do”

Choice Song: Male Artist Charlie Puth – “Attention” Childish Gambino – “This Is America” Drake – “God’s Plan” WINNER: Ed Sheeran – “Perfect” Justin Timberlake (feat. Chris Stapleton) – “Say Something” Kendrick Lamar (feat. Zacari) – “Love.”

Choice Song: Group WINNER: 5 Seconds of Summer – “Youngblood” Imagine Dragons – “Whatever It Takes” Maroon 5 – “Wait” Panic! At the Disco – “Say Amen (Saturday Night)” Portugal. The Man – “Feel It Still” Why Don’t We – “Trust Fund Baby”

Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Song “All The Stars” – Kendrick Lamar & SZA “Finesse (Remix)” – Bruno Mars (feat. Cardi B) “God’s Plan” – Drake “Let You Down” – NF WINNER: “Love Lies” – Khalid & Normani “This Is America” – Childish Gambino

Choice Electronic/Dance Song WINNER: “All Night” – Steve Aoki & Lauren Jauregui “Friends” – Marshmello & Anne-Marie “One Kiss” – Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa “Perfect” – Topic & Ally Brooke “Solo” – Clean Bandit (feat. Demi Lovato) “The Middle” – Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey

Choice Country Song “Cry Pretty” – Carrie Underwood “Heaven” – Kane Brown “Life Changes” – Thomas Rhett WINNER: “Meant to Be” – Bebe Rexha (feat. Florida Georgia Line) “Mercy” – Brett Young “Most People Are Good” – Luke Bryan

Choice Collaboration Bebe Rexha (feat. Florida Georgia Line) – “Meant to Be” Bruno Mars (feat. Cardi B) – “Finesse (Remix)” Taylor Swift (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future) – “End Game” The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar – “Pray for Me” (Black Panther soundtrack) WINNERS: Zac Efron & Zendaya – “Rewrite the Stars” (The Greatest Showman soundtrack) Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey – “The Middle”

Choice Pop Song “Delicate” – Taylor Swift “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” – The Backstreet Boys WINNER: “In My Blood” – Shawn Mendes “No Excuses” – Meghan Trainor “No Tears Left to Cry” – Ariana Grande “This Is Me” – Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble

Choice Latin Song “Boom Boom” – RedOne, Daddy Yankee, French Montana & Dinah Jane “Dinero” – Jennifer Lopez (feat. DJ Khaled, Cardi B) “Echame La Culpa” – Luis Fonsi, Demi Lovato WINNER: “Familiar” – Liam Payne & J Balvin “Hey DJ” – CNCO, Yandel “Mi Gente’ – J Balvin, Willy William

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How Murder Victims With Disabilities Get Blamed For Their Own Deaths

Alex Spourdalakis was 14 when his mother and godmother decided to kill him.

The women tried to poison the boy, who had autism, with sleeping pills. When that failed, Dorothy Spourdalakis stabbed her son four times in the chest with a kitchen knife, twice hitting his heart. She slit one of his wrists so deeply she nearly severed his hand, according to court records. Then she handed the knife to Jolanta Agata Skrodzka, who used it to kill the family cat so it wouldn’t have to live in a shelter after their arrests. 

A year later, 11-year-old Raashanai Coley, another child in Illinois, died from a stomach rupture after her mother, Nicholette Lawrence, punched her repeatedly. The autopsy revealed scars and old injuries indicating previous physical abuse.

Alex was killed in River Grove in 2013. Raashanai died in Waukegan in 2014. Both were slain by people entrusted to protect them. But the respective outcomes of these first-degree murder cases ― one involving a child with disabilities, the other involving a child without medically documented handicaps ― speak volumes about an insidious bias in the justice system.

Alex’s killers pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and served three years each before they were sentenced to time served and released. Raashanai’s killer, meanwhile, was convicted of murder and is serving 43 years.

Advocates for the disabled say such disparities are common in a legal system that seems to treat accused killers less seriously when the victim was a person with special needs who depended on the person charged with murder for care.

On average, at least one disabled person is killed each week by a parent or caregiver, according to a Ruderman Family Foundation report that documented more than 200 deaths from 2011 to 2015.

The study found that taking a life ― something typically not tolerated in society ― is sometimes treated as acceptable in the justice system when the victim had a disability. Killers are commonly portrayed as angelic caretakers who killed out of mercy, or who could no longer bear the burden and snapped. Those perpetrators often face less than vigorous prosecution, the study found.

“The message is that murder is a reasonable response to disability, and courts will treat you lightly if you murder a disabled child, parent or spouse,” David Perry, a disability rights activist and author of the Ruderman report, told The Huffington Post.

Vilissa Thompson, an advocate and licensed master social worker from Winnsboro, South Carolina, said there is an obvious discrepancy in how the law and the public treat parents and caregivers accused of killing someone in their care. 

“When someone, especially a child, is killed, it is called a hideous crime, and there is an urgency to punish the person responsible,” said Thompson, a contributor to the Ruderman report who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. “But when it comes to the disabled kids, there is this gross level of excusing that behavior.”

Spourdalakis, then 50, and Skrodzka, then 40, were both charged with first-degree murder in Alex’s slaying.

“The murder was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Maureen O’Brien told the Chicago Tribune at the time. 

Lawrence, who was 32 when she was arrested, was also charged with first-degree murder in Raashanai’s slaying.

Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim, according to Chicago’s Daily Herald, called the treatment of the girl “inhumane” and “pure evil.”

