Posted on 03/19/2021 1:21:35 AM PDT by grundle
BOSTON (WHDH) - The Massachusetts Bail Fund has paid $100,000 to free a woman who is facing criminal charges for allegedly dumping her newborn baby in a trash can in Boston last month.
A woman walking down Dorchester Avenue on the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 26, found the baby crying in a trash can outside Pat’s Pizza.
The baby, who was said to be covered in blood, was taken to a nearby hospital. The infant has since recovered.
Marie Merisier, the baby’s 33-year-old mother, was found at a home in Milton a short time later, according to Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins.
Merisier was arraigned on attempted murder charges on March 1 and was ordered held on $100,000 bail.
In a statement, the Massachusetts Bail Fund said that it posted the high bail because Merisier’s “urgent mental health and healthcare needs” were going unmet, and that she was “being deprived of basic hygienic necessities.”
“We united as a coalition to post bail for Marie Merisier who is deserving of what we all are deserving of – compassion, support and adequate resources. The overtly punitive $100k bail that was imposed on Marie meant her urgent mental health and healthcare needs would go unmet. Our worries were affirmed when she was being deprived of basic hygienic necessities,” the statement read. “We have a constitutional right to post bail and we do so to protect people from the catastrophe of pre-trial detention which increases chances of conviction, longer sentences and prevents access to the support needed to fight one’s case. We do believe in individual and community accountability which the community has a shared responsibility in addressing, not prisons. This is long-term work. We are committed to encircling Marie and other Black women with the resources they need to not only survive but heal and thrive.”
Prosecutors said Merisier went to 73-year-old Leon St. Gerard’s house to do cleaning and cooking work, and he noticed she was pregnant before she went into his bathroom for an hour. St. Gerard allegedly heard a baby crying before Merisier came out of the bathroom with a brown leather bag that he heard the cries coming from.
“I couldn’t believe it,” St. Gerard said of Merisier’s actions. “I heard something crying in the bag, I said ‘Do you want to call an ambulance?’ She said no.”
Investigators later obtained video of Merisier dropping a double-knotted bag in the trash can outside the pizzeria on Dorchester Avenue, according to prosecutors.
A not guilty plea was entered on Merisier’s behalf. She is due back in court at a later date.
Can someone please ‘splain to me how it is that had this woman gone to an abortion clinic to murder it instead no one would care at all?
https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2020/08/07/shawn-mcclinton-new-rape-charges-massachusetts-bail-fund
In some communities she can abandon it at a fire station and also be absolved of 18 years of responsibility. Men are not permitted to speaks out for or against ties to the child.
This country is mentally ill. There is just not other way to describe it.
AGREE. THIS COUNTRY IS TOTALLY MENTALLY DYSFUNCTIONAL!
If you’re old enough, you can see a direct correlation with drugs recently made acceptable to modern American culture.
Acceptance has been growing for decades - legalizations followed, starting only 7 years ago.
good grief. she’s 33 and cannot figure out what to do with an unplanned ( i assume) pregnancy?
probably will play the “low IQ” card.
“mental needs”
33 years old is not some scared child, not understanding what is wrong. 33 year old people, unless they are mentally deficient, belong in prison for this stuff.
In Boston this is absolutely the case. This woman needs to be locked up.
whatever the hell that means!
This 33 year old woman is also an illegal alien from Haiti.
“We won’t be silent as the state continues to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate Black women who are battling to survive poverty, trauma, and mental illness,” Massachusetts Bail Fund said. “We do not accept the tragic outcomes this system produces as the only possibility for us.”
Merisier is expected to return to court on March 29.
This woman will be back in Haiti by the end of next week. Never to be heard from again.
“Crazy” appears too often in US headlines, nowadays. It wasn’t always this way, but you wouldn’t know unless you’d lived through it.
Acceptance has been growing for decades - legalizations followed, starting only 7 years ago.
So whatever the alleged recent acceleration of craziness correlates with, it can't be acceptance.
“Crazy” appears too often in US headlines, nowadays. It wasn’t always this way,
Read up on confirmation bias: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-confirmation-bias-2795024
but you wouldn’t know unless you’d lived through it.
I'm 57 years old.
You missed Post-WWII America’s best years. The downhill skid began with marijuana, but you’d have to have lived in those days to actually know.
Supposing that’s true: The skid happened despite marijuana’s illegality, so the skid is no argument for retaining that failed policy.
Enforcement was squishy, so we’re in Banana Republic territory.
Jamaica will show us how a Marijuana Republic is governed.
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