This activist’s horrific crime against a gay man should’ve barred her from speaking at the Women’s March but it didn’t

A woman spoke at the Women’s March in Washington D.C. whose criminal past should’ve disqualified her from ever being a part of a movement that supposedly champions human rights.

To feminists, Donna Hylton is a great advocate, social justice activist, and criminal justice reformer. That was enough to qualify her for top-billing at the event. Her name is listed next to more famous names, including Gloria Steinem, Michael Moore, and Planned Parenthood’s Cecil Richards, at the Women’s March website. They’re obviously very proud to have this woman on board which given her past, is quite astonishing.

The Daily Caller reports:

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. As noted in a 1995 Psychology Today article, when asked about forcibly sodomizing the victim with a three foot steel pole, one of Hylton’s accomplices replied: “He was a homo anyway.”

Speaking about Hylton, 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. They’d squeezed the victim’s testicles with a pair of pliers, beat him, burned him.”

According to that same article, Hylton delivered a ransom note to a friend of Vigliarolo’s asking for more than $400,000, even though the victim was already dead by that point. A 1985 article in The New York Times, which misspelled Donna’s last name as “Hilton,” put the ransom demand at $435,000. For her participation in the murder, according to Psychology Today, Hylton was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

And yet, the red carpet was rolled out for this woman at the march by the same feminists who fear Donald Trump because he used a vulgar term about women. Remember when the Left nearly crucified Paula Dean for admitting she said the N-word when she was younger? Nobody asked her to show up and share her experiences as a woman.

This is selective outrage at its finest. The Left lives by the “everyone makes mistakes” tripe as long as the outcome is to their liking. But I wonder how the family of Thomas Vigliarolo felt seeing Hylton adored by the applause of hundreds of thousands of women?