Homeless woman set on fire in SF

[Neecy]

This is a horrible, horrible story. There's a link at the end to contribute funds for her funeral - maybe as a group we could cobble together a few bucks for her.
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In a crime prosecutors say showed "exceptional depravity," two San Francisco women stand accused of dousing a longtime homeless woman with gasoline and burning her alive in an apparent witness retaliation slaying.

Mia Sagote, 30, and Leslie Siliga, 29, are believed to have selected the victim, Leslie "Jill" May, 49, after May told police on the day of her death that she had been robbed by Sagote on the street in the Tenderloin the day before.

"The victim was kidnapped off the street and taken to Candlestick Park, doused with gasoline and set on fire," said Assistant District Attorney George Butterworth. He said the crime was especially heinous and showed "exceptional depravity."

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"It's horrible. It's a tragedy," said Fire Department paramedic Capt. Niels Tangherlini, who heads a city outreach team working with San Francisco's hard-core homeless population. "It's really sad -- we feel like we invested our heart and soul in her situation. We felt her situation was finally improving. Then the street can reach and grab some people.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/15/MNGOUO55AH1.DTL

[derby378]

1. I have no words...

:cry:

[BoneDaddy]

2. Sick

what else can I say.

[Dracos]

3. Usually I am not in favor of

the death penalty, however since California has the death penalty why not use it in this case.

[BootinUp]

4. horrific is probably an understatement. n/t

[rinsd]

5. I think I'm going to be sick. (nt)

[BayCityProgressive]

6. Well first of all

that is enough to make me puke, but not surprising for the US. Secondly, things like this make me question my opposition to the death penalty. I think I would be fine with both of them dying in a really horrible way. Third, why as the richest nation on earth, do we still have homelessness??

[malaise]

7. How sick are these women

Good fugging grief. That poor woman.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. There was a thread a few months ago about homeless in SF.

And somebody showed up with just ridiculously insane anti-homeless comments.

And I was thinking that with crap like that it's only a matter of time before somebody gets hurt.