Three years later, in December 2016, Spourdalakis and Skrodzka pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and a judge showed the killers mercy.

“Justice has to have some compassion, and looking at the facts of this case, this was the just result,” Spourdalakis’ defense attorney, Michael Botti, told Chicago’s WLS-TV.

The following month, Lawrence, who pleaded guilty to murder, was sentenced to 43 years in prison by 19th Circuit Court Judge James Booras. It was the near-maximum for the charge. Booras referred to Lawrence as a “monster” and ruled her ineligible for early release. If she outlives her sentence, she will be in her mid-70s when she’s freed.

There also was a big difference in how the media covered the cases. Lawrence was all but labeled a vicious murderer. Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, on the other hand, were portrayed as victims.

WLS-TV reported on the “pain, frustration and fear” leading up to Alex’s slaying. The emotions were attributed not to the teen, but to Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, who were described as being burdened with the care of “a suburban boy with a severe form of autism.”

Other media outlets suggested the two women were desperate and emotionally broken from providing Alex with round-the-clock care. Some reports suggested the slaying was an act of mercy.

“That’s asinine,” Thompson told HuffPost. “You don’t kill your loved one because you can’t take care of them. Yes, there are stresses, but that does not give you an excuse.”

Alex’s mother said she did not want him in an institution, which she thought would be a form of torture, according to police. The women killed the family cat, authorities said, because Spourdalakis didn’t want authorities to take it to a shelter.

Thompson said there’s a word that describes the women’s actions, and it’s not mercy.

“They should not be looked on with sympathy,” she said. “That’s an abusive mindset. It’s no different than a spouse who says, ‘If I can’t have you no one can.’ Mercy is just an excuse.”

“Yes, there can be stresses caring for someone with a disability,” she went on. “And yes, we need to hold social services accountable in providing assistance. But none of that should give someone an excuse to kill.”

When a crime like this happens, the media often doesn’t put the victim at the center of his or her own story, Perry said.

Whenever Alex was mentioned in the media, he was characterized by his disability more often than as the victim of a horrific crime. Some reports used words like “aggressive” and “violent” to describe him. Details were printed about how he had to be tied to a bed during hospital visits. It was on social media, rather than in published reports, that people who knew Alex had the chance to share the most details about him. They described him as a smart young man who loved balloons, cards, music, nature and the color yellow.

“Everything in the media coverage was about his mom, and some of it was factually wrong,” Perry said. “No one investigated what she said or called anyone from the disability community for balanced coverage. They rushed to say, ‘Well, she must have been really overworked and must not have had any access to services.’”

In the months leading up to Alex’s death, the boy’s mother and godmother participated in a documentary by the Autism Media Channel. They told the filmmakers Alex was neglected by the health care system and was not provided enough outside support.

“She just couldn’t take seeing her son in pain anymore and seeing no future for him, and there was no help for him,” Polly Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told WLS-TV in 2014.

Alex’s slaying became the focus of the film, which wound up with the title “Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?”

The lawyer who defended Alex’s mother also pointed a finger at the system, according to prosecutors.

Perry, an associate professor of history at Dominican University in Illinois and the father of a boy with Down syndrome, said those claims were not based in reality.

“There were concrete documented efforts by the autism community to help [Spourdalakis], and she rejected that,” Perry said. “She wanted her child cured, and when she couldn’t, she resorted to murder.”

In fact, after Alex was killed, a spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services told the Chicago Tribune that Alex’s mother had refused “referrals to community-based services ranging from respite to psychological counseling.”

Mary Kay Betz, then executive director of the Autism Society of Illinois, told the Tribune that she too had met with Spourdalakis prior to Alex’s slaying and offered assistance, but “all she wanted was an attorney.”

Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told reporters that Alex’s mother and godmother “had absolutely nowhere to go, nowhere to live” and would go from “motel to motel.”

However, according to River Grove police, Spourdalakis and her son lived in the same well-kept River Grove apartment for nearly two decades ― the same apartment where Alex was killed and where Spourdalakis and Skrodzka drugged themselves in an apparent suicide attempt after his death, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Tommey didn’t respond to a request for comment about her description of Spourdalakis’ living situation.

The district attorney’s office ― the same one that called Alex’s killing “cold, calculated and premeditated” ― evidently softened its view over time.

After the two women were sentenced, Botti, Spourdalakis’ attorney, told Chicago’s CBS News Channel 2 that the prosecutor had described in court how, through all the years of Alex’s life, “every door was closed.” Botti said the prosecutor spoke about “the abuse [Alex] dealt with when he was taken to the hospital and all the restraints he was put in.”

The Ruderman report on Alex’s death and others like it was born out of frustration over what the report’s creators see as a disregard for the victims.

“It is abhorrent that a person with a disability is murdered by their parents, children or caregivers every week,” said Jay Ruderman, president of the organization. “This statistic itself is tragic, but what is even more abhorrent is that the journalists covering these murders all too often erase the voice of the person with a disability and occasionally even sympathize with the murderers.”

That sympathy, according to the report, is rooted in a widespread, little-examined notion that disability automatically equates to suffering.

“That’s a big misconception,” Thompson said. “We’re not all suffering and in reality, the most amount of suffering the victims endure is when they are being killed.”

“Let us not obscure the fact,” she said, “that murder is murder.”

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How Murder Victims With Disabilities Get Blamed For Their Own Deaths

Alex Spourdalakis was 14 when his mother and godmother decided to kill him.

