Muzzammil Hassan beheads his wife and walks into police station
Last edited by philly_phan; February 13th, 2009 at 11:00 PM. Reason: technicalities
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Link to The Buffalo News story...
Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband -- an influential member of the local Muslim community -- reported her death to police Thursday.
Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.
"He came to the police station at 6:20 p.m. [Thursday] and told us that she was dead," Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said late this morning.
Muzzammil Hassan told police that his wife was at his business, Bridges TV, on Thorn Avenue in the village. Officers went to that location and discovered her body.
Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light.
The killing apparently occurred some time late Thursday afternoon. Detectives still are looking for the murder weapon.
"Obviously, this is the worst form of domestic violence possible," Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said today.
Authorities say Aasiya Hassan recently had filed for divorce from her husband.
"She had an order of protection that had him out of the home as of Friday the 6th [of February]," Benz said.
Muzzammil Hassan was arraigned before Village Justice Deborah Chimes and sent to the Erie County Holding Center.
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I don't thing this is going to do much for that "positive light" thing. I'd like to hear his excuse for this. It's going to be a doozy!
Odd that today I also posted an article about a Native American trying to put them in a positive light. He's going on trial for raping 3 young girls.
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I apologize. I tried to change the title of the thread to include the perp's name and to follow DD posting guidelines...it won't allow me to do it. It still appears on the thread list as the original, long, incorrectly formatted title. I am still learning and trying to find my way through this...I am failing miserably so far and I thank those of you that have offered advice. As you were...
Boy I would sure say the Buffalo area has sure been a hot bed of activity today.....
I'm not guessing this little incident is gonna do much to sway the hearts and mind of us Americans though.....
Changed it for ya...Originally Posted by philly_phan
I apologize. I tried to change the title of the thread to include the perp's name and to follow DD posting guidelines...it won't allow me to do it. It still appears on the thread list as the original, long, incorrectly formatted title. I am still learning and trying to find my way through this...I am failing miserably so far and I thank those of you that have offered advice. As you were...
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I thought the same thing!
Yah, it doesn't get more positive than beheading your spouse. Honor killing?Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light.
Front-paged. Thanks, Phily Phan.
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No...thank YOU! It got a lot of feedback...I love how we use this for what it was intended for
Jeepers creapers!
Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver.
Just so everyone knows I don't need to be HONORED!The beheading of 37-year-old Assiya Hassan has all the markings of an honor killing, psychologists and Islamic experts tell FOXNews.com, as the upstate New York woman's husband awaits a preliminary hearing on murder charges.
Muzzammil Hassan, 44, remains jailed after being charged with the second-degree murder of his wife, whose body was found Thursday at the office of Bridges TV, their television station in Orchard Park, near Buffalo.
Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said Hassan has not confessed to the crime, despite media reports to the contrary.
"He came in and said his wife was dead," said Benz, who declined to elaborate on the particulars of his conversation with the suspect.
But Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III left no doubt that he believes Muzzammil Hassan killed his wife. Hassan will appear for a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Orchard Park. If convicted of second-degree murder, he faces up to life in prison.
"He's a pretty vicious and remorseless bastard," Sedita told FOXNews.com Tuesday. "Whether he was motivated by some kind of interpretation of his religious or cultural views, we don't know. We'll look into everything in the case."
Asked if the murder is being probed as an honor killing, Benz replied, "We've been told that there's no place for that kind of action in their faith, but I wouldn't say that there's anything that's being completely ruled out at this point."
But psychologists and some American Muslims said the slaying has all the markings of an honor killing.
"The fierce and gruesome nature of this murder signals it's an honor killing," said Dr. Phyllis Chesler, an author and professor of psychology at the Richmond College of the City University of New York. "What she did was worthy of capital punishment in his eyes."
Following multiple episodes of domestic violence, Aasiya Hassan filed for divorce on Feb. 6 and obtained an order of protection that barred her husband from their home, according to attorney Elizabeth DiPirro, whose law firm, Hogan Willig, represented Aasiya Hassan in the divorce proceeding.
Chesler, who wrote "Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence?" for Middle East Quarterly, said some Muslim men consider divorce a dishonor on their family.
