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    Police Officer Irma Fran Lozada



    NYC police union outraged after murderer of first female cop killed in line of duty paroled

    NYC officer Irma 'Fran' Lozada was fatally shot by Darryl Jeter in the 1980s

    By Danielle Wallace
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    The person convicted of killing the first female New York City police officer in the line of duty was released from prison earlier this month, drawing outrage from a local law enforcement union.

    Darryl Jeter was convicted of second-degree murder for shooting New York City police officer Irma "Fran" Lozada, 25, with her own gun on Sept. 21, 1984. At the time of her death, she was the first female police officer in New York City to be killed in the line of duty.

    "Police Officer Lozada’s sacrifice was a testament to the courage she shared with all New York City police officers, regardless of gender, race or creed," Patrick J. Lynch, president of the NYC Police Benevolent Association, said in a statement Sunday. "The release of her killer is a blow to every cop who puts her life on the line to stop criminals from preying on innocent New Yorkers. We continue to urge Governor Hochul and the State Legislature to fix our broken parole system before another hero’s sacrifice is dishonored."

    A member of the NYC Transit Police Department, then a separate agency from the NYPD, Lozada was assigned to Transit District 33 in Brooklyn. She was working in plainclothes when she and her partner witnessed Jeter rip a chain off the neck of a rider at the Wilson Avenue stop of the L subway line.

    At some point becoming separated from her partner during the chase, Lozada caught up with Jeter alone and a struggle ensued. She was shot twice in the head with her own service weapon. Her body wasn’t recovered until hours later amid the tall weeds and garbage in a vacant lot.

    Fox News Digital reached out to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office for comment Monday.

    Jeter was sentenced to 32.5 years to life — before the existence of legislation that made life without parole a top sentencing option for those convicted of killing law enforcement officers.

    Records from the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision show Jeter served just over 36 years of his sentence before he was granted parole release earlier this month, according to the NYC Police Benevolent Association.

    He's the 23rd cop killer released by the Parole Board in under two years, the union said.

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    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    At parole hearing, David Gilbert described radical journey

    By Karen Matthews
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    NEW YORK (AP) — Former Weather Underground radical David Gilbert described his path from nonviolent 1960s activist to would-be revolutionary during a 4 1/2-hour hearing before the New York state parole board panel that approved his parole in October, 40 years after he served as a getaway driver in the botched Brink's robbery that left three men dead and several others wounded.

    “The change for me came after Martin Luther King was assassinated,” Gilbert told a three-member panel of commissioners during his Oct. 19 parole hearing at Shawangunk Correctional Facility in the Hudson Valley.

    The 171-page transcript of the parole hearing was released to The Associated Press on Thursday in response to a freedom of information request. Names of individuals and some other details were redacted.

    Gilbert, who is now 77, told the parole commissioners that when riots erupted in cities across the U.S. following King's 1968 killing and the murders of other civil rights workers, “that's the point where I abandoned the nonviolent philosophy.”

    Gilbert and other former members of the radical Weather Underground joined Black Liberation Army militants in the Oct. 20, 1981, armored car robbery near the Hudson River community of Nyack. Brink’s guard Peter Paige and two Nyack police officers, Sgt. Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly Brown, were killed in the $1.6 million holdup and ensuing shootout.

    Though unarmed, Gilbert was charged with robbery and murder for his role in the crime and sentenced to 75 years to life in prison.

    Gilbert became eligible for parole when his sentence was commuted by former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo just before he left office in August. Cuomo, in announcing the commutation, said Gilbert’s convictions “were related to an incident in which he was the driver, not the murderer.”

    The board granted Gilbert parole on Oct. 26 and he was released from prison on Nov. 4. Commissioners cited Gilbert's “sincere remorse” and his groundbreaking work developing AIDS education and prevention programs in prison in approving his release.

    Gilbert's attorney, Steve Zeidman, said Thursday that Gilbert is grateful to the parole board and is adjusting to life outside prison. “The board is to be commended for focusing on the present instead of the past,” Zeidman said.
    Gilbert's release was championed by supporters including his son, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, but was opposed by law enforcement groups and members of the Brink's victims' families.