The women tried to poison the boy, who had autism, with sleeping pills. When that failed, Dorothy Spourdalakis stabbed her son four times in the chest with a kitchen knife, twice hitting his heart. She slit one of his wrists so deeply she nearly severed his hand, according to court records. Then she handed the knife to Jolanta Agata Skrodzka, who used it to kill the family cat so it wouldn’t have to live in a shelter after their arrests. 

A year later, 11-year-old Raashanai Coley, another child in Illinois, died from a stomach rupture after her mother, Nicholette Lawrence, punched her repeatedly. The autopsy revealed scars and old injuries indicating previous physical abuse.

Alex was killed in River Grove in 2013. Raashanai died in Waukegan in 2014. Both were slain by people entrusted to protect them. But the respective outcomes of these first-degree murder cases ― one involving a child with disabilities, the other involving a child without medically documented handicaps ― speak volumes about an insidious bias in the justice system.

Alex’s killers pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and served three years each before they were sentenced to time served and released. Raashanai’s killer, meanwhile, was convicted of murder and is serving 43 years.

Advocates for the disabled say such disparities are common in a legal system that seems to treat accused killers less seriously when the victim was a person with special needs who depended on the person charged with murder for care.

On average, at least one disabled person is killed each week by a parent or caregiver, according to a Ruderman Family Foundation report that documented more than 200 deaths from 2011 to 2015.

The study found that taking a life ― something typically not tolerated in society ― is sometimes treated as acceptable in the justice system when the victim had a disability. Killers are commonly portrayed as angelic caretakers who killed out of mercy, or who could no longer bear the burden and snapped. Those perpetrators often face less than vigorous prosecution, the study found.

“The message is that murder is a reasonable response to disability, and courts will treat you lightly if you murder a disabled child, parent or spouse,” David Perry, a disability rights activist and author of the Ruderman report, told The Huffington Post.

Vilissa Thompson, an advocate and licensed master social worker from Winnsboro, South Carolina, said there is an obvious discrepancy in how the law and the public treat parents and caregivers accused of killing someone in their care. 

“When someone, especially a child, is killed, it is called a hideous crime, and there is an urgency to punish the person responsible,” said Thompson, a contributor to the Ruderman report who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. “But when it comes to the disabled kids, there is this gross level of excusing that behavior.”

Spourdalakis, then 50, and Skrodzka, then 40, were both charged with first-degree murder in Alex’s slaying.

“The murder was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Maureen O’Brien told the Chicago Tribune at the time. 

Lawrence, who was 32 when she was arrested, was also charged with first-degree murder in Raashanai’s slaying.

Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim, according to Chicago’s Daily Herald, called the treatment of the girl “inhumane” and “pure evil.”

Three years later, in December 2016, Spourdalakis and Skrodzka pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and a judge showed the killers mercy.

“Justice has to have some compassion, and looking at the facts of this case, this was the just result,” Spourdalakis’ defense attorney, Michael Botti, told Chicago’s WLS-TV.

The following month, Lawrence, who pleaded guilty to murder, was sentenced to 43 years in prison by 19th Circuit Court Judge James Booras. It was the near-maximum for the charge. Booras referred to Lawrence as a “monster” and ruled her ineligible for early release. If she outlives her sentence, she will be in her mid-70s when she’s freed.

There also was a big difference in how the media covered the cases. Lawrence was all but labeled a vicious murderer. Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, on the other hand, were portrayed as victims.

WLS-TV reported on the “pain, frustration and fear” leading up to Alex’s slaying. The emotions were attributed not to the teen, but to Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, who were described as being burdened with the care of “a suburban boy with a severe form of autism.”

Other media outlets suggested the two women were desperate and emotionally broken from providing Alex with round-the-clock care. Some reports suggested the slaying was an act of mercy.

“That’s asinine,” Thompson told HuffPost. “You don’t kill your loved one because you can’t take care of them. Yes, there are stresses, but that does not give you an excuse.”

Alex’s mother said she did not want him in an institution, which she thought would be a form of torture, according to police. The women killed the family cat, authorities said, because Spourdalakis didn’t want authorities to take it to a shelter.

Thompson said there’s a word that describes the women’s actions, and it’s not mercy.

“They should not be looked on with sympathy,” she said. “That’s an abusive mindset. It’s no different than a spouse who says, ‘If I can’t have you no one can.’ Mercy is just an excuse.”

“Yes, there can be stresses caring for someone with a disability,” she went on. “And yes, we need to hold social services accountable in providing assistance. But none of that should give someone an excuse to kill.”

When a crime like this happens, the media often doesn’t put the victim at the center of his or her own story, Perry said.

Whenever Alex was mentioned in the media, he was characterized by his disability more often than as the victim of a horrific crime. Some reports used words like “aggressive” and “violent” to describe him. Details were printed about how he had to be tied to a bed during hospital visits. It was on social media, rather than in published reports, that people who knew Alex had the chance to share the most details about him. They described him as a smart young man who loved balloons, cards, music, nature and the color yellow.

“Everything in the media coverage was about his mom, and some of it was factually wrong,” Perry said. “No one investigated what she said or called anyone from the disability community for balanced coverage. They rushed to say, ‘Well, she must have been really overworked and must not have had any access to services.’”

In the months leading up to Alex’s death, the boy’s mother and godmother participated in a documentary by the Autism Media Channel. They told the filmmakers Alex was neglected by the health care system and was not provided enough outside support.

