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Democrat Governor Phil Murphy Grants Clemency to Woman Who Burned Her Children Alive
Life News ^ | January 30, 2026 | Marie Tasy

Posted on 01/30/2026 10:51:12 AM PST by Morgana

It is no secret that Governor Murphy has a grotesque obsession with abortion. Through both his words and his actions, he made it abundantly clear during his eight years as Governor of New Jersey that he harbors a depraved fixation on the killing of innocent children. To Murphy, there is no abortion too gruesome and no gestational limit that goes too far, and by his most recent action, that moral indifference now extends even to children who have already been born.

So, it should surprise no one that, in one of his final acts before leaving office, the former Governor chose to grant clemency to Maria Dolores Montalvo, a Union Beach woman convicted of burning her two young children alive.

Montalvo was convicted in 1996 of murder, felony murder, and arson for killing her 18-month-old daughter, Zoraida-Angelin Aponte, and her 28-month-old son, Rafael-Louis Aponte. On February 22, 1994, she doused the children with gasoline inside their car and set it on fire in Long Branch.

She had been serving a 100-year prison sentence, with parole ineligibility until 2054. Murphy’s act of clemency, however, made her immediately eligible to apply for parole. Given the unspeakable brutality of the crime, the decision has drawn widespread condemnation from prosecutors, lawmakers, and members of the public.

Given Governor Murphy’s well-documented abortion fanaticism, this decision fits a well-recognized, though deeply disturbing, pattern. Mercy was granted to a convicted murderer, while none was shown to the innocent children who suffered and died.

We can imagine those little children crying out in terror and unspeakable pain as their lives were cruelly taken, a reality that should haunt the conscience of every decent person. And yet, in New Jersey and across the nation, countless other children just as innocent and just as vulnerable are killed through abortion, often without cries we can hear and without the same public outrage. The silence surrounding their torment and deaths does not make them any less real, nor does it lessen the moral weight of what is being done to them.

Still, there is hope. The growing pro-life movement refuses to look away from the suffering of born children or the silent deaths of the unborn. By defending the dignity of every human life, we honor children like Zoraida and Rafael and work toward a future where no child is disposable, no violence is excused, and compassion always chooses life.

Although Governor Murphy has demonstrated a troubling zealotry for ending the lives of the innocent, it is heartening to see that many others reject his views and continue to defend the value of human life.

We are certainly not sorry to see him go.

LifeNews.com Note: Marie Tasy is the executive director of New Jersey Right to Life.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: abortion; arsonist; babykiller; babykillers; burnedalive; clemency; corrupticrats; demagogicparty; democrat; democratbabykiller; newjersey; newjerseyprolife; philmurphy; postbirthabortion; prolife

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New Jersey FReepers this case happened back in 1994, does anyone remember it?
1 posted on 01/30/2026 10:51:12 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Follower of Moloch.

Wouldn’t want to be him on Judgement Day.


2 posted on 01/30/2026 10:57:56 AM PST by AFB-XYZ (( We have two options: 1. Stand up, or 2. Bend over))
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To: Morgana

Her next assignment: Go to Minneapolis and show ICE how she feels about them.


3 posted on 01/30/2026 10:59:25 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I believe that every state is a Red state, if the elections are honest.)
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To: Morgana

In the last days, evil will magnify itself.


4 posted on 01/30/2026 11:14:07 AM PST by Son-Joshua ( )
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To: Morgana

5 posted on 01/30/2026 11:15:22 AM PST by TexasGator (1/I1I1i')
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To: AFB-XYZ; Morgana
My post which includes DEMOCRAT PHIL MURPHY

[Becca Rea-Tucker on Why We Shouldn’t Feel Bad About Our Abortions]

HEY!! DEMOCRAT PHIL MURPHY...

[HHS Bans Using Aborted Baby Body Parts for Taxpayer-Funded Research]

[On Christmas Eve, New Jersey Governor DEMOCRAT
Phil Murphy Spends $22 Million Funding Abortions]

The whole world 🌏🌍🌎 MUST KNOW what these people are doing
- this EVIL MUST NOT be hidden 🙈🙉🙊

They use Sanitized Terms like "Partial-Birth Abortion" to MASK,
to HIDE / CONCEAL and PROMOTE THEIR EVIL DEEDS


At The Great White Throne Judgment, Unbelievers
are Rejected. They did not CHOOSE to be written
into The Lamb's Book of Life.








