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Police Accuse Woman Of Trying To Kill Chronically-Ill Husband

June 22, 2010 at 12:47 pm by Morbid

CINCINNATI - The attorney for a woman accused of trying to murder her husband told the court that she had simply become overwhelmed. Mary Bryant, 66, had been taking care of Everett Bryant for many years after he suffered a stroke. Earlier this month Bryant attempted to kill herself after stabbing her husband in the head several times, hitting him with a lamp and then trying to smother him with a pillow. For reasons I do not know, she was not charged with attempted murder, but rather domestic violence and felonious assault. She has been released on her own recognizance, but will remain under house arrest. Everett is recovering from his injuries…which I assume is like putting air back in the tire of a totaled car or something. What really got me about this story wasn’t even the story itself. It was a comment left by someone about the story. “I would welcome her actions and consider it a blessing. I am almost in the same state and would welcome a way out of whats left of my life,” they posted. It almost made me believe in God long enough to pray to him and beg that he not let that shit happen to me. If I have a stroke, I want it to be like turning off a light.

Tags: Assault, Attempted Murder, Domestic Violence, Stroke

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MABTW

She wasn't charged with attempted murder because she's a woman and her victim was an adult male.
Abroad

A [i]helpless[/i] adult male……

Maybe they are trying to be easy on her because they think she was motivated at least partly by pity? If anybody ever tries to euthanise me (and for the record I would have to be very far gone before I thought that was preferable to life) I hope they chose a more fail-safe and painless method.
littlemoonseductress

A stroke can leave a person mindless to who they are, who the people in thier life are, and unable to communicate, feed one-self, even the basic ability to turn over. Younger stroke victims usually do not survive the brain swelling, But older stroke victims have atrophy of the brain which gives room for the swelling so they don't lose basic functions such as breathing, While you can make the choice to turn off the machines for younger stroke victims this is not always the case in older victims whose brains never shut down but are still devastated by the stroke itself. I would say that she not only suffered from depression, but was most likely overwhelmed by the constant necessity to attend to his needs.
MABTW

Is that a way to paint her as a victim or justify her actions?
littlemoonseductress

Well lets see the DA charged her with what again…. oh yeah domestic violence and felonious assault… not attempted murder…. why??? you ask? Because if it goes in front of a jury a good lawyer could use the same information I just used to walk her out of it. And you know that is true. but… What she did will fit domestic violence and felonious assault no matter how you twist it. And there is no justification…. she should have put him in a state run nursing home if she couldn't handle it.
MABTW

If the roles were reversed do you think the DA would be so lenient?
littlemoonseductress

I would sure hope so. I would think it would be even harder on a husband. We had a story not too long ago where a husband killed his wife and then killed himself because his wife was dying. There was another one too…. see now you are making me work… gaw… I will find them and point the way.
Southern Lady

I suffered a stroke 14 years ago when I was 39. It hit my left front lobe. I lost the ability to speak more than one word, read, basically feel any emotion except nonchalance and hatred, paralyzed on the right side. I was fortunate. I recovered. So many don't.
It did take away my fear of death, however.
littlemoonseductress

http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/05/12/man-comm…

Here is one still looking for the other one!
littlemoonseductress

I am so happy for you! Being in a near fatal accident did the same for me. Not afraid of dying, Just don't EVER want to be in another car wreck!!!
littlemoonseductress

http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/05/11/murder-s…

Here is the other…
http://www.facebook.com/james.leese James Sumner Leese

I for one think that her incompetence in doing the job and the pain inflicted on the victim is whats really criminal here.
Abroad

That is actually what makes me think impulse rather than euthanasia. It makes it more likely rather than less thatit is actually domestic violence…….
Abroad

So pleased for you that you recovered.

