Jilted Astronaut Escapes jail time

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-30-2009
Jilted Astronaut Escapes jail time
4
Wed, 11-11-2009 - 4:11pm

The woman who was assaulted by former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak Tuesday described the surreal assault, telling a Florida judge that she thought she was going to die. "I knew it in my heart that when Lisa Nowak attacked me, she was going to kill me," Colleen Shipman told Circuit Court Judge Marc L. Lubet at Nowak's sentencing. "It was in her eyes: limitless, blood-chilling expression of limitless rage." Nowak, a Navy captain, drove 1,000 miles from Houston to Orlando, Fla., in February 2007, wearing a diaper so she wouldn't have to make any bathrroom stops, and confronted Shipman in the parking lot of Orlando International Airport about her relationship with a shuttle pilot with whom Nowak had had a relationship. Shipman was hit with pepper spray but managed to escape.



(full article and video):


http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/lisa-nowak-astronaut-pleads-guilty-colleen-shipman-attack/story?id=9051167

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-30-2009
Wed, 11-11-2009 - 4:31pm
I think Lisa Nowak got off far too easy.
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-31-2006
Sat, 11-14-2009 - 1:36am

She's an astronaut, so she should have received 20 years....

in a space capsule all by herself orbiting the earth. Talk about solitary confinement!

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-18-2000
Sat, 11-14-2009 - 7:55am
I agree. If a man had attacked a woman in this manner he'd have a much longer sentence.
Photobucket

 


Photobucket&nbs

Community Leader
Registered: 04-05-2002
Sat, 11-14-2009 - 8:03am
That sentence is far too lenient.