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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 06:58 PM Mar 2015

Woman Grins with Pride after Setting Fire to Yoga Studio to ‘Get Rid of the Devil’s Temple’

http://latest.com/2015/03/woman-grins-with-pride-after-setting-fire-to-yoga-studio-to-get-rid-of-the-devils-temple/

The happy face mugshot belongs to Nancy Suzanne Duarte, a 41-year-old Texas woman who was just arrested and charged with setting fire to a yoga studio.

“Most people can’t understand the smiling mug shot,” Nancy Duarte told local media from her jail cell. But there’s an obvious explanation. Duarte says she smiled in the photo to help let go of the anger that drove her to American Power Yoga with a baseball bat and can of gasoline. See, the smile did for her kinda what yoga is supposed to do for her.

In Duarte’s case, however, she said the yoga studio had brought her “so much pain and suffering” during an ongoing dispute with two men associated with the Dallas business. Duarte said the men sexually harassed her for years despite her rejections of both of them....

She told a TV station she waited until late Saturday, when no one would be at the studio, “just to set it on fire, just destroy it — get rid of the devil’s temple.” No injuries were reported in the fire, but several neighboring businesses were evacuated.




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hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
1. There sure are a lot of bent arrows walking around
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 07:02 PM
Mar 2015

out there.

With any luck she will be gettin' her three hots and a cot in the happy old Big House for a while like the rest of the arsonists.

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)
2. Seriously deranged .... but so are those nut jobs (often from the pulpit) .... that incite this ...
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 07:06 PM
Mar 2015

... these hate crimes

AndreaCG

(2,331 posts)
3. Too bad if she was legitimately harassed
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 07:30 PM
Mar 2015

I wonder how much truth if any there is to her explanation. It's an unfortunate outcome if true, although a poor way to channel her anger.

Trillo

(9,154 posts)
4. Before she burned the school (or studio) she kept going to it
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 07:35 PM
Mar 2015

even though she thought it was the "devil's temple"?

 

Wella

(1,827 posts)
7. Clearly this is NOT a fundamentalist (who would never have gone in to begin with)
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 08:31 PM
Mar 2015

She may be referring to the males whom she claims sexually harassed her over the years.

 

Wella

(1,827 posts)
6. According to the article, she claims to have been sexually harassed repeatedly over years.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 08:30 PM
Mar 2015

One wonders what the back story is there.

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