    "Former Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Parole Board should be ashamed for allowing this domestic terrorist to walk free on our streets,” Rockland County Executive Ed Day said when Gilbert was granted parole in October. “There’s no reason that David Gilbert should not have to face the full consequences of his heinous crimes, no matter how much time has passed.”

    Gilbert expressed sorrow for the victims repeatedly during his parole hearing.

    “I mean, nothing repairs the horror and damage of the crime, nothing,” Gilbert said. He said nothing makes up for what “the families went through, wives carrying on without husbands and children without fathers and, as you pointed out, a number of other people wounded, a whole community's sense of safety and security are shattered, so justice in that sense, there's no way to repair that or make up for that.”

    During the hearing, which one of the commissioners said lasted four and a half hours, Gilbert went over his history as a teenage supporter of the civil rights movement and a student activist at Columbia University who grew increasingly radicalized and joined the Weather Underground, a militant split-off from the activist group Students for a Democratic Society.

    At the time of the Brink's robbery, Gilbert had been underground for several years living under assumed names to escape the law as his fellow radicals planned bombings of government facilities. Gilbert said his role was mainly as an educator, leading classes and discussion groups while others were building bombs.

    Gilbert's partner at the time, Kathy Boudin, was also convicted in the Brink's robbery and was released from prison in 2003. Chesa Boudin was a toddler when his parents were arrested.

    “We actually dropped our son off — you know, the most adorable creature in the world — dropped him off at a babysitter and said we'll be back in a few hours,” Gilbert told the parole board.

    Chesa Boudin was elected San Francisco district attorney in 2019 as part of a national wave of progressive prosecutors determined to reform the criminal justice system. He faces a recall election in Junespurred by critics who say he has failed to prosecute repeat offenders and allowed them to commit more crimes.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...ney/ar-AAShO56
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Jeffrey Deel



    Killer paroled after nearly 38 years in the murder of a 10-year-old Lake County boy

    By Michelle Nicks
    WOIO News

    CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -A man sentenced to life in prison for savagely murdering a 10-year-old boy in Lake County in 1984, was granted parole on Wednesday after nearly 38 years.

    Jeffrey Deel of Madison Township, 53, was just 15-years-old when he was arrested for beating to death 10-year-old Danny O’Donnell. First crushing the young boy’s skull and then throwing his body into Lake Erie just down the street from his home.

    Danny’s family is devastated and terrified that a killer is back on the streets.

    Charles O’Donnell, Danny’s father tells 19 News that Deel has repeatedly threatened them, “He told me if he ever got out he would kill us all.”

    O’Donnell says he’s been robbed of a lifetime with his son who he describes as an angel, “It’s hell. I’ve got a lot of anger issues, that’s why I have a punching bag downstairs.”

    Kelly O’Donnell, Danny’s sister was just eight years old when her brother and protector was taken from her, “I said where’s the justice for Danny? Danny can’t come home so why should Jeff?”

    The family describes Danny as a golden-haired boy, who enjoyed riding his bike, was a champion swimmer, a boy scout and loved Christmas. They don’t believe his killer who reportedly smiled at trial, has remorse or has been rehabilitated, “He didn’t explain why he killed Danny, just that he got in a fight with him. That’s it. But you didn’t call for help, you didn’t try to get any help,” Kelly O’Donnel said.

    Convicted murdered Jeffrey Deel is currently being held at Grafton Correctional Institution, but will be paroled on or after June 21st. That’s when the victim’s family says will head to a half-way house in Shaker Heights and work at a restaurant in the same area.

    But what the victim’s father can’t understand is why life doesn’t really mean life and why killers seem to have more rights than an innocent child. Deel was denied parol eight times, so why was he granted parole this time?

    Danny’s family feels a letter from the killer received last week just before the parole hearing, but oddly enough dated a year ago could be one factor. In what Deel called a letter of apology he writes, “I beat, strangled and drug his innocent, lifeless body into the lake and abandoned him. Then lied and denied everything. I wish I could bring Danny back. I wish I could give you your son back.”

