It only takes a few bad apples

[WriterDom]

so would you dismember your sub if they died?



Dominatrix Pleads Innocent in Death Case

By JENNIFER PETER
.c The Associated Press

QUINCY, Mass. (AP) - A dominatrix whose client died after she put a hood on his head and strapped him to a rack in a crucifix position pleaded innocent to charges of involuntary manslaughter and cutting up his body to dispose of it.

Barbara Asher, 53, was released after her arraignment Friday. She has no prior criminal record and has not attempted to flee since Michael Lord's disappearance in July 2000.

Police said Asher told them that after Lord died in her Quincy apartment, she panicked. She said her boyfriend, Miguel Ferrer, cut up the body while she went for trashbags and that they later dumped it in a restaurant trash bin in Augusta, Maine.

No body parts have been found, however, and tests on a saw and material from Asher's home didn't turn up enough evidence to charge her or Ferrer.

Prosecutor Robert Nelson said a March ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court in a fire that killed six firefighters opened the way for charges in Asher's case. In that case, the court ruled that a homeless couple's decision not to report the fire they had started was reckless enough to warrant manslaughter charges.

Nelson said Asher's failure to help Lord was similarly reckless.

``She had a duty to act at the time, to take him off the rack ... and call appropriate medical response teams,'' Nelson said. Prosecutors are unsure how Lord died, but Nelson said he may have asphyxiated.

Asher told police that she didn't call for help because she was afraid of IRS and police scrutiny of her business, Nelson said.

Asher's attorney, Kevin Reddington, said he was ``confident that a court, after review of the lack of evidence, will dismiss the indictment.''

If convicted, Asher faces a maximum 20 years in prison on the involuntary manslaughter charge and six months for improper disposal of a body. Ferrer is to be arraigned sometime in December on a charge of accessory to involuntary manslaughter after the fact.

 

[lovetoread]

She'll get a reduced sentence if she has a good lawyer.

 

[Cuckolded_BlK_Male]

On another thread in BDSM Talk, concerning erotic-asphyxiation, I was just pondering the likihood of some idiot getting himself killed in just this manner. This is something of a Coinkiedink.

By the by, they should fry her and the boyfriend. Shave 'em down, strap 'em in, put leather hoods on their heads, and let them ride the lightning.

 

[mistresssilkeng]

OMG?!

Cutting up another human being dead or alive is gross.. enuf said

Silken

 

[MissTaken]

I think that point that WD is trying to make is that headlines such as these are whta perpetuate the myths and bad karma surrounding BDSM.

Now, where does one find headlines concerning the charity events of the Leather Society....or whatever?


It is too bad, the 99 percent of us that are decent human beings can't take the limelight away from trash such as this.

(Another statistic pulled out of my butt!)

 

[Richard49]

I think that point that WD is trying to make is that headlines such as these are whta perpetuate the myths and bad karma surrounding BDSM.

Now, where does one find headlines concerning the charity events of the Leather Society....or whatever?


It is too bad, the 99 percent of us that are decent human beings can't take the limelight away from trash such as this.

(Another statistic pulled out of my butt!)

but it such a cute one

 

[under where]

Yeah- imagine how difficult it would have been and how long it would have taken to saw through bone with and ordinary steak knife.