Murder Victim Had Obtained Protection Order

[The Straight Story]

Murder Victim Had Obtained Protection Order

Nov 02 2006 5:56PM
WBNS 10 TV, Columbus, Ohio
Reported by Penny Moore



Lori Bailey tried to get help to protect herself from her husband. Instead, sheriff's deputies found her shot to death inside a Fayette County barn Wednesday afternoon.

Bailey was abducted by her husband as she dropped their sons, ages 3 and 9 months, off at the babysitter's house.

Just one week before the rampage in a Fayette County barn, Lori Bailey got a lawyer to apply for a civil protection order. According to the document, her husband John was having violent outbursts, "And had recently made repeated threats of physical harm, like 'Enjoy your pretty little smile while you still have it.'"

On October 25, she and her lawyer appeared before Fayette County Judge Stephen Beathard.

Brent Marshall says, "Among the many threats Mr. Bailey has made, 'If I wanted to get rid of you I'd simply poison you.'"

Two days before in the family home, Lori had made a lunch to take to work at a medical office building in Columbus. When she opened it, she found the mashed potatoes appeared to have crushed pills in them. Columbus police sent the potatoes to BCI for analysis.

http://www.10tv.com/?sec=&story=sites/10tv/content/pool/200611/218314493.html

Freaking insane. That guy should have been in jail for the crap he pulled and instead he is roaming around free and then kills her.

[TheDebbieDee]

1. Once a victim gets a protective order.......

he or she needs to be capable of shooting the abuser on sight! (I use the word "shoot" because apparently the victims have been unable to protect themselves without a gun in previous confrontations.) A piece of paper is NOT going to stop a battering spouse from harming their victim.

[NaturalHigh]

6. Without a doubt.

A couple of bullets are more effective than any protective order ever issued.

[murielm99]

2. Those protection orders

are not worth the paper they are written on. It is common to find that victims have these court orders. Law enforcement simply does not have the time and manpower to follow up. Often, the way the laws are written hobble their efforts.

I read a book by Dr. Doreen Orion, called "I Know You Really Love Me." She described her efforts to stop someone who stalked her for eight years. She wrote about trying to change the laws and the way they are enforced. She had quite a bit to say about court orders of protection.

Even if this guy John Bailey was the victim's husband and she was still living with him, he threatened her life. There should be a better way to protect anyone who is frightened enough to ask for a protection order from the courts.

[TheDebbieDee]

8. They should change the name of these protective orders

to "License to kill".

I think the term protective order may lull the victim into thinking that "Now that I've got this piece of paper, I'll be protected."

Battered women need to KNOW and should be told that they should be ready "shoot, taze, mace, stab" or otherwise defend themselves against their abusers the second they are confronted by their abusers!

[enlightenment]

3. This is so common.

I remember a number of years ago there was a rash of "protective order" murders in Colorado -- the most egregious was the woman who was shot to death by her ex on the steps of the police station.

jeez.

[brook]

4. Those damned 'orders'

are like waving a red flag in front of a bull. In fact, they may be the ultimate prod for these guys to actually carry out the threats. They're useless in terms of protection.

[Xithras]

5. The problem with these types of cases....

Beyond the victims word, there simply is no evidence upon which to base an arrest or conviction. The police and prosecutors are powerless to act against the abuser unless there is some solid evidence that the abuse actually occurred. In cases like this one, where the only record of the threats were her recollection, and the pills were uncovered by her alone, there simply isn't any legally binding proof that he did anything wrong. Without evidence tying him to the pills, their presence is useless. And verbal threats? Unless she had a recording, he would simply have to deny the statement to make them useless to a prosecutor. It becomes her word against his, and with a messy divorce underway no jury would convict.

There is no easy solution to these kinds of problems.

[hughee99]

7. This one is a little more clear, but same result

"Once, Lee tried to burn down his father's Mattapan house, a neighbor recalled yesterday"

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/10/30/police_charge_son_in_grisly_slaying/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Globe+Northwest