Seldom do we see the parallels between fathers rights and terrorism in such stark relief.
Daddy uses his religious "beliefs" to justify why he can terrorize/punish the mother and take her little girl away from her. Meanwhile, this nitwit is playing out his violent fantasies with no concern for the safety or well-being of his daughter by dragging her into a war zone.
Kind of hard to do potty training while blowing up stuff. So you can just about bet he dumped this child with somebody else and/or he's simply neglecting her. That's assuming he's not taking out his violent women hating on the child....
But for all these guys it's always about hurting the mother. It's never about loving the child.
Dad is identified as HAMZA MADHOUJ.
http://www.france24.com/en/20140410-france-syria-jihadist-baby-assia-nosra-war/
French jihadist defends decision to take his baby to war-torn Syria
FRANCE 24
Text by FRANCE 24
Latest update : 2014-04-10
The French father of 2-year-old Assia has denied kidnapping charges after he took the girl to Syria and joined an armed rebel group linked to al Qaeda, saying he has acted in accordance with Islamic law. His ex-wife is suing for custody.
In a telephone interview with FRANCE 24's sister station Radio France Internationale (RFI) on Wednesday, Hamza Madhouj said his decision to move to Syria with his daughter was not a kidnapping. “Assia is not a hostage. I took my daughter with me, that’s completely different,” he said.
On October 24, 2013, Madhouj left his home in Lyon with his 18-month-old daughter. He drove through Italy, Greece and Turkey and joined Jabhat al-Nusra, a Syrian armed group affiliated with al-Qaeda.
Madhouj’s ex-wife Meriem Rhaiem has not seen their daughter since then. Rhaiem is suing Madhouj for kidnapping and he is now on Interpol’s wanted list.
“In our religion, there’s a command called hijra – it's an obligation for all Muslims not to live in a non-Muslim country. Her mother refused to follow us,” Madhouj argues.
Rhaiem and other parents of French children taken to Syria by relatives held a press conference on Wednesday, calling on the government to help bring them back.
“Is someone looking after her?”
“The questions I have to live with every day are what is she drinking, what is she eating, is she keeping clean, is someone looking after her?” she told FRANCE 24 in an interview prior to the press conference. “I'm living in constant anxiety – in my struggle, every second counts.”
Rhaiem says her ex-husband told her he would rather see their daughter die in Syria than return to France.
Madhouj insists he is taking care of his daughter. “I never said I would rather my daughter died in Syria. I never said that, it’s not true,” he told RFI.
He added that they were near the Turkish border, away from the worst of the fighting. “She eats like every child and sleeps like every child. We are not in a war zone, there are no bombings, I’m not crazy enough to take my daughter into a war zone,” he said.
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Dad who murdered kids as part of his "custody battle" hangs himself in jail (France)
Good riddance to bad garbage.
Once again, we see one of the triumphs of the fathers rights movement.
Decency and common sense would tell you that a father with an extensive history of violence and alcoholism (including at least two assaults on the mother of his children) should NOT have contact with children.
But the fathers rights people have prevailed in all the courts these days, so we're supposed to indulge criminals and thugs and give in to their terrorist demands. Thus we see a piece of merde like JULIAN STEVENSON get his no-contact order lifted JUST ONE WEEK before the children's murders. And then, Daddy Dearest butchered them like hogs in a slaughterhouse on his FIRST UNSUPERVISED VISIT.
Stop giving these slime bags access to the kids. No access, no murders.
http://www.citytalk.fm/news/uk-and-world/20131231-child-killer-father-hangs-himself-in-jail/
Child Killer Father Hangs Himself In Jail
Posted on Tuesday 31 December 2013
A father who cut his children's throats after a custody battle with his French former wife has hanged himself in prison, according to legal officials in France.
Sky News
A father who cut his children's throats after a custody battle with his French former wife has hanged himself in prison, according to legal officials in France.
Julian Stevenson was living in the French city of Lyon when he slit 10-year-old Matthew and five-year-old Carla’s throats with a kitchen knife in May.
