Deaf man gets 21-to-life for fatally stabbing girlfriend in her sleep

[rockin'robin]

A deaf man convicted of stabbing to death his hearing-impaired girlfriend sobbed Wednesday as a judge sentenced him to 21 years to life, a year more than prosecutors requested, after the victim’s family read heart-wrenching statements asking for justice.

Bismark Lithgow was found guilty in February of butchering Francis Pellerano in her sleep in 2013 and stuffing her corpse into a 55 gallon drum where it festered for days — all because he believed she’d been unfaithful.

“Today we ask you to do justice — to take into account the suffering of this family,” the 19-year-old victim’s great uncle, Miguel Santos, told Manhattan Supreme Justice Laura Ward. “No one has the right to . . . decide that somebody else’s life has no value. Nobody.”

A loudly blubbering Lithgow apologized to Pellerano’s family.

“I was wrong, I did the wrong thing,” he said, pausing as he sobbed.


http://nypost.com/2015/04/01/deaf-man-gets-21-years-to-life-for-killing-girlfriend/

 

[shel90]

 

[hoichi]

Wow....
Well....better stop balling, prison for Deafie sucks....
Get used to it....
In her sleep?
Damn....
RIP

 

[rockin'robin]

Crime of Passion ??....Was a horrific crime regardless...21 years to Life...so he has to serve at least 21 years before going up for parole?....

And yes, agree with Hoichi about prison not a good place for Deafies....hopefully an inmate there will know some ASL and take him under his wing....it's not good for inmates to be alone...they need to make friends fast and get into a clinique...(group)...as that should protect him and have his back....and he'll have to "fight"...that's the only way to get any respect in prisons from what I've read and learned. Otherwise, he's gonna be "passed around"....