"This is not permitted in their culture," said Chesler, whose study analyzed more than 50 reports of honor killings in North America. "This is, from a cultural point of view, an honor killing."
Chesler said honor killings typically are Muslim-on-Muslim crimes and largely involve teenage daughters, young women and, to a lesser extent, wives.
But Chesler said the "extremely gruesome nature" of the crime closely matches the characteristics of an honor killing.
"Leaving the body parts displayed the way he did, like a terrorist would do, that's very peculiar, it's very public," Chesler said. "He wanted to show that even though his business venture may have been failing, that he was in control of his wife."
Chesler called on U.S. and Canadian immigration authorities to inform potential Muslim immigrants and new Muslim citizens that it's illegal to abuse women in the two countries.
"As long as Islamist advocacy groups continue to obfuscate the problem, and government and police officials accept their inaccurate versions of reality, women will continue to be killed for honor in the West, such murder may even accelerate," Chesler wrote. "Unchecked by Western law, their blood will be on society's hands."
M. Zuhdi Jasser, founder and chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, agreed with Chesler.
"It certainly has all the markings of [an honor killing]," Jasser told FOXNews.com. "She expressed through the legal system that she was being abused, and at the moment she asked for divorce, she's not only murdered — she's decapitated."
Muzzammil and Assiya Hassan founded Bridges TV in November 2004 to counter anti-Islam stereotypes, touting the network as the "first-ever full-time home for American Muslims," according to a 2004 press release.
Jasser said he was concerned that Assiya Hassan suffered such a barbaric death after she and her husband were seen as a couple focused on bettering the "Islamic image" in the United States.
"The most dangerous aspect of this case is to simply say it's domestic violence," Jasser told FOXNews.com.
In a 1,300-word statement, Islamic Society of North America Vice President Imam Mohammed Hagmagid Ali said the organization was "shocked and saddened" by the killing.
"This is a wake up call to all of us, that violence against women is real and can not be ignored," the statement read. "It must be addressed collectively by every member of our community."
Ali called on imams and community leaders to take a "strong stand" against domestic violence, and he denounced the link of shame and divorce among Muslims.
"Women who seek divorce from their spouses because of physical abuse should get full support from the community and should not be viewed as someone who has brought shame to herself or her family," the statement continued. "The shame is on the person who committed the act of violence or abuse. Our community needs to take a strong stand against abusive spouses."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494785,00.html
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much more at link....Aasiya Hassan endured years of violence and controlling behavior from her husband while keeping up the facade of a stable marriage
The lives of Muzzammil and Aasiya Hassan were quite different from their public image in the local Muslim and broadcast communities.
In the public eye, they were a dynamic couple, building their — actually her — dream of a Muslim-lifestyle TV channel in the United States.
But police reports compiled for much of their marriage tell another story:
Their home life was a nightmare. Aasiya was repeatedly subjected to controlling and sometimes violent acts by her ambitious but troubled husband.
To protect herself, she went to the police in two states. Yet for years she stopped short of pressing charges — thus preserving Muzzammil’s reputation and the venture they built together.
On Feb. 6, she filed for divorce and obtained an order of protection, barring him from their home in Orchard Park. A week later, she lay dead in their television offices — stabbed and decapitated. Muzzammil was charged with her murder.
“I think of Aasiya as a martyr,” said Faizan Haq, a local professor who helped launch Bridges TV, the station in Orchard Park that the Hassans started in 2004. “She has given her life to protect the image of American Muslims. And as an American Muslim community, we owe it to her not to let this happen again.”
The Hassans were well-known to local police, both in Orchard Park and Texas, where Muzzammil has family. Police were called to their Orchard Park home more than a dozen times for domestic issues dating back 2z years. And in 2006, Aasiya told police that the abuse had been going on “for about the last six years.”
The abuse, according to police reports, ranged from restrictive control to outbursts of violence, including a black eye and fat lip.
At various times, Aasiya accused her husband of physically preventing her from calling the police, abandoning her vehicle in Clarence so she couldn’t flee and pouring water on her to keep her from sleeping.
A nationwide debate has begun among Muslim leaders and women’s advocates about what role religion and culture may have played in this awful killing.
That debate continues.
While it’s clear that Aasiya sought some protection from police and confided in some close friends about the abuse, it seems that publicly she kept up the illusion of a stable marriage.
