A couple of things about this story.
Usually anyone who is associated with bail/ providing bail are then responsible for the person.
Then you sign a bail bond contract with a licensed bail bond company, you become known as the “indemnitor”. This means that you are assuming responsibility to the court and the bail agent. As the signer of a bail bond contract, you are guaranteeing that the defendant will show up for court.
Many families will not even do that for other family members, because you have to trust that person, before you would risk money like that.
They say this guy has a long record, also just looking at his pictures, he looks crazy mean.
I imagine this non profit is supposed to help people who are poor and deserve it( like first time offenders, women, teens/kids)
This guy was in there for beating a women, who he said upon arrest, he planned on finishing it and killing her.
DO WHY IN THE FUCK DID THIS NON PROFIT BAIL HIM OUT?
Makes no sense.
Man 'beat his wife to death' hours after he was released from jail when a nonprofit group paid his $5,000 bail in a domestic violence case
Samuel Lee Scott, 54, was charged with first-degree murder on Tuesday
Police say Scott beat to death his wife, Marcia Johnson, 54, on April 9
The alleged murder took place hours after Scott was released on $5,000 bail
Scott wad charged on April 5 for misdemeanor assault that took place in January
He allegedly hit Johnson in the face, injuring her ear and cheekbone
On April 9, the St. Louis Bail Project posted Scott's bail and he was freed
A St. Louis man beat his wife to death just hours after he was released from jail when a nonprofit group posted his $5,000 bail in a domestic violence case, prosecutors allege.
Samuel Lee Scott, 54, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, 54-year-old Marcia Johnson.
Scott is now jailed on $1million bond.
Scott was charged April 5 with misdemeanor domestic assault for allegedly striking Johnson in the face in January, injuring her ear and cheekbone.
A probable cause statement from the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office said he also threatened that he 'might as well finish what (he) started since (she) was going to contact the police.'
The probable cause statement said that on April 9, the St. Louis Bail Project posted Scott's bail and he was released.
he group is part of the Bail Project, a national organization that bails out people who are jailed awaiting trial and can't afford their own bail.
The probable cause statement said Scott went to his wife's home at 7:45 that same night.
At 11pm, a friend took Johnson to a hospital after finding her head and body bloodied.
Johnson 'was unconscious, had a broken eye socket, several broken ribs, and was bruised from head to toe,' the statement said.
She died Sunday. Police said Scott admitted striking her.
Scott does not have a listed attorney who could comment on the allegations against him.
The Bail Project has operated in St. Louis since January 2018.
Bail Project Executive Director Robin Steinberg said the organization was 'deeply saddened,' but bail wasn't to blame for Johnson's death.
'No one could have predicted this tragedy,' Steinberg said in a statement.
'It's important to remember that had he been wealthy enough to afford his bail, or bonded out by a commercial bail bond agency, he would have been free pretrial as well.
'In times like this, we must come together for this family and keep sight of the need to transform the larger systems that create poverty, racism and violence, including the pretrial bail system.'
Scott had previous convictions for drug crimes and assault dating to the 1990s.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6929397/St-Louis-man-accused-killing-wife-release-bail.html
Questions being raised about the ‘Bail Project’ role in the death of St. Louis woman
ST. LOUIS – A south St. Louis woman is dead after she was beaten in her apartment.
Now there are questions about how a possible player in the case was able to bond out of jail just before the beating.
Family members of the victim, in this case, 54-year-old Marcia Johnson, are still trying to comprehend what’s happened.
They can`t believe their loved one is gone, allegedly murdered in her own home.
“She was loving, kind-hearted. She loved her kids, they were her heart,” said a family member about Marcia who did not want to be identified.
She added, “I cant wrap my head around it, its shocking.”
St. Louis police say Marcia was found with a severe head injury on the night of April 9th inside a south city apartment on Wisconsin that she shared with her husband 54-year-old Samuel Lee Scott.
Marcia was rushed to the hospital but police say she died five days later from her injuries.
We`re told another family member found Marcia.
https://fox2now.com/2019/04/15/questions-being-raised-about-the-bail-project-role-in-the-death-of-st-louis-woman/