The trial of Molly Martens

It's bizarre. I just don't get what was in it for the state. They just let them off scot free. I'm not sure either of them will court publicity over it though. The last thing they would want would be some national level publication picking up the story and running with it, so bizarre were the proceedings in court.

Inquiry underway amid concerns Molly and Tom Martens’ release dates wrongly calculated with pair expected to stay in jail until next summer

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/inquiry-underway-amid-concerns-molly-and-tom-martens-release-dates-wrongly-calculated-with-pair-expected-to-stay-in-jail-until-next-summer/a1190465157.html

Response from family and public wrongly calculated I'd say.

It Boggles the mind but Molly seems to have a very dedicated fanbase that'd be delighted to marry her.

I’d say your not far wrong -I’d say she’s in a very delicate mental state though which will prevent her hopefully from ever presenting as “normal” to unsuspecting or suspecting suitors - she’ll likely be “minded” by family members for the rest of her life or sent to a mental health facility if they can no longer cope, assuming money is available to do that.

I’d say the fact they were in county jail for the last number of weeks was an indication that they were heading for freedom- whether the adverse publicity made them make this U turn or if it was a genuine mistake we’ll likely never know

Oh yes, I was just saying to my parents last week that she'll probably be married again within two years of her release.

Whoever takes her as a wife is a far braver man than I.

We all saw how the Martens side had its thumb on the scales all the way along. Even if you bought the miscalculation excuse, the pair of them not being moved out of the county jail is quite the stretch. As a small consolation, I hope the pair of them feel really terrible now. If they were looking forward to getting out, being told they're off to a high security prison until next year will sting. Not that I feel sorry for them.

Sorry for the black humour.

She might well be, but she is high maintenance and anyone anyway sane would run a mile.

Imagine a family member of yours bringing her around as his new girlfriend.

Most people would be checking there was nothing heavy or certain sports equipment left lying around.

They have avoided spending the rest of their lives behind bars, but their lives as they knew them are over.

Yeah they will have family and close friends that will stand by them believing the bullcr** or maybe couldn't care less, but a lot of people will see them as stone cold killers.

When they walk in somewhere and people cop who they are, there will always be whispers.

Maybe it is the only consolation and that they can never rewrite the facts how they bludgeoned a man to a pulp.

Statement from Tracy Corbett Lynch Jason's sister

Oh I know how vast US is and how moving cities/states is like going to another country, and in some cases it is like another planet almost.

But that means they have to move, and for the old bast* it is not as easy as for her.

He has traded for years on his FBI connection, now that leads immediately to this story.

Also the internet has made the US as well as the world a lot smaller.

If you lay low then you could reinvent yourself, but are these the types to lay low and blend in.

She starts going out with some guy and someone does some kind of background check and hey ho you find out how warped and evil the fooker really is.

Then the cover is blown.

Maybe I am just hoping their lives are miserable because they deserve nothing better.

I think Jason's nationality worked against him. There are a lot of Americans who are insular and know very little about other countries. That's where stereotypes fill the void. As we all know, the Irish stereotypes aren't complimentary and the defence leaned into some of those. I think that was reflected in Thomas Martens's view of the Corbetts. I don't know them in real life but they sound like a run-of-the-mill Irish family. Yet to the WASPy Martens, they seem to have been a bunch of heavy-drinking leprechaun yokels who were beneath his precious daughter. Unless people in the States were following the case closely, I think a lot of the character assassination stuff made it out into the public consciousness. If they'd slaughtered somebody from the same social class as them, we'd have seen a somewhat different outcome.

They did. Some Irish people were donating the least amount in order to leave comments..

There's no chance she'll be doing that, even if she manages to get back into the country. She wanted the kids when they were young and cute. Why would she want to connect with two young adults who despise her?