    The victim’s family also feeling disgusted that an Ohio law aims to protect juveniles who commit violent crimes from serving life sentence without parole. In this case Deel will be paroled at 53-years-old, and have a second chance at life, something 10-year-old

    Danny O’Donnell will never have. Kelly O’Donnell says, “So, you’re telling me that a juvenile can go and murder somebody and you’re going to let them out?”

    https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/04/...ke-county-boy/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Man on parole charged in triple slaying outside Portage Park bar

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    According to records, Parsons-Salas was charged with first-degree murder in a 2009 Albany Park home invasion but the case against him was separated and a lesser sentence received after his codefendant confessed. He was paroled in October 2022.

    CHICAGO - A Chicago man who was paroled less than 3 months ago has been charged by Chicago Police in the slayings of three people outside of a bar in Portage Park early Sunday morning, authorities said. A fourth person was critically injured in the shooting and is fighting for her life.[1]

    Samuel Parsons-Salas, 32, of the Portage Park neighborhood in Chicago, was arrested Monday by Chicago Police in the 5200 block of W. Montrose in Jefferson Park.

    Police say he's the person who shot and killed Ricky Vera, Mario Pozuelos, and Mercedes Tavares just before 2:30 a.m. outside of Vera Lounge in the Portage Park neighborhood on the city's northwest side.[1:1] The 50-year-old Vera and 26-year-old Pozuelos were both shot in the head and chest and pronounced dead on scene, while the 24-year-old Tavares was rushed to a hospital and later died from her injuries. A 25-year-old female, understood to be the daughter of Ricky Vera and whose birthday the group was out celebrating that night, remains in critical condition at Illinois Masonic Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the head.

    Parsons-Salas was formally charged Tuesday with three felony counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of felony kidnapping with a firearm.

    Twitter account @CPD1617Scanner was able to obtain video of the aftermath of the shooting:

    https://www.chicagojournal.com/man-o...tage-park-bar/

    In the video he walk ups to three of the vicitims and point blank shoots them in the head.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    He's been released

    October 18, 2022

    Man Who Confessed to Killing Pregnant Woman in 1986 to Be Released From Prison

    Gary Troutman was sentenced to 30 years behind bars for the murder of Angela Savage. Her family learned he'll be released after serving half the time

    The murder of Angela Savage in 1986 remained unsolved for more than 20 years.

    Her family thought they had received justice when her confessed killer, Gary Troutman, was sentenced to 30 years behind bars.

    This week, however, they learned he’ll be released after serving half the time.

    “I’m very disappointed and frustrated," said Bernard Adams, Angela's father.

    Angela’s father received a letter in the mail from the Florida Department of Corrections informing him Gary Troutman will be released from prison in the next 90 days.

    If released in January 2023 as listed on the Corrections website, Troutman will have served about 15 years of his 30-year sentence. He was arrested in 2007 and then formally sentenced in 2015.

    "He spent eight years in the county playing the justice system like he was crazy, mentally insane, and then when we finally got the trial after eight years and he was sentenced he did another seven or seven and a half years," said Wayne Adams, Angela's brother.

    Troutman pleaded guilty to killing Angela in 1986. Deputies say he strangled the pregnant woman and dumped her body on the side of the road.

    Initially, Troutman faced charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping, and rape, but the kidnapping and rape charges were dropped. The first-degree murder charge was changed to second-degree murder.

    "The kidnapping and rape charges were dropped. Maybe the state might want to look at bringing those charges on him again now. I think that’s the only possibility we have at this point of trying to get any sense of justice," said Adams.

    Just weeks before murdering Angela, Troutman killed 17-year-old Cassandra Scott. In that case, Troutman served nine years of his 25-year sentence. Both Angela and Cassandra were pregnant when they were killed.

    Scott's 1986 murder remained unsolved until 1994 when Troutman was accused of attacking his wife.

