Posted on 04/23/2019 3:32:31 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Hours after a nonprofit group bailed a Missouri man out of jail, he beat his wife so severely that she died five days later, police said, according to KMOV.
Samuel Lee Scott, 54, is accused of killing Marcia Johnson, 54, on April 9, KMOV reported. She died on April 14 — and two days later, Scott, of St. Louis, was charged with first-degree murder in connection to his wife’s death.
Prior to the murder charge, Scott had been booked into jail on April 5 on a misdemeanor domestic assault charge after he was accused of hitting his wife on “the right side of her face with his fist” in January, KTVI reported.
“While he was in jail, (his) wife got a restraining order against him which prohibited him from getting within 300 feet of her,” KSDK reported. “But one day later, his $5,000 bail was posted by The Bail Project and he went to her home ... around 7:45 p.m. At around 11 p.m., a friend of his wife brought her to the hospital after finding her bleeding from her head.”
The woman died of injuries caused by “blunt force trauma,” KMOV reported.
Court documents show Scott was released from jail on April 9 with help from The Bail Project, KTVI reported.
“The Bail Project is an unprecedented effort to combat mass incarceration at the front end of the system,” according to its website. “We pay bail for people in need, reuniting families and restoring the presumption of innocence.”
The project is a nonprofit organization, according to its website.
Mike Milton, site manager of the St. Louis Bail Project, said in a written statement that this is a “devastating” moment, according to the Post-Dispatch.
“Nobody wants to see something like this happen, but it is crucial to remember that bail didn’t cause this tragedy — Mr. Scott, a 54-year-old father, was charged with a misdemeanor, and if he’d just been wealthy enough to afford his bail he would have been free in either case,” Milton said, according to the newspaper. “Moments like this are devastating, but it’s important not to lose sight of the larger injustices of cash bail and the need for reform.”
““The Bail Project is an unprecedented effort to combat mass incarceration at the front end of the system,” according to its website. “We pay bail for people in need, reuniting families and restoring the presumption of innocence.””
That was quite a happy reunion they paid for.
Do gooders are the worst.
Reunited and it feels so good
Reunited back here in the hood
Cause I don't give a **it
If they convict or acquit
You're dead and I'm indicted 'cause we're reunited, hey, hey
Emotionally devistateing for you perhaps
She, however, is dead.
Mike Milton, site manager of the St. Louis Bail Project, said in a written statement that this is a “devastating” moment, according to the Post-Dispatch.
“Nobody wants to see something like this happen, but it is crucial to remember that bail didn’t cause this tragedy — Mr. Scott, a 54-year-old father, was charged with a misdemeanor, and if he’d just been wealthy enough to afford his bail he would have been free in either case,”
Hey, Mikey, you are leaving out that Scott also had prior convictions for drugs and... assault.
Scott was initially in jail for a misdemeanor domestic assault charge after he hit his wife in the face in January and threatened to "finish what (he) started."
Restraining orders are a joke.
Restraining orders, peace orders. Do nothing to stop a determined person from reaching you. Its nothing more than saying “ sit” to a pitbull biting your arm trying to rip it off.
And the pitbull lives while people die.
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