Revising my “worst case” assessment
December 17th, 2009 by: JenniferDid I say that the Jay Glosser case was one of the worst stories of sexual harassment retaliation I’ve heard? Well, it still is, but now I’ve stumbled across another one that is worse.
Frank Garcia, a former nursing supervisor in Rochester, New York, has been sentenced to three life terms for murder. Prosecutors say that he shot five victims during a retaliation rampage after he was fired twice from two different healthcare facilities for sexual harassment. Two women he supervised complained he sexually harassed them— Kimberly Glatz at Wesley Gardens and Mary Silliman at Lakeside Beikirch Care Center.
The prosecutor said “He was fired because he couldn’t control his ego” and “he couldn’t put up with” romantic rejection.
Garcia first went to Lakeside Hospital where he killed Silliman outside. Two people, Audra Dillon and Randal Norman were driving by, witnessed the attack and tried to assist. Garcia wounded Dillion and killed Norman. Then he drove to the home of Glatz and killed both her and her husband execution-style.
“It was a premeditated, calculated, cold act,” said Judge Frank Geraci.
When I founded this community, it never occurred to me in my wildest dreams I would be writing about murders and attempted murders in the aftermath of sexual harassment and sexual harassment complaints. But really, we hear about this all the time, and never relate it to sexual harassment. Any romantically-obsessed stalker killing represents the same problem. We just don’t tend to make the connection.
In all my research on sexual harassment when SHS was coming together, I never heard one mention of how violent the aftermath can be. But then again, I never found much of anything about retaliation, in general, which is why that survey I put together is now out there on the Internet, although it never occurred to me to include “attempted murder” in the multiple choice list under the retaliation questions.
Our denial is extraordinary. We really believe that Americans are so advanced that no educated, financially secure, credentialed American male would think “If she doesn’t accept me, I’ll destroy her.” We really think this only happens in places like India and Afghanistan…..
We need do think again, and think long and hard.
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