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Edward Seibold, man convicted of brutal 1967 Auburn murders, denied parole again

    By John West
    Opelika-Auburn News

    MONTGOMERY — Edward Seibold, the man found guilty of slaying three innocent girls in 1967, will remain behind bars for at least another five years until he comes up for parole again in 2028.

    That was the decision that came down Wednesday morning at Seibold’s parole hearing. The decision was unanimous by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles.

    This was the his fifth parole hearing in the past 21 years. Seibold has been locked up since 1968 when he was convicted of murdering Elizabeth “Libba” Sinclair, age 18, Mary Lynn Sinclair, age 9, and Mary “May May” Durant, age 8 on Sept 6, 1967, in Auburn.

    His next parole hearing is scheduled for January 2028.

    On Wednesday morning, one side of the court room in Montgomery was filled with supporters for the Sinclairs and the Durants. Lee County District Attorney Jessica Ventiere and Auburn Police Captain Jude Hackett both spoke at the hearing in support of the victims. Ventiere did not mince her words regarding Seibold and his actions.

    “This man even 40 years after what he did, is gleeful in talking about what he did,” Ventiere said. “He takes pride and enjoyment even 40 years later talking about what he did, talking about swinging a hatchet down, talking about killing two small children with a single shotgun blast. It is disgusting.”

    Hackett at one point called Seibold “twisted.”

    The board’s decision not to grant Seibold parole was good news for the surviving family members. Cathey and Faye Sinclair, and their mother Juanita Sinclair have lived in hiding since Seibold’s conviction.

    “The verdict gives us a little sense of security, but for five years,” Cathey Sinclair said after the hearing. “We certainly appreciate the support that the local officials have given us. That means a lot and we thank them for coming.”

    Over the past 21 years, the Sinclairs have fought to keep Seibold behind bars. Every five years when his parole comes up, Cathey Sinclair has rallied support to ask the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles to deny his parole.

    When Siebold was originally convicted in 1968, he was sentenced to death with no chance of parole. However, in 1972 the United States Supreme Court overturned all existing death penalty sentences in the country, including Seibold’s. His conviction was commuted to the three lifetimes plus 20 that he is currently serving. He was also granted possibility of parole.

    According to Cathey Sinclair — Seibold’s original target on the night of the murders — that should have never happened.

    “We were told that he would be given life sentences without the chance of parole,” Sinclair told the parole board Wednesday. “And then we started getting notices that there would be parole hearings. We were told that he said he was going to kill the whole family starting with the little ones. We were told that he’s never expressed any remorse. And we are afraid. It is only through you that we can get protection and get justice. And we do hope that you will not consider parole for him.”

    Since Seibold’s first parole hearing in 2001, the Sinclairs have continued to stand against him being released from prison.

    “I want you to do your due diligence and understand that this is a person that should never be paroled,” said Faye Sinclair. “And I understand that in five years I’ll be back. We will be back every five years, however long that takes.”

    https://oanow.com/news/local/crime-a...5d1911234.html
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    Man convicted of violent rape, murder released after more than 50 years in prison

    By Jordan Gartner
    WJHG News

    UTICA, N.Y. (Gray News) - A man convicted of raping and murdering a woman in 1971 was recently granted parole.

    The Utica Police Department in New York notified residents that Carl Macedonio, 75, has been released from jail and is calling the area home.

    Macedonio was paroled after being in prison for more than 50 years.

    Authorities said he was convicted of murder in the killing of 18-year-old Christina Ferrara on Long Island. He was also convicted of committing other violent rapes.

    According to Utica police, Macedonio is a registered level 3 sex offender and must disclose where he is living, with the department sharing his address on Wednesday.

    In 2020, the Ferrara family started a petition on change.org opposing Macedonio being granted parole.

    “For the protection of our society, justice demands that this repeated rapist and murderer serve the maximum prison term given to him at the time he was sentenced for this malicious crime,” the family shared.

