Mothers Murdering Children
When Abortion is not Enough: Women’s Rights Reaches New Low
Editor: KILLING newborn babies should be allowed if the mother wishes, Australian philosophers have argued in a prestigious journal, however their whole argument is premised on the notion that mothers ‘own’ children, and this property is theirs solely to decide on matters as important as life or death.
The role, rights and responsibilities of the fathers and other family members is ignored, perhaps denoting that these supposed philosophers are engaging in something other than open-minded scientific debate. Perhaps this discussions has something to do with the growing number of women being persecuted for filicide, the murder of the children, especially at the point of birth. We in Australia are quite familiar we a particularly high profile case of a sports personality who killed her new born child because it was expected to interfere with her sports career.
Perhaps in the well tried fashion of the likes of Jen McIntosh, this publication’s true purpose is to provide legal leverage to such mothers, in order to avoid prison terms for killing new born babies.
Its quite interesting that such leniency does not seem to be extended to the father in this philosophical discussion.
Women bark, Men bite. The Apologist View of Child Murder
Editor: The below article is another piece of fanciful writing from a well-known journalist from the Sydney Morning Herald, Adele Horin, who can always be relied upon to creatively re-interpret the facts to absolve females of the same crimes that men are vilified for.
This insulting commentary on the automatic culpability of men in cases of child murder, even when the murderer is the mother, and the ”acceptability” of the murder of children, when committed by the mother, is a sad indictment on the extent that these feminist ideologues go to to sanitise all female mis-conduct, even at the expense of the best interests of children.
Horin relies upon a small sample of Child Murders, and selective interpretations of the reasons behind these murders, to paint a Mother’s murder of a child as an almost Saint-Like endeavour, worthy of praise, not condemnation.
But of course she does not afford men anything like the same type of sympathy, because Fathers after-all only murder children for selfish reasons.
New Bill to add Non-Discrimination Provision to Child Custody Law
SALT LAKE CITY-USA — Julie Anderson gulped back tears to explain to state lawmakers why they need to amend Utah’s child custody statute.
The Andersons believe had their son, Jared, had been awarded custody of his 3-year-old daughter Aubree Jo, the child would not have died in a car accident with her impaired mother behind the wheel. Toxicology tests found Oxycontin and marijuana in Brandi Stilke’s system when the single-car accident occurred on Feb. 23, 2011, in Harrisville.
“If we had been a bit more diligent, perhaps, it wouldn’t have happened,” Anderson told members of House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Standing Committee Tuesday afternoon.
Anderson testified on behalf of HB88, which would add to Utah’s divorce statute a statement that the court may not discriminate against a parent based on age, race, color, national origin, religious preference or gender.
Mother Murders Children – Sole Custody Takes Three More Children’s Lives
THE heartbroken Hobart father of two children killed by their mother in murder-suicide in Melbourne will always be haunted by the knowledge he missed out on their final years.
Dominic Maher yesterday said he felt let down by a system that had prevented him from seeing son Matthew, 11 and daughter Melanie, 13, for three years before they died.
Police believe mother Kylie Fowler, 36, argued with the children’s older half sister Sammantha Fowler, 18, before killing all three children, setting fire to the house and committing suicide.
Mr Maher, of Chigwell, said he had spent years locked in court battles with Ms Maher, but when it consistently decided in her favour, he eventually moved to Tasmania.
He been preparing a video for his children explaining why he had lost contact with them which he planned to hand to them on their 18th birthday.
Fraud in Australia’s plan to reduce violence against women
The 2009 Australian project a ‘Time for Action: The National Council’s Plan for Australia to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children, 2009-2021′, was approved for implementation by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). The Plan, which is split into several parts, puts forth recommendations for new legislation, changes to judicial processes, requests for funding and ideas for domestic programs targeted at reducing domestic and sexual violence against women. The advisory council has some powers to implement programs through the Office of Women among other agencies, but much of what the government funded program calls for requires approval by Parliament.
The entire premise of the National Plan was underpinned by the belief in this statement:“While a small proportion of men are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, the majority of people who experience this kind of violence are women in a home, at the hands of men they know.”[27-pg1] But a quick examination of the statistics and data shows a much different picture to the rather sweeping indictment of Australian men the National Council paints.
Tanilla Warwick-Deaves – another child murdered by mother and her boyfriend
THE mother of murdered toddler Tanilla Warwick-Deaves has faced court charged with being an accessory after the fact.
Handcuffed and dressed in a yellow cardigan Donna Deaves faced Gosford Local Court this morning where she did not apply for bail during her brief appearance.
The 27-year-old was arrested about 9am yesterday at Erina on the state’s Central Coast.
Two-year-old Tanilla was found with serious injuries at her mother’s Watanobbi home just before 4am on August 27.
She was taken to Wyong Hospital but pronounced dead a short time later.
NAPCAN – when protecting children is compromised by ideology
It is that time of the year when NAPCAN (National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect), an organisation founded in 1987 to advocate for the protection of children, is running its annual high profile campaign to raise funds and awareness in its fight against child abuse and neglect in Australia.
A noble cause indeed, and in support of this campaign Fathers4Equality contacted NAPCAN last year and volunteered our assistance during their National Child Protection Week.
Fathers4Equality offered to distribute a child abuse awareness survey to all our members, as well as assist with fund raising, amongst other worthwhile measures in support of this worthy cause.
After an initial positive response from NAPCAN, all correspondence came to an end.
Kiesha Abrahams – a Reminder that Sole Custody Kills
Julia Gillard making child protection more difficult
In case it has escaped people’s attention, the murder of Kiesha Abrahams, since renamed Keisha Weippeart as a mark of respect for the father she was deprived of, was another case of a child being abused and murdered within the highest risk environment for child abuse in this country, the single-mother home.
With all the attention set recently on the newly tabled Family Violence bill, a bill that Prime Minister Julia Gillard has claimed will protect children from child abuse by dismantling Shared Parenting and denying most fathers any form of meaningful contact with their children, one has to question what exactly Julia Gillard was thinking when she came up with such a malicious bill?
Obviously, this bill is in part the legacy of the Darcy Freeman – girl over the bridge murder, an incident that has shocked the nation and will remain in the psyche of this country for years to come.
However, an equal number of mothers also engaged in filicide in this country, being the deliberate murder of their children.
This fact however has not been widely reported. These other murders of children, presumably of less important children because they were killed by their mothers, happened in equal measure to that of fathers, and this is a point conveniently ignored by Julia Gillard, and in particular by her Attorney General, Robert McLelland.
In any event and foccusing on child abuse on its own, the majority of child abuse in this country is at the hands of single mothers, far outweighing the efforts of strangers, neighbours, other family members, other children, and biological fathers, as reported by the Australian Institute of Criminology.
In fact, over 75% of all familial child abuse, according to the Department of Child Protection, is accounted for in households where the single mother co-habitates with the new boyfriend, (who has not fathered the children), a scenario which is very common in this country and becoming more so, and is the precise high risk environment that Kiesha Weippeart found herself in before she was murdered.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard, in her haste to create the perception that she was doing more to protect children, is in fact doing less, much much less, by sowing the seeds of a new child abuse epidemic.
By removing young children from having any contact with their biological fathers, and exposing them in greater and greater numbers to the ever-present in-home stranger-danger of men with no biological connection to the child, and especially with no other parent to answer to, the ever present risk of child abuse becomes an even greater possibility, given human nature, and as strongly indicated by child abuse statistics.
By ending shared parenting and ensuring that separated children will have little contact with their biological fathers, even less than was the case before the Howard era Shared Parenting laws were enacted, this government is ensuring that child abuse will go behind locked doors, where it can continue unabated and without the knowledge of the other parent, until the imminent end, which all too often is the death of the child.
Whether we like it or not, most biological parents share a common interest in protecting their child against harm. In Shared Parenting arrangements, any lingering mis-trust or tension between the parents works in favour of the best welfare of the children, by creating greater transparency of care between the parents.
Any unaccounted for bruising or scratch, any slight change in behaviour by the child, any suggestive utterance by the child, no matter how subtle, will alert the other parent that something is not right, and will allow greater scrutiny of circumstances. This may in some cases lead to false positives, leading to frustration between the parents, but this questioning is the best form of child protection that can be offered to a child, especially when that child is forced to live with other adults that are not biologically connected to the child.
The primary benefit of shared parenting is Transparency of Care, by way of the inbuilt checks and balances that are part and parcel of a shared parenting arrangement, and it is precidely these safety measures that Julia Gillard is dismantling.
In a country where extended families are on the demise, where separations are on the increase, where re-partnering is a natural extension of separation, and where child protection authorities are over-stretched and losing the battle against child abuse, this transparency is quite possibly the most powerful safeguard a parent can have for their child, but it now looks like it is a further victim of a bungling Julia Gillard who is more obsessed with the perception of doing the right thing, rather than the genuine artifact.
And when it comes to child protection, the difference between the perception and the real is life itself, as was the result for Kiesha Weippeart, and so many other children who will now be forced to live in the highest risk environment for child abuse, by Julia Gillard, a Prime Minister who Australians overwhelmingly believe is out of touch, and out of ideas.
US mum convicted of baby microwave murder
JURORS in an American woman’s third trial have found her guilty of burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave oven.
China Arnold, 31, was convicted of aggravated murder in the death of 28-day-old Paris Talley in August 2005.
Arnold could receive the death penalty. The sentencing phase will begin on Monday next week.
Arnold’s first trial ended in a mistrial.
She was found guilty in the second trial, but that conviction was reversed last year. An appeals court found there was misconduct by prosecutors and the trial court made an error by not allowing a material witness to testify in Arnold’s defence.
Prosecutors have said Arnold intentionally put the baby in the microwave after a fight with her boyfriend. The defence had argued someone else was responsible.
Medical experts testified that the baby died after her temperature reached about 42 degrees Celsius and she probably was in the microwave for more than two minutes, dying quickly afterward.
“She died because she was overheated,” said Dr Marcella Fierro, retired chief medical examiner for Virginia. “She was cooked.”‘
Messages seeking comment from the prosecutor and defence lawyer were left at their offices, but a gag order in the case prevents anyone connected to it from commenting outside court.
Assistant Prosecutor Dan Brandt told jurors in court Arnold’s actions were “even more purposeful” than a slaying with a gun or knife, the Dayton Daily News reported.
“Baby Paris is without life, but she’s not without a voice,” Mr Brandt told jurors in closing arguments. “Please listen to her.”
Mr Brandt said Arnold had to carry the baby over, place her in the microwave, shut the door and press buttons.
Then she waited while her child cooked to death, Mr Brandt said.
Defence lawyer Jon Paul Rion argued the evidence pointed as much to Terrell Talley, the baby’s father, as it did Arnold, however the jury was unconvinced by the compelling evidence against the mother.
“This doesn’t make sense to you,” Mr Rion told jurors. “It doesn’t. I’ve been watching your faces.”
The prosecutor cut and fit evidence to show “this loving mother somehow was so evil that she killed her baby in this way”, he said.
Kiesha Abrahams’ grim life and death
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GRIM details of little Kiesha Abrahams’ life in the care of her mother and stepfather have emerged following the discovery of her remains in bushland.
Detectives are expected to include in their brief of evidence witness statements alleging that Kiesha was the subject of harsh, brutal discipline and was sometimes “flogged”.
At other times, she was allegedly forced to put her hands on her head and stand in the corner of a room for hours.
Police records show the Abrahams family had 36 complaints lodged with police. No charges were laid.
Family friend Kylie Marshall told The Sunday Telegraph she thought Kiesha was unhappy when she was out and about.
Ms Marshall recalled encountering the trio outside a bottle shop at Bidwill. Kiesha was holding hands with her stepfather.
When she asked her mother, Kristi Abrahams, who was pregnant at the time, why Kiesha was crying, Abrahams allegedly responded: “She’s jealous. It’s because I’m pregnant and sick. She’s gotta make herself sick as well.”
The bubbly six-year-old, who loved singing into her Hannah Montana microphone, was barely seen at school and had been in class only five times during the 2010 school year before her disappearance in July.
After a nine-month investigation, Abrahams and her partner Robert Smith were arrested on Friday morning and charged with killing Kiesha and burying her in bushland at Shalvey. They have been remanded in custody and have yet to plead.
From day one, the pair were the main suspects.
Detectives drew up detailed profiles on both their lives, studying their bank accounts, unpicking their family history and following their daily habits.
Police seized their cars and mobile phones for “forensic testing”. When they were handed back, they had been bugged with listening devices so investigators could keep tabs on their conversations.
Last week, detectives got word that Abrahams and Smith would visit the little girl’s gravesite in a macabre service to mark her seventh birthday. The arrests were made at 1am as they allegedly left the bush block at Shalvey.
Detective Superintendent Geoff Beresford, director of the State Crime Command’s Serious Crime Directorate, signed off on the arrest warrant and said it was one of the most satisfying moments of the past year.
“It’s been a long, frustrating process for nine months. It’s a sad case (and) regrettably, there are no winners,” he said.
Neighbours of Abrahams and Smith at Seven Hills said arguments between the couple had escalated in recent days.
“There was a lot of fighting where I’d see him bashing on the back of the house yelling at her,” one neighbour said.
Anger has turned to mourning for Kiesha in the Mount Druitt community. Local residents said they felt betrayed by the couple, who received endless community support.
“We have to wait and see what happens (in court), but there are so many people who put their lives on hold to help them who feel like they’ve been betrayed or lied to,” one local, Kylie, said.
