Posted on 08/26/2010 11:25:12 AM PDT by FreeManDC
Eunice Field, 54, allegedly killed her ex-girlfriend’s Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor because the woman had reportedly come between the couple. A Massachusetts murder has once again focused attention on LGBT domestic violence.
A Brockton woman walked into that city’s police station on Aug. 9 and allegedly confessed to killing her ex-girlfriend’s Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor because the woman allegedly had come between the couple.
Eunice Field, 54, told police she killed Lorraine Wachsman, 62, at Wachsman’s Bridgewater condo, according to Assistant District Attorney Thomas Flanagan.
Field left a note for her ex-girlfriend, Renee Williams, in the Brockton apartment they shared stating that she killed Wachsman, a retired school teacher, “for taking away the love of her life”, Flanagan said at Field’s Aug. 10 arraignment. The prosecutor said Field stabbed Wachsman three or four times in the back and neck with a serrated knife.
Flanagan reported Field was stained with blood when she showed up at the Brockton police station. She showed no emotion, however, when she confessed.
John Darrel, Field’s attorney, said his client told police at the beginning of the interview she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and that she was supposed to be on medication. Darrel did not say whether Field was taking medication at the time of the stabbing.
A judge ordered Field held without bail pending a Sept. 3 court appearance.
“This is a terrible tragedy and a painful reminder that partner abuse not only affects survivors but also their community of friends, family and loved ones,” said Beth Leventhal, executive director of the Network/La Red, a Boston-based organization that seeks to end LGBT domestic violence. “We know that extreme jealousy and possessiveness over one’s partner or ex-partner are two of the tell-tale signs of partner abuse.”
A death this year in another Massachusetts town also may have a domestic-violence connection.
Annamarie Rintala, 37, was found strangled in the basement of her Granby home March 29.
Police are looking at Rintala’s wife, Cara, as a person of interest because she was charged with domestic assault in Oct. 2008 after Annamarie reported that her wife had struck her in the back of the head with a closed fist. Authorities dismissed charges in that case at the victim’s request.
Police have yet to make an arrest in connection with Rintala’s death.
As EDGE previously reported, a Boston jury last February convicted a woman on two counts of second-degree murder for setting fire to a South Boston apartment building that killed her girlfriend’s two young daughters after an argument in April 2008.
Domestic violence, both physical and emotional, remains a major problem among gay and lesbian couples.
The Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project reports one in four gay men experience domestic violence. The rate is even higher among lesbians. One in three likely will experience domestic violence during their lifetimes, the same rate as straight women.
The Network/La Red said many lesbians have the misconception their space is safe.
“We know from the recent cases that women physically and emotionally abuse their female partners, as well as their partners that may identify as transgender,” Kaitlin Nichols, director of organizing and education, told EDGE in e-mail. “We also know that women have been seriously injured or killed by their female partners, or lost everything and become homeless due to domestic violence. The myth of women’s communities as safe communities has prevented many women from reaching out for support. If they have shared what is happening, they are met with disbelief from their community.”
So whatever people “enjoy” should be permitted, tolerated, promoted and celebrated?
Sodomy, sadism and masochism, sex with electricity, bestiality, necrophilia, etc - you can find some people who “enjoy” every sick perversion under the sun.
“So whatever people “enjoy” should be permitted, tolerated, promoted and celebrated?”
Yes, that is what PurpleP said: “It is huge, but life is also to be enjoyed.” [in reference to sex being beyond reproduction -post 155!]
This is a hedonistic leftist view.
"If it feels good, do it" was a joke. Not a political philosophy.
It wasn't meant to explore body cavities with body parts that don't belong in them or foreign objects.
You mean, that’s not for secret hidden item storage?
/ bad bad bad!
However, stating that the sole purpose of life or “Sex” is “reproduction” is utter nonsense. It is huge, but life is also to be enjoyed.
This is a hedonistic leftist view.
“If it feels good, do it” was a joke. Not a political philosophy.
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So you are saying, you ONLY have sex for REPRODUCTION?
Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!
You guys lost the argument, this emotional, Italian-American, woman, who YES had two brothers sexually assaulted by their pedo-Priest is OUT. Yes, I do have a life.
My husband some-times loses an argument with me eventhough he has a difficult time admitting it. Therefore, as well, you “guys” also lost the argument.
I am right, you guys are wrong and THIS TIME, is the end of the story.
zot
“I am right, you guys are wrong and THIS TIME, is the end of the story.”
-zot.. post 167.
No, you are wrong, but don’t let that stop your pursuit of deviance.
Except for the part when JimRob channels Paul Harvey for an electric "The REST of the Story...."
You based everything that you said on emotion and never used anything to back it up. I posted links that you could not refute. Jim said "zot". You lost.
While a single stab wound may be fatal, it takes longer, and a murderous rage doesn't end until the victim is dead.
The pursuit of hedonism without any moral boundaries leads to social chaos and barbarism.
Even animals follow their own nature.
Humans have moral guidelines that are essentially the same in every religion in the world. These boundaries to self gratification are Natural Law. Individuals who break these Natural Laws cause misery for themselves and others they interact with, and when large numbers of people follow the Pied Piper of boundary-less hedonism, they destroy society.
You and your fellow homosexual agenda promoters are fighting but we will fight harder, and win.
A zot has occurred. By the boss.
Lefty's are very emotional which makes them irrational on most political subjects. It can also make them dangerous.
Human beings are meant to use reason. When we don moral blinders, we cannot reason any more.
God was also taken out of that posters equation. No firm moral foundation equals immorality. One has no basis on which to build or judge standards. Morals become swayed by the "prevailing winds".
Each human being can choose to accept the guidelines given by God (which, if the moral blinders are not worn, can also with care, be heard from within the heart), or choose to listen to their own mind’s desires (which are colored and influenced by what they listen to/read/watch) and those who “tickle their ears”.
Your gratuitous remarks slandering my life’s work are not appreciated.
Research on, Brother!!!
Yes. And this poster openly sneered at God. What then is their moral foundation? Self? That is not reliable.
That was the final straw for me.
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