    Macedonio was reportedly sentenced to a minimum term of 33 years to a maximum term of life in prison with previous attempts at parole denied.

    https://www.wsfa.com/2023/04/27/news...er-sentencing/
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Ex-con on lifetime parole for rape, murder of 10-year-old NYC girl charged in new sexual assault

    By Larry Celona and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
    New York Post

    An ex-con on lifetime parole for the rape and murder of a 10-year-old Queens girl was allowed to remain on the streets despite getting arrested again last year — and is now charged with another sexual assault, The Post has learned.

    Charles Rowe, 56, was able to cash in on the state’s controversial “Less is More” act, which made it easier to keep him out of jail even after he was hit with a felony stolen car rap in December, according to law enforcement sources.

    The convicted killer continued to remain free despite twice blowing off court appearances in that case — during which time he allegedly went on a brutal crime spree in Queens, assaulting one woman and raping another before he was finally locked up earlier this month, records show.

    In both cases, he allegedly threatened to kill his victims, according to the court records.

    “Charles Rowe is the poster child for parole violation,” one law enforcement source told The Post. “He did time for one of the most heinous crimes I have seen in 40 years and he robs a car less than a year after he’s released.

    “Thanks to the governor’s ‘Less is More’ it is almost impossible to violate someone,” the source said. “Lowering the standards is responsible for one woman fighting off this monster and another woman being raped in two horrific crimes where both women were threatened to be killed.”

    The statute, signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2021 and enacted last year, allows parolees to avoid jail over a “technical violation” of their release conditions and, according to critics, also makes it tougher to put them back behind bars if they are accused of a new crime.

    “Prior to less is more he would have been held in jail where he wouldn’t be able to victimize innocent people,” the law enforcement source said.

    Rowe had earned his lifetime parole status after he was convicted of raping and killing little Vanessa Broughton inside her bedroom on Christmas Eve in 1987.

    Rowe was a guest of the girl’s family at their Jamaica home when he was left alone with the youngster, then raped and repeatedly stabbed her to death — leaving her naked and blood-soaked body on her bed, where she was found by relatives at 1 a.m., according to news reports from the time.

    He was convicted of murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

    Rowe spent nearly 35 years behind bars before he was released from the upstate Sullivan County Correctional Facility on Jan. 19, 2022, and was to remain under close state parole supervision.

    But less than a year later, Rowe was busted on felony grand larceny and other charges for allegedly stealing a van from a U-Haul storage facility in Jamaica on Dec. 9.

    The Queens District Attorney’s Office said Monday that prosecutors had asked for $25,000 bail at Rowe’s arraignment on Dec. 10.

    “He is on lifetime parole,” Assistant District Attorney Thomas Salmon argued in court, according to a transcript of the hearing. “He is also a discretionary persistent felony offender [with] four felony convictions, two prior failures to appear, [and] one parole revocation… So, for those reasons, judge, the people’s position is that the least restrictive means to ensure the defendant’s return to court is $25,000 bail.”

    But Rowe’s lawyer claimed that the ex-con had kept up with the requirements of his parole and asked Queens Criminal Court Judge Stephanie Zaro to release him without bail, saying his client shouldn’t be penalized because he “does have a past of, you know, 30 years ago.”

    The attorney said Rowe was in the stolen U-Haul van simply getting warm with a gal pal.

    “Judge, I believe that it would be a total miscarriage of justice to place my client in jail where he can’t post any bail on a D non-violent [felony] offense where my client is alleged to be in a van,” Legal Aid attorney Paul Montgomery told Zaro, according to the transcript.

    The judge noted Rowe’s criminal record and that he had repeatedly been referred for psychiatric care while in prison — but agreed to free him on supervision.

    “If the charges were more violent in any way, obviously I wouldn’t be doing this. But I will do supervised release at [parole’s] discretion,” Zaro said.

    “Sir,” Zaro told Rowe. “You are getting a break.”

    Following his arraignment, the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said Monday that a warrant was issued for Rowe, who was brought in for a recognizance hearing on Dec. 23.