The problem for Aasiya may have been that, by outing her abuser, she also would have destroyed the reputation of her husband and business partner and threatened her dream of a vibrant Bridges TV cable network dedicated to American Muslims.
Muzzammil saw his own ambitions crumbling. The station was losing money. Aasiya had recently filed for divorce and obtained an order of protection that forced him out of their Big Tree Road home, for at least the second time.
“I think he saw it as losing everything, . . . going back to square one, and he snapped,” said one of his longtime friends and schoolmates from Rochester.
Hassan went to Orchard Park Police the evening of Feb. 12 to report his wife’s death, and he was soon charged. His defense attorney said he has not confessed.
But police believe they have enough evidence. They say that, with his money, family and entrepreneurial legacy at risk, Muzzammil destroyed both their lives—and betrayed legions of local and national supporters who believed in a station that could heal cultural divisions in post-9/11 America.
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http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?se...rticle-6707989BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - March 13, 2009 -- The founder of a Muslim-American television channel will be arraigned on murder charges in the beheading of his wife.
Muzzammil Hassan is charged with second-degree murder for the Feb. 12 death of his wife, Aasiya, at the offices of Bridges TV TV in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park.
His attorney, James Harrington, said the 44-year-old businessman will plead not guilty at the arraignment Friday.
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http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/932322.htmlThe cable TV executive accused of beheading his wife in Orchard Park last year now claims he was the one humiliated and abused.
Through his new lawyer, Muzzammil S. "Mo" Hassan claimed Friday that he was a "battered spouse" who was left emotionally out of control by the constant abuse his wife inflicted on him.
Hassan's lawyer, Frank M. Bogulski, called the legal defense the first of its kind in the country.
"The spouse was the dominant figure in this relationship," Bogulski told a reporter afterward. "He was the victim. She was verbally abusive. She had humiliated him."
The allegations prompted an immediate rebuke from the prosecution.
"He chopped her head off," District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said of Hassan. "He chopped her head off. That's all I have to say about Mr. Hassan's apparent defense that he was a battered spouse."
Hassan, 45, is charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 12 beheading of his wife, Aasiya Zubair Hassan, 37. The Pakistani-born couple were best known for Bridges TV, the station they formed in 2004 to counter negative Muslim stereotypes.
Nancy Sanders, a former news director at Bridges TV, expressed skepticism over the new abuse claim. She noted that Hassan stood over 6 feet tall and "filled a doorway," while his estranged wife was slender and several inches shorter.
"I never ever heard her disparage him in the workplace at all," Sanders told the Associated Press. "It just did not seem to be in her nature. She was very gentle."
During Friday's court hearing, Hassan fired the attorney who represented him for nearly a year and replaced him with a lawyer who promised "a revolutionary defense."
Bogulski told reporters he is "confident" he can get an acquittal for Hassan on an unprecedented defense combining psychiatric elements and legal justification.
Homicide prosecutor Colleen Curtin Gable, though, noted that Hassan was beheaded about a week after she began formal divorce proceedings.
Gable won a motion to bar a psychiatric defense, but the judge told Bogulski he can seek to reinstate a psychiatric defense later.
The judge also expressed concern about delays in starting the trial, now scheduled for March.
Hassan, in one of his few public statements Friday, told the judge the delays stemmed from now-resolved financial matters concerning his four children by three wives. Those cases were resolved last month in Erie County Surrogate's Court, he said.
"There's been a lot of unnecessary delay," Hassan told the judge, adding that he and his new lawyer hope to "expedite the process."
Though his old attorney, James P. Harrington, worked out the financial disputes to Hassan's satisfaction, neither he, Hassan nor Bogulski would comment on the change in lawyers.
Bogulski said he has already begun interviewing psychiatric experts as part of his strategy for using some form of a psychiatric defense. He stressed he also will use a justification defense based on the claim that Hassan was "a battered" spouse verbally abused and humiliated often by his wife.
Hassan has been jailed since he turned himself in to Orchard Park police about an hour after his wife was beheaded in the office of their television station.
