Posted on 12/03/2007 4:25:49 PM PST by Brilliant
ROCHESTER, N.H. - The stepdaughter of a distraught New Hampshire man, who touched off a hostage drama at Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters in Rochester, N.H., said she feared her stepfather was going to be gunned down.
“I was fearful. I just hoped everything would turn out OK,” Leeland Eisenberg’s stepdaughter Erin Warren told the Herald today outside Rochester District Court.
“I thought it would end pretty extreme, I thought it was going to be a shooting thing,” she added.
Eisenberg was arraigned today on a host of charges, including kidnapping, in connection to Friday’s hostage taking in downtown Rochester. He was ordered held on $500,000 cash bail after authorities outlined his extensive criminal record, which includes two rape convictions in Massachusetts in the 1980s.
Eisenbeg’s stepson, Ben Warren, said he spent Thursday night with his step-dad and he directed him to a store that sold road flares. Eisenberg allegedly purchased road flares at a Dover, N.H., auto store and then strapped them to his chest with duct tape, which he later claimed was a bomb when he took hostages at the Clinton headquarters and held them for almost six hours.
In court papers field today, Ben Warren told police he was sleeping at a hotel room with this stepfather and awoke to hear “the sound of ripping duct tape.”
Shortly before Eisenberg allegedly went to the Clinton campaign headquarters, he told his stepson “no matter what happens today, tell your mother I love her,” according to court papers.
“He was suicidal. He was drinking and he was pretty emotionally tore up,” said his stepson.
The siblings said that their stepfather had tried unsuccessfully to get into a treatment program for alcoholism and mental illness.
“It’s unfortunate but at the same time it’s says something about the lack of health care,” said Ben Warren.
“I hope the best for him, I hope gets the help he needs,” said the stepson.
Eisenberg was charged on four counts of kidnapping, one charge of criminal threatening and one charge of false report as to explosives.
In 2002, Eisenberg sued the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, alleging he had been molested by a priest in the early 1980s, when he was about 21.
In 1999 and 2000, Eisenberg was incarcerated in a facility for sexual offenders at Bridgewater State Hospital, according to court records. He was later transferred to the Massachusetts prison in Concord...
Yep. And if it did come to light that this whole thing was staged by Hilary and her crew, they’d all get a free pass too.
One poor sucker would probably be hung out to dry, but nothing serious would ever come of it.
If you're 21, he's not your molester, he's your boyfriend.
“”...Does anyone else gag when they read this? Maybe a priest got funny with him, but 21 year olds don’t get molested...”
If you’re 21, he’s not your molester, he’s your boyfriend, and you’re his b@tch.”
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