Mary Stachowicz
Mary Stachowicz (1951-2002) was a mother of four who was punched, stabbed, raped and ultimately murdered by a co-worker who disliked her criticism of his homosexuality. The murderer, Nicholas Gutierrez, then wrapped her body in bedsheets and plastic bags, and hid it by stuffing it into a crawlspace.
Gutierrez was eventually convicted of murder and the prosecutor sought the death penalty. "Knowing exactly what he did to my mother, he absolutely, 100 percent deserved the death penalty," said Stachowicz's daughter, Angie Ruffolo.[1] However, the judge refused to impose the death penalty and instead sentenced Gutierrez to life in jail.
On the ACLU online forum, some posters praised the murder,[Citation Needed] the gay blogger James Wagner stated that "The woman who did such great evil is dead, but unfortunately the evil and the church and the society which creates it is not".[2] The liberal media largely ignored it. Leading homosexual groups did not condemn it.[3]
References
- ↑ Judge spares life of rapist-murderer; 'He absolutely, 100 percent deserved the death penalty', Chicago Sun Times, p. 20 (July 3, 2007)
- ↑ Rod Dreher (4-Dec-2002). Hate is hate is hate. The Washington Times. Retrieved on 5 Oct 2022. “The savage murder of Mary Stachowicz, the middle-aged Chicago churchgoer allegedly killed by 19-year-old coworker Nicholas Gutierrez, has met with a deafening media silence. Gutierrez, who is homosexual, confessed that he set upon Stachowicz when she asked him, “Why do you [have sex with] boys instead of girls?” A state’s attorney told the Chicago Tribune: “The defendant punched and kicked and stabbed the victim until he was tired. He then placed a plastic garbage bag over her head and strangled her.” Gutierrez then jammed Stachowicz’s body into a crawlspace under his floor. A 19-year-old man did this to a 51-year-old woman not because of anything she did to him, but of what she supposedly said to him. He didn’t say, “Ma’am, my private life is none of your business,” or even, “Begone, bigot.” Instead, he tortured her to death. ... One cannot help wondering if our media don’t privately share the view of gay blogger James Wagner, who said of Stachowicz’s strangling: “The woman who did such great evil is dead, but unfortunately the evil and the church and the society which creates it is not, and it will continue to destroy Nicholas Gutierrez and many others. I shake, safely sitting here at home, fully understanding, and fully familiar with, the horrible impact her words must have had for a man already so terribly damaged by his society, and his own mother.””
- ↑ http://www.cultureandfamily.org/articledisplay.asp?id=2877&department=CFI&categoryid=cfreport
