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Archive for January 11, 2009

Social pathology: disaster or goldmine?

NZCPR Forum 
Opinion piece by
Theodore Dalrymple
11 January 08

Whenever we try to assess the meaning and significance of particularly horrible cases, such as that of Nia Glassie in New Zealand or Baby P in Britain (between which there are several parallels), it is important to bear in mind that there is nothing new under the sun, that some people have always done terrible things to others, that some humans have always behaved with the utmost cruelty, that there has never been a golden age of universal benevolence and good will to all men, and that no social system will entirely eliminate the human capacity for evil….(Full Story)

Women’s violence

For quite some time I tried to post in this blog’s section on women’s violence any stories of violent women that I ran across or that were brought to my attention.

Lately I tried to make more intense efforts to find such stories of women’s violence.  Here is what I came across just during the past four days:

Jan. 11, 2009 Woman poisoned husband
Jan. 11, 2009 Woman kills husband by shooting him in chest
Jan. 11, 2009 Woman critically burned husband in arson
Jan. 11, 2009 Woman beats up elderly husband
Jan. 11, 2009 Woman arrested for stabbing husband
Jan. 11, 2009 No jail for mom who seriously abused daughter
Jan. 11, 2009 Mom shot son in face
Jan. 11, 2009 Woman arrested for shooting boyfriend in the back
Jan. 9, 2009 Woman receives 4-year sentence for murder of husband
Jan. 9, 2009 Woman who murdered husband not charged
Jan. 9, 2009 Drunk woman driver kills toddler
Jan. 9, 2009 Wife kills husband in booze row
Jan. 9, 2009 Woman stabs nephew to death
Jan. 9, 2009 Woman stabs husband to death
Jan. 9, 2009 Woman accused of murdering her husband
Jan. 9, 2009 Woman burns five children, killing one
Jan. 6, 2009 Women murders husband by burning his genitals

Just roughly 2 murders a day (mostly in the US) by women in DV incidents during the past four days.  Those are the results of a Google news alert for “she shot”, “she poisoned”, and “she stabbed”, plus what I could find from a couple of men’s rights websites at which such stories were posted.  Very few of those stories made the major national or international newspapers.  Moreover, those searches I have going do not find stories that do not contain terms other than those I used.  The searches will not capture stories with search terms such as, for example, “she allegedly shot” “she allegedly poisoned” “she allegedly stabbed” and many other variations.

How did the redfems ever get away with the maxim “Women good, Men bad”?  How could it possibly be that the redfems managed to launch an all-out criminal hate campaign against men by claiming that women are not violent and that all domestic violence is exclusively being committed by men and to keep it going for decades?  How and why did any of the media support the redfems‘ assertions that the projection from a few aberrations of violent men should be made to all men, and to sweep the fact of at least an equal extent of violent women under the carpet?

At any rate, I will try to keep on for a while with finding such stories and posting them to dads & things.  As of now, it appears that such stories will prove that the number of the annual incidents of women’s serious or fatal violence against husbands and other family members will exceed, by far, the number of such incidents in the official statistics we get to see.

I cannot do an equivalent search and tallying of comparable violence by men.  I just don’t have enough time to do that, and an appeal for someone to do the required work for that produced no volunteers so far.  Nevertheless, we get to see more than enough of that in the daily news, without ever hearing much about women’s violence.

By the way, The Equal Justice Foundation is one of the best sources of information on violent women and battered husbands.

–Walter

Woman poisoned husband

Google.com

2009 01 10

Woman allegedly tries to kill hubby with eye drops

SPRINGFIELD, Mo., USA (AP) — A 40-year-old southwest Missouri woman is accused of trying to kill her husband by spiking his tea with a half bottle of Visine eye drops. Greene County deputies said the woman was jailed Thursday night on $100,000 bond on a first-degree assault charge….(Full Story)

Woman kills husband by shooting him in chest

LufkinDailyNews.com, Texas, USA

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Woman arrested in husband’s death makes bail

‘A Huntington woman arrested last week after being extradited from Iowa for the 2003 shooting death of her husband has made bail.

Angelina County Jail records show Shelly Anne Dorsey’s attorney, Ryan Deaton, posted a $100,000 bond Monday afternoon.

An Angelina County grand jury indicted Dorsey, 37, in late October for the murder of 30-year-old Alvin Dorsey II, who died after being shot in the chest outside Little Jim’s night club, off U.S. 69 south, on Sept. 12, 2003….(Full Story)

Woman critically burned husband in arson

MaineToday.com, Maine, USA

Woman arrested, husband critically burned in Wells fire

By Edward D. Murphy

January 08, 2009 10:20 AM

WELLS — Police have charged a woman with arson after a fire in her apartment left her husband burned over 85 percent of his body.

Police said they arrested Kimberly Spampinato, 42, when she turned herself in at the Wells Police Department shortly after the Harbor Road fire was reported after midnight.

Police said her husband, Christopher Spampinato, 39, was asleep when the fire broke out. Police found him sitting on the front steps to the apartment house, critically burned, when they responded to the report of the fire….(Full Story)

Woman beats up elderly husband

Ocala.com, Florida, USA

Woman arrested after reportedly striking husband

Staff report

Friday, January 9, 2009

ORANGE LAKE - A 67-year-old woman accused of hitting her husband was arrested by a sheriff’s deputy and charged with battery on a person over 65, according to a Sheriff’s Office report.

The man reportedly suffers from dementia. According to the report, his shirt had blood all over it and his left cheek was swollen. He refused medical treatment….(Full Story)

Woman arrested for stabbing husband

WSBT TV, Mishawaka, IN, USA

Plymouth woman arrested for stabbing husband

By Beth Boehne

Jan 9, 2009

PLYMOUTH — A 22-year-old Plymouth woman has been arrested for stabbing her husband in the arm.

Police were called to Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center in Plymouth Wednesday afternoon on reports of a stabbing victim being treated there. Investigators learned the victim, Joshua McNeal, had been stabbed once in the arm by his wife….(Full Story)

No jail for mom who seriously abused daughter

Toronto Sun, Ont, Canada

Addict escapes jail term in daughter’s abuse

By SAM PAZZANO, COURTS BUREAU

8th January 2009

A crack-addicted woman was handed a 13-month conditional sentence yesterday for corrupting her developmentally challenged daughter, who was used for sex and given cocaine by other crack-users at the family’s Rexdale flophouse….(Full Story)

Mom shot son in face

WIFR.com; Rockford, Il, USA

Local Woman Allegedly Shoots Son in Face

Jan 9, 2009

A 47-year-old local woman is arrested after police say she shot her son in the face….(Full Story)

Woman arrested for shooting boyfriend in the back

 The Advertiser.com; Youngsville, LA, USA

January 7, 2009

Woman arrested after shooting in view of police

Shay Randle • grandle@theadvertiser.com

Youngsville police arrested a woman Monday after she allegedly shot her boyfriend in the back in front of police officers.

The shooting happened in the 400 block of Detente Road around 12:10 p.m.

The suspect, Carronda Lynette Syon, had apparently called 911 dispatchers and told them her boyfriend was coming to the residence, according to Youngsville Police Chief Earl Menard….(Full Story)

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