Catherine Colley shouldn’t have been back in a Pierce County courtroom Friday. Almost exactly 12 years ago, she stood before a judge and forgave her grandson’s killer, a 19-year-old man who had admitted to the atrocious crime of raping and murdering his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son.
At the time, Jake Musga’s face was still pockmarked with acne. Colley said he had a conscience, too, and that he’d told the court he knew what he had done was wrong.
Musga, now 31, has changed since then. His face matured, and his head was shaved clean save for a patch of hair under his chin. Gone, too, was his acceptance of responsibility for the March 2013 death of Chayson Colley in a Tacoma apartment…