October 2, 2006 by Walter Schneider.

Ottawa Citizen 25 September 2006

Joint custody fails to reduce violence by ex-spouses, researcher says

By Dave Rogers, CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen Ottawa

Shared child custody after marriage breakdown can perpetuate spousal violence instead of promoting an amicable divorce settlement, according to a study by a University of Quebec sociologist.

Denyse Cote, who has completed a study of residents of women’s shelters in the Outaouais and Montreal, says most of the women she interviewed told her that their former partners continued to abuse them after courts decided on joint custody for their children.

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What is being proved by asking women in women’s shelters? It’s like asking customers at McDonalds whether they partake of fast food.

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October 2, 2006 by Walter Schneider.

Newsweek’s September 25th article “Fighting Over the Kids: Battered spouses take aim at a controversial custody strategy” (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14870310/site/newsweek) attempted to sell the American public an impossible theory: abusive fathers are successfully winning custody of children by claiming that the mother alienated the children from them.The article highlights the case of Genia Shockome, who lost custody to the father in her divorce. A study of case facts reveals that the judge made the correct decision. (http://glennsacks.com/enewsletters/enews_9_20_06.htm)

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R.A.D.A.R. – Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting – is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of men and women working to assure that the problem of domestic violence is treated in a balanced and effective manner.

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October 2, 2006 by Walter Schneider.

Quote: The boy said in evidence: “I was crying on the sofa because of what she’d said about my dad. She was in the kitchen and she flipped the kettle on three or four times. She then called me into the kitchen and said ‘Sorry kid, but I’ve got to do this.’ She then tipped the contents of the kettle over me.”

BBC News, 25 September 2006

Scalding case jury is discharged

The jury in the trial of a woman accused of pouring boiling water over her son has been discharged after new information came to light.

Judge Philip Richards told the jury at Cardiff Crown Court the information could have a huge bearing on the case.

He said it was a matter of deep regret but that he had to discharge the jury….

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Going by the information contained in the article, it is not possible to predict where the case of the mom accused of scalding her son and disfiguring him for life will go.

The only thing we do know for sure is that the mother kept changing her story and even gave reasons for doing so, while the boy stuck by his and bears seriously disfiguring life-time scars. Going by other cases like this one, the mom will go free.

Although we may feel that Judge Philip Richards is excessively chivalrous or that he has feminist leanings, the BBC article did not provide the slightest bit of information that would permit anyone to reach that conclusion. The article doesn’t even tell whether the case was open to the public.

Discharging a jury is not necessarily a bad thing for justice. Juries have been notoriously forgiving when it came to women who hurt or murdered their children.

For instance, following five thousand coroner’s inquests into child deaths held annually in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, only thirty-nine convictions for child murder resulted, and none of those women were executed. Similarly, in Canada, when a mandatory death penalty applied to the murder of children, “courts regularly returned ‘not guilty’ verdicts in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.” (Patricia Pearson, When She Was Bad, p. 80 (1997), ISBN 0-394-22430-2; quoted in Infanticide or “Post-natal Abortion”; see review of the book)

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