    The administrative law judge released Rowe without bail, pending a preliminary hearing in his parole revocation case on Jan. 6 in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

    But Rowe then failed to show up to his final hearing on Jan. 12 — when a judge would have decided if he violated his parole — and remained free despite skipping out on the rescheduled date of Jan. 31, a DOCCS spokesman said.

    The hearing was rescheduled again, for March 17, when Rowe’s attorney asked that it be pushed off once more to Tuesday, the rep said.

    Prior to “Less is More,” a parolee rearrested on a criminal charge could have been held between their preliminary and final revocation hearings, for up to 90 days, as long as probable cause a violation occurred was found.

    But the soft-on-crime reform took away the “presumption of detention pending revocation,” according to a review of the law by the Manhattan Institute, adding another step where a judge decides whether the parolee will be released pending the outcome of their case.

    Court records show that while Rowe was awaiting word on his parole, he also skipped out on criminal court appearances on the pending car-theft case on March 15 and April 12, with warrants issued for his arrest.

    The warrants were dismissed when Rowe was back in court on March 22 and April 18, respectively, and he continued to remain free without bail.

    Meanwhile, prosecutors allege Rowe was on a vicious crime spree at the same U-Haul facility, starting with the alleged rape of a 69-year-old woman on March 13.

    The victim was leaving the storage facility when Rowe allegedly grabbed her from behind and warned her, “If you don’t do what I want I am going to kill you” before he raped her and fled, according to the criminal complaint against him.

    On April 25, he was back at the facility when a 61-year-old woman caught him rifling through her pocketbook inside her storage compartment and confronted him, according to the complaint in that case.

    Rowe allegedly turned to the woman and warned her, “Let’s not turn this into a murder.”

    After the woman put up a fight, he allegedly told her, “You’re going to be my girlfriend tonight” — and then slashed her in the neck and chest and punched her in the face before running off, the complaint states.

    Court documents show that Rowe was allegedly back at the scene the next day when he was caught on surveillance video burglarizing the business — and seen wheeling a shopping cart from the facility.

    Rowe was arrested and charged with the three new crimes on May 13.

    He was arraigned on May 14 and hit with first-degree rape, first-degree sexual abuse, predatory sexual assault, first- and second-degree robbery, weapons possession, burglary, petty larceny and other charges.

    Queens prosecutors said they asked that he be held without bail, but the judge in the case instead set bail at $250,000 in cash or a $750,000 bond, the DA’s office said Monday.

    Rowe remains locked up on Rikers Island pending a return court appearance on June 28.

    The Legal Aid Society, which represents Rowe, did not respond to requests for comment from The Post on Monday. Court officials also did not respond.

    https://nypost.com/2023/05/22/charle...d-in-new-rape/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Killer who lured 5-year-old girl into abandoned basement, raped her, and beat her to death with a wire-covered dowel when he was a teenager is denied chance at parole

    By Colin Kalmbacher
    Law & Crime

    A Michigan man who beat, raped, and murdered a 5-year-old girl as a teenager will remain in prison for the rest of his life after unsuccessfully arguing that he had been rehabilitated after spending nearly 30 years in prison, a judge ruled earlier this week.

    Jason Benjamin Symonds, 45, was 16 when he viciously attacked and killed 5-year-old Nicole VanNoty in 1994. The victim was a playmate of his younger stepsister, who Symonds lured into the basement of an abandoned building owned by his father.

    “Once in the basement, defendant sexually molested the victim, and struck her numerous times with the blunt edge of a hatchet, with a wooden dowel wrapped with wire, and with a metal rod, killing her,” a 1997 state court of appeals decision explains.

    “Defendant then placed her naked body in a black garbage bag and buried her behind the abandoned house. The following day, defendant allegedly incriminated himself to a friend, and after agreeing to be interviewed by the police, defendant confessed that he had killed the victim.”

    Symonds was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1995.

    Since then, in 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for children are not constitutional, can only be applied to children who are convicted of homicide, and even in such cases, “a lifetime in prison is a disproportionate sentence for all but the rarest of children, those whose crimes reflect irreparable corruption.”

