More murders of women and children in Australia

CassandraNORI

I’m beyond devastated by the news that has come out in the last couple of days of a woman brutally murdered by her ex and a beautiful baby girl murdered by her father.

I know we are all weary of this, of reading about it, of crying, of feeling even a slight fraction in our hearts of what these beautiful women and children’s loved ones have to feel.

I don’t even know what to say, but maybe here can be somewhere to discuss and or vent. I wish I’d never looked at the news.

WidowWyncke

What will it take?

Women and children are not valued and this year has taught us that it is not changing and hasn’t changed despite all the smarmy rhetoric,white ribbons and promises.

LadySybilVimes

Vale Kelly Wilkinson. 27 years old, burnt to death by her ex-husband.

Vale Kobi Shepherdson. 9 months old, murdered by her father.

WidowWyncke

Here are their faces

Let’s remember them ,and not the men who did this, and then fight in their memory.

NightHawk

Can’t deal. Just too sad and infuriating. I can’t write what I want to.

OnFire

It’s so awful, what these men have put them through.

I have to turn off the news sometimes because it’s so traumatic, but I end up turning it back on because their stories should not be ignored.

MrsT

Sick of this shit. So sick of it. Australia has a serious misogyny problem.

JC88

Those two beautiful faces. How my heart breaks

Gum-boots

Furious. I’m furious. And I tear up every time I see that baby.

Darcey Freeman was thrown to her death in 2010. NOTHING will change while the LNP are in.

AnnHiggins

these stories are heartbreaking. i’m kind of beyond furious now, it’s despair. and i agree - the federal government are just beyond pathetic

AprilEthereal

I spent a bit of time last night and this morning reading. And crying. This is still happening. Poor Kelly spent the last eight weeks of her life grieving the loss of her mum. Plus, all the scary stuff going on with her ex. I am heartbroken for her, her traumatised kids and family. Plus the neighbours who tried to help when they heard the explosions. I don’t know much about the case involving the baby but am so sad and angry that her life was taken. The murder of Kelly Wilkinson must have been very triggering for Hannah Clarkes’s family. This has got to stop. 🙁

mumpteen

It’s so depressing and with all the calls for politicians to “do something”, I’m so fucking scared that the good Christian men in power will think the best idea is to “protect” (read: suppress) women to keep us safe.

DYNAR

Seems like the best place to post this link for an upcoming SBS series:

https://www.sbs.com.au/guide/article/2021/04/05/see-what-you-made-me-do-confronts-our-domestic-abuse-crisis

WidowWyncke

What is the threshold level for a man’s potential for violence to be taken seriously?

Are women and children disposable commodities?

I don’t see why this man was still allowed to see his child, someone explain it to me.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9499063/Whispering-Wall-Barossa-Valley-murder-suicide-Father-fought-court-order-banning-family.html

NightHawk

WidowWyncke They seem to be able to do whatever they want. The women are the bad guys.

IcyPole

WidowWyncke I don’t get it either. There’s no way he should have been allowed anywhere near that innocent baby, and certainly not unsupervised access.

The bastard had her in a baby carrier so there would have been no way anyone could have even tried to grab her away from him to save her.

IcyPole

Here’s a good analogy about #notallmen explained in a beautifully Australian way by a man with a truly magnificent mullet:

catbus

This bit of the article pissed me off tbh-

“Local MP Stephan Knoll vowed to investigate the safety of the region if a coronial inquest found it was lacking.”

It’s not about the dam. FFS.

AprilEthereal

After reading more about poor little Kobi’s murder, I am so fucking angry, given his history and all, that he was still legally entitled to see her. I just cannot understand that one bit. Also, the piece of shit, John Edwards who shot and murdered his two kids, Jack and Jennifer, should never, given his history, been granted a gun license. There are just far too many examples.

WidowWyncke

We all scoff at the US and their gun control but we have huge problems here.

How are men able to still demand access and flout AVOs when they have substantial histories of violence and abuse.

One strike and you are out AFAIC.

People will argue that will make them more hostile and violent but that’s the problem isn’t it.

These men do not own their women or their children, that mindset needs to end.