“She just couldn’t take seeing her son in pain anymore and seeing no future for him, and there was no help for him,” Polly Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told WLS-TV in 2014.

Alex’s slaying became the focus of the film, which wound up with the title “Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?”

The lawyer who defended Alex’s mother also pointed a finger at the system, according to prosecutors.

Perry, an associate professor of history at Dominican University in Illinois and the father of a boy with Down syndrome, said those claims were not based in reality.

“There were concrete documented efforts by the autism community to help [Spourdalakis], and she rejected that,” Perry said. “She wanted her child cured, and when she couldn’t, she resorted to murder.”

In fact, after Alex was killed, a spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services told the Chicago Tribune that Alex’s mother had refused “referrals to community-based services ranging from respite to psychological counseling.”

Mary Kay Betz, then executive director of the Autism Society of Illinois, told the Tribune that she too had met with Spourdalakis prior to Alex’s slaying and offered assistance, but “all she wanted was an attorney.”

Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told reporters that Alex’s mother and godmother “had absolutely nowhere to go, nowhere to live” and would go from “motel to motel.”

However, according to River Grove police, Spourdalakis and her son lived in the same well-kept River Grove apartment for nearly two decades ― the same apartment where Alex was killed and where Spourdalakis and Skrodzka drugged themselves in an apparent suicide attempt after his death, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Tommey didn’t respond to a request for comment about her description of Spourdalakis’ living situation.

The district attorney’s office ― the same one that called Alex’s killing “cold, calculated and premeditated” ― evidently softened its view over time.

After the two women were sentenced, Botti, Spourdalakis’ attorney, told Chicago’s CBS News Channel 2 that the prosecutor had described in court how, through all the years of Alex’s life, “every door was closed.” Botti said the prosecutor spoke about “the abuse [Alex] dealt with when he was taken to the hospital and all the restraints he was put in.”

The Ruderman report on Alex’s death and others like it was born out of frustration over what the report’s creators see as a disregard for the victims.

“It is abhorrent that a person with a disability is murdered by their parents, children or caregivers every week,” said Jay Ruderman, president of the organization. “This statistic itself is tragic, but what is even more abhorrent is that the journalists covering these murders all too often erase the voice of the person with a disability and occasionally even sympathize with the murderers.”

That sympathy, according to the report, is rooted in a widespread, little-examined notion that disability automatically equates to suffering.

“That’s a big misconception,” Thompson said. “We’re not all suffering and in reality, the most amount of suffering the victims endure is when they are being killed.”

“Let us not obscure the fact,” she said, “that murder is murder.”

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Alex Spourdalakis was 14 when his mother and godmother decided to kill him.

The women tried to poison the boy, who had autism, with sleeping pills. When that failed, Dorothy Spourdalakis stabbed her son four times in the chest with a kitchen knife, twice hitting his heart. She slit one of his wrists so deeply she nearly severed his hand, according to court records. Then she handed the knife to Jolanta Agata Skrodzka, who used it to kill the family cat so it wouldn’t have to live in a shelter after their arrests. 

A year later, 11-year-old Raashanai Coley, another child in Illinois, died from a stomach rupture after her mother, Nicholette Lawrence, punched her repeatedly. The autopsy revealed scars and old injuries indicating previous physical abuse.

Alex was killed in River Grove in 2013. Raashanai died in Waukegan in 2014. Both were slain by people entrusted to protect them. But the respective outcomes of these first-degree murder cases ― one involving a child with disabilities, the other involving a child without medically documented handicaps ― speak volumes about an insidious bias in the justice system.

Alex’s killers pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and served three years each before they were sentenced to time served and released. Raashanai’s killer, meanwhile, was convicted of murder and is serving 43 years.

Advocates for the disabled say such disparities are common in a legal system that seems to treat accused killers less seriously when the victim was a person with special needs who depended on the person charged with murder for care.

On average, at least one disabled person is killed each week by a parent or caregiver, according to a Ruderman Family Foundation report that documented more than 200 deaths from 2011 to 2015.

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The study found that taking a life ― something typically not tolerated in society ― is sometimes treated as acceptable in the justice system when the victim had a disability. Killers are commonly portrayed as angelic caretakers who killed out of mercy, or who could no longer bear the burden and snapped. Those perpetrators often face less than vigorous prosecution, the study found.

“The message is that murder is a reasonable response to disability, and courts will treat you lightly if you murder a disabled child, parent or spouse,” David Perry, a disability rights activist and author of the Ruderman report, told The Huffington Post.

Vilissa Thompson, an advocate and licensed master social worker from Winnsboro, South Carolina, said there is an obvious discrepancy in how the law and the public treat parents and caregivers accused of killing someone in their care. 

“When someone, especially a child, is killed, it is called a hideous crime, and there is an urgency to punish the person responsible,” said Thompson, a contributor to the Ruderman report who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. “But when it comes to the disabled kids, there is this gross level of excusing that behavior.”

Spourdalakis, then 50, and Skrodzka, then 40, were both charged with first-degree murder in Alex’s slaying.

“The murder was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Maureen O’Brien told the Chicago Tribune at the time. 

Lawrence, who was 32 when she was arrested, was also charged with first-degree murder in Raashanai’s slaying.

Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim, according to Chicago’s Daily Herald, called the treatment of the girl “inhumane” and “pure evil.”

Three years later, in December 2016, Spourdalakis and Skrodzka pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and a judge showed the killers mercy.