    Every juvenile lifer sentenced before that high court ruling will be given the opportunity to bid for resentencing due to developmental differences in the brains of still-growing adolescents.

    A psychologist testified on Symonds’ behalf during his multiple-day resentencing hearing this week, WWMT reported, saying the defendant had truly been rehabilitated and deserved a second chance.

    Dr. Matthew Mendel testified that he spent 12 hours with Symonds over two days. In prison, the convicted rapist and killer documented his history of sexual abuse, racism, and emotional neglect, the psychologist testified. Symonds worked through that trauma over 29 years, Mendel said, and “will never forgive himself” for what he did to the little girl.

    Symonds himself expressed contrition and accepted culpability.

    “I raped and killed an innocent 5-year-old girl,” attorneys for the condemned man said at a recent hearing, reading from a statement, Kalamazoo-based CBS/CW affiliate WWMT reported. “I know nothing I say will make up for the loss, but I just want to say I’m so sorry.”

    The defendant’s appeal team also testified on his behalf.

    “What Jason has accomplished especially given where he comes from is extraordinary,” Symonds’ attorney Jessica Newton said, the TV station reported.“ If he is not rehabilitated, no one is.”

    But advocates for the state and the victim’s family also testified to offer a different – unredeemable – perspective.

    “Justice won’t take away the pain I’ve suffered every day,” Robin Buonodono, VanNoty’s mother, said in an impact statement, WWMT reported. “She didn’t get a second chance, and he shouldn’t either.”

    Calhoun County Prosecutor David Gilbert suggested there was never any chance for a child killer to rehabilitate.

    “There are no 5-year-olds in prison,” the state attorney testified, according to WWMT. “How do you test that he’s rehabilitated from raping and killing 5-year-olds?”

    Symonds faced the possibility of being resentenced to a term of years with the possibility of parole.

    On Friday afternoon, the judge overseeing the case said Symonds was “entitled to a sentence of life without parole."

    As the decision came down, Buonodono shook both of her fists in the air triumphantly and let out a cry of relief.

    https://lawandcrime.com/crime/killer...nce-at-parole/
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    Jeffrey Maria was a teenager in 1979 when he and three others ambushed and murdered pharmacist Philip Ranzo and his wife, Kathryn

    By Chris Harris
    The Messenger

    After forty years behind the bars of a California prison, a convicted double-murderer has been set free — less than two weeks after he was granted parole.

    Jeffrey Allen Maria, 61, was released from prison on Monday. It is said that he will now be living in the Sacramento area.

    Maria was a teenager in 1979 when he and three others ambushed pharmacist Philip Ranzo, 30, and his wife, Kathryn, who was 29 and owned a beauty shop. The four tortured, raped, and murdered the couple.

    Maria had been serving two life sentences before he was found suitable for parole this spring. The final decision to release him was made last month.

    Special prosecutor Beth De Jong called Maria's release a failure of the state's criminal justice reform, CBS News Sacramento reported.

    "It's torturing them, it's using pickaxes on their eyes, hogtying them, raping them. It's not a simple youthful offender crime. They are sophisticated," De Jong said.

    Marty Spears, Ronald Anderson and Darren Lee were also convicted of first-degree murder for killing the couple at their Modesto home.

    The four were re-sentenced during the 1980s to two life sentences with the possibility of parole.

    Maria had been granted parole four times prior to this, but former California Governor Jerry Brown reversed the decision.

    Gov. Gavin Newsom did not deny Maria's parole, leaving the final decision in the hands of California's parole board.

    CBS13 in Sacramento received a statement from the family of Phillip and Kathy Ranzo, saying "our pain will never end" and that Newsom "has opened the gates of prisons, and communities are no longer safe."

    The station reports that Maria's wife of 14 years, Michaele Beebe-Maria, said he has expressed remorse for his actions four decades ago.

    Maria will be on parole for the next three years. He has been ordered to have no contact with the families of his victims.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...fe6cfafd&ei=10
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