Sept. 21 Through the Glass: I cut out this Edmonton
Journal article “Punished for a lover’s crimes” by Debby Waldman on Nov. 20, 2011. It’s about the book called Through the
Glass by Shannon Moroney. Here are
some excerpts:
She wasn't the only one. Staples, who was 18 when he committed his crime - murdering his 38-year-old housemate because she refused his sexual advances - was widely considered a model ex-con by the time he met Moroney. He was 33 and had been out of prison for five years. He had to spend four nights a week at a halfway house, but he was encouraged to live independently the rest of the time and hold down a job, which he did.
A month after the wedding, when Moroney was out of town at a
conference, Staples kidnapped and raped two women at knifepoint. Then, after
the women appealed to him, he left them tied up in his basement, called the
police, and turned himself in.
The principal at her school refused to let her return,
telling her, "It's too upsetting for people to see you. You represent
something terrible."
"I hated what he had done and I would never condone his actions, but I knew I didn't hate the person he was," Moroney writes as she recalls her feelings before she visited her husband in jail for the first time after the rapes.
She knew he was too dangerous to live in public.
For the justice system to recognize that if it wants
criminals to be rehabilitated, perpetrators' families need support, not
censure, blame, and ostracism.
It's hard to read Moroney's book without thinking about
Elizabeth Williams, the unfortunate spouse of convicted rapist and murderer
Col. Russell Williams.
In truth, though, there are many readers who will benefit
immensely from Moroney's level-headed but passionate look at the journey on
which she was thrust after her husband's crime.
There are those who will undoubtedly accuse her of having
written it to make herself look good. But her argument that she, too, was a
victim, is a solid one. If trained professionals in the Ontario
criminal justice community couldn't figure out that Jason Staples was a ticking
time bomb, how could Moroney have been expected to come to that conclusion?
My opinion: That was a very intense article. If you like to read true-crime, you may like
this.
Loving a Murderer: I cut out this National Post
article called “Loving a MURDERER” by Joe O’Connor on Oct. 8, 2011.
Here are some excerpts:
“The hard thing, in my experience, is getting people to understand that you can love a human being and yet detest what they did — and that one does not negate the other,” Ms. Moroney says.
“We all love people that hurt us. This is just a very extreme case.”
It is a remarkable story, really, of love and betrayal, of a horribly broken man’s hidden brutality and his ex-wife’s boundless capacity to forgive.
She listened, intently, to everything he had to say. Soon
after, she began asking questions — at Mr. Staples’ urging, meeting with his
parole officer, his psychologist, his friends.
Their verdict was unanimous: Jason Staples was a reformed
man, a prison success story. He had done something terrible, once upon a time,
paid for it and was at no risk to re-offend.
Her parents loved him. Her friends loved him. He never hid
from the past.
“For those of us that knew Jason and were a part of his life
in 2005 which, by then, was almost 18 years since the first crime, it was like
lightning striking twice,” Ms. Moroney says. “This was cancer coming back and
it was Stage IV and it was terminal.”
She could never forgive his actions. But his early admission of guilt and his palpable sense of remorse and a willingness — almost an eagerness — to be punished for the crimes so he could never hurt anyone again would help Ms. Moroney forgive.
Sept. 22 Forensic Files: A few weeks ago, I was on
the computer and my dad was watching TV show.
This TV show covers real cases.
Zane and Maria Isa- they killed their daughter for having a
fast food job without approval and having a boyfriend.
FBI had put bugs in the house because they suspected they
were terrorists. They mostly spoke in
Arabic.
I went on the internet and looked it up and here’s the full
story. It starts off with the transcript
of the argument that led to the murder.
My opinion: I’m putting this TV show here, because it
is based on a true story like the above book.
Creepy dolly mystery: I found this Yahoo article on Jul. 25, 2014 called “ ‘Creepy’ doll
mystery solved.” Here are some excerpts:
If you want to give your neighbour's daughter a doll to play
with, there are better ways to do it than this.
Young girls, all about the age of 10, lived at each of the homes.
No notes were attached to the dolls.
"It's peculiar, strange and weird and all that stuff," Orange County Sheriff's Lieutenant Jeff Hallock told City News Service. "People are saying the dolls slightly resemble their daughters, which is creepy."
Officers tracked down the person who left the dolls on the front porches by Thursday night: a female adult who lives in the community and attends church with many of the families.
She had been clearing out an old doll collection and thought that some of the young girls in her neighbourhood might enjoy them, Hallock said.
"Investigators have concluded that her motivation was out of goodwill and that she intended it as a kind gesture," stated a news release from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
My opinion: When I was reading the article, I immediately thought: “This sounds like an episode of Criminal Minds.” In fact, there was one episode where a serial killer was kidnapping women and dressing them up like dolls because she thought they were dolls. There was another episode where a serial killer kidnaps a man and a woman so he could make them into puppets.
In this case, that woman really should have left a note with the doll.
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