Violence
Mum ‘organised murder of daughter’s boyfriend’
Editor: Another article highlighting the capacity for women, just like men, to murder.
A UK mother arranged for her 13-year-old daughter’s boyfriend to be murdered and then convinced the teenager to take the blame, a London court has heard.
Gedu Bibi, 47, is on trial for her part in the murder of Sumon Miah, 21, at her home in Walthamstow in October 2006.
Mrs Bibi allegedly recruited former lover Lilu Miah, 48, to kill the young man after he uploaded naked pictures of her daughter to the internet, according to the Daily Mail.
Sumon Miah was hit over the head with a chair leg, fracturing his skull and dying nine days later in hospital.
After the murder, Mrs Bibi allegedly convinced her daughter to tell police she had killed her boyfriend in self-defence, also allegedly persuading her then 12-year-old son to lie.
A Men’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service
Mario Licha ( Barrister at Law) is setting up a new AVO advice service for Australian men.
Mario Licha is a New South Wales Barrister who practises out of Ada Evans Chambers in Sydney, New South Wales. This Sydney Barrister practises in the areas of Criminal and Family Law.
Mario brings a different perspective to the bar having worked as a Registered Nurse for 16 years in which 5 years were spent working at Long Bay Gaol. Mario uses his knowledge and experience in dealing with clients, opposing Counsel and the Bench.
On 17 April 2012 Mario Licha will be giving a FREE talk about AVOs.
Michael Michalak, Student-at-Law assistant will also be giving a small talk about how he became interested and involved law. Michael has prior experience as a self represented litigant in the Family Court.
Read full article on Ezine4Males.com
What about the men? White Ribbon, men and violence
What about the men? White Ribbon, men and violence: A response to Dr Michael Flood by Men’s Health Australia
The White Ribbon Foundation is an organisation that works to prevent male violence towards women – a goal that is extremely worthy and worth supporting. The White Ribbon website states that “all forms of violence are unacceptable,” however in 2009 the organisation issued a document to it’s male Ambassadors which used erroneous ‘facts and statistics’ to downplay, diminish and report incorrectly about male victims of violence. These Ambassadors use federal government funding to take the White Ribbon message into regional, rural and remote communities. These significant errors could have led the Ambassadors, and through them the general public via federal funding, to be misled about the nature and dynamics of interpersonal violence in Australia.
‘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.
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.
Shared care dead as mother stands firm on no access
A QUEENSLAND father has been banned from having any contact with his five-year-old daughter until she reaches 18 after the Family Court accepted that the child’s mother would “destroy” the relationship rather than agree to shared care.
In a decision that suggests the “shared care” law introduced by the Howard government was effectively dead, a full bench of the Family Court said “the mother would ignore any order for contact” and, as a result, it was pointless to order her to co-operate.
Shared care of children after divorce was a policy goal of the previous government, but the law is now being rolled back, with key changes to the Family Law Act (1975) passing through the Senate this week.
Under the old law, mothers were sent to prison or lost custody of children when they refused to allow them to have contact with their father. While this is still possible, the full bench of the court has now said that in some cases there is nothing it can do.
The full bench ruled on the matter after a father, known as Mr Summerby, appealed against a 90-page judgment by a Brisbane federal magistrate, Keith Wilson, which effectively ended his relationship with his daughter.
Mr Wilson agreed that the loss of the girl’s relationship with her father “would be distressful in the short term and may also be emotionally damaging to her in the long term”.
National Geographic seeks male victim of domestic violence for documentary
Sarah Isaac is currently researching the topic of men as victims of domestic violence at National Geographic and is looking for a younger male victim/survivor who is happy to talk on camera.
The reason behind this being that they want to highlight that this is a global and not domestic story.
The show that she is researching on behalf of, Taboo, is National Geographic’s most successful show.
Taboo is a long-running prime-time documentary series on the National Geographic Channel. The series presents an in-depth analysis of human behaviours and customs from around the world. As the title suggests, the focus is on practices that some countries or cultures might consider strange.
Woman pleads not guilty to penis mutilation
A CALIFORNIA woman has pleaded not guilty to cutting off her estranged husband’s penis and running it through a garbage disposal.
