The New York State Legislature passed a bill last week that would prohibit convicted domestic abusers from buying and owning all guns. The legislation requires convicted domestic abusers to surrender all firearms, closing a loophole in previous legislation that required abusers to surrender only handguns. In addition, New York law previously stated that domestic abusers convicted […]
Mexico’s annual Day of the Dead celebrations took a sharply political turn this year, as hundreds of protesters used the day to draw attention to the grave injustice of some of those deaths: female victims. Wearing black clothing and skeletal face paint, dozens of women marched in downtown Mexico City chanting “not one more” to commemorate the growing […]
At 9am on 19 July, mother and daughter left the pool and made their way back across the car park to their blue Toyota Aygo. As they approached the car, a man crawled out from underneath it: Claire’s husband and Charlotte’s father, Lance Hart, whom the pair had left five days earlier. Now he held […]
A “loving” dad who was fatally stabbed in the heart by his partner had suffered a history of domestic abuse at her hands. But police have revealed 43-year-old David Butterfield had never reported the violence he suffered. Michelle Spencer was due to go on trial over the murder of David Butterfield, but changed her plea to […]
When the news broke of a man who’d apparently killed his mother, daughter, wife, and then himself in Nova Scotia, the media focused heavily on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Ardath Whynacht is a sociologist at Mount Allison University who works with inmates at two federal prisons, some of whom have committed violence against their partners. She says the media […]
The two toddlers held by their father as he jumped off a New Jersey bridge to his death are expected to make a full recovery, police say. Authorities had received a call that evening from a friend of Spincken’s wife, who reported that he was threatening to harm the children. After tracking Spincken through his cellphone, […]