“Justice has to have some compassion, and looking at the facts of this case, this was the just result,” Spourdalakis’ defense attorney, Michael Botti, told Chicago’s WLS-TV.

The following month, Lawrence, who pleaded guilty to murder, was sentenced to 43 years in prison by 19th Circuit Court Judge James Booras. It was the near-maximum for the charge. Booras referred to Lawrence as a “monster” and ruled her ineligible for early release. If she outlives her sentence, she will be in her mid-70s when she’s freed.

There also was a big difference in how the media covered the cases. Lawrence was all but labeled a vicious murderer. Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, on the other hand, were portrayed as victims.

WLS-TV reported on the “pain, frustration and fear” leading up to Alex’s slaying. The emotions were attributed not to the teen, but to Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, who were described as being burdened with the care of “a suburban boy with a severe form of autism.”

Other media outlets suggested the two women were desperate and emotionally broken from providing Alex with round-the-clock care. Some reports suggested the slaying was an act of mercy.

“That’s asinine,” Thompson told HuffPost. “You don’t kill your loved one because you can’t take care of them. Yes, there are stresses, but that does not give you an excuse.”

Alex’s mother said she did not want him in an institution, which she thought would be a form of torture, according to police. The women killed the family cat, authorities said, because Spourdalakis didn’t want authorities to take it to a shelter.

Thompson said there’s a word that describes the women’s actions, and it’s not mercy.

“They should not be looked on with sympathy,” she said. “That’s an abusive mindset. It’s no different than a spouse who says, ‘If I can’t have you no one can.’ Mercy is just an excuse.”

“Yes, there can be stresses caring for someone with a disability,” she went on. “And yes, we need to hold social services accountable in providing assistance. But none of that should give someone an excuse to kill.”

When a crime like this happens, the media often doesn’t put the victim at the center of his or her own story, Perry said.

Whenever Alex was mentioned in the media, he was characterized by his disability more often than as the victim of a horrific crime. Some reports used words like “aggressive” and “violent” to describe him. Details were printed about how he had to be tied to a bed during hospital visits. It was on social media, rather than in published reports, that people who knew Alex had the chance to share the most details about him. They described him as a smart young man who loved balloons, cards, music, nature and the color yellow.

“Everything in the media coverage was about his mom, and some of it was factually wrong,” Perry said. “No one investigated what she said or called anyone from the disability community for balanced coverage. They rushed to say, ‘Well, she must have been really overworked and must not have had any access to services.’”

In the months leading up to Alex’s death, the boy’s mother and godmother participated in a documentary by the Autism Media Channel. They told the filmmakers Alex was neglected by the health care system and was not provided enough outside support.

“She just couldn’t take seeing her son in pain anymore and seeing no future for him, and there was no help for him,” Polly Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told WLS-TV in 2014.

Alex’s slaying became the focus of the film, which wound up with the title “Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?”

The lawyer who defended Alex’s mother also pointed a finger at the system, according to prosecutors.

Perry, an associate professor of history at Dominican University in Illinois and the father of a boy with Down syndrome, said those claims were not based in reality.

“There were concrete documented efforts by the autism community to help [Spourdalakis], and she rejected that,” Perry said. “She wanted her child cured, and when she couldn’t, she resorted to murder.”

In fact, after Alex was killed, a spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services told the Chicago Tribune that Alex’s mother had refused “referrals to community-based services ranging from respite to psychological counseling.”

Mary Kay Betz, then executive director of the Autism Society of Illinois, told the Tribune that she too had met with Spourdalakis prior to Alex’s slaying and offered assistance, but “all she wanted was an attorney.”

Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told reporters that Alex’s mother and godmother “had absolutely nowhere to go, nowhere to live” and would go from “motel to motel.”

However, according to River Grove police, Spourdalakis and her son lived in the same well-kept River Grove apartment for nearly two decades ― the same apartment where Alex was killed and where Spourdalakis and Skrodzka drugged themselves in an apparent suicide attempt after his death, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Tommey didn’t respond to a request for comment about her description of Spourdalakis’ living situation.

The district attorney’s office ― the same one that called Alex’s killing “cold, calculated and premeditated” ― evidently softened its view over time.

After the two women were sentenced, Botti, Spourdalakis’ attorney, told Chicago’s CBS News Channel 2 that the prosecutor had described in court how, through all the years of Alex’s life, “every door was closed.” Botti said the prosecutor spoke about “the abuse [Alex] dealt with when he was taken to the hospital and all the restraints he was put in.”

The Ruderman report on Alex’s death and others like it was born out of frustration over what the report’s creators see as a disregard for the victims.

“It is abhorrent that a person with a disability is murdered by their parents, children or caregivers every week,” said Jay Ruderman, president of the organization. “This statistic itself is tragic, but what is even more abhorrent is that the journalists covering these murders all too often erase the voice of the person with a disability and occasionally even sympathize with the murderers.”

That sympathy, according to the report, is rooted in a widespread, little-examined notion that disability automatically equates to suffering.

“That’s a big misconception,” Thompson said. “We’re not all suffering and in reality, the most amount of suffering the victims endure is when they are being killed.”

“Let us not obscure the fact,” she said, “that murder is murder.”

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The state's high court in a 4-3 vote rejected arguments by a group of plaintiffs led by a Republican state Representative Dan Caulkins, that the ban violated the Illinois Constitution by not applying the law equally to all citizens.

Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker in a statement called the ruling "a win for advocates, survivors, and families alike because it preserves this nation-leading legislation to combat gun violence and save countless lives."

