Fox News’s Dana Perino became emotional Thursday when speaking with domestic abuse survivor pleading to keep cash bail.
“Trace, I don’t think I’ve ever cried on TV. That was really hard,” an emotional Perino told Trace Gallagher after interviewing Cassandra Tanner Miller, a domestic violence survivor.
“I am a survivor of a domestic violence tragedy. On Sept. 21, 2019, my estranged husband broke into my house in the middle of a Saturday afternoon. He came through the door, and he asked ‘if we were all ready to die.’” Tanner Miller said during the interview.
The tragedy came after he was released from jail without a cash bond in the state of Illinois.
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She continued in her interview that her estranged husband asked her, “Are you all ready to die?” before he reportedly beat her as she yelled for her daughter and young son to flee.
“After he thought he killed me, he walked up the stairs, pulled out a gun, looked at my daughter, and he asked her if she ‘was having fun yet.’ [He] walked into the room where Colton [her son] was napping, and he shot my 18-month-old 10 times. He then attacked my daughter,” she continued.
Tanner Miller and her daughter managed to escape and thought for six hours that her husband was holding her 18-month son hostage. Police later told her that he had killed her son and then himself.
After the murder-suicide, Tanner Miller met with Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who asked her what he could do to ensure a similar tragedy never happened again.
“We need to make sure that domestic violence is taken serious, that victims have voices, and the criminal justice system has stronger, not weaker, conditions and bond conditions,” she recounted of what she told him.
But this week, Pritzker signed a bill that made Illinois the first state in the country to eliminate cash bail.
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“He absolutely let me down. I made a plea to him prior to him signing this bill, asking him to hold off and to actually think about victims and me specifically. When I sat in that office, he made a promise,” Tanner Miller said of the new law.
Perino became emotional as she signed off with the abuse survivor.
