US mum used samurai sword to kill twin girls

Updated 2019 05 08, to add links to related articles.

“US mum used samurai sword to kill twin girls” appears to be a strange heading for a strange story.  Unfortunately, strange circumstances relating to child murders committed by women appear to be the norm.  Not only that, but child murders are most often committed by women.

9NEWS
ninemsn.com

16:00 AEST Wed Oct 27 2010

By ninemsn staff

A Californian mother has faced court accused of killing her twin daughters with a samurai sword. [sic]

Monica McCarrick, 28, allegedly stabbed her three-year-old girls, set fire to her apartment and then stabbed herself on October 12….(Full Story That link no longer works, but try this one to an article about the case at the Daily Mail)

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For more of today’s crop of stories about women’s violence gleaned from mensactivism.org, check these links (note: incomplete list; see complete list):

• Feministing comments on mother accused of murdering baby over farmville game
• UK: Woman charged with subway push murder
• Lawyer for ‘Hiccup Girl’ May Use Tourette’s Syndrome Defense in Murder Case
• Baby Injured During At-Home Circumcision
• Woman charged with baby murders
• Woman pleads guilty to murdering husband in long-awaited trial open
• “Hiccup Girl” arrested for murder
• Community service for girl who made false rape claim
• Report: Woman accused of false rape claims heads to court today
• Dallas Mother Ruled Insane, Not Guilty of Throwing Sons From Overpass
• China: Mother who beat daughter to death for not memorising a poem spared prison
• Australia: Mother jailed for prostituting teenage daughter
• Australia: Female drunk-driver of crashed vehicle had children in boot (trunk)
• Scottish police record record number of male victims of domestic abuse
• Australia: Couple jailed for sex with son aged nine
• Australia: Female retirement home worker charged with sexually assaulting elderly man
• Australia: Penis burning wife guilty of manslaughter

#ChildAbuse #ChildMurder #WomensViolence

See also:

• Killing of child near Hollister defies rational explanation
• Mom kills baby, for interrupting FarmVille computer game
• Planned Parenthood advises Girl Scouts
• Sins of the mother: the tragedy of neonaticide
• Sitter charged with baby’s death in dryer
• Woman stabs nephew to death
• Aunt charged with murder of 4-year-old niece
• Woman charged with beating adopted son to death
• Infanticide — a euphemism for child murder
• Murdering mama insists that she is the victim