The 47-year-old, who had a history of violence and alcoholism, had murdered his children in a fit of rage then fled the scene on rollerskates.
He was discovered moments later walking the suburban streets covered in blood.
Stevenson had been embroiled in a bitter custody battle with his assistant accountant former wife and had been banned from having contact with his children without a third person present.
However, this order was partially reversed in the weeks before the murder, and Stevenson was believed to be having his first visit alone with his children when he killed them.
In the hours before their deaths Stevenson, who was unemployed, was captured in a bakery with them buying sweets – they were each carrying a balloon.
But Stevenson’s former wife, Stephanie, whom he had badly beaten in 2005 and 2010, became anxious about the visit and arrived at his Lyon flat to find him in the stairwell of the four-storey block covered in blood.
Stevenson, who had been living in France for a decade, appeared briefly in court in May and was being held in prison where he was found hanged on Monday.
A source at the local public prosecutors' office told the news agency AFP: “He hanged himself on Monday in a sports hall reserved for inmates held in solitary confinement."
Once again, we see one of the triumphs of the fathers rights movement.
Decency and common sense would tell you that a father with an extensive history of violence and alcoholism (including at least two assaults on the mother of his children) should NOT have contact with children.
But the fathers rights people have prevailed in all the courts these days, so we're supposed to indulge criminals and thugs and give in to their terrorist demands. Thus we see a piece of merde like JULIAN STEVENSON get his no-contact order lifted JUST ONE WEEK before the children's murders. And then, Daddy Dearest butchered them like hogs in a slaughterhouse on his FIRST UNSUPERVISED VISIT.
Stop giving these slime bags access to the kids. No access, no murders.
http://www.citytalk.fm/news/uk-and-world/20131231-child-killer-father-hangs-himself-in-jail/
Child Killer Father Hangs Himself In Jail
Posted on Tuesday 31 December 2013
A father who cut his children's throats after a custody battle with his French former wife has hanged himself in prison, according to legal officials in France.
Sky News
A father who cut his children's throats after a custody battle with his French former wife has hanged himself in prison, according to legal officials in France.
Julian Stevenson was living in the French city of Lyon when he slit 10-year-old Matthew and five-year-old Carla’s throats with a kitchen knife in May.
The 47-year-old, who had a history of violence and alcoholism, had murdered his children in a fit of rage then fled the scene on rollerskates.
He was discovered moments later walking the suburban streets covered in blood.
Stevenson had been embroiled in a bitter custody battle with his assistant accountant former wife and had been banned from having contact with his children without a third person present.
However, this order was partially reversed in the weeks before the murder, and Stevenson was believed to be having his first visit alone with his children when he killed them.
In the hours before their deaths Stevenson, who was unemployed, was captured in a bakery with them buying sweets – they were each carrying a balloon.
But Stevenson’s former wife, Stephanie, whom he had badly beaten in 2005 and 2010, became anxious about the visit and arrived at his Lyon flat to find him in the stairwell of the four-storey block covered in blood.
Stevenson, who had been living in France for a decade, appeared briefly in court in May and was being held in prison where he was found hanged on Monday.
A source at the local public prosecutors' office told the news agency AFP: “He hanged himself on Monday in a sports hall reserved for inmates held in solitary confinement."
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Dad caught sexually abusing 14-year-old daughter on webcam (France)
UNNAMED DAD
http://americanlivewire.com/french-14-year-old-uses-webcam-catch-abusive-father/
A French 14-year-old uses webcam to catch sex abuse by father
Solomonthewise1
November 4, 2013, 9:58 am | Last Updated: November 4, 2013, 9:58 am
A French 14-year-old, who had been the victim of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, has now been placed in protection after a secretly placed webcam was able to capture the abuse. The victim had previously gone to her school counselor to report the sex abuse, however, authorities needed physical evidence of the attacks in order to arrest the child’s father. After secretly using her computer’s webcam to catch her father in the act, the 14-year-old was able to get the recording into the hands of authorities. The webcam footage is now being used as a key piece of evidence in law enforcement’s investigation of the abuse which had allegedly going on for “three or four months” at the suspect’s accounts and “even longer” as the victim has stated.