HEY, DEMOCRATS Phil Murphy, Gavin Newsom,
James Carville, Hillary Diane Jezebel Rodham Clinton, Kamala Harris,
Son of Satan Barack Hussein Obama, et al:

THIS IS WHAT YOU SUPPORT -
THIS IS WHAT YOU DO: - REPENT!!! -


AI Overview

In September 2025, the Care for All Community Clinic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
launched a contest via Instagram inviting the public to submit
nicknames for their new ASPIRATION MACHINE.

AN ASPIRATION MACHINE SUCKS OUT THE BRAINS 🧠🧠🧠 of
a baby that the ABORTIONIST has just purposely MURDERED




In 2008 Republican Alan Keyes said that
Democrat Barack Hussein Obama
supported INFANTICIDE

Alan Keyes was 100% correct
in his assessment of Obama



6 posted on 01/30/2026 11:15:25 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: TexasGator

Just wow! Play with fire, get burned.


7 posted on 01/30/2026 11:17:39 AM PST by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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To: Morgana

Photos, News clippings including first hand account.

https://www.app.com/picture-gallery/news/crime/2025/11/27/monmouth-county-maria-montalvo-murder-trial-1996/87467562007/


8 posted on 01/30/2026 11:21:16 AM PST by TexasGator (1/I1I1i')
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To: TexasGator

Tried to find reason WHY he went out of his way to grant clemency (”commutation of sentence.”)

“According to a statement from her lawyer, the decision considered her “sustained rehabilitative and educational efforts while in prison” and her work supporting other inmates.

The governor’s office stated the decision was based on a “thorough and careful review process” that considered the full context of her case, her 30-year incarceration, and input from various parties.”


Incredible.


9 posted on 01/30/2026 11:23:21 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Morgana

This is the same party that claims to care so much ABOUT THE CHILDREN..they are frauds, EVERY SINGLE LAST ONE OF THEM


10 posted on 01/30/2026 11:24:56 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Morgana

Nice going Phil, you rat.


11 posted on 01/30/2026 11:30:16 AM PST by Shady (#EnoughIsEnough, and we have HAD ENOUGH!)
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To: Morgana

A late abortion. Procrastination isn’t a crime.


12 posted on 01/30/2026 11:30:17 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: frank ballenger

Commutations are a form of clemency. Some clemencies are not commutations.

The article says that she still has to go to the parole board to be released.


13 posted on 01/30/2026 11:32:17 AM PST by TexasGator (1/I1I1i')
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To: Morgana

On December 24, 2025, New Jersey Governor DEMOCRAT Phil Murphy announced the allocation of $22.325 million in funding for “reproductive health services” which includes the DELIBERATE ABORTION of viable human beings


14 posted on 01/30/2026 11:34:32 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Morgana

DemocRats like burning children alive. See my tagline: what do DemocRats like more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork.


15 posted on 01/30/2026 11:35:13 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Morgana
Maria Dolores Montalvo is shown in Monmouth County Superior Court Tuesday, December 3, 1996. Thomas P. Costello/Asbury Park Press / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
Then

Maria Montalvo has been in prison for more than 30 years. Edna Mahan Correctional Facility
Now

16 posted on 01/30/2026 11:36:03 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: AFB-XYZ

“Wouldn’t want to be him on Judgement Day.”

There is only one unpardonable sin.


17 posted on 01/30/2026 11:37:56 AM PST by TexasGator (1/I1I1i')
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To: Robert DeLong

Had she not done this she would probably be a Grandmother by now.


18 posted on 01/30/2026 11:40:32 AM PST by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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To: TexasGator

Sorry if faulty information.

I was going by the information in my source while looking for the reason Phil Murphy thought getting her out of prison was a justifiable idea.

But any technical wording for letting her out after she let the children feel agony as the heat increased and they were trapped doesn’t matter as much as her getting out. Apparently the self-immolating Buddhists in Vietnam and others feel intense pain before the body lets them die.
Tragic for those kids.


19 posted on 01/30/2026 11:43:45 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Morgana

Just another very late-term abortion ... nothing to see here ... move along ...

The democRAT Party is a death-cult.


20 posted on 01/30/2026 11:45:54 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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