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How Murder Victims With Disabilities Get Blamed For Their Own Deaths

Alex Spourdalakis was 14 when his mother and godmother decided to kill him.

The women tried to poison the boy, who had autism, with sleeping pills. When that failed, Dorothy Spourdalakis stabbed her son four times in the chest with a kitchen knife, twice hitting his heart. She slit one of his wrists so deeply she nearly severed his hand, according to court records. Then she handed the knife to Jolanta Agata Skrodzka, who used it to kill the family cat so it wouldn’t have to live in a shelter after their arrests. 

A year later, 11-year-old Raashanai Coley, another child in Illinois, died from a stomach rupture after her mother, Nicholette Lawrence, punched her repeatedly. The autopsy revealed scars and old injuries indicating previous physical abuse.

Alex was killed in River Grove in 2013. Raashanai died in Waukegan in 2014. Both were slain by people entrusted to protect them. But the respective outcomes of these first-degree murder cases ― one involving a child with disabilities, the other involving a child without medically documented handicaps ― speak volumes about an insidious bias in the justice system.

Alex’s killers pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and served three years each before they were sentenced to time served and released. Raashanai’s killer, meanwhile, was convicted of murder and is serving 43 years.

Advocates for the disabled say such disparities are common in a legal system that seems to treat accused killers less seriously when the victim was a person with special needs who depended on the person charged with murder for care.

On average, at least one disabled person is killed each week by a parent or caregiver, according to a Ruderman Family Foundation report that documented more than 200 deaths from 2011 to 2015.

The study found that taking a life ― something typically not tolerated in society ― is sometimes treated as acceptable in the justice system when the victim had a disability. Killers are commonly portrayed as angelic caretakers who killed out of mercy, or who could no longer bear the burden and snapped. Those perpetrators often face less than vigorous prosecution, the study found.

“The message is that murder is a reasonable response to disability, and courts will treat you lightly if you murder a disabled child, parent or spouse,” David Perry, a disability rights activist and author of the Ruderman report, told The Huffington Post.

Vilissa Thompson, an advocate and licensed master social worker from Winnsboro, South Carolina, said there is an obvious discrepancy in how the law and the public treat parents and caregivers accused of killing someone in their care. 

“When someone, especially a child, is killed, it is called a hideous crime, and there is an urgency to punish the person responsible,” said Thompson, a contributor to the Ruderman report who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. “But when it comes to the disabled kids, there is this gross level of excusing that behavior.”

Spourdalakis, then 50, and Skrodzka, then 40, were both charged with first-degree murder in Alex’s slaying.

“The murder was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Maureen O’Brien told the Chicago Tribune at the time. 

Lawrence, who was 32 when she was arrested, was also charged with first-degree murder in Raashanai’s slaying.

Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim, according to Chicago’s Daily Herald, called the treatment of the girl “inhumane” and “pure evil.”

Three years later, in December 2016, Spourdalakis and Skrodzka pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and a judge showed the killers mercy.

“Justice has to have some compassion, and looking at the facts of this case, this was the just result,” Spourdalakis’ defense attorney, Michael Botti, told Chicago’s WLS-TV.

The following month, Lawrence, who pleaded guilty to murder, was sentenced to 43 years in prison by 19th Circuit Court Judge James Booras. It was the near-maximum for the charge. Booras referred to Lawrence as a “monster” and ruled her ineligible for early release. If she outlives her sentence, she will be in her mid-70s when she’s freed.

There also was a big difference in how the media covered the cases. Lawrence was all but labeled a vicious murderer. Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, on the other hand, were portrayed as victims.

WLS-TV reported on the “pain, frustration and fear” leading up to Alex’s slaying. The emotions were attributed not to the teen, but to Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, who were described as being burdened with the care of “a suburban boy with a severe form of autism.”

Other media outlets suggested the two women were desperate and emotionally broken from providing Alex with round-the-clock care. Some reports suggested the slaying was an act of mercy.

“That’s asinine,” Thompson told HuffPost. “You don’t kill your loved one because you can’t take care of them. Yes, there are stresses, but that does not give you an excuse.”

Alex’s mother said she did not want him in an institution, which she thought would be a form of torture, according to police. The women killed the family cat, authorities said, because Spourdalakis didn’t want authorities to take it to a shelter.

Thompson said there’s a word that describes the women’s actions, and it’s not mercy.

“They should not be looked on with sympathy,” she said. “That’s an abusive mindset. It’s no different than a spouse who says, ‘If I can’t have you no one can.’ Mercy is just an excuse.”

“Yes, there can be stresses caring for someone with a disability,” she went on. “And yes, we need to hold social services accountable in providing assistance. But none of that should give someone an excuse to kill.”

When a crime like this happens, the media often doesn’t put the victim at the center of his or her own story, Perry said.

Whenever Alex was mentioned in the media, he was characterized by his disability more often than as the victim of a horrific crime. Some reports used words like “aggressive” and “violent” to describe him. Details were printed about how he had to be tied to a bed during hospital visits. It was on social media, rather than in published reports, that people who knew Alex had the chance to share the most details about him. They described him as a smart young man who loved balloons, cards, music, nature and the color yellow.

“Everything in the media coverage was about his mom, and some of it was factually wrong,” Perry said. “No one investigated what she said or called anyone from the disability community for balanced coverage. They rushed to say, ‘Well, she must have been really overworked and must not have had any access to services.’”