The latest episode is reminiscent of the highly publicised 1993 incident involving John and Lorena Bobbit, where the wife used the defense that the act of mutilation was in response to torture and repeated physical and verbal abuse that she was subjected to by John Bobbit.
The trend of genital mutilation however has since become a more common domestic crime against males, along with sky-rocketing levels of physical and emotional abuse, along with a justice system that is either unwilling or unable to respond.
Attorney General releases compromised ‘Domestic Violence’ research
Attorney-General Robert McClelland and Minister for Justice Brendan O’Connor today released a new Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) report Children’s exposure to domestic violence in Australia.
In this paper, current knowledge about the extent of children’s exposure to domestic violence in Australia is described, along with the documented impacts that this exposure can have on children.
However, a leading men’s health organisation, Men’s Health Australia, says the report completely ignores the largest ever Australian survey of young people and domestic violence.
Published in 2001 by the National Crime Prevention division of the Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department and the Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, the national research involved a survey of 5000 young Australians aged between 12 and 20, and in-depth discussions with special groups, namely homeless youth, victims of domestic violence, and youth from different ethnic backgrounds.
This was the largest sample of young people ever surveyed on their experiences of parental domestic violence in Australia or, most likely, the world.
The main findings relate to young people’s understanding of and attitudes to domestic violence, their experiences of witnessing parental or carer’s domestic violence and of violence in their dating relationships, and how they deal with these experiences.
Key findings of this national research ignored by the new AIC report, include:
- Considering physical violence only, nearly a third (31.2%) of young people had witnessed one of the following: a male carer being violent towards his female partner; a female carer being violent to her male partner; or both carers being violent.
- 14.4% of young people reported that this violence was perpetrated both by the male against the female and the female against the male. 9.0% reported that violence was perpetrated against their mother by her male partner but that she was not violent towards him. 7.8% reported that violence was perpetrated against their father by his female partner but that he was not violent towards her.
- Most reported parental violence seemed to be minor, in that no effects were reported by the majority of child witnesses. Where outcomes were reported, the most likely outcome was the separation of the parents. The most severe disruptions on all indicators occurred in those households where both male to female and female to male violence was reported (ie two-way couple violence).
- Witnessing parental domestic violence had a significant effect on young people’s attitudes and experiences. Witnessing was also the strongest predictor of subsequent perpetration by young people. The best predictor of perpetration was witnessing certain types of female to male violence, whilst the best predictor of victimisation in personal relationships was having witnessed male to female violence.
- Where young people had, or were experiencing parental domestic violence, a third of them had not told anyone about it. This rate was higher amongst boys than girls and higher amongst the 12 and 13 year olds than the mid or older teens.
- Young people were more likely to say a woman is right to, or has good reason to, respond to a situation by hitting, than a man in the same situation. And while males hitting females was seen, by virtually all young people surveyed, to be unacceptable, it appeared to be quite acceptable for a girl to hit a boy.
Men’s Health Australia spokesperson Greg Andresen, said, “It is regrettable that these important findings were omitted from the new AIC report. If the government is serious about protecting children and young people from the effects of domestic violence, the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Their Children must be expanded to include male victims and their children.”
Media contact: Greg Andresen | media@menshealthaustralia.net | 0403 813 925
Mother arrested for savagely bashing her 16 month old child
A MOTHER was arrested yesterday after allegedly savagely bashing her 16-month-old son.
The child’s frantic father telephoned police to report the sustained assault.
Police said the 23-year-old woman disappeared with the injured boy for more than a day.
The child was in care last night after being treated in hospital.
The mother beat up the infant at her home in Van Senden Ave, Alice Springs, on Monday evening.
The 31-year-old father called police just after 5.30pm to say the attack was under way.
He told police the mother had hit the boy over the head several times with a full can of soft drink before pulling him out of his pram by his shoulder.
She then allegedly picked up the toddler by one of his legs and slammed him onto the ground three times.
The woman then again held him upside down by the leg and slammed him into a metal fence before holding his head under her arm and punching him in the head.
The woman had fled with the boy by the time officers arrived at the home.
Police searched intensively for the mother and son throughout Alice Springs on Tuesday and eventually found them back at the Van Senden Ave property just after 4am yesterday.
The mother was arrested and the child taken to Alice Springs Hospital.
The woman was expected to be charged late last night.
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2011/06/16/240881_ntnews.html