The father and alleged sexual abuser of his 14-year-old daughter has claimed that the abuse that was caught on camera was just for fun and to have received no pleasure from the incident. However, it would appear the footage would tell a different story of the encounters between father and daughter, as the suspect is currently being held in Beziers prison.
The clandestine camera and its footage has helped thwart the attacks while the authority attempts to sort out the matter. There are still questions to be answered like whether or not the mother of the victim may have also been a victim of her husband’s abuse. For now the 14-year-old victim will wait in women’s protection while authorities continue to probe the situation.
http://americanlivewire.com/french-14-year-old-uses-webcam-catch-abusive-father/
A French 14-year-old uses webcam to catch sex abuse by father
Solomonthewise1
November 4, 2013, 9:58 am | Last Updated: November 4, 2013, 9:58 am
A French 14-year-old, who had been the victim of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, has now been placed in protection after a secretly placed webcam was able to capture the abuse. The victim had previously gone to her school counselor to report the sex abuse, however, authorities needed physical evidence of the attacks in order to arrest the child’s father. After secretly using her computer’s webcam to catch her father in the act, the 14-year-old was able to get the recording into the hands of authorities. The webcam footage is now being used as a key piece of evidence in law enforcement’s investigation of the abuse which had allegedly going on for “three or four months” at the suspect’s accounts and “even longer” as the victim has stated.
The father and alleged sexual abuser of his 14-year-old daughter has claimed that the abuse that was caught on camera was just for fun and to have received no pleasure from the incident. However, it would appear the footage would tell a different story of the encounters between father and daughter, as the suspect is currently being held in Beziers prison.
The clandestine camera and its footage has helped thwart the attacks while the authority attempts to sort out the matter. There are still questions to be answered like whether or not the mother of the victim may have also been a victim of her husband’s abuse. For now the 14-year-old victim will wait in women’s protection while authorities continue to probe the situation.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Dad in "custody dispute" accused of killing son, daughter; named by police (Lyon, France)
Why was this piece of merde EVER allowed access to the kids? When are we going to finally rank the safety of children over the custody "rights "of violent alcoholic deadbeat sperm donors?
Dad is identified as JULIAN STEVENSON.
http://metro.co.uk/2013/05/20/british-father-appears-in-french-court-over-child-murders-3801851/
British father in French court over children found with their throats slit
Monday 20 May 2013 2:21 pm
A British father accused of killing his son and daughter by slitting their throats was today named by French police.
Julian Stevenson is due to appear in court in Lyon where a formal investigation into the murders was opened. It is alleged he has admitted cutting his children’s throats because of a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife.
He is said to have carried out the double murder at the family’s former apartment in the Saint-Priest suburb of Lyon, eastern France, before fleeing the scene on a pair of roller-skates.
Mr Stevenson was arrested on Saturday night, just hours after his ex-wife discovered the bodies of son Matthew, ten, and five-year-old daughter Carla.
This weekend was the first time Mr Stevenson had been allowed custody of the children since the couple divorced in 2010, a judicial source said.
But when he failed to return the children to their mother’s home as planned, she went to his house and saw him looking ‘panicked and angry’.
‘He was in the stairwell of the apartment block, and his clothes were covered in blood,’ said a neighbour. ‘He made off on a pair of roller-skates, leaving his car in the apartment block’s garage.’
The mother, who is French, spoke with prosecutors yesterday to provide them with details of her troubled five-year marriage to Mr Stevenson.
It is claimed the 47-year-old was a heavy drinker and had attacked his ex-wife in 2010, leading to his rights of access to the children being withdrawn.
His ex-wife, an accountant’s assistant, had won custody of the children after that incident and went to live in the Isere region of France, which is just to the south of Lyon and an easy drive or train journey away.
Until this weekend, it is claimed Mr Stevenson had only been allowed supervised access to his children.
Investigators will want to know who gave the father legal authority to care for his son and daughter.
Neighbours of the out-of-work father said the apartment block had been under police guard since details of the tragedy first emerged. A sign across the door contained the single word ‘homicide’, as forensic investigators combed the home for clues.
