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.”
Two homosexual males = Sex without emotion
Two homosexual females = Emotion and drama
It’s the reason why One Male + One Female = balance.
This article could easily be about my sister.
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My grandfather was a county prosecutor in Indianapolis in the 1920's and 30's. He told my father that you could always tell when a murder was a homosexual falling-out, by the blood on the ceiling.
WTF is LGBT
(Evidently we’re all supposed to know.)
“allegedly confessed” ?
Can’t they report that she actually confessed?
She showed no emotion, however, when she confessed.I thought she only "allegedly confessed". Now, two paragraphs later, she ACTUALLY confessed.
Which is it?
>Field stabbed Wachsman three or four times
And then, to drive home the point, chainsawed their vibrator(s) in half.
That is what one “girl power” wacko supervisor from a while back preached. It went along with “living green” claptrap. The woman had a face and build that would stop a clock but it was the vile personality I coulnd’t hack. Her second husband was a total wuss and a jerk and her kid was a comical ball of lard. However “stupid kid” was the great son anyone could want and you had to love everything about him or be treated like dirt.
Seems as though the girl that worked for us had “traded” the girl friend to another lesbian for a car!LOL!
Sorry. I'm insensitive.
I didn’t know Pelosi was vacationing in Massachusetts.
It's a Lettuce, Garlic, Bacon and Tomato sandwich.
(Evidently we’re all supposed to know.)
the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered "community"
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender
LOL!
Thanks. I’ll try to remember for next time.
Please explain.
SARC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's more likely in the homosexual world. Much more likely. They have mental issues to begin with.
There was a tough gay bar in Toledo called the Lincoln. Lots of fights and stabbings, back when violence wasn't that prevalent. (40 years later it's a pasttime) Weekends were positively bloody.
“Burly, ugly, bi-polar,lesbian, drunk, fat and stupid is no way to go through life, sistah!”
Sounds like sharia law to me.
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