Forgive me for asking an insensitive question; but have you had any lingering after-effects that seem unimportant because you (largely) recovered?
http://www.facebook.com/james.leese James Sumner Leese

I think your right.
Southern Lady

Actually no side effects, but my personality changed through the years of recovery. I gained a confidence I had never known and found myself interested in different subjects, such as architecture and art. I had been a scientist and musician. It was like my brain adjusted, using different interests to feed my natural habit of being an info junkie. True crime, however, as always been my passion. When I was younger, I considered becoming a forensic scientist since I feel at home with a microscope, but fate thought otherwise.
popeyeray

“If I have a stroke, I want it to be like turning off a light.” Oh no Morbid! Do not speak of such rubbish! You will live forever and always be here for us.
MABTW

I remember the story, I just think the odds are that the DA would charge the man far more harshly and attempt to punish him far more harshly. After all, men historically get far harsher punishments for the same crime than women.
WorriedinScottsdale

dont know where to write this but there is a story out of scottsdale az that happened on fathers day 6/19/2010 were a four month baby girl died after. her mother megan milner was drinkning the night before, little is known about what happned but here is the link about it http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/Neighbor-fin…
Abroad

Thanks for indulging my curiosity, – and congratulations!
littlemoonseductress

I do think you have a valid point. But I see that as a slap in women's faces more than a saving grace. It says that society as a whole believes that men are better in control of thier emotions and actions and therefore should be punished more harshly. I actually believe women are able to pull off the oh poor me better than men… and am the one woman a woman does not want on her jury.
Abroad

Post it in the forums and it may eventually get its own front page post.

If you are close to any of these people, you have my sympathy……
MABTW

Encouraging and good on you. However, I feel that the harsher punishments for men is reminiscent of chivalry and the exalting of women (which is the basic definition of chivalry). So in a sense you're correct in that women pull off the “oh poor me” scenario better than men, but the reason people buy it so easily is because of the old ideas of chivalry.

Basically I think we agree on the main point, but the reasonings are different so I'll count that as progress.
littlemoonseductress

I like progress! We need a whole lot of it in todays world do we not!
BlueDreamer

I can understand being so overwhelmed as a caregiver, especially since she is an older lady. I'm sure it just wears her out even faster. I'm still caring for my mom who had a stroke in March of this year. Even with an entire team of doctors and nurses in a hospital, I was still exhausted caring for her. When she was released from the hospital I continued helping her as I did in the hospital, but I also took on what the nurses and doctors were doing, plus cooking for her. I'm half the age of the woman above and there were times I thought I would collapse! I am the only child and her only living relative, so it's all on me. I figured it was the least I could do for her after how I behaved from the age of 15 thru 17.

My issue with the lady above is the manner in which she carried out her plans. Stabbing her husband in the head?… Smashing him with a lamp and THEN trying to suffocate him? Pretty brutal when she could have just gone the pillow over the head route to begin with. It just seems the more gentle way of doing things.

My mom was aware enough while recovering from her stroke to say to me over and over to “Please just let me die”. I would not doubt for a minute that this lady had been asked the same thing by her husband. Most patients feel like they are a burden, both physically and financially on their family. Plus, it's hard to feel dignified when you can't wipe your own butt!

Sad story, but I bet we'll hear more and more like it as all of the Baby Boomers continue to get older.
littlemoonseductress

You have definately walked a hard path since March, and my thoughts will continue to be with you. I hope your mom is and will continue to improve. The way she went about trying to kill him made me think that she just snapped….which is what made me think domestic abuse… most domestic is the result of snapping. Pure blind rage, mixed with overwhelming emotional detachment. If you ever need to blow off steam just hollar! Im an only lonely too!
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Barrayaran

Citations?

The modern stats I've seen, from the US Sentencing Commission, do show a disparity between sentences for male and female prisoners — but also show a disparity between the average severity level of the offense for male vs. female (52 mos/severity level 18 for males vs. 19 mos/severity level 13 for females). Since the sentences aren't broken out by severity of offense, there's no way to compare apples to apples.

Historically, I'd expect to find class had a lot more to do with severity of sentencing for women than gender: Lizzie Borden could escape conviction because proper middle class ladies not only don't murder but as saintly angels of the homestead simply *can't* murder, but servant/slave/working class females weren't shielded at all by that ideology. If you have stats on historical sentencing, particularly in the US, I'd be interested in checking them out.

Of course neither of these address whether men and women get charged the same way, which I understand is the other half of your claim, but I don't think information on criminal charges is collected in a way that allows parsing out whether similar crimes get charged disparately. Note, however, that according to the Justice Department in 1995, women accounted for only 1 in 7 arrests for violent crime of all descriptions.