Paris Bennett has a mental disorder and is a perpetrator who brutally murdered his young four-year-old sister Ella Bennett.
Paris was 13 when he slashed his sister multiple times after physically attacking her.
He takes full responsibility, and every teacher that met him said that he couldn’t be rehabilitated.
In his initial confession, Paris Bennett admitted he killed his sister because he wanted to punish Charity Lee’s mother, who was upset with her.
He knew killing her sister would hurt her mom more. The noble cause had relapsed into drugs after getting herself clean for a very long time.
Since that sorrowful evening, Lee connected her daughter with butterflies that were the last painting she made in school.
In 2012, Lee gave birth to another child, Phoenix; even after what happened with Ella and Paris, she allowed Paris to talk with her child Phoenix.
The Depressing Night and Evil Act
It was around 12:30 on Feb. 5, 2007; Charity Lee was working at Buffalo Wild Wings when police told her that her daughter had been harmed, she asked them to take her to her daughter now, and they told her, “you can’t go, she’s dead.”
She inquired if her child was alright? Furthermore, they said, “We have him….”
Before going to her work, Charity left her home on a sitter to look after her kids Ella and Paris Bennett.
Paris, who has an exceptional IQ level, had various plans; he convinced the sitter to leave at some point around 10 pm.
Subsequently, Paris went to her younger sister’s room. He pushed her, physically attacked her, and wounded her multiple times.
He then called his friend from school and talked for six minutes before calling 911.
He told the officer on call that, “I unintentionally killed someone,” the officer reacted, “You think you killed someone?” Paris said, “No, I KNOW I did. My sister…. I feel so messed up.”
The officer on call advised him to give some medical aid to his sister, but he stayed there doing nothing as he probably was aware Ella Bennett was already dead.
In Charity Lee’s book “How Now Butterfly,” she reavers that Paris watched violent pornography for a long time before physically attacking and killing his sister.
He watched realistic pornography like “S&M,” “bondage,” and “perversion.” He even searched for films in the hours to learn the way to kill someone.
Lee wrote in her book, “His wounds were slow and deliberate, not furious, not a wild fury, Not all were profound. Most were shallow hits and penetrated.”
Additionally, Paris Bennett confesses that he killed his sister because he had a vision in his mind that his sister seemed like a pumpkin-headed evil.
However, later he changed his statement and said that he planned the killing of his younger sibling and revealed that he wanted to kill his sister and intended to kill his mother.
Paris planned the killing. He wanted his mother to be in pain, so he removed both of her kids from her, he killed his sister, and he realized that he would go to jail, and she would lose him as well.
He wanted his mother to suffer in her life. When Charity went to jail to visit her child, he said:
“You’re correct. I killed her.” Even while in prison, he continues to hurt his mother, making remarks like, “I love watching your pain.”
Lee realizes that Paris Bennett may harm her one day. This realization came after her visit ended in Paris.
She wrote in her diary, “He punched the table into me, pinning me against the concrete wall behind me. He took my breath. I was in shock, paralyzed. Then, he pulled the table back, I waited to breathe, and he slammed it into me again.”
In 2017 Paris Bennett spoke with The Family I had and expressed:
“I chose to commit my crime, and I take the entire responsibility for my actions. I’m not crazy, and I don’t suffer from any mental instability.”
Meeting with Piers Morgan
In his interview with Piers Morgan, Paris Bennett revealed how he initially targeted his mom.
However, then killed his 4-year-old sister, as it would be a way of punishing his mom in the worst ways possible.
He said: “For a long time, there was only this hot, flaring bundle of fury in the pit of my stomach, and it was aimed at my mom.
Additionally, one reason why I chose to kill my sister and not someone else is that I realized that by doing that, I could hurt my mom in the absolute worst way since I had always known, as a child, that the most devastating thing to my mom would be the loss of one of her children. I managed to take away both her children in a single motion.”
He further added, “Yes, I committed a huge crime but does that one mistake define my entire life… I don’t think it does.
“In my opinion, if you were pre-planning a movie about a young maniac, you would pick someone like Paris. He is profoundly intelligent; he has an IQ level of a genius. He is very well-spoken. He is highly articulate. He is attractive. It’s true what he did.”Piers Morgan said.
Paris Bennett Now
Paris Bennett is serving a 40-year sentence at the Ferguson Unit Texas State Prison. He is now 26 and will be eligible for parole in 2027.
Authorities have advised Charity Lee and her son Phoenix to hide after Paris is released from prison.
Yet, even after the threat, she allows her youngest son Phoenix to talk to Paris because she wants to show her youngest child what is real love and forgiveness.
Lee understands what led her son to commit the unthinkable crime; when Paris was 11, she took cocaine for a month-long period, making him step in and take care of his sister.
Since the death of her daughter, Lee associates her daughter with butterflies because that was the last painting she made in school.
Lee has gone through emotions and chooses to forgive her son and accept him for who he is.
“My son is mentally ill. I can’t abandon him. That may not matter in the long run. What might matter is I can’t, not now, abandon him. I love my firstborn with as much intensity as I did since the day I found out I was pregnant with him. ”
“What I know about my son is this. He is sick. He can’t muster enough willpower to care that he physically attacked and killed Ella. He has a dark side that is dormant for now, but my son is dangerous. Under the right conditions, I believe he could kill again, with as little remorse about it as he has for how he treated Ella. I know he will encounter those conditions every day once he is sent off to prison. I truly hope he doesn’t have to kill again because Texas does not care about human rights.”
