An Ohio judge has defended his decision to release the woman accused of killing three-year-old Julian Wood back on the streets just days before the fatal stabbing -despite a referral for a mental health evaluation.
Bionca Ellis, 32, was arrested on May 29 for a parole violation related to a shoplifting charge for stealing $69 worth of merchandise from a Walmart last year.
Judge Brian Hagan instead released Ellis back into the community on May 31.
Just three days later, police say Ellis stole a knife from a thrift store, and followed Julian and his mother to the parking lot of the Giant Eagle grocery store in North Olmstead, Ohio, where she fatally slashed the young boy in the face and neck and injured his mother.
Still, Hagan said he would not have done anything differently, even now – knowing that Ellis is charged with aggravated murder for the death of the toddler.
He noted that the organization handling mental health evaluations had nobody available, and he thought it would be unjust for Ellis to sit in jail for days on a minor charge.
But it has since been revealed that Ellis had a criminal record going back several months in three different states – and she once even confessed to cops that she had murdered someone and wanted to kill again.
In January, Ellis was arrested in Bakersfield, California on three counts of ‘battery on person’ for allegedly assaulting three people, Fox 8 reports.
The following month, she reportedly told police in Cleveland she killed a woman in California and she wanted to kill again.
Hagan should be put in the same cell as Ellis – and charged with the same crimes.
Didn’t they shut down the insane asylums back in the 80s and released all the nuts onto the streets? How many people have suffered and died because of those decisions?
There is a massive state institution not far from me in the peoples republic of libtardia (Maryland) that sits mostly vacant.
Just another shithole judge continuing to destroy our country
Chain gangs and public executions….
We need to have punishments for crimes….
and the people need to see those punishments.
Jethro, they shut them down because the left decided being institutionalized was a terrible stigma and no one should be labeled as such.
Who cares about what’s best or who gets killed, right? Just so long as you feel good. *gag*
This jurist specimen was elected. Hopefully for the last time.
Hagan said he would not have done anything differently, even now – knowing that Ellis is charged with aggravated murder for the death of the toddler. Additionally the woman who killed the child had a track record of violence that was apparently ignored… or maybe not, but for sure this judge, who has zero capacity to learning from his mistakes, is far more dangerous than this perp! Judges like this are societal time bombs set to go off again and again!
Mistakes are for LEARNING, not repeating!!
WHy couldn’t Ellis have followed Hagan and slashed him?
If you REALLY want to be pissed, watch the YouTube video of the big, fat, smug murderer being arraigned. You will want to reach through your screen with a baseball bat.
Hagan’s are all over Cuyahoga County politics like flies on a turd. All are hard core leftists. I wonder if he will offer condolences to the family? This has been devastating to the community. A year or so ago a deranged ex-husband killed his Giant Eagle employee wife and then committed suicide in the same store. I can see the cult of loonies using this place again..
No one directly involved in government or justice is in any way responsible for anything bad that comes out of government or the justice system… except Trump, Republicans, conservatives, etc… who have less and less influence on government and justice with each passing year.
If she kills again, someone needs to shoot the judge.
The blood of that child is on the judge and the psycho’s hands. The judge might be more accountable because he literally released a monster back into society on purpose! He deserves an eternity in Hell.
……and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.
^^^^^ Actually there is. You can sue his dumb ass in civil court. What’s the loss of your three year old child worth. This animal should have never been taken alive.
What happened to all the social workers?
Had that been my child, the judge would never make another decision.