In the months leading up to Alex’s death, the boy’s mother and godmother participated in a documentary by the Autism Media Channel. They told the filmmakers Alex was neglected by the health care system and was not provided enough outside support.

“She just couldn’t take seeing her son in pain anymore and seeing no future for him, and there was no help for him,” Polly Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told WLS-TV in 2014.

Alex’s slaying became the focus of the film, which wound up with the title “Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?”

The lawyer who defended Alex’s mother also pointed a finger at the system, according to prosecutors.

Perry, an associate professor of history at Dominican University in Illinois and the father of a boy with Down syndrome, said those claims were not based in reality.

“There were concrete documented efforts by the autism community to help [Spourdalakis], and she rejected that,” Perry said. “She wanted her child cured, and when she couldn’t, she resorted to murder.”

In fact, after Alex was killed, a spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services told the Chicago Tribune that Alex’s mother had refused “referrals to community-based services ranging from respite to psychological counseling.”

Mary Kay Betz, then executive director of the Autism Society of Illinois, told the Tribune that she too had met with Spourdalakis prior to Alex’s slaying and offered assistance, but “all she wanted was an attorney.”

Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told reporters that Alex’s mother and godmother “had absolutely nowhere to go, nowhere to live” and would go from “motel to motel.”

However, according to River Grove police, Spourdalakis and her son lived in the same well-kept River Grove apartment for nearly two decades ― the same apartment where Alex was killed and where Spourdalakis and Skrodzka drugged themselves in an apparent suicide attempt after his death, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Tommey didn’t respond to a request for comment about her description of Spourdalakis’ living situation.

The district attorney’s office ― the same one that called Alex’s killing “cold, calculated and premeditated” ― evidently softened its view over time.

After the two women were sentenced, Botti, Spourdalakis’ attorney, told Chicago’s CBS News Channel 2 that the prosecutor had described in court how, through all the years of Alex’s life, “every door was closed.” Botti said the prosecutor spoke about “the abuse [Alex] dealt with when he was taken to the hospital and all the restraints he was put in.”

The Ruderman report on Alex’s death and others like it was born out of frustration over what the report’s creators see as a disregard for the victims.

“It is abhorrent that a person with a disability is murdered by their parents, children or caregivers every week,” said Jay Ruderman, president of the organization. “This statistic itself is tragic, but what is even more abhorrent is that the journalists covering these murders all too often erase the voice of the person with a disability and occasionally even sympathize with the murderers.”

That sympathy, according to the report, is rooted in a widespread, little-examined notion that disability automatically equates to suffering.

“That’s a big misconception,” Thompson said. “We’re not all suffering and in reality, the most amount of suffering the victims endure is when they are being killed.”

“Let us not obscure the fact,” she said, “that murder is murder.”

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How Murder Victims With Disabilities Get Blamed For Their Own Deaths

Alex Spourdalakis was 14 when his mother and godmother decided to kill him.

The women tried to poison the boy, who had autism, with sleeping pills. When that failed, Dorothy Spourdalakis stabbed her son four times in the chest with a kitchen knife, twice hitting his heart. She slit one of his wrists so deeply she nearly severed his hand, according to court records. Then she handed the knife to Jolanta Agata Skrodzka, who used it to kill the family cat so it wouldn’t have to live in a shelter after their arrests. 

A year later, 11-year-old Raashanai Coley, another child in Illinois, died from a stomach rupture after her mother, Nicholette Lawrence, punched her repeatedly. The autopsy revealed scars and old injuries indicating previous physical abuse.

Alex was killed in River Grove in 2013. Raashanai died in Waukegan in 2014. Both were slain by people entrusted to protect them. But the respective outcomes of these first-degree murder cases ― one involving a child with disabilities, the other involving a child without medically documented handicaps ― speak volumes about an insidious bias in the justice system.

Alex’s killers pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and served three years each before they were sentenced to time served and released. Raashanai’s killer, meanwhile, was convicted of murder and is serving 43 years.

Advocates for the disabled say such disparities are common in a legal system that seems to treat accused killers less seriously when the victim was a person with special needs who depended on the person charged with murder for care.

On average, at least one disabled person is killed each week by a parent or caregiver, according to a Ruderman Family Foundation report that documented more than 200 deaths from 2011 to 2015.

The study found that taking a life ― something typically not tolerated in society ― is sometimes treated as acceptable in the justice system when the victim had a disability. Killers are commonly portrayed as angelic caretakers who killed out of mercy, or who could no longer bear the burden and snapped. Those perpetrators often face less than vigorous prosecution, the study found.

“The message is that murder is a reasonable response to disability, and courts will treat you lightly if you murder a disabled child, parent or spouse,” David Perry, a disability rights activist and author of the Ruderman report, told The Huffington Post.

Vilissa Thompson, an advocate and licensed master social worker from Winnsboro, South Carolina, said there is an obvious discrepancy in how the law and the public treat parents and caregivers accused of killing someone in their care. 

“When someone, especially a child, is killed, it is called a hideous crime, and there is an urgency to punish the person responsible,” said Thompson, a contributor to the Ruderman report who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. “But when it comes to the disabled kids, there is this gross level of excusing that behavior.”

Spourdalakis, then 50, and Skrodzka, then 40, were both charged with first-degree murder in Alex’s slaying.

“The murder was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Maureen O’Brien told the Chicago Tribune at the time. 

Lawrence, who was 32 when she was arrested, was also charged with first-degree murder in Raashanai’s slaying.

Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim, according to Chicago’s Daily Herald, called the treatment of the girl “inhumane” and “pure evil.”

Three years later, in December 2016, Spourdalakis and Skrodzka pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and a judge showed the killers mercy.

“Justice has to have some compassion, and looking at the facts of this case, this was the just result,” Spourdalakis’ defense attorney, Michael Botti, told Chicago’s WLS-TV.

The following month, Lawrence, who pleaded guilty to murder, was sentenced to 43 years in prison by 19th Circuit Court Judge James Booras. It was the near-maximum for the charge. Booras referred to Lawrence as a “monster” and ruled her ineligible for early release. If she outlives her sentence, she will be in her mid-70s when she’s freed.

There also was a big difference in how the media covered the cases. Lawrence was all but labeled a vicious murderer. Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, on the other hand, were portrayed as victims.

WLS-TV reported on the “pain, frustration and fear” leading up to Alex’s slaying. The emotions were attributed not to the teen, but to Spourdalakis and Skrodzka, who were described as being burdened with the care of “a suburban boy with a severe form of autism.”

Other media outlets suggested the two women were desperate and emotionally broken from providing Alex with round-the-clock care. Some reports suggested the slaying was an act of mercy.

“That’s asinine,” Thompson told HuffPost. “You don’t kill your loved one because you can’t take care of them. Yes, there are stresses, but that does not give you an excuse.”

Alex’s mother said she did not want him in an institution, which she thought would be a form of torture, according to police. The women killed the family cat, authorities said, because Spourdalakis didn’t want authorities to take it to a shelter.

Thompson said there’s a word that describes the women’s actions, and it’s not mercy.

“They should not be looked on with sympathy,” she said. “That’s an abusive mindset. It’s no different than a spouse who says, ‘If I can’t have you no one can.’ Mercy is just an excuse.”

“Yes, there can be stresses caring for someone with a disability,” she went on. “And yes, we need to hold social services accountable in providing assistance. But none of that should give someone an excuse to kill.”

When a crime like this happens, the media often doesn’t put the victim at the center of his or her own story, Perry said.

Whenever Alex was mentioned in the media, he was characterized by his disability more often than as the victim of a horrific crime. Some reports used words like “aggressive” and “violent” to describe him. Details were printed about how he had to be tied to a bed during hospital visits. It was on social media, rather than in published reports, that people who knew Alex had the chance to share the most details about him. They described him as a smart young man who loved balloons, cards, music, nature and the color yellow.

“Everything in the media coverage was about his mom, and some of it was factually wrong,” Perry said. “No one investigated what she said or called anyone from the disability community for balanced coverage. They rushed to say, ‘Well, she must have been really overworked and must not have had any access to services.’”

In the months leading up to Alex’s death, the boy’s mother and godmother participated in a documentary by the Autism Media Channel. They told the filmmakers Alex was neglected by the health care system and was not provided enough outside support.

“She just couldn’t take seeing her son in pain anymore and seeing no future for him, and there was no help for him,” Polly Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told WLS-TV in 2014.

Alex’s slaying became the focus of the film, which wound up with the title “Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?”

The lawyer who defended Alex’s mother also pointed a finger at the system, according to prosecutors.

Perry, an associate professor of history at Dominican University in Illinois and the father of a boy with Down syndrome, said those claims were not based in reality.

“There were concrete documented efforts by the autism community to help [Spourdalakis], and she rejected that,” Perry said. “She wanted her child cured, and when she couldn’t, she resorted to murder.”

In fact, after Alex was killed, a spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services told the Chicago Tribune that Alex’s mother had refused “referrals to community-based services ranging from respite to psychological counseling.”

Mary Kay Betz, then executive director of the Autism Society of Illinois, told the Tribune that she too had met with Spourdalakis prior to Alex’s slaying and offered assistance, but “all she wanted was an attorney.”

Tommey, of the Autism Media Channel, told reporters that Alex’s mother and godmother “had absolutely nowhere to go, nowhere to live” and would go from “motel to motel.”

However, according to River Grove police, Spourdalakis and her son lived in the same well-kept River Grove apartment for nearly two decades ― the same apartment where Alex was killed and where Spourdalakis and Skrodzka drugged themselves in an apparent suicide attempt after his death, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Tommey didn’t respond to a request for comment about her description of Spourdalakis’ living situation.

The district attorney’s office ― the same one that called Alex’s killing “cold, calculated and premeditated” ― evidently softened its view over time.

After the two women were sentenced, Botti, Spourdalakis’ attorney, told Chicago’s CBS News Channel 2 that the prosecutor had described in court how, through all the years of Alex’s life, “every door was closed.” Botti said the prosecutor spoke about “the abuse [Alex] dealt with when he was taken to the hospital and all the restraints he was put in.”

The Ruderman report on Alex’s death and others like it was born out of frustration over what the report’s creators see as a disregard for the victims.

“It is abhorrent that a person with a disability is murdered by their parents, children or caregivers every week,” said Jay Ruderman, president of the organization. “This statistic itself is tragic, but what is even more abhorrent is that the journalists covering these murders all too often erase the voice of the person with a disability and occasionally even sympathize with the murderers.”

That sympathy, according to the report, is rooted in a widespread, little-examined notion that disability automatically equates to suffering.

“That’s a big misconception,” Thompson said. “We’re not all suffering and in reality, the most amount of suffering the victims endure is when they are being killed.”

“Let us not obscure the fact,” she said, “that murder is murder.”

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