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While both politicians and the press have been quick to remind New Yorkers that substance abuse was the tragedy's principal cause, they have chosen to focus on Ms. Steel's ostensible abuse of alcohol instead of the behavior of the driver who struck her down. After all, she used a fake i.d. to buy drinks at Dorian's Red Hand, the same bar that Jennifer Dawn Levin visited on the night of her gruesome murder two months...
What makes this response so astounding is that the cause of the accident couldn't be more patent. The suspect, Brian Confoy, alledgedly got rip-roaring drunk, seated himself behind the wheel of his car, and drove with reckless abandon, mowing down Ms. Steel in the process...
...What Ms. Steel was doing earlier that evening, an hour before, or even 10 minutes before, had absolutely no bearing on the tragedy. Perhaps she had a drink or two, and maybe she obtained them with fake i.d. It doesn't matter one bit; she was not jumping in front of vehicles. Confoy's car wouldn't have bounced off her body had she been behaving "properly" that night, had she been helping a blind man cross the street instead of exiting from a bar with her underaged friends...
...natural while female sexuality is dirty. Any time a woman fails to repress that sexuality she is putting candy in front of a baby and must accept the consequences. Perhaps that is why the press continually harps on Chambers' "charming good-looks." Overcome by this handsome young man, Ms. Levin simply lost control and followed Chambers to the park, sealing her own fate...
They were digging out (from the hospital) kids, babies," said Ms. Ascania, of Rockledge, Fla.. "I helped carry a dead baby...