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You can say lots of bad things about pedophiles, but at least they drive slowly past schools.->malq
He was so "afraid" of her that he cut her head right off! Right.
damn.... that is a terrible thing to do. Chop your wifes head off and all.... couldn't he have just left her?
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/932322.htmlThe cable TV executive accused of beheading his wife in Orchard Park last year now claims he was the one humiliated and abused.
Through his new lawyer, Muzzammil S. "Mo" Hassan claimed Friday that he was a "battered spouse" who was left emotionally out of control by the constant abuse his wife inflicted on him.
Hassan's lawyer, Frank M. Bogulski, called the legal defense the first of its kind in the country.
"The spouse was the dominant figure in this relationship," Bogulski told a reporter afterward. "He was the victim. She was verbally abusive. She had humiliated him."
The allegations prompted an immediate rebuke from the prosecution.
"He chopped her head off," District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said of Hassan. "He chopped her head off. That's all I have to say about Mr. Hassan's apparent defense that he was a battered spouse."
[...]
During Friday's court hearing, Hassan fired the attorney who represented him for nearly a year and replaced him with a lawyer who promised "a revolutionary defense."
Bogulski told reporters he is "confident" he can get an acquittal for Hassan on an unprecedented defense combining psychiatric elements and legal justification.
Homicide prosecutor Colleen Curtin Gable, though, noted that Hassan was beheaded about a week after she began formal divorce proceedings.
[...]
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And we thought snake oil salesman where a thing of the past
I wonder who she was fucking?he was the one humiliated and abused.
A jew?
Hey! Our Snake Oil Salesmen were selling HOPE! The power of the MIND and the power of Belief! *smirks the token Rrom on the board*
I love my country - its the government that scares me.
Wife's beheading nothing to do with religion
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1491028/Lawyers for the founder of an Islam-oriented television station who is accused of beheading his wife say it's ridiculous to think religion has anything to do with the case as they pursue a psychiatric defence.
Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan appeared briefly in a Buffalo courtroom for procedural motions Friday in advance of his second-degree murder trial. The trial was expected to start this month, but is now slated to begin in September because of a change in defense lawyers.
Mr. Hassan is charged with killing Aasiyah Hassan last year in the studios of Bridges TV, which the couple founded in part to dispel negative Muslim stereotypes.
After Friday's hearing, defence attorneys said Mo Hassan is a secular Muslim.
Just a thought. Don't want to be stereotyped? Don't live up to the stereotype.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization -- these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit ~ C. S. Lewis
He's on trial and acting as his own attorney. *snick* Prosecution has presented it's case. He testifies in his own defense.
Hassan portrays himself as victim : http://www.buffalonews.com/topics/mo...icle325347.ece
Takes witness stand, testifies wife bullied, threatened him in rages
And then, in a "brilliant work of strategy", he calls his daughter back to the stand (she testified earlier for the prosecution).
http://www.buffalonews.com/topics/mo...icle331233.eceProsecutor Colleen Curtin Gable aggressively cross-examined Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan on the witness stand Wednesday. But it was the testimony of his daughter -- whom Hassan recalled to the stand as a defense witness -- that was truly devastating to his case.
Sonia Hassan, 20, refused to even look at her father or address him by name as he asked her more than 30 questions on the 11th day of his murder trial. Hassan is charged with stabbing and beheading his wife, Aasiya, in February 2009 after she filed for divorce.
Hassan asked his daughter about a letter she had handwritten in January 2008, while he was subject to an order of protection from Child Protective Services. She had written to Family Court that she did not consider her father a threat to the safety of herself or her family.
Sonia said she recalled it. "Aasiya wanted -- for some reason -- for you to come back to the house, so I was asked to write this letter ... even though I can testify that I did not believe in any of the sentences I wrote," she said.
[...]
Many of Hassan's questions were framed in an attempt to support his testimony that he was a caring father. But Sonia either said she didn't remember such happy events or she recalled memories that were extremely damaging to him.
[...]
After an hour of similarly damning testimony, Hassan let her go and informed the judge that he no longer wanted to call his 19-year-old son, Michael, back to the witness stand.
[...]
The morning session began with chief prosecutor Curtin Gable grilling the defendant about his recollections from the night of the killing.
How is it, she asked, that he could remember that Aasiya brought him chicken marsala for lunch that day but recall almost nothing of his brutal attack against her hours later?
