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"Aaron Bowman, 28, of New Roads, was booked into the Pointe Coupee Parish Prison on one count of first-degree murder, said New Roads Police Capt. Mark Munson on Saturday... An autopsy showed that one of the baby's legs was broken and he had been hit with the palm of a fist on his head, his stomach and his back... The child also had liver damage... died from internal bleeding... Bowman first told police that the child was injured while Bowman was playing with him. Bowman said he was throwing the child in the air when the child 'slipped' and fell." What nincompoop gave this man custody of a baby and a 2-year-old toddler? http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/police/70731097.html

Paternate "Curtis Lee Morris Jr., 27, remains in jail on $300,000 bond... Barry Mitchell of Shelby County Juvenile Court said Morris gained custody of the child in September from the baby's mother, Erica B. Snipes, also 27, of Memphis. Police have not been able to locate the mother... Mitchell said he could not go into detail about why Morris was given custody." http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/nov/19/dad-accused-beating-his-son-had-just-gotten-custod/  Commentary at http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2009/11/dad-gests-custody-this-fall-then-beats.html

"Audrey Mabrey, 23, is reported in critical condition". The alleged perpetrator, "Christopher Hanney, 44, is listed as stable at Tampa General Hospital... According to the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office, deputies were called to the Apollo Beach home for a report of domestic violence on October 20, but no one was arrested." http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Woman-set-on-fire-in-critical-condition/5Fulfbc2q0SeRgLxMnIDbg.cspx

"The unidentified man surrendered to Palm Bay SWAT team members at about 6 a.m. and was taken to the Palm Bay Community Hospital after appearing under the influence of an unknown substance... The woman and the children, a 14-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl, managed to escape the home during the overnight hours, police said." http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091117/BREAKINGNEWS/91117002/1006/news01/Dad+arrested+after+hostage+situation+ends+in+Palm+Bay
          Lucky them that they are still alive. Note to defense-minded apologists: neither the woman nor the children were able under these circumstances to make the 911 call. Had this "event" somehow been managed, and then reported after the fact, perhaps in a family law case or in connection with the seeking of a restraining order, how seriously would you have taken it?
          And get this idiotic media statment: "Investigators said it began as a fight between Christopher Lynch and his estranged wife. They said Lynch had two guns on him at the time of the standoff." http://www.wesh.com/news/21636380/detail.html  (First the media unidentifies him -- in case it's yet again just some "dad" -- see the floridatoday.com URL -- accused wrongly of domestic violence. And then another news source describes barging into someone else's home armed with two guns as a "fight".)

"Teresa Beiser was asking for joint custody of her two children with Robert Beiser in what appeared from court documents to be an amicable dissolution of their marriage." Excellent commentary and links to the news stories at http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2009/11/mom-files-for-joint-custody-but-gets.html

"...the chain of events began when the unidentified woman went to a police station to report she was a victim of domestic abuse. Officers talked to the woman and drove her back home... went into the apartment with the woman to make sure the suspect was not there... decided to keep watch on the street... heard the woman's screams, ran into the apartment and saw a man stabbing the woman..." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-briefs-1112-11130nov13,0,5064533.story

According to the most recent report from the Violence Policy Center (American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States). "During the six-month period tallied in this study, there were 264 suicides -- yet the total number of deaths was 591. More people died from murders associated with the suicide than from the suicides themselves." More information can be found at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/topics/crime/intimate-partner-violence/murder-suicide.htm
        * Most murder-suicides involve a firearm
        * 94% of offenders are male
        * 74% of victims are intimate partners
        * 75% of murder-suicides occur in the home
        * Police may have higher murder-suicide rates
        * 23% of murder-suicides involved the elderly
        * Most murder-suicides with multiple victims are by male family annihilators
        * Fathers who kill children usually kill their children's mothers, but the reverse is not the case

"Thirty-seven days passed between the time a woman told police Anthony Sowell choked and raped her in his house and when police went to Imperial Avenue to arrest him." http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/post_106.html
And why would they. Just another woman complaining about being mistreated by some guy she picked up or dated? A (yawn) domestic violence-type thing? Just some poor druggie women?... http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20091102/UPDATES01/91102007/1002/NEWS01

"A 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show 'harmful material' to their children has come under fire after a US prosecutor said he couldn't file charges against a man accused of forcing his eight- and nine-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online pornography... one of the girls told a counsellor in June that her father made them watch adults having group sex and various other acts at his home in Amarillo. The parents of the girls, and their seven-year-old sister, are divorced and share custody." Where's the family court judge here? http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/924640/dad-escapes-charges-in-child-porn-case

Suzanne Vernet was beaten to death at the hands of her husband Binh Vernet as two of her four children watched, with one of them calling 911. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569410,00.html?test=latestnews