subject: Amanda's Song - This Is What It Is All About [print this page] What is Amanda's Song? It is a song adopted by Amanda Knox, the young American accused of playing a part in the murder of Meredith Kerscher, a British student. Amanda apparently sang this song for her Italian friends and it now available for download on web sites which are supportive of her innocence. She was imprisoned for 26 years for playing a part in the deed although her Internet supporters claim that there is no evidence at all to suggest that she did so.
The song known as Amanda's Song has been sung by Bobby Darin, Lucas Wong and Friends and others. The lyrics read: Softly, as I leave you softly, for my heart would break if you should wake and see me go, so I leave you softly, long before you miss me, long before your arms can beg me to stay for one more hour or one more day; after all the years, I cannot bear the tears to fall. This may have you searching for a tissue.
Italian police ascertained that Meredith Kercher was dead by 11 pm . It was the following day at noon, however, when Amanda discovered that she was missing from the flat and that there was blood complete with pointers of forced entry to the flat shared by four young people. The police found the bloody body of Meredith in her bedroom after breaking down her door.
It did not take long for forensic detectives to find that Meredith had been violated sexually and murdered by several people. They also concluded that breaking and entering was a mock-up. Soon their suspicions led to the arrest of several young people. Amanda who had showered in the bathroom (not deplete of the blood of Meredith on the floor) seemed shifty enough to lead to her detention also.
Together with Raffaele Sollecito an Italian and Patrick Lumumba a pub owner, Amanda was arrested. Rudy Guede (Perugia) was subsequently arrested too and Lumumba released simultaneously. Rudy was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment for sexual battery (on appeal reduced to sixteen years). Raffaele and Amanda received a 26 and 25 year sentence for sexually-violent murder respectively.
It is alleged that although the DNA of Amanda was discovered on a knife in the flat, there was no other proof of her guilt. Accusations of anti-Americanism came to the fore, with some prominent people in the lead, convinced that this had contaminated her trial. A campaign in support of their daughter is taking momentum, with a professional public relations officer in charge.
Law suits have followed, Lumumba for defamation, unjust incarceration and loss of income for which he received 4,800 Euros. Amanda sued Fiorenzo Sarzanini when he published his book: Amanda and the Others. He used illegally-published court documentation and violated privacy about the sex life of Amanda. She was awarded 40,000 Euros.
Police have started a file against Amanda for illegal slander. This case has been deferred to October 2010. These matters all flit across your mind as you hear the whimsical Amanda's Song. You vacillate between victim and suspect. Could Amanda Knox have been incarcerated yet innocent? Whatever the case may be, the song and its lyrics could be narrating the sad story of the possibility of a young girl imprisoned in error or Meredith Kercher facing a barbaric and cruel passage to her untimely death.