‘We’ve been told to keep away,’ said one neighbour, who did not to be named. ‘We used to see the man come and go, but until this weekend we hadn’t seen him with his children for years.
‘They suddenly turned up out of the blue, and then this. It is deeply shocking. We are all traumatised.’
Other local residents said the man was often seen at nearby shops and bars, and was well known for his ‘British accent’.
A neighbour who socialised with Mr Stevenson before his divorce said: ‘He and his wife used to be like any other young couple – they took the children to the park, they went out for dinner.
‘That all changed with the divorce, however – it was clearly very messy.’
According to a judicial source a knife, thought to be the murder weapon, was found at the flat.
The source said the alleged double murder was ‘clearly linked to a painful separation’ and ‘legal procedures concerning the right to access to the children which the father deemed insufficient.’
A Foreign Office spokesman said the matter was being investigated. ‘We are in touch with the French authorities and await the outcome of their investigation. We stand ready to provide consular assistance,’ he said.
Dad is identified as JULIAN STEVENSON.
http://metro.co.uk/2013/05/20/british-father-appears-in-french-court-over-child-murders-3801851/
British father in French court over children found with their throats slit
Monday 20 May 2013 2:21 pm
A British father accused of killing his son and daughter by slitting their throats was today named by French police.
Julian Stevenson is due to appear in court in Lyon where a formal investigation into the murders was opened. It is alleged he has admitted cutting his children’s throats because of a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife.
He is said to have carried out the double murder at the family’s former apartment in the Saint-Priest suburb of Lyon, eastern France, before fleeing the scene on a pair of roller-skates.
Mr Stevenson was arrested on Saturday night, just hours after his ex-wife discovered the bodies of son Matthew, ten, and five-year-old daughter Carla.
This weekend was the first time Mr Stevenson had been allowed custody of the children since the couple divorced in 2010, a judicial source said.
But when he failed to return the children to their mother’s home as planned, she went to his house and saw him looking ‘panicked and angry’.
‘He was in the stairwell of the apartment block, and his clothes were covered in blood,’ said a neighbour. ‘He made off on a pair of roller-skates, leaving his car in the apartment block’s garage.’
The mother, who is French, spoke with prosecutors yesterday to provide them with details of her troubled five-year marriage to Mr Stevenson.
It is claimed the 47-year-old was a heavy drinker and had attacked his ex-wife in 2010, leading to his rights of access to the children being withdrawn.
His ex-wife, an accountant’s assistant, had won custody of the children after that incident and went to live in the Isere region of France, which is just to the south of Lyon and an easy drive or train journey away.
Until this weekend, it is claimed Mr Stevenson had only been allowed supervised access to his children.
Investigators will want to know who gave the father legal authority to care for his son and daughter.
Neighbours of the out-of-work father said the apartment block had been under police guard since details of the tragedy first emerged. A sign across the door contained the single word ‘homicide’, as forensic investigators combed the home for clues.
‘We’ve been told to keep away,’ said one neighbour, who did not to be named. ‘We used to see the man come and go, but until this weekend we hadn’t seen him with his children for years.
‘They suddenly turned up out of the blue, and then this. It is deeply shocking. We are all traumatised.’
Other local residents said the man was often seen at nearby shops and bars, and was well known for his ‘British accent’.
A neighbour who socialised with Mr Stevenson before his divorce said: ‘He and his wife used to be like any other young couple – they took the children to the park, they went out for dinner.
‘That all changed with the divorce, however – it was clearly very messy.’
According to a judicial source a knife, thought to be the murder weapon, was found at the flat.
The source said the alleged double murder was ‘clearly linked to a painful separation’ and ‘legal procedures concerning the right to access to the children which the father deemed insufficient.’
A Foreign Office spokesman said the matter was being investigated. ‘We are in touch with the French authorities and await the outcome of their investigation. We stand ready to provide consular assistance,’ he said.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Violent dad regains his visitation rights--then slits the kids's throats on first visit (Lyon, France)
UNNAMED DAD loses his custody rights because of domestic violence. They he gets his visitation rights back. And to demonstrate what a great decision this was, he murder the kids during during their first visit. Who was responsible for this decision?
