Children testify against father accused of beheading mother (Buffalo, New York)

Here at Dastardly Dads, I don't try to catalogue every domestic homicide--even those within the continental limits of the U.S. It's just too big a job, though many intrepid bloggers--who have my utmost admiration--have tried.

Generally, I limit myself to homicides where there is an identifiable fatherhood angle.

And now we finally see one involving dad MUZZAMMIL HASSAN. This is the fellow who is accused of beheading his wife after a long history of domestic violence against her. Now Dad is trying to turn the tables, and paint himself as the True Victim in his giant pity party. Not only that, but he's turned it into a major media event. Somehow I wonder if Fathers Rights of Western New York have their fingers in this. Smells like it to me, but who knows. This is a big part of modern fathers rights thinking, you see. That men are the True Victims of domestic violence--even if the woman is the one who is dead. Doesn't make sense to people with an ounce of sense, but that's how whack-job narcissists and criminals think. They're always whining that Poor Me is really the poor misunderstood creature here. And just ignore the slaughter around them please.

Anyway, it seems that Daddy's older two kids are raining on Daddy's pity party. Both kids recall Dad inflicting violence on them as well as their stepmother. And notice something very interesting: Dad apparently forced the mom to sign a contract saying that she would be forcibly separated from her children for three days if she were ever to call the authorities over violence in the home. This is the pure coercive control of a killer father--you can't even make this sh** up, because it's just too "crazy" for most people to fathom. But it gives you a very vivid sense of how the minds of abusive fathers work. Controlling/eliminating a mother's access to her children is a very big piece of the abuser's modus operandi. Judges ignore this fact at the peril of both the mother and her children.

Notice that Daddy also tried to run the babysitter off the New York State Thruway when she tried to take the wife to the airport. What an interesting irony. Fathers Rights of Western New York used to "own" a piece of the road under the adopt-a highway program--and it was just a short way from the airport. Never thought about it until now, but I wonder if they intended it to be a subtle warning to victims trying to escape....

http://www.wben.com/Day-Two--Hassan-Children-Testify-Against-Father/9018104

Day Two: Hassan Children Testify Against Father

Steve Cichon Reporting

scichon@entercom.com

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - The older children of Muzzammil Hassan spent hours on the witness stand at the trial where their father stands accused of murder in the beheading death of the step mother both children said was a better parent than their biological father was.

Michael Hassan and Sonia Hassan gave graphic in depth testimony regarding their memories of instances where their father Muzzammil inflicted violence on them and the late Aasiya Hassan. Michael noted that he bears the scar of his fathers punch on his nose, which happened the same day his sister remembers her father punching his wife in the face.

Sonia also read from one of several documents she had secreted away for her step mother, only weeks before she was murdered. A contract signed by both Muzzammil and Aasiya Hassan outlined that if she attempted to call the police, a judge, or child protective services that he would in turn force her to live in a hotel for three days away from her children for each time one of those calls was made.

A babysitter testified that Hassan once ran her off the road on the Thruway as she tried to take Mrs. Hassan to the airport one morning.

Before the defendant's daughter came to the stand, Muzzammil Hassan asked Judge Thomas Franczyk if he himself could cross examine her as a witness.

As he denied the request, Judge Franczyk asked Hassan how he could want to put his daughter through that.

Hassan was very animated at several points during testimony and during a sidebar conference Wednesday, making sure his lawyer at least knew his side of every story being told.