Sharon Tate’s sister is a bigger person than I am… because I don’t know that I’d EVER ask for forgiveness for someone who killed a family member of mine.
Charles Manson died last night... and Debra Tate is praying for the soul of a man who murdered her 8-month-pregnant sister.
The sister of the ‘Manson Family’ victim Sharon Tate has revealed she said ‘a prayer for his soul’ after learning that cult leader Charles Manson had died.
Manson, who died of natural causes aged 83 on Sunday, masterminded a spree of nine murders in July and August 1969 in Los Angeles that shocked the world.
News of his death was confirmed by Debra Tate, the sister of his most famous victim actress Sharon Tate, who was pregnant with film director Roman Polanski’s baby when she was stabbed to death by his followers in 1969.
Tate said she received a call from a prison official informing her of Manson’s death.
She said she has never wished ill will on the convicted killers, adding that she will ask for ‘forgiveness’ on Manson’s soul, as she did when cult member Susan Atkins of brain cancer died in 2009.
With that said, she is determined to keep the rest of the Manson ‘family’ in prison.
Tate said that she is determined to keep Manson’s followers behind bars, but believes that God will take care of their souls when they die.
‘These are sociopaths,’ she says. ‘They’re no less violent today than they were then.’
Fair enough.