Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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.”
transsexual, maybe.
At a college my son attended It appeared that the reception committee for new students was just a bunch of lesbians. Also the faculty member in charge of this group was obviously lesbian. They did a presentation for the parents. One of them openly admitted to being the leader of the student gay group. Curiously she was extremely attractive. The others were identifiable by their rainbow stickers and general appearance.
Maybe. But there's no reason to claim both sexes on FR. Just give your opinion on politics.
Yes it is. And I object to a poster using being male or female to back up a point when they have used both. They can't be both.
That’s ok. My objection is that they used being male and/or female to back up an opinion. That’s very dishonest.
It’s troubling, because it’s deception.
Yup. I get mistaken for a male because of my name. I usually correct them. To do otherwise is dishonest.
I’ve had that happen to me a few times, which seems odd to me.
It depends on how someone “reads” your name, as a single name or a name with an initial after it.
True, although I do identify myself somewhat on my home page.
Oh noes! I never looked! LOL
:)
Yeah, needs to learn whether it is a male or a female.
Sorry, former Catholic alter boy speaking here...
I am a woman,
Freepers don't like being played.
...I merely pointed out that the poster cannot be a former altar boy and a woman. They stated both.
I do not know purpleporter, and it should be interesting if she (or he) responds to her (or his) posts on this message thread to clear up this apparent question of her (or his) gender.
However, I will point out that being a former Catholic alter boy... and now currently being a (legal if not natural born) woman is not an impossibility.
It does involve a therapist knowledgeable in gender issues, a doctor to prescribe cross-gender hormone therapy, an electrologist to painfully zap off all the facial hairs one at a time, a couple of surgeons to change things around some, and the assistance of an attorney to get the legal paperwork in order. Also some time and money to make it happen...
But it is possible...
Witnessing:
Screaming_Gerbil promoting the mental illness of trasnsexualism.
John Hopkins will not perfomr sex reassignment surgeries any more as it caters to peoples’ mental illness.
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Yes indeed; normal and natural. Painting a mental illness as normal and natural inevitably leads to social breakdown.
“if more people seen a sex change operation they would know how perfectly natural it is.”
Well, considering that women are far more likely to be aggressors than men in a DV incident, seeing how they are doubling the odds, and throwing in a big social dysfunction wrench into the mix is a real recipe for disaster.
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