US woman jailed for 20 years for killing bigamist husband

**frostyboy** · #1 14th-August-2008

From the Daily Mail: US woman jailed for 20 years for killing bigamist husband

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An American woman has been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for killing her bigamist husband as he was set to travel to Africa to impregnate his second Muslim wife.

Myra Morton, 48, tearfully apologized to the mother of victim Jereleigh Morton during the sentencing hearing yesterday.

She had pleaded guilty in April to third-degree murder for fatally shooting her husband of 25 years as he slept in their suburban Philadelphia home.

Myra Morton initially blamed the killing on an intruder, but her attorneys later acknowledged that the crime was intentional. They said the killing stemmed from the damaged psyche of a humiliated, middle-aged woman.

The Mortons had converted to Islam about 20 years ago.

Jereleigh Morton met a Moroccan woman on the Internet in late 2006 and soon arranged to marry her. Myra Morton traveled to Morocco to bless his March 2007 marriage to 37-year-old Zahra Toural.

But police say Myra Morton grew to resent the arrangement, at least in part because her husband was sending Toural $3,000 (£1,500) a month.

In emotional testimony yesterday, the victim's mother, Delzora Morton, said Myra Morton did not have to resort to violence.

"Why couldn't you just leave him? Why did you take my son away from me?" Delzora Morton said.

"All you had to do was walk away from him, like I told you so many times."

After the victim's mother asked Morton "Why, Myra?" from the stand, she cried out from her seat at the defense table: "I don't remember! I don't remember!"

Speaking to the judge, Delzora Morton said, "I just want her to apologize to me now."

Then Myra Morton, through tears, said, "I'm sorry" from her seat in court.

She later apologized again from the stand, but said she still doesn't remember everything about the night she shot her husband.

"No one ever walks away from a marriage that they invested their life in," she said in a quiet tone.

"But what he asked me to do tore me apart. ... This was one thing I couldn't deal with."

outdoors · #2 14th-August-2008

i wonder why this murdress never got away with it?

6ame · #3 14th-August-2008

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Originally Posted by outdoors

i wonder why this murdress never got away with it?

Probably because she said someone else done it, and she didn't claim a history of unprovable abuse. Just a guess, because it's sad to say, but I'm confused as to how she was punished so harshly (for a woman), that's how normal a slap on the wrist for such behaviour has become for women.

Feckless · #4 14th-August-2008

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Originally Posted by 6ame

Probably because she said someone else done it, and she didn't claim a history of unprovable abuse. Just a guess, because it's sad to say, but I'm confused as to how she was punished so harshly (for a woman), that's how normal a slap on the wrist for such behaviour has become for women.

See the bigger picture....the real victim was a WOMEN!

His mother she stole her son....therefore you perish...

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