NJ courts kept letting him go until mom of 4 was killed in front of her kids
Erin Vogt
Published: February 10, 2025
- Lauren Saldana, 38, was strangled to death
- The murder suspect has a long history of violence
- Victim’s daughter now pursues justice
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Prosecutors and judges kept giving him new chances. And he kept returning to his girlfriend’s life.
It was a decades-long cycle of brutal violence and lenient justice that came to a head on Jan. 9 in South Brunswick when Roman Romanovskiy, not for the first time, placed his rage-filled hands around the neck of a woman, police said.
But this time, Lauren Saldana, 38, did not survive. This time, a 5-year-old boy witnessed the homicide of his mother by his father, just steps from his newborn brother.
This time, Romanovskiy, just seven months into a probationary term of four years for a seemingly unprovoked assault on two other people, was accused of the most heinous charge after a life of terrorizing others.
“This isn’t fair and was never supposed to happen,” Saldana’s oldest child said in a heartbreaking post on Facebook two days after her mother was killed. “I will fight for her memory and make sure justice is served for her 3 sons and myself, no matter what it takes.”
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OK, let’s start names and kicking asses. (Yeah, I said it.)
Sorry but this criminal was not some young first-time non-violent offender who deserved the benefit of the doubt or leniency.
Everyone involved should be publicly outed and scorned.
Judges should be impeach for poor judgement. The attorneys involved should be censured. And any prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats should be fired.
And, by the way, what was Roman Romanovskiy immigration and drug testing status?
Argh!
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