A woman was allegedly stabbed by a violent criminal who had been released without bail.
While soft-on-crime district attorneys have gained negative attention in recent years, similar questions are now being directed at the bench after a judge appointed by President Joe Biden let a violent criminal off without bail before he brutally murdered a young college woman in the nation’s capital.
Last week, 31-year-old Christy Bautista of Harrisonburg, Va., was killed at the Ivy City Hotel in Washington, D.C., where she was staying to attend a concert. Bautista, a 2018 graduate from James Madison University, was stabbed 30 times less than an hour after she checked in.
George Sydnor, Jr., 43, who had no fixed address, was arrested for Bautista’s murder after police found him in her hotel room with blood on his hands and clothes as he tried to light a cigarette, authorities said. Sydnor was charged with first-degree murder and pleaded not guilty on Monday, where the judge ordered that he be held without bond.
Police and Bautista’s family don’t believe that Sydnor and his alleged victim knew each other. Surveillance footage at the hotel showed Sydnor arriving at the establishment about an hour after Bautista arrived in her car, which was parked outside her room. He listened at the door of Bautista’s room before entering. After he entered, Bautista opened the door and yelled for help before a man pulled her back inside the room.
In October, Sydnor was charged with armed robbery, which was reduced to an attempted robbery charge to which he pleaded guilty. He has a criminal history going back to 2000, as he was previously convicted of several felonies and misdemeanors such as rape, domestic violence, and armed robbery, according to media reports and court records.
The agenda will not he deterred. Sorry for your loss. But they don’t care.