Kylee Montiero was practically three months pregnant when she was brutally murdered earlier this month in Rehoboth.
Her boyfriend Sean Groom, father of Kylee’s unborn child, was arrested this week and charged with homicide after he confessed to the killing and her physique was discovered buried on the property the place he was residing, in accordance with police.
The media is rightly being attentive to the story, however Beacon Hill will not be. Why?
Why is Maura Healey, our feminine governor, not calling a press convention and standing with our feminine Legal professional Basic, Andrea Campbell, to decry this vicious assault on a pregnant lady?
Healey and Campbell have been solely too comfortable to make use of ladies’s bodily autonomy as a serious theme of their political campaigns. They stated ladies ought to vote for them as a result of they might defend ladies’s bodily autonomy. Good. Abortion rights are essential. However home violence is a profoundly extra essential bodily autonomy concern for ladies. Put bluntly, lifeless ladies don’t want abortions.
Kylee Montiero’s bodily autonomy couldn’t have been extra viciously violated, however neither Healey nor Campbell stated a phrase. The 2 highest-ranking regulation enforcement officers in Massachusetts, who declare to care about ladies’s our bodies and lives, by no means say something in regards to the tens of 1000’s of girls that suffer abuse yearly, or the lads who abuse them, a lot much less do they criticize the programs that fail to carry males accountable.
In contrast, the courts have been sounding the alarm for a very long time.
In a latest case, the Supreme Judicial Court docket revealed stunning statistics exhibiting that home violence is essentially the most prevalent violent crime in each district court docket in Massachusetts. 70% of circumstances contain home abuse and nearly all are dismissed or finish with no critical punishment.
Abusive males know they’ll stroll away scot-free in the event that they hurt ladies, so in fact they preserve doing it. No surprise Groom thought nothing of killing his pregnant girlfriend. He advised cops he didn’t need her round. He stated he was apprehensive in regards to the monetary burden of a kid. Why ought to he take duty for impregnating her when she might simply get an abortion? How dare she impose fatherhood obligations on him.
This sense of entitlement is widespread amongst abusers, although it isn’t completely their fault. Males know that folks like Maura Healey and Andrea Campbell don’t care about violence in opposition to ladies. They see all of the lifeless our bodies and so they know that no one’s speaking in regards to the concern. 22 Massachusetts ladies have been killed by home abuse in 2024 – a 15% improve over the 12 months earlier than, and the numbers are on monitor to be even worse in 2025. However not one authorities official has spoken out.
There’s something that we the folks can do. A invoice has been filed with the legislature that may amend our hate crime regulation to incorporate ladies. Each different state in New England protects ladies, however Massachusetts doesn’t. Our state covers each conceivable class, however not ladies. Even transgender is protected, so if a girl was once a person, and she or he is killed, it’s a hate crime, but when she has all the time been a girl, it isn’t. Even when I beat you mindless whereas screaming “I’m punching you within the face since you are feminine,” it’s not a hate crime. By refusing to incorporate ladies, our authorities has declared as official state coverage that it’s completely authorized to focus on ladies for violence.
Including ladies to the hate crime regulation will ship a unique message, and clarify to the residents of Massachusetts that harming a girl as a result of she is feminine will not be solely against the law in opposition to her, however can also be against the law in opposition to ladies as a category, our group as an entire, and democracy itself. Hate crimes are designed to acknowledge that all of us have pores and skin within the recreation when somebody is damage due to who they’re in society.
We will all assist change the regulation by calling Healey’s and Campbell’s workplaces, protesting on the State Home, refusing to vote for anybody except they prioritize fixing the hate crime regulation, emailing our state senators and representatives, speaking in regards to the concern on social media, telling our pals and neighbors, and many others.
If this horrendous disrespect for ladies bothers you, please do what you possibly can. If it doesn’t, get skilled assist and depart Massachusetts till you’re all tuned up.
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