How is it, she asked, that he could subject the jury to four days of personal testimony but summarize his entire killing rampage of more than 40 stab wounds with the words, "things happened."
"Out of all those hours of your testimony, you spent about two seconds on the murder itself," she said.
Hassan repeatedly stated that he had little to no recollection of his attack on his wife. "I don't know the full details," he said. "I kind of blacked out."
Curtin Gable pulled out three gruesome images of Aasiya's body, showing multiple stab wounds to her back and front, as well as the decapitation at the neck, and asked if he denied causing those injuries.
"If the wounds are there, then it happened," he said.
Hassan managed to remain calm through most of the cross-examination, though he was wiping the sweat off his face when it was over.
Many of his responses were evasive. Though his cross-examination had been expected to last only a couple of hours, it ran through midafternoon because Curtin Gable had difficulty getting any direct answer from Hassan.
As with the prior day's testimony, he made no direct attempt to contradict irrefutable evidence of video surveillance images, police photos or text messages regarding his actions. He did, however, continue to provide explanations for his actions that seemed out of keeping with the prosecution's mountain of evidence.
[...]
In response to his assertions that he killed her in self-defense, fearing she was reaching for a knife in her coat pocket, Curtin Gable said, "Was she a threat to you when she was on the floor and you began cutting her head off?"
[...]
She noted that within hours of his wife's death, Hassan was busy making lists of lawyers to call -- "preferably female" -- and listing things like "home equity," "life insurance."
"At this point, within three hours of killing your wife, this is what you were concerned about, right?" she said.
[...]
Curtin Gable also referred to a story in The News in which a reporter discovered Hassan was falsely signing his mother's name to letters he had sent the newspaper. When the prosecutor noted that his mother barely speaks or reads any English, Hassan said his mother dictated to him over the phone exactly what she wanted to say, and he served as a translator.
"My mother did say those nice things about me," he said.
Finally, despite Hassan's assertions that he is a calm and polite person, Curtin Gable pointed out that he was not above name-calling.
She recounted instances since his arrest when he either stated or wrote that the court was delivering "voodoo justice," that District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III was "Dumbo," that the prosecution's psychiatric expert was "Dr. Quack," that Curtin Gable was "a retard" and that Aasiya was "Darth Vader."
She asked him if it was true he believed that God and his angels helped him kill his wife. She closed by asking him several questions regarding the nature of abusers -- all based on his belief that his wife was an abuser.
Do you believe abusers are excellent manipulators?
Do you believe abusers blame their victims?
Do you believe the greatest fear of an abuser is exposure?
Hassan answered yes to all those questions.
Curtin Gable responded, "I have nothing further."
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What is it they say about a defendant who represents himself in court having a fool for a client?
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http://www.buffalonews.com/topics/mo...icle334353.eceMuzzammil "Mo" Hassan must have harbored hope until the bitter end.
It was impossible to see him when the verdict was read because a row of four deputies stood directly behind him, obscuring him from the courtroom gallery, and he didn't bother to stand for the verdict.
But for once, he was silent when he was expected to speak.
Shortly after the jury found Hassan guilty of second-degree murder, Erie County Judge Thomas Franczyk asked both the prosecution and defense if they would like to hear a roll-call vote from the jury.
Chief prosecutor Colleen Curtin Gable said it wasn't necessary. Then Franczyk asked Hassan his preference. Seconds ticked by with no word from the defendant as the judge continued to look at him.
Finally, Hassan quietly asked for the roll-call vote. The outcome was the same.
In just under an hour, a jury of eight men and four women found Hassan guilty of intentionally and viciously murdering and beheading his wife, Aasiya, almost two years ago to the day.
The verdict came so quickly that Curtin Gable later said she didn't know if she had ever had a trial in her career where a jury rendered a speedier verdict.
"It would certainly be one of the fastest, if not the fastest," she said.
Hassan will be sentenced March 9 and faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.
"Murder in the second degree is a really, really, really serious charge," District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said after the trial. "Most people that get convicted of murder in the second degree die in prison."
Hassan could not be sentenced to life without parole, a sentence exclusive to a first-degree murder charge, typically reserved for cop killers and similarly aggravated circumstances, he said. Premeditated murder is not a condition for any homicide charge in New York.
