Dad in custody battle cuts throats of twin 3-year-old daughters (Richmond, Virginia)

We just posted on this case, but here we see additional verification that these murders were custody related (e.g. an extension of the abusive father's obsession with power and control). Once again we see that for dads like ROBERT KING, child custody has NOTHING TO DO with wanting to nurture and raise children. It has everything to do with punishing/hurting the mother. Securing child custody is just the next step in their control/abuse agenda. From that mindset, slaughtering the kids works just as well as stripping the mother of the babies she gave birth too. In fact, for these guys, killing might even work better, since it allows them to give free reign to their bloodlust/ultimate control-over-life-and-death fantasies. And it means that Mom will never see the kids again in this lifetime.

A father with this history (paranoia and verbal abuse) should have NEVER been granted weekend visitation or any access at all. But once again, we see how fathers rights friendly policies rule the day. And once again, we see the results of this systematic coddling....

http://www.newser.com/story/138650/dad-in-custody-battle-cut-throats-of-twin-daughters-3.html

Dad in Custody Battle Cut Throats of Twin Daughters, 3
Robert King found dead with his girls in his Virginia home

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 31, 2012 12:08 AM CST

(Newser) – A Virginia man in the middle of a custody battle for his 3-year-old twin daughters funneled carbon monoxide into his suburban Richmond house and cut the throats of his girls and himself. Police aren't certain yet whether the gas or the cuts killed the three. The twins' mother called deputies, and was found sobbing on her knees in the driveway. "My babies are dead," she told officers. Before they could enter, deputies had to first break windows to ventilate the house, which was filled with fumes from a flexible tube Robert King, 40, had attached to the exhaust pipe of his car. He placed the other end of the tube in the bedroom where the three bodies were found.

King filed for divorce last year, claiming wife Kristina Hooper had abandoned the family. Hooper argued in court that she was driven from the home by King's paranoid behavior and verbal abuse, which made "living conditions intolerable," reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The girls, Madison and Caroline, lived with Hooper, but were spending the weekend with King when he killed them.