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Hylton also spoke at the Women’s March on Washington. This is the American left today: criminal, hateful, violent. And Manhattanville College would never dare invite any of my colleagues or me to speak: foes of jihad terror are not welcome on campuses today. When we do get a rare invitation to speak, then comes smears and defamation, protests, threats of violence, and likely cancellation. But the likes of this murderer are welcomed.
“College Speaker Whines About Prison But Fails To Mention That She TORTURED AND KILLED A Man,” by Eric Owens, Daily Caller, April 27, 2017:
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Convicted felon Donna Hylton spoke on a civil rights panel at a fancypants college earlier this month but completely failed to mention that she — along with several others — kidnapped a man, forcibly sodomized him with a steel pole and then tortured him to death. When a student at the event asked Hytlon about the heinous crime, a second panelist loudly berated the student for having “embarrassed” Hylton.
The panel, titled Ella Baker Day, occurred on the evening of April 13 at Manhattanville College in the swanky suburbs of New York City. A single year of tuition, fees and room and board at Manhattanville costs $56,550.
The Ella Baker Day panel focused largely on the rights of prisoners. Hylton “went on for about 30 minutes” about the “physical aspects of the jail” and about her complaints as a prisoner, according to the student who asked Hylton about her criminal past.
“She mentioned graphic stories,” the student told The Daily Caller. “If you were not crying by the time she was done speaking, there’s something wrong with you.”
Hylton “made it seem like she was some innocent woman who was put in jail,” the student also said. “She didn’t say why she was in jail. She said it was because of the color of her skin.”
“Her basic theme was, ‘I am an innocent victim and it’s because of how awful Donald Trump is.’”
Without question, Hylton is no innocent victim.
In 1985, Hylton along with three men and three other women, kidnapped 62-year-old real-estate broker Thomas Vigliarolo and held him for ransom before eventually killing him. Hylton and her comrades starved, burned and tortured Vigliarolo. They forcibly sodomized him with a 3-foot steel pole.
As noted in a 1995 Psychology Today article, when asked about forcibly sodomizing the victim with the steel pole, one of Hylton’s accomplices replied: “He was a homo anyway.”
“They’d squeezed the victim’s testicles with a pair of pliers, beat him, burned him,” New York City detective William Spurling told Psychology Today. “I couldn’t believe this girl who was so intelligent and nice-looking could be so unemotional about what she was telling me she and her friends had done.”
Hylton reportedly delivered a ransom note to one of Vigliarolo’s friends asking for more than $400,000, even though the sexually-tortured man was already dead by that point. Hylton’s delivery of the ransom note led to her arrest.
A 1985 article in The New York Times, which misspelled Hylton’s last name as “Hilton,” put the ransom demand at $435,000.
For her participation in the murder, Hylton received a prison sentence of 15 years to life. She served 27 years.
Hylton, now 52, has become a celebrity on the radical left because of her imprisonment. Hylton’s name is listed on the website of the Women’s March on Washington alongside Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, radical feminist activist Gloria Steinem, filmmaker Michael Moore and CNN commentator Van Jones.
Despite speaking for nearly a quarter of the two-hour Ella Baker Day panel at Manhattanville College, Hylton never disclosed her crimes.
“I found it suspicious that she did not explain why she was incarcerated,” the Manhattanville student who attended the event told TheDC. “My immediate thoughts were: Well, people don’t randomly end up in jail,” the student added. “There is a reason.”
“She was pulling the audiences heart strings in order for them to side with her.”
The student did some on-the-spot Internet research. Then, during a question-and-answer period at the end of the event, the student asked Hylton a question.
“I was wondering why you did not speak about why you were incarcerated. It makes me question if you think you were incarcerated unjustifiably for murdering a gay man.” the student said.
According to the student, Hylton responded by saying that she had not come to the Manhattanville campus to discuss her crimes. She insisted that she was only there to talk about how she was sad that she had a bad time in prison.
A second Ella Baker Day panelist, Shirley Leyro, then loudly declared that the student was being disrespectful by inquiring about the murder-related crimes Hylton committed.
“She said I had embarrassed Hylton,” the student said.
Leyro is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Her research “focuses on deportation effects – including the impact of the fear resulting from the vulnerability to deportation,” according to her website.
The student elaborated on why she asked Hylton about the murderous crimes she committed.
“I thought the students at the event weren’t thinking critically,” the student said. “They were just thinking about being social justice warriors in that moment.”
The student does not want to be named and did not speak to school officials about Hylton’s appearance on campus, partly out of fear of making them mad.
“I would love to hear their answer about why a murderer was on our campus,” the student said.
A Manhattanville College spokesman provided TheDC with a statement about Hylton’s campus appearance.
“Donna Hylton was a guest panelist for the Ella Baker Day event the College’s Sociology Department held,” the statement from Anthony “T.J.” Buzzeo said. “I would be happy to pass along any specific questions you have to Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl who organized the event.”
Strmic-Pawl, an assistant professor of sociology at Manhattanville, focused her statement to TheDC squarely on “the legacy of Ella Baker,” saying the event “acknowledges the work of contemporary social justice activists.”