[...]
Sedita said Hassan showed "an incredible lack of self-awareness" throughout the trial because he called defense witnesses who were extremely helpful to the prosecution yet didn't seem to realize it.
That same lack of self-awareness may have accounted for his reaction, one of stunned disappointment as he was ultimately handcuffed and led away by sheriff's deputies.
"In his twisted mind, he really believes what he did was justified," Sedita said. "That's chilling."
[...]
Monday wrapped up weeks of drama and astounding legal maneuvers in a case where an admitted wife killer took over his own defense. Hassan claimed the witness stand for four days as he dragged jurors through his observations during the course of his eight-year marriage.
Yet during his two-hour closing statement, never once did Hassan mention the killing of his wife. Instead, his closing remarks echoed a she-started-it theme.
[...]
He also said the judge, prosecutors, police officers and medical professionals who testified against him did so based on their preconceived notion that only women can be abuse victims. In closing arguments, he referred to their adherence to a "religion of patriarchy."
He told jurors he stands against this gender-biased model of "false beliefs" the way Gandhi stood against colonialism, the way former President Ronald Reagan stood against communism and the way one-time South African President Nelson Mandela stood against apartheid.
[...]
Hassan concluded by saying he was the victim of "psychological rape" and likened himself to a slave, prisoner and hostage in his marriage. He supported his argument with a stack of e-mails -- essentially his only source of evidence throughout this trial.
Jurors paid attention to Hassan's closing statement, though some began fidgeting after an hour.
They were very attentive, however, as Curtin Gable delivered her hourlong closing statement.
After Hassan was served with divorce papers and realized his wife would never return to him, Curtin Gable said, he chose to end her life "violently and brutally."
"Self-defense? Not a chance, not even close," she said. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is intentional murder beyond a reasonable doubt -- quite frankly, beyond any doubt."
Despite Hassan's attempt to paint his wife as an "evil dragon," she said, "At best, there is evidence that she lost her temper with him at times and called him names. And who could blame her?"
He stopped her from pressing charges or filing for divorce by "emotionally and financially blackmailing her," she said. When he couldn't do that any longer, she said, he decided to kill her.
"How dare she file for divorce. How dare she attempt to gain control over her own life, her own future, and the lives and future of the children," Curtin Gable said. "How dare she expose him for what he'd done to her. How dare she tell him enough is enough. He was not going to let that happen."
[...]
Though second-degree murder carries a minimum prison sentence of 15 years to life, Sedita said he is hopeful Franczyk will be moved to impose the maximum sentence because of the savageness of the crime and Hassan's obvious lack of remorse.
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From personal experience I can tell you this is a very common frame of mind. Not a part of the Qu'ran, which states flat-out that women should be respected. Damn if I know where it comes from. My experience was being stalked for 8 damn years and constantly harassed; he even stalked my friends and their friends, and went on a one man crusade to ruin everything in my life. Didn't work though, because I didn't give a tin shit....until he got that damn gun. Shit got real then!How dare she file for divorce. How dare she attempt to gain control over her own life, her own future, and the lives and future of the children," Curtin Gable said. "How dare she expose him for what he'd done to her. How dare she tell him enough is enough. He was not going to let that happen."
"If you can't live without me, why aren't you DEAD?"" cb said this to an ex
"I've already got one asshole in my pants, why would I want another one?" cb said this to an obnoxious drunk
"Oh, man! That sucks like a hooker when the rent's due" cb says this when shit gets real
"I don't care HOW big your dick is, it's 3 AM. Go call somebody else" cb said this to an obscene phone caller
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12692812A New York television executive has been given the maximum sentence of between 25 years to life in prison for murdering his wife in 2009.
A jury last month found Pakistan-born Muzzammil Hassan guilty of stabbing Aasiya Hassan and beheading her six days after she filed for divorce.
Hassan argued she had abused him and that he had acted in self-defence.
Hassan founded Muslim-oriented Bridges TV in 2004 in an effort to counter negative portrayals of Muslims.
Prosecutors argued Hassan abused his wife and attacked her in a hallway at the television office, after she filed for divorce following years of domestic violence.
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