Mom: custodial dad became violent when drinking (Victoria, Australia)

This is crappy news coverage. First of all, we established yesterday that UNNAMED DAD had custody. Not only is that fact not explored here, it's been dropped from the report. WHY? Also notice that the headline is TOTALLY MISLEADING. Although Daddy's mom refused to say that he had seen him act violently to the children, she admitted that she had seen him act violently (e.g. when he got drunk and trashed a room). She also confesses that the murdered child had black eyes in the week before her death, but that Daddy was unable to provide a satisfactory explanation. The mother of the murdered child said she had seen him act violently, but said her concerns about the abuse of the children had been ignored. Just as ABC ignores her concerns by writing them out of the headline, and only mentioning them in the very last sentence. Sounds like Mom is still being ignored....

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/27/3254442.htm

Father never violent to children, inquest told

By Jacqui Peake

Updated Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:53pm AEST

The mother of a man charged with inflicting fatal injuries on his two-year old daughter has told a coronial inquest he had never shown violence towards his children.

The child, Hayley, who was 26 months old, died on August 2, 2009, three weeks after her father, Robert, took her to a hospital in western Victoria.

She was unconscious with head injuries and widespread bruising.

She was flown to the Royal Children's Hospital where doctors noted that her injuries appeared to have been deliberately inflicted.

Robert was charged with causing the injuries and committed suicide on the July 13. He denied hurting the child.

Their surnames cannot be used for legal reasons.

His mother, who can be referred to only as CM, told the inquest her son once damaged a room in her house while he was drunk.

But she says that was the only time she had seen him act violently.

She said she noticed Hayley's eyes were faintly black in the weeks before her death and that her father could not explain the injuries.

Hayley's mother, who is identified as CG, cried while telling the court Hayley's father was an alcoholic and frequent marijuana user who became violent when he drank.

She says no one took her concerns for the children seriously.