Hochul is a disaster for New York and her failed and dangerous no cash bail “Less is More Act” has led to yet another violent crime, the murder of a mother of three in front of her children.
Adam Bennefield, 45, who has a prior conviction for kidnapping another ex at gunpoint, is now charged with fatally shooting his 30-year-old wife, Keaira Bennefield.
Keaira’s mother, Tammy Hudson, spoke about her daughter’s execution-style death on Oct. 5, when Adam Bennefield allegedly crashed into her car, pulled out a shotgun and killed her with her children in the back seat.
Adam Bennefield had been released from jail less than 24 hours before the killing for savagely beating Keaira in an attack she caught on camera.
Keaira posted the video to her Facebook page on the night of Sept. 28, showing her being punched, kicked, and slapped by Adam. Kearia wrote on the Facebook post: “this is what this man dose to me but i’m always treated like i’m the abuser!”
A week later, Adam was arrested for the beating but was charged only with misdemeanors, and he was able to walk out of Cheektowaga Town Court.
As far as Hudson is concerned, Hochul’s no-cash-bail law has directly led to her daughter’s murder.
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“She should be charged for the crime. She’s also responsible for the crime,” Hudson told The Post from her home in Buffalo Tuesday.
Hochul has repeatedly doubled down on her support for no-cash-bail, claiming it will close racial and class disparities within the justice system, but has admitted the laws could use some tweaking.
In March, the governor pitched a 10-point plan to fix aspects of the legislation, but said she won’t consider significantly altering it until January — well after the midterms next week — so that “we’ll be able to assess the real impact of our changes.”
Hudson believes Hochul’s few fixes are just a “distraction” to please those who are against the laws.
“It’s not real, it’s just something that you think will shut us people up,” Husdon said.
“But we need to be heard as people who are going through it. Steps need to be taken. I’m sick of the, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, is there anything I can do?’ when there’s nothing you can do, because that person won’t ever come back again.
“She failed me. She let me down and my daughter down, and she needs to make a change with the bail reform.”
Keaira had begged police for help from her abusive husband, who has a prior conviction for kidnapping another ex at gunpoint, in the weeks before she was murdered.
She posted a horrendous eight-minute video to Facebook in which Adam allegedly punched, kicked and slapped her relentlessly.
Adam was arrested a week after the late September assault and charged with only a string of misdemeanor charges, including third-degree assault, fourth-degree criminal mischief, second-degree menacing, and second-degree unlawful imprisonment.
The low-level charges prevented the judge from setting bail. Adam was released the day before Keaira’s murder.
Seeing the writing on the wall, Keaira wore a bulletproof vest to drop her three kids, ages 6 months to 9 years, off at school the next morning when Adam ambushed her, police said.
The preventative measures did little to help the doomed mother. Keaira died at the scene.
“The kids had blood all over their clothes and he walked away and knew to hide,” Hudson said.
“You planned it, you plotted it, you were upset, and you said, ‘I’m going to go do this to her.’” Hudson said of her ex-son-in-law. “She was planning to leave him, and he was going to stop her.”
The cold-blooded crime is even more tragic for Hudson and her family because Keaira was able to foresee what Hochul and other politicians couldn’t: that their good faith in no-cash-bail wouldn’t protect victims.
