Eunice Field
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.”
The lesbian subculture is full of domestic violence, drug use, and prostitution. They need prayer.
Lesbians.
A retired teacher.
Alcohol abuse.
Bipolar disorder.
Deadly violence.
Crime free Massachusetts.
Amen, MrEdd!!
“We know that extreme jealousy and possessiveness over one’s partner or ex-partner are two of the tell-tale signs of partner abuse.”
Of lesbianism, actually. God help us if DADT is repealed...
Colonel, USAFR
From 1977-1981 I worked at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Repair Depot. The Lesbian community was well represented among the Test Technicians and Assemblers. Every Monday, they would come in bearing the scars of the weekend’s brawls. God help them if the butch one even thought her girlfriend was flirting with one of us. I was threatened with the hot soldering iron on several occasions.
When angry liberal Massachusetts lesbians erupt.
Film at 11.
Burly, ugly, bi-polar and lesbian? No wonder they resort to domestic violence. But now they also can be arrested for spousal abuse, one of the few advantages to GLBT marriages.
Next on Oprah......”When Lesbos go Bad.”
Coming to a supreme court NeaR you.
If women ruled the world, there would be no war and people would settle their problems without violence.
0bama should place a moratorium on gay marriage in Massachusetts.
In the early 90’s I was managing a place that had several lesbians working there. One of them kept getting a phone call from this obviously crying and emotional girl. I knew about it because when somebody wanted to speak to one of the production people, my secretary had to approve it - and she was getting chapped about the interruptions.
There was another lady that worked in the factory (a non lesbian) that was friends with the woman that kept getting the calls. I asked her if she knew what was going on. Her reply was that the girl calling was the ex-girl friend of the one that worked for us. Seems as though the girl that worked for us had “traded” the girl friend to another lesbian for a car!
After stammering out a few choice word about “traded”, “human beings”, etc, the girl I was talking to said, “oh they do that all the time - that's how she got her as a girl friend in the first place.”
Needless to say there are still many things in life I don't understand (and probably don't ever want to).
Eunice Field
...dykes ruined the AA women’s retreat in my town...they were predatory and would hit on the newcomers...they demanded their own cabin; ate at their own table in the dining hall...eventually the conflicts they started caused the annual retreat to disband....I don’t care what they say about tolerence, queers and dykes are malajusted people.
This is very sad, but not unexpected.
Of course, NOBODY in the “straight” world commits domestic violence...
SARC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAD?
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