Posted on 10/17/2025 6:26:41 AM PDT by bitt
My daughter’s death exposes how Illinois’s criminal justice and sanctuary policies failed her.
President Donald Trump is in an ongoing struggle with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, with Pritzker seeking to slander or stymie every effort Trump makes to restore law and order in the streets of Chicago and in Illinois more broadly. That struggle for law and order is personal for me. My daughter died after allegedly being left unresponsive in the home of an illegal alien from Mexico, and Illinois’ politicians put him right back on the streets.
On Feb. 19, 2025, my daughter Megan, a vibrant 37-year-old and mother of two, went missing in Waukegan, Illinois, a few weeks after her release from jail on an old warrant related to her battle with addiction. To our horror, she was located, deceased, on April 10, 2025.
For nearly two months, her body lay hidden in a bleach-filled trash can in the yard of Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, an illegal immigrant, just 100 feet from where I and volunteers had searched — from where we had hung missing persons posters in the weeks prior. We had even knocked on his door, just 10 days after I reported her missing … a mere tenth of a mile from where she had last been seen.
Mendoza-Gonzalez is not charged with causing Megan’s death; this is still currently under investigation. Instead, he faces charges for what he allegedly did after she died: concealing her death (not reporting her death), two counts of abusing her corpse (moving her body twice), and obstructing justice (breaking her phone) — all Class 4 and “non-detainable” felonies under Illinois law. He has now also been charged with concealing a homicidal death and could still be eligible for release.
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“Prosecutors told me, “We lack corresponding laws and charges for what he did,” and the lack of evidence, due to deterioration caused by Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez allegedly wrapping Megan’s body in a blanket and leaving her upside down in a bleach-filled trash can for 51 days, as well as breaking and disposing of her phone and other potential evidence, prohibited further case movement.
“These circumstances raise the suspicion of a homicidal death or possibly a drug-related death,” the coroner’s office said. “Asphyxial homicides may include no external or internal evidence of injury. Furthermore, the decomposition of the body at the time of discovery complicates interpretation of sometimes minute physical findings suggestive of asphyxia.” The coroner’s report confirmed what I already knew: Illinois failed Megan long before her death, actively undermining meaningful support to empower her recovery, and the activist laws let her perpetrator walk free.
The Pretrial Fairness Act, part of Illinois’s 2021 Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today legislation, promised reform by eliminating cash bail and prioritizing pretrial release. In Megan’s case, it delivered neither safety nor fairness. The law, touted by Gov. Pritzker as “historic reform to ensure pre‑trial detainment is determined by the danger an individual poses to the community instead of by their ability to pay their way out of jail,” allowed the man who allegedly concealed and abused my daughter’s body to be released in less than 24 hours. He was released unmonitored, to his home, which is also the crime scene.”.....
Parents who raise their children in blue states put their families at elevated risks for all kinds of no good. Sadly, many don’t see or realize it until tragedy comes home to roost.
You can probably add rape.
Unfortunately.
**Parents who raise their children in blue states put their families at elevated risks for all kinds of no good. Sadly, many don’t see or realize it until tragedy comes home to roost.**
Think Amy Biel. Parents forgave her killers.
Would you allow BJ Prickster run your state?
“Parents who raise their children in blue states put their families at elevated risks for all kinds of no good. Sadly, many don’t see or realize it until tragedy comes home to roost.”
My Florida street of about 20 houses had two people die from drugs.
Megan almost certainly died from an overdose.
If she was able to buy her daily fix dissolved in two quarts of liquid by prescription based on hospital opiate blood level testing, she probably wouldn’t be dead.
The relevant law “disenforcement” authorities should be arrested as accessories after the fact.
Would you allow JB Pritzker to RUIN your state?
Ditt for California where Newsom has ruined California -and has his sights set on doing to the entire nation what he has done to California.
Shouldn’t he be executed, then deported.
Anyone who chooses to abuse drugs is risking death, and knows it.
“Ditt for California where Newsom has ruined California -and has his sights set on doing to the entire nation what he has done to California.”
Don’t let Newsome Californicate America!
“My Florida street of about 20 houses had two people die from drugs.”
If you choose to use, you’ll probably lose.
“Illinois failed Megan long before her death,”
I think I see part of the problem here.
No personal accountability, wasn’t Megan’s fault
No parental accountability, wasn’t her parents’ fault.
It was the taxpayers of Illinois, who failed the girl.
Liberalism is a mental disorder, and needs to be stamped out soon.
Doing jobs Americans wont do...
Glad she reported him to ICE. Sorry her daughter chose as she did. prayer the mom and family get to know God more and not let their mind be consumed w/guy.
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