Stop catering to abusers. No access, no murders.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/british-man-france-admits-slitting-two-childrens-throats-185121494.html#bux1u0g
British man in France admits slitting his two children's throats
Reuters – 8 hours ago
LYON, France (Reuters) - A British father living in France has admitted to killing his two children by slitting their throats, blaming a rocky divorce from his wife, prosecutors said on Sunday.
Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday after the bodies of his 5-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son were found at his apartment in a suburb of the eastern city of Lyon.
"He offered explanations linked to the children's custody," an official from the Lyon prosecutor's office told Reuters.
The mother left the man in 2010 due to family violence and his right to have the children visit him at his apartment, previously the family home, was revoked after a violent episode. At the time of the murder, he had recently recovered the right to receive the children, and they were staying with him briefly for the first time since then.
The man's ex-wife crossed him in the stairs as he fled the scene on Saturday with blood on his clothes, the official said.
She called police who found the suspect in a street in Lyon.
Stop catering to abusers. No access, no murders.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/british-man-france-admits-slitting-two-childrens-throats-185121494.html#bux1u0g
British man in France admits slitting his two children's throats
Reuters – 8 hours ago
LYON, France (Reuters) - A British father living in France has admitted to killing his two children by slitting their throats, blaming a rocky divorce from his wife, prosecutors said on Sunday.
Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday after the bodies of his 5-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son were found at his apartment in a suburb of the eastern city of Lyon.
"He offered explanations linked to the children's custody," an official from the Lyon prosecutor's office told Reuters.
The mother left the man in 2010 due to family violence and his right to have the children visit him at his apartment, previously the family home, was revoked after a violent episode. At the time of the murder, he had recently recovered the right to receive the children, and they were staying with him briefly for the first time since then.
The man's ex-wife crossed him in the stairs as he fled the scene on Saturday with blood on his clothes, the official said.
She called police who found the suspect in a street in Lyon.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Dad is "suspect" in murder of mom, two children; kid's bodies found in refrigerator (France)
UNNAMED DAD.
http://www.france24.com/en/20121115-children-bodies-found-freezer-france
Children discovered in freezer in French town
© AFP The corpses of two young children were found in the refrigerator of their home in a south-eastern town in France on Thursday morning, alongside their mother, who had suffered “a violent death” according to a local prosecutor.
By FRANCE 24
French police on Thursday found the bodies of a baby and a small child in a fridge in an apartment where they also discovered the bloodied corpse of their mother, officials said.
"A hunt is under way for the perpetrator of these acts," said prosecutor Matthieu Bourrette, without confirming local newspaper reports from the south-eastern town of Vienne that the suspect is the father of the children.
Authorities found the three-month baby girl and her five-year-old sister in the fridge-freezer. Their 26-year-old mother was discovered in the living room. Bourrette said that the mother “had died a violent death,” adding that an autopsy would be carried out Friday.
The authorities were alerted to the scene by the children’s grandmother on Thursday morning.
http://www.france24.com/en/20121115-children-bodies-found-freezer-france
Children discovered in freezer in French town
© AFP The corpses of two young children were found in the refrigerator of their home in a south-eastern town in France on Thursday morning, alongside their mother, who had suffered “a violent death” according to a local prosecutor.
By FRANCE 24
French police on Thursday found the bodies of a baby and a small child in a fridge in an apartment where they also discovered the bloodied corpse of their mother, officials said.
"A hunt is under way for the perpetrator of these acts," said prosecutor Matthieu Bourrette, without confirming local newspaper reports from the south-eastern town of Vienne that the suspect is the father of the children.
Authorities found the three-month baby girl and her five-year-old sister in the fridge-freezer. Their 26-year-old mother was discovered in the living room. Bourrette said that the mother “had died a violent death,” adding that an autopsy would be carried out Friday.