“Hylton is a nationally recognized speaker on the issue of solitary confinement, which is why we invited her,” Strmic-Pawl wrote.
“Ella Baker Day is about honoring the well respected Civil Rights activist Ella Baker and inspires current generations to learn from her activism.”
Strmic-Pawl admitted that Hylton and other panelists “received a small honorarium for speaking at Ella Baker Day” but refused to say exactly how much Manhattanville College paid Hylton for her two-hour appearance.
Strmic-Pawl also chose not to indicate whether she or anyone else had advised students at Manhattanville concerning the crimes Hylton committed.
Manhattanville College Ella Baker Day event flyer
According to her Manhattanville webpage, “Strmic-Pawl’s teaching and research interests center on race, racism, and social inequality, with a particular focus on multiracialism.” Her curriculum vitae mentions the phrases “social justice” and “white supremacy” eight times each….
The Manhattanville student who asked Hylton about why she landed in prison called the college’s essential concealment of Hylton’s crimes disappointing.
“She played the victim card and did not tell the truth from the beginning,” the student said. “More people need to understand the indoctrination that is happening on college campuses.”
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22 Comments
6 years ago
What is that on “her” ear? Is that “her” tag stating “she” has had “her” shots? Maybe it is an ooma-gooma award for kidnapping, torture and murder.
6 years ago
Reply to
Craig
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6 years ago
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6 years ago
Reply to
Victoriamfreed
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6 years ago
Reply to
Ron Cole
THAT WOULD BE EASIER TO LOOK AT THAN THAT FULL LENGTH GARB. NOT BAD LEGS.
6 years ago
My granddaddy down in North Carolina knew how to handle this sort of monster. It involved a rope and a strong tree limb. And it didn’t matter whether the monster was black or white. Back in those days a monster like this would beg the judge not to release it, because it knew what waited for it outside the courtroom. Too bad those days are gone.
6 years ago
Our society is corrupting morally every single day. Now we have folks demanding rights for criminals and prisoners, and many do not seen anything wrong with this (Facepalm)
6 years ago
Disgusting. To remain in the democrat party with scum like this is worse than disgusting.
6 years ago
The truth is not welcome in most institutes of indoctrination called universities, they righteously deserve to be allowed to go bankrupt.
6 years ago
next she’ll be running for new york mayor and i wont be surprised if these demonic sheep vote her in . the bible is so true when it says in these days right is wrong and wrong is right, just by altering definitions of words and playing victim.
there really was a reason JESUS chose the lowly fishermen to be his disciples not the pseudo educated religious charlatans with their fraudulent and superfluous language .
6 years ago
I salute the student! I am sick of these depraved criminals, acting like victims, This women, committed a beyond depraved crime, abduction horrific torture and murder! She was a willing participant, and I should feel bad about her prison time? My only complaint about her prison time, is that she wasted 27 years of tax payer dollars when her life should have been ended. she took part in premeditated murder and torture, this beast should have been executed for her crime. She took a life in cold blood her life and the lives of everyone involved should have been forfeit! That she is even walking free is sickening!!!! And the Student had every right to point out there was a very good reason what that witch was incarcerated!!!
6 years ago
Reply to
Kathy Jo Wilson
Hylton’s useful status as a pro-crime activist for the pro-criminal Left … is a great example of why we need to execute murderers. Every time she speaks – she abuser her victim again – and the Left applauds.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kathy Jo Wilson
But then again, my parents helped kill some 500,000 or so… Top that. Maybe human life doesn’t count for much, maybe for nothing.
6 years ago
Why is a murderer on your campus Snowflake??? … b/c that’s how Lietards roll.
Where do you think the Crimes of the West come from??? Two answers:
1. Lietards committed the crime in the first place.
2. No crime was committed. But the Left saw an opportunity to revise history and took it.
Donna Hylton falls into category #2 (not #1).
No crime was committed AGAINST Hylton by incarcerating her for the crime she committed. But the Left has to revise history and use her to defend criminals and attack the West.
Meanwhile – ordinary citizens are victims of the Regulatory State everyday.
6 years ago
Oh, and once again I will warn the Gay Lietards and Gay Trolls …
the two most homophobic words you will ever hear are: YOU WIN.
When you are no longer useful, all you Useful Idiots will be terminated. …
If you want someone to give a flip about your civil rights …
you need to switch sides before the West reaches its expiration date.
6 years ago
This is beyond sick. How people can willfully ignore things so heinous, & prop this woman up as a hero is unfathomable.
But it is characteristic of the ignorant left that doesn’t look beyond their noses at whomever they endorse or follow.
6 years ago
My Board can not think of a more approiate wack job equal opportunity commie.
* Board: My Great & Great great Grand Chirrens, bird dogd, and horses.
6 years ago
To bad Vigliarolo was not armed at the time. Then he’d have just shot her. If someone comes at you, blow his brains out.
6 years ago
This “panel” is a leftist, hypocritical joke. She is a convicted felon who was involved in the kidnapping and torture of a male and she was there to complain about the conditions of being locked up? This is a group of idiots and all those who attended are liberal idiots who don’t want to face the truth about black criminals.
