Another Victim of Criminal Justice Reform

They couldn't hold him, and he killed her. NY man sprung on no bail in Facebook-posted beating executes wife in front of kids just hours later: cops

A mom of three was executed in front of her kids less than 24 hours after her estranged husband was sprung from jail on no bail over a caught-on-camera beatdown she’d posted to her Facebook page in a desperate plea for help.

The shocking case — in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s western New York hometown — has sparked fresh outrage to New York’s no-cash-bail laws and to the governor and fellow Democrats for refusing to repeal them.

Because keeping violent offenders in jail is unfair. They just keep releasing them. Now that he has killed someone they will lock him up, at least for a little while.

And yes, there was a restraining order. It did not restrain him.

The estranged hubby was hit with misdemeanor charges and served an order of protection, which cops said he promptly violated to carry out the brutal killing of his wife.

The previous beating he gave her was caught on surveillance video. It resulted in him only getting charged with misdemeanors, and he was released.

There is more, and you should click thru, but the point is that expecting The System to protect you from a violent stalker is a losing proposition.

I'm not sure what else this woman could have done. She was wearing a bullet-proof vest. This took place in New York, so it probably would have taken her months to get a legal firearm. But the system doesn't need to be quite as broken as it is. There is more on that if you click thru as well.

I will give the last word to the director of the Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families.

“We’re seeing very serious problems now with the way, not just courts but prosecutors’ offices, are handling domestic violence cases and this has been complicated by some unintended consequences of criminal justice reforms sadly,” Dorchen Leidholdt, director of the Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families, told The Post.