The authorities were alerted to the scene by the children’s grandmother on Thursday morning.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
DASTARDLY DADS FROM THE ARCHIVES (Norfolk, England - 2010)
We haven't run an archives story in years. Just keeping up with the current crop of dastardly dads is time consuming enough! But a friend of mine sent me this link to a story from 2010, and it's too important to pass up. The dad is identified as THIERRY GIRARDEAU.
The Sunday Times
30/12/2010
Mum, Come Save me
Samantha Raw battled for two years to win back her two boys after they were snatched by their father. Then came a secret message from one of the boys.
John-Paul Flintoff
Published: 26 December 2010
Two weeks ago, Samantha Raw was eating dinner with her daughter Camille when her phone rang. It was her friend Kevin. "We think you should come and see something," he said.
Read the rest here.
The Sunday Times
30/12/2010
Mum, Come Save me
Samantha Raw battled for two years to win back her two boys after they were snatched by their father. Then came a secret message from one of the boys.
John-Paul Flintoff
Published: 26 December 2010
Two weeks ago, Samantha Raw was eating dinner with her daughter Camille when her phone rang. It was her friend Kevin. "We think you should come and see something," he said.
Read the rest here.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Dad strangles and kills 5-month-old son after court-ordered visitation (Paris, France)
Read this part again:
The father had taken the baby from the home of his mother on Friday afternoon after a family judge ordered her to grant her estranged partner access to his son.
This was an entirely preventable murder. Judges need to stop giving violent fathers like UNNAMED DAD access to infants on demand. All three of these baby killings involve custody issues where the baby was murdered when removed from the mother's care. Two directly involved the father, one a nutso girlfriend that the father allowed to have access to the child.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20120821-366674.html
France shocked by third baby killing in three weeks
AFP Tuesday, Aug 21, 2012
PARIS - A man suspected of having strangled his five-month-old son was found dead Tuesday having apparently hanged himself in the wake of France's third infanticide in as many weeks, police said.
The man, whose name was not released, was found dead at Tarbes in the Pyrenees. He had been hospitalised following his arrest on suspicion of murder on Sunday evening but was not under police surveillance and was able to escape from the clinic 24 hours later.
"The first findings of the investigation indicate that the baby was strangled by his father," said prosecutor Francois Jardin, adding that the man had left a suicide note to that effect.
The father had taken the baby from the home of his mother on Friday afternoon after a family judge ordered her to grant her estranged partner access to his son.
The baby's body was discovered on Sunday morning in a hotel room on the outskirts of Tarbes.
Last week, a two-year-old toddler drowned at Lespinasse, also in southwestern France, after being driven into a canal by the suicidal 52-year-old girlfriend of her father. The girlfriend also died.
At the start of month, an eight-month-old baby died in the Gard region of southern France after allegedly being repeatedly thrown on the floor by his 21-year-old student father following a row with the estranged mother.
Monday, June 18, 2012
French diplomat dad accused of raping 3-year-old daughter; dad still walking free four days later even with two positive swabs (India)
Sickening. But typical of the kid-glove treatment many molester daddies get, whether they're diplomats or not. Dad is identified as PASCAL MEZURIER.
http://www.asianage.com/bengaluru/law-blind-incest-504
Law blind to incest
Jun 19, 2012 | DC
While his wife and others want no mercy to be shown to French diplomat, Pascal Mezurier, accused of raping his three-and-a-half year old daughter, the little girl herself, tucked in the arms of her mother, cries for her father whom she loves. “I love my papa; he hurts me,” cries the traumatised child.
“She is clearly confused. Although physically and emotionally hurt, she is too young and ignorant to understand that what her papa, the person she loves and trusts the most, did was wrong. It could affect her later if she is not counselled properly,” warns Dr Jagadeesh, a forensic medicine expert and promoter of Collaborative Child Response units in hospitals, an initiative of Unicef and the Department of Women and Child Development, to care for sexually abused children.
Mezurier reportedly got away with his alleged horrendous, incestuous crime because the family felt he was a hands-on dad, would play with the children and laugh with them. His 37-year-old wife , Suja Jones, has reportedly said in the police complaint that she trusted him and believed he was a caring father. But while public attention is centred around the alleged abuser and the need to bring him to justice, its equally important to remember the needs of the child, who has suffered his assault, say counsellors.
“Victims of child sexual abuse if not counselled properly often grow up to believe that they invited the sexual abuse and deserve to be in abusive relationships for the rest of their lives,” says Dr Shaibya Saldanha, resource faculty for training under he Integrated Child Protection Scheme in Karnataka of the Unicef and DWCD. “The traumagenic dynamics model of child sexual abuse developed by Finkelhor & Browne (1985) explains the impact of childhood sexual abuse : how when children come to know of their sexuality in an inappropriate and dysfunctional manner; they begin to suffer feelings of worthlessness, shame and guilt,” she points out, adding that the betrayal by someone they trust and depend upon and the powerlessness they feel in the situation can have a devastating effect too.
Activists question the delay in arrest
The fact that French diplomat, Pascal Mezurier, is still free although four days have passed since his alleged rape of his three- and- a half- year old daughter came to light, has enraged city human rights activists.
“Diplomatic immunity cannot be a protection in such a heinous crime. There should have been no delay in arresting him. The state government and the police are unnecessarily delaying discharging their duties. Immunity cannot be a reason to allow an alleged rapist to walk free," says Mr Mathew Philip, executive director, South India Cell for Human Rights Education and Monitoring (SICHREM).
“We've had a talk with the ministry of external affairs and consulted four experts in Delhi, and it is clear that Pascal Mezurier does not enjoy diplomatic immunity. I really don't understand why the state government is taking so long in acting against him,” says Ms Pramila Nesargi, a senior advocate, and counsel for the complainant.
Activists are also upset that while Mezurier has not been arrested, the child was sent for yet another medical examination to Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital. “Despite the vaginal and anal swab the child underwent at Baptist Hospital and the detection of sperm, she had to undergo yet another test at Bowring Hospital which was not required. This is a serious violation of her rights. Only if the doctor who conducted the first test was not sure about his findings, should she have been referred to another hospital," they argue.
Ms Nesargi too finds it hard to understand why the child had to undergo a second test when the swab test report of Baptist Hospital clearly said she was subjected to sexual abuse. “Baptist Hospital and MS Ramaiah Hospital are the only two competent hospitals in the city with a proper child protection unit and trained doctors and staff to handle child rape cases," she points out .
http://www.asianage.com/bengaluru/law-blind-incest-504
Law blind to incest
Jun 19, 2012 | DC
While his wife and others want no mercy to be shown to French diplomat, Pascal Mezurier, accused of raping his three-and-a-half year old daughter, the little girl herself, tucked in the arms of her mother, cries for her father whom she loves. “I love my papa; he hurts me,” cries the traumatised child.
“She is clearly confused. Although physically and emotionally hurt, she is too young and ignorant to understand that what her papa, the person she loves and trusts the most, did was wrong. It could affect her later if she is not counselled properly,” warns Dr Jagadeesh, a forensic medicine expert and promoter of Collaborative Child Response units in hospitals, an initiative of Unicef and the Department of Women and Child Development, to care for sexually abused children.
Mezurier reportedly got away with his alleged horrendous, incestuous crime because the family felt he was a hands-on dad, would play with the children and laugh with them. His 37-year-old wife , Suja Jones, has reportedly said in the police complaint that she trusted him and believed he was a caring father. But while public attention is centred around the alleged abuser and the need to bring him to justice, its equally important to remember the needs of the child, who has suffered his assault, say counsellors.
“Victims of child sexual abuse if not counselled properly often grow up to believe that they invited the sexual abuse and deserve to be in abusive relationships for the rest of their lives,” says Dr Shaibya Saldanha, resource faculty for training under he Integrated Child Protection Scheme in Karnataka of the Unicef and DWCD. “The traumagenic dynamics model of child sexual abuse developed by Finkelhor & Browne (1985) explains the impact of childhood sexual abuse : how when children come to know of their sexuality in an inappropriate and dysfunctional manner; they begin to suffer feelