Female Murderer
‘Die you dog’ daughter NOT Guilty of Murder
A Sydney woman who stabbed her mother with a 12-centimetre kitchen knife and then screamed “die, die you dog!” as the bleeding woman rang triple-0 for help has been found guilty of manslaughter but not guilty of murder.
Krystal Jade Seymour, 25, stabbed her mother, Donna Marie Seymour, in the arm in the early hours of November 24, 2010, after a heated argument in the pair’s Giraween home, severing a major artery that caused her to bled to death.
During the trial in the NSW Supreme Court, the jury was played a triple-0 call in which the injured woman tells the operator: “I’m bleeding to death, she has cut an artery.”
In the background Seymour is heard screaming: “Die you f—ing dog, die! I hate you, I f—ing hate you.”
Seymour later admitted to stabbing her mother but said she was acting in self-defence and did not intend to kill her.
“She charged at me and she head-butted me,” the 25-year-old reportedly told police.
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.
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.
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.
Another woman walks free after killing her husband
AN Adelaide woman who snapped and killed her cheating husband by setting him on fire has walked from court with only a suspended sentence.
Rajini Narayan, 46, was found guilty of the manslaughter of 47-year-old Satish Narayan after being tried for his murder.
In the Supreme Court of South Australia today, Justice John Sulan sentenced her to six years in jail with a non-parole period of four years for the death of her husband in December 2008.
He suspended her sentence saying there was good reason to do so and that her husband’s conduct was a mitigating factor.
Mrs Narayan had told her trial she snapped, threw petrol and a lit candle onto her husband’s back after learning via his emails that he was having an affair.
She had intended just to burn the tip of his penis with a candle and a beaker of petrol to save their marriage.
But she snapped and threw the beaker and candle on him after he turned his back on her.
Fathers rights groups have condemned this judgment as yet another example of the double-standards in our laws, where women serve little if any jail time despite murdering their husbands or children in the most gruesome of circumstances.
Ash Patil, President of Fathers4Equality, says that women always tend to rely on stereotypes to get away with murder. “They always pull out the..he abused me argument, or I was depressed argument.”
Patil notes that these arguments are never accepted for men in this country, and they should never be accepted as defence for murder, regardless of whether the murderer is male or female.”
Patil slams this murder as a revenge murder, from a jealous wife who sought to hurt the man that was leaving her.
“We recently saw a man, Arthur Freeman, be put to jail effectively for life for murdering his daughter, Darcy Freeman, exacting revenge on his estranged wife. The question is however, why was this woman not treated the same?”
Former Female Olympian guilty of murdering her baby
Former water polo champion Keli Lane has been found guilty of murdering her baby.
Lane screamed "no", collapsed and fell off her seat on to the floor of the Sydney court as the verdict was read out. An ambulance was called.
Her mother also screamed "no" from the public gallery and burst into tears.
Lane, 35, had pleaded not guilty to murdering her daughter, Tegan, shortly after leaving Sydney’s Auburn hospital in September 1996.
It took a week of deliberations for the NSW Supreme Court jury of six men and six women to reach a verdict following a four-month trial.
She was also convicted of three counts of making a false statement on oath in relation to documents dealing with her adopting out two other babies.
About ten minutes after the ambulance was called, Lane composed herself and sat in the dock with her lawyer.
Her barrister applied for bail, which was refused.
Justice Whealy told the court he "felt some sympathy for the accused" but did not want to give her false hope as the murder conviction she has carries a custodial sentence.
In thanking the jurors, Justice Whealy said, "I realise this must have been a difficult case for you" and said he would recommend the twelve never have to serve as jurors again.
He said to them, "I bid you farewell for the last time."
Lane was taken into custody until sentencing submissions in February.
Outside the court, John Borovnik, a social worker who first raised concerns to DOCS that Tegan was missing, spoke to media.
"It is in memory of Tegan that justice has been served," he said.
‘Surreal case’
At the end of an inquest in 2006, coroner John Abernethy described the case as surreal.
Lane did not give evidence at that inquest and she was not charged with Tegan’s murder until November 2009.
She told police she gave Tegan to a man she first named as Andrew Morris, then Andrew Norris. She said he was the baby’s father, whom she had a brief and secret affair with.
But the Crown claimed that was a fictitious person and Lane murdered Tegan because she did not want the responsibility of a child to interfere with her ambition to compete for Australia in the 2000 Olympics.
Tegan’s body has never been found.
The missing person search for Tegan involved police writing to thousands of primary schools with female students and more than 500 girls were investigated.
During the trial, the jurors were given flow charts to help them keep track of the evidence presented about the police investigation.
Lane’s barrister, Keith Chapple, argued the essence of the murder charge itself was in dispute.
He told the jury there was no proof of how, when or why Lane murdered her newborn child or even that Tegan was dead.
Mr Chapple said Lane "took the responsible course" by adopting out two other children.
Secrets and ‘lies’
Senior Crown prosecutor Mark Tedeschi alleged Lane told 95 lies to cover up three secret and unwanted pregnancies so she could preserve her "golden girl" image.
But Mr Chapple told the jury "there are many things in the case that do not amount to lies at all".
He said Tegan’s birth was unremarkable and Lane was not responsible for what other people did not notice.
Mr Chapple spoke of the passage of time involved in the case and said Lane was young when she gave birth to Tegan.
He said she gave some conflicting information about the birth of her children because she "didn’t want everybody to know about her business".
Mr Chapple said adopting out two of her other children was stressful for Lane and an involved process.
The jury was warned by Justice Anthony Whealy that only three of the alleged 95 lies Lane had told were relevant to the issue of guilt, while the others could only be used to assess her character.
The judge said to find Lane guilty of murder the jury must be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt she killed the baby.
"Suspicion is never a substitute," Justice Whealy said.
Justice Whealy told the jurors that emotion was to play no part in their decision and warned them not to make moral judgements against the accused.
"Moral judgments, bias, condemnation of other people’s behaviour and dislike of people have no place in a court of law," he said.
Justice Whealy said the fact Lane did not give evidence at her trial did not disadvantage her.
"It is the right of an accused person not to give evidence," he said.
Witnesses at the trial included Lane’s ex-boyfriend, the former rugby league and union player Duncan Gillies, who said they were once very much in love but that he did not know she carried two pregnancies to term during their relationship.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/13/3091886.htm?site=newcastle
Two year old Girl Dies after being tossed over Bridge by her Grandmother
A grandmother was arrested and accused of the unthinkable, killing her two-year-old granddaughter. Fairfax County Police say she threw the child from a 6th floor walkway at Tysons Corner Center Monday night. On Tuesday, the grandmother was charged with murder.
The girl’s mother and uncle witnessed her fall to her death. Initially it looked like an accident, but the walkway wall is waist high, with a guardrail. After talking with witnesses and looking at video from mall security, investigators say it became clear the grandmother, 50-year old Carmela Dela Rosa, threw the girl over and no one seems to know why.
“We’re puzzled,” said Victoriano Torres, the child’s uncle.
He says the family never suspected anything like this could happen.
By all accounts, Dela Rosa was a loving grandmother who often babysat her granddaughter Angelyn Ogdoc. Neighbors say she doted on the little girl and can’t fathom her killing the child.
“She seems happy,” said neighbor Makra Chhay, who often saw Dela Rosa with Angelyn. “That’s her first grandchild.â€
On Monday night, after shopping at Tysons Corner Center, police say Dela Rosa inexplicably threw her granddaughter from a walkway leading from the mall to the garage, on the 6th floor. One of the girl’s uncles and her mother were with them.
“It happened so quickly, the other two adults didn’t know what was going on,” said Officer Tawny Wright, a Fairfax County Police spokesperson.
Police say mall security captured the crime on video. That video, which is not being released, doesn’t explain why. Family and friends are struggling for answers. They gathered at the child’s home. Lynne Kreher and her husband Bill walked past the family’s home this morning, saddened by her death even though they didn’t know her.
“When I heard it this morning tears ran down my eyes. What does a two-year-old do to deserve this? I don’t know,” said Lynne Kreher.
The couple has two grandchildren of their own and can’t make sense of this.
“You don’t, no rationale as far as anyone’s heard. You know, to be coming back from a shopping trip and have something like this happen, it’s inconceivable,” said Bill Kreher.
Police don’t know what prompted something so horrendous. As part of their investigation, police will be looking to see if there were any family problems, mental illness or something in Dela Rosa’s background that can offer some explanation.
“It’s very tragic, it’s atrocious. I don’t know who does that. We don’t know why people do what they do and these things do happen unfortunately,” said Wright.
Dela Rosa remains behind bars after her first court appearance Tuesday. She has another hearing in January. She was initially charged with aggravated malicious wounding, but after the two-year-old died early this morning, those charges were amended to murder.
Relatives are at a loss for answers. No one, not even Dela Rosa’s family or neighbors, saw it coming.
“She’s very nice, sometimes she’d come to our house and bring popcorn and candy,” said Chhay.
For the family, the pain of losing a child is even greater because the person accused is no stranger but her grandmother.
By SHERRI LY
Woman accused of murder sobs in Court
A woman charged with stabbing an older woman to death insider her Girraween home yesterday sobbed and apologised to her supporters in Fairfield Local Court this morning.
Krystal Jade Seymour, 24, of Newman Street in Merrylands, has been charged with the murder of Donna Marie Seymour, 48, at Girraween in the early hours of yesterday morning.
She appeared in court handcuffed and dressed in a hooded prison jumpsuit.
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Ms Seymour sobbed throughout her short appearance and whispered "I’m sorry" and "I love you" to a small group of supporters sitting next to the dock.
Legal Aid solicitor Stuart Bouveng made no application for bail, which was formally refused.
Magistrate Susan McGowan agreed to adjourn the matter to Liverpool Local Court next week, where Ms Seymour will appear via video link, and gave police until January 6 next year to finalise a brief of evidence.
Ms Seymour’s supporters broke into tears and one woman leaned into the dock to kiss her at the conclusion of her appearance.
Outside the court, they pushed news cameras aside and declined to comment.
Ms Seymour will appear in Liverpool Local Court on December 1, for a review of mental health orders.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/stabbing-accused-sobs-in-court-20101125-1885e.html
