Posted on 08/29/2021 3:34:54 PM PDT by karpov
The convicted murderer who sexually assaulted a Bronx nurse and bludgeoned her to death some 40 years ago is up for parole in September — but the victim’s family is fighting his potential release, saying it “would be a sin.”
“It’s [been] 39 years and every day is a nightmare,” Phyllis Meliota, 87, said of her daughter Barbara Meliota’s murder at the hands of maintenance worker Anthony Doyle in 1982.
“You can never forgive somebody that does an evil thing like that.”
On a spring morning that May, 24-year-old Barbara had arrived for her 7 a.m. shift at Montefiore Hospital early so she could bring her dad a coffee as he awaited surgery for a slipped disk in the same infirmary.
Except Barbara never arrived to meet her dad or to start her shift because Doyle found her first in the hospital’s garage where he toiled as a maintenance worker.
“What he did to my daughter shouldn’t happen to anybody. It’s horrible, just a horrible thing,” Barbara’s mother Phyllis told The Post by phone.
Doyle, a then 22-year-old from the Bronx, had already been convicted on a past robbery charge and was either free on parole or probation when he decided to attack Barbara on the sixth-floor stairwell of the hospital’s garage, the New York Times reported at the time.
The convict bludgeoned her with the foot-long metal nozzle of a fire hose, dragged her to a dank, windowless storage area one floor below to sexually assault her on a soiled mattress and then callously shoved her battered body down an airshaft, investigators previously said.
Later that day, detectives found Barbara’s body partially submerged in dirty rainwater that had collected at the bottom of the airshaft.
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Absolutely. And in another era, he wouldn’t last long upon release if she had any male relatives.
Yep, and if that isn’t possible, then there should never be parole. His victim’s life is gone forever. How does he deserve a second chance?
And one argument I will not tolerate: the murderer is a good person now.
Fine, you’re a good person now? Good for you!!! Praise the Lord!!!
Now, be a good person in prison. They need good people, because they don’t have too many.
just another black-on-white rape and murder. I’m surprised that Cuomo didn’t pardon him, plus give him a medal.
Its disgusting that family must go though all this parole crap.
It is a sin. Much worse than a crime. Maybe he will meet with an accident after his release. And he dumped in an airshaft.
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