PA Muslim Woman: Yes! I killed That Bigamist Piglet Husband Of Mine
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - A woman pleaded guilty Friday to third-degree murder for killing her bigamist husband just hours before he was to leave for Morocco to visit his second wife.
Myra Morton, 48, was upset about the new marriage and her husband’s plans to have children with the younger woman, authorities have said. She shot her 47-year-old husband, Jereleigh Morton, twice in the head in August while he slept, and initially blamed an intruder.
She faces from five to 20 years in prison, said defense lawyer Brian McMonagle.
“I don’t think there’s any question in anybody’s mind that the act was intentional,” McMonagle said. “We have always maintained that it was based on a lot of passion, and it was caused by the emotional turmoil that she was going through.”
Jereleigh Morton met his second wife, 37-year-old Zahra Toural, last year on the Internet, prosecutors said. In keeping with Muslim custom, Myra Morton traveled to Morocco to bless the marriage, but police say she grew to resent the arrangement.
Her husband allegedly said that if she didn’t like it, she should get a divorce.
The Mortons had converted to Islam about 20 years ago.
As Myra Morton’s resentment about the second marriage grew, she wrote the U.S. State Department a letter in April 2007 in which she said Toural had terrorist ties. She hoped the letter would keep Toural away from the U.S., authorities have said.
Toural last month responded with a defamation suit against Myra Morton.
Myra Morton spent about 20 years working at Temple University as a secretary before she and her husband received a reported $8 million medical settlement in 2005 over the death of a teenage daughter. They moved with their surviving daughter from a North Philadelphia rowhouse to a $1 million house in the suburbs.
“All she (Morton) cares about are that her daughter and her granddaughter get their inheritance, and are provided for,” McMonagle said. “That is always a concern, particularly when you have so many hands reaching for this money.”
(AP)
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Looks to me like the woman took his advice and got her divorce.
The chickens came home to roost for one oinkster.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:31 amHey! Its part of the Muslim religion! The man is allowed 4 wives, but only if he can support them.
So what’s her bitch? She’s wearing the uniform of submission…
April 25th, 2008 at 10:32 am-”The Mortons had converted to Islam about 20 years ago.”
Well I guess we know his motivation for conversion, truely inspiring.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:35 amYeah, converted to Islam, but are more than happy to use the modern infidel judicial system to rake in $8million for their daughter’s death…
April 25th, 2008 at 12:18 pmpeople converting to Islam makes me sick, i swear, our culture will rapidly exit history if this shit keeps up.
April 25th, 2008 at 2:12 pmYou can take the girl out of America, but you can’t take America out of the girl.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:20 pmBTW, does anyone else think as little as **5 YEARS** for pre-meditated homicide (whatever the motivation) is stunningly lenient?
April 25th, 2008 at 9:21 pm