Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Texas Jury Says It's OK To Kill An Escort Who Takes Your Money And Doesn't "Deliver"

Ever since moving to this Little Red State, I have often been heard to exclaim, well, shriek, It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity in regards to South Carolina and its politics and bigotry and, well, stupidity. But I am proud to report this morning that we ain’t got nuthin’ on Texas. 

I posted yesterday about Skye Wyatt from Texas, whose high school coaches outed her to her mother, who sued the school for violating Skye’s privacy. And then a court declared that Skye isn’t entitled to privacy, at least in regards to her sexual orientation.

Yeah, sometimes it’s just stupidity.

Like this case: a jury in someplace called Bexar County, Texas—quick Google search shows it’s the county includes San Antonio—has just acquitted one Ezekiel Gilbert of murder. Gilbert—who admitted to the shooting—had been accused to gunning down 23-year-old Lenora Ivie Frago, an escort whom he found on Craigslist, back in 2009. But, Gilbert says he had a right to shoot Frago because he paid her $150 to have sex with him, and then she refused and wouldn’t return his money. he says he didn't mean to kill her, he just wanted his money back, you know, so he pulled out a gun and shot her.

Yes, that’s the case and verdict. In Texas, Ezekiel Gilbert was acquitted of murdering an escort because she refused to give his money back. See, in Texas, where it is the stupidity, there is a law which allows for the recovery of property by “law abiding citizens” if the crime takes place at night.

The prosecutors argued that the law was not intended for someone trying to force another person into an illegal act such as prostitution but the Texas jury felt Gilbert was justified in murdering a woman because she kept his ‘money for sex’ and didn’t give him the sex.
Ezekiel Gilbert, after the verdict:
“I sincerely regret the loss of the life of Ms. Frago. I’ve been in a mental prison the past four years of my life. I have nightmares. If I see guns on TV where people are getting killed, I change the channel.”
Too bad Ms. Frago won’t ever have the option of changing a channel on a TV again, and too bad her murderer goes unpunished because, apparently, in Texas, it’s perfectly legal to kill a prostitute if she takes your money and does not perform the sexual act.

Yeah, it’s just the stupidity, with or without the heat.

12 comments:

  1. Is there no end to the incredible stupidity of the Texas sense of justice?

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  2. @Ms Sparrow
    The current thought is 'No'.
    Sadly.

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  3. This is not justice it's unbeleivable

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  4. glad to see your blog show up on Blogger (but the p@rn is still there)
    the NS@ is after me...

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  5. And you just know it that the killer had a been a woman (who's John didn't pay her for that blow job), or a man who wasn't white, they would have been found guilty.

    There is a culture in the south that sees no sin in a white man being serviced by a woman prostitute. Ad he is another example of that.

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  6. Bob,

    Believe me, the stupidity isn't limited to the red states like Texas and South Carolina. We have our fair share of STUPIDS right here in Delaware. They're all over. Perhaps the difference is that the governor is more enlightened (thank God).

    Ron
    Retired in Delaware

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  7. Anonymous1:38 PM

    Bob, I was going to say the same thing Ron did. There's plenty of stoopid to go around. We have lots of it in Upstate NY.

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  8. plenty of it here in PA also. you cannot escape, since the stoopids number more than us intelligent free-thinking folk. sad. :(

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  9. Anonymous3:50 PM

    We have stupidity like this in SoCal. The further you get away from the coast, the more it feels like you're in Arizona.

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  10. The State of Texas is on course to push the State of Tennessee from the top of the Stupid List.

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  11. I swear, we ought to just set them adrift from the states. If I lived there I would be at least insane by now. I don't know how people live there- sane ones at least.

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