{"id":126716,"date":"2021-05-28T13:09:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=126716"},"modified":"2021-05-28T13:09:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T13:09:18","slug":"woman-sexually-assaulted-in-1953-may-get-3k-reward-she-was-promised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/woman-sexually-assaulted-in-1953-may-get-3k-reward-she-was-promised\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sexually assaulted in 1953 may get $3K reward she was promised"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Woman sexually assaulted by predator in 1953 may finally get $3K reward she was promised almost 70 YEARS ago after helping to ID him<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Woman who was denied $3,000 reward in 1953 may finally be given the money<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The woman, now in her 80s, was sexually assaulted by predator as a teenager<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Police did not believe the Hartford woman&#8217;s story despite evidence of strangling<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>But\u00a0Irene Fiederowicz, 11, was raped and strangled to death just two weeks later<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The teenager, known as &#8216;Pidgie&#8217;, helped to identify the man,\u00a0Robert Nelson Malm<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>She was denied the $3,000 reward and told doing her duty should be enough\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A woman who was sexually assaulted by a predator in 1953 may finally get the $3,000 reward that was offered at the time for helping to identify the man.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, from Hartford, Connecticut, who is now in her 80s, helped in the identification, arrest and conviction of a man nearly 70 years ago, when she was sexually assaulted by him as a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Now, The House of Representatives has voted\u00a0unanimously in favor of a bill that would finally issue the $3,000 reward that was denied to the woman at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The woman is known by the pseudonym\u00a0Patricia &#8216;Pidgie&#8217; D&#8217;Allessio, a name used to protect her anonymity in a book describing the crimes in the southwestern section of the city in 1953.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s hard to believe that we sometimes have the ability to redress injustices of the past, but this is a case where we have an opportunity to grant a small measure of justice to an individual,&#8217; said Ed Vargas, a state representative from Hartford, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/05\/27\/13\/43517573-9623101-image-a-45_1622119323718.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A Hartford woman, now in her 80s, who was sexually assaulted in 1953 may finally get the $3,000 reward that was offered at the time for helping to identify the man (stock image)<\/p>\n<p>As a teenager, the woman was grabbed\u00a0from behind while walking along\u00a0Mountford Street in Hartford, forced into a backyard and sexually assaulted on a rainy night in 1953, according to the Hartford Courant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teenager and her parents reported the assault to the\u00a0<span>Hartford Police Department but were not taken seriously, despite evidence the man tried to strangle her with a scarf, according to\u00a0Vargas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Despite the red markings on her neck, the police discounted it as perhaps some boyfriend&#8217;s hickies,&#8217; Vargas said. &#8216;She was not taken seriously. The police moved on.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But an 11-year-old girl called Irene\u00a0Fiederowicz was raped and strangled to death about a mile away just two weeks later,\u00a0leading police to believe there was a serial rapist in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Police returned to the teenager, known as &#8216;Pidgie&#8217;, for help and she\u00a0ultimately identified the man, Robert Nelson Malm, from a police lineup and testified against him in court.<\/p>\n<p>Malm was put to death in the electric chair on July 18, 1955, according to\u00a0Peace Corps Worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vargas explained that a $3,000 reward had been offered by\u00a0Governor John Davis Lodge for information leading to the arrest of Irene&#8217;s killer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/05\/27\/14\/43519217-9623101-image-a-46_1622120764800.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The teenager, known as &#8216;Pidgie&#8217;, ultimately identified the man, Robert Nelson Malm, from a police lineup and testified against him in court, but was denied $3,000 reward (stock image)<\/p>\n<p>Pidgie put in a claim for the reward but it was denied by\u00a0Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Raymond E. Baldwin, and she was told that\u00a0doing her civic duty &#8216;should be enough of a reward&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The reward was reportedly dated two days after the teenager gave the police details and one day after she picked Malm out of a line-up, so her reward was denied as the offer had not yet been made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vargas said:\u00a0&#8216;There was a $3,000 reward that had been posted by Governor (John Davis) Lodge at that time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Unfortunately, she was told that she had done her civic duty and that should be enough of a reward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Back then, $3,000 could have made the difference for Pidgie to have gone to college and have received a college education.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Some lawmakers suggested on Wednesday that the woman should be provided interest on the reward money, but Vargas said her family had wanted the symbolic gesture.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now awaits action in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The murder of Irene was detailed in the 2006 memoir\u00a0Girls of Tender Age by\u00a0Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, who was Irene&#8217;s classmate and friend.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9623101\/Woman-identified-predator-1953-finally-reward.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman sexually assaulted by predator in 1953<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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