Dastardly Dads: DASTARDLY DADS FROM THE ARCHIVES (Harrow, England

Contrary to fathers' rights propaganda, father perpetrators (along with stepdads and caretaker boyfrends) dominate the most vicious crimes against children: sexual assault, abusive head trauma, murder-suicides, crimes involving gun violence, and other similar forms of physically violent/fatal child abuse. And as more dads are providing child care (either because mom is working and can't find other care, or because dads are increasingly getting unsupervised visitation/custody through the family courts), more dads are are being found guilty of basic child abuse and neglect as well.

10/25/15 -Because of severe time constraints, we are no longer able to do regular updates at Dastardly Dads. We will occasionally post articles on general studies on child abuse/domestic violence, news pieces involving abusive fathers in custody/visitation situations. We wil also be updating the Killer Dads and Custody lists, while looking for a better, more accessible platform for the data.

7/11/16 - We started this blog on June 24, 2009--just over seven years. And like all good things, it's time to bring this project to a close. It has served its purpose. We have close to 10,500 postings regarding fathers and child abuse, with hundred of those cases being enabled by the family courts, social services, and others in authority. The documentation is clear. It is now time to stop documenting and put that energy into changing the situation that puts thousands of mothers and children at risk every day.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

DASTARDLY DADS FROM THE ARCHIVES (Harrow, England - 1905)

Account is from Martin Fido and David Southwell, True Crime: The Infamous Villains of Modern History and their Hideous Crimes (2008).

Wife Murderer Hides Bodies in Trunk (1905)

Chemist's Assistant ARTHUR DEVEREUX found that even if two can live as cheaply as one, three cannot ... and five certainly cannot! Life as a married man with three children entailed serious financial hardship. In January, he bought a large trunk and some morphine and choroform.

Somehow he persuaded his wife and their twin children to drink the poison. Then he sealed his three victims into the trunk with an airtight mixture of glue and boracic acid, and deposited them at a warehouse in Harrow, England, before moving to Coventry with his surviving son. Mrs. Devereux's mother successfully traced her son-in-law's movements and tracked down the bodies to the warehouse. Police apprehended Devereux, who has been hanged and convicted.

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DASTARDLY DADS FROM THE ARCHIVES (Harrow, England - 1905)