She did what the government told her to do and she’s as dead as a doornail
She did what the government told her to do and she’s as dead as a doornail
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This happened on the Left Coast, but the ‘government can protect you,
no need to arm yourself’ mentality is found in all 50 states. The
bottom line is that the police, no matter how much they may want to,
cannot protect us as individuals. Teresa Delisio was failed by a
government that refuses to ‘fess up to the public about its short
comings. It got this lady killed. I would expect a different result
if this maniac tried this with one of YOU. Thanks to Stephen P.
Wenger for the link:
Barriers not high enough
How did Shane Case get out of jail?
With a credit card. At the time he was arrested and jailed for
intimidating his former girlfriend, Teresa Marie Delisio, Case was
carrying just over $5,000.
He used that money – and a $2,500 swipe of his credit card – to bail
himself out of Pierce County Jail at about 2 p.m. last Saturday,
according to Sheriff’s Department spokesman Ed Troyer.
Then Case, 35, got himself a .40-caliber SIG-Sauer semi-automatic
handgun owned by a friend (investigators don’t know if it was loaned
or lifted) and drove to Olalla, Kitsap County, where Delisio was
staying with her father, Michael Hahn.
He shot and wounded Hahn, 58, inside the house, police said. He shot
and killed Delisio, 34, in the gravel driveway. Case then killed
himself.
He had been out of jail for just eight hours.
We’re raised not to speak ill of the dead, but for Case, I’ll make an
exception.
He was an animal. His criminal history inspires chills. Felony
assault. Stalking. “Willful” violation of protection orders. He was a
man on a mission: control.
Delisio knew this better than anyone – and she did everything
domestic-violence experts advise women who are caught in the web of
an abuser: She got a restraining order, notified police and stayed
away from her own home.
When Case showed up, uninvited, at the nursing home where Delisio was
visiting her mother on Nov. 6, Delisio called 911. Case fled before
the officers arrived.
Last Friday night, Case walked into a Gig Harbor cocktail lounge
where Delisio was sitting and started harassing her. A bartender
called police, who arrested Case for investigation of intimidating
Delisio.
The Gig Harbor police held Case while they arranged a special hearing
Saturday morning before Municipal Court Judge Michael A. Dunn. Dunn
took a look at Case’s history, ordered that he have no contact with
Delisio, and set bail at $75,000. To get out of jail, Case needed
only 10 percent of that amount – $7,500 – for a bail bond.
“It was as high as he could for a non-assault charge,” said Kitsap
County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Wilson.
It just wasn’t high enough.
So I guess the question is, shouldn’t it have been harder for Shane
Case to get out of jail?
Shouldn’t there be a way to keep such thugs with a history of assault
detained? Some sort of cooling-down period?
The system tried its best, in this case.
Dunn set the bail at the high end. And when Case was released, the
Gig Harbor police called Delisio immediately to warn her that he was
out.
A Gig Harbor officer even followed Case in an unmarked car to make
sure that he was headed toward his home in West Seattle – and not
toward Delisio.
“We did everything we could to keep him in,” said Gig Harbor police
Lt. Bill Colberg. “But we could only go so far.”
In the end, all it took was the swipe of a credit card from a man
hell-bent on hurting again.
What do they say at the end of those credit-card ads? “Priceless”?
So was Teresa Delisio.
