Paragraph 7 reads: "The youngest female serving life in prison in Iowa is Kristina Fetters, who was sentenced for the murder of her great aunt in Polk County when she was 14."

Paragraph 10 reads: "She claims she was taking the anti-depressant Prozac when she attacked Klehm in a fit of rage. She has filed several unsuccessful appeals based on speculation that the drug can provoke violence in children who take it."

The Physicians Desk Reference states that Prozac can cause hostility, mania, psychosis, abnormal hinking, agitation, confusion and paranoia.

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A 14-year-old girl charged in the fatal stabbing of a pregnant teenager could be one of the youngest people to ever be sentenced to life in prison if she is tried and convicted as an adult.

Alberta Wilmer, of Dubuque, is charged with first-degree murder in the Sept. 1 stabbing death of 17-year-old April Johnson.

Johnson was attacked outside a Dubuque apartment and stabbed in the chest. She and her unborn child died at a local hospital.

Wilmer, who is one of four people charged in the attack, would only be held until she is 18 if she is tried and convicted as a juvenile.

State Rep. Lance Horbach, R-Tama, chairman of the House Justice System Appropriations Committee, said he has mixed feelings about someone so young being sentenced to life in prison.

"If you ask me ... I'd say no," Horbach said. "But if that person blatantly murdered my grandson, then life in prison wouldn't be long enough."

The youngest female serving life in prison in Iowa is Kristina Fetters, who was sentenced for the murder of her great aunt in Polk County when she was 14.

She was convicted of stabbing Arlene Klehm, 73, with a kitchen knife on Oct. 23, 1994. She entered the prison system when she was 15 and is now serving her sentence at Mitchellville.

Now 25, Fetters is one of 471 inmates serving life sentences for murder. The oldest is 82. The youngest is 17. She is one of 19 people sentenced to life in prison before they turned 18.

"I got life in prison, and it does make me bitter," Fetters said. "I hope to God I will get a second chance. I took somebody's life, but I felt I wasn't just a crazed murderer."

She claims she was taking the anti-depressant Prozac when she attacked Klehm in a fit of rage. She has filed several unsuccessful appeals based on speculation that the drug can provoke violence in children who take it.

Eric Sage, a juvenile justice planner with the Iowa Division of Criminal & Justice Planning, said the courts should look at each case individually when deciding whether a juvenile should be tried as an adult.

"Some children were in horrible abusive situations," he said. "And they kill somebody -- usually dad. They had a fairly good reason for killing them, and they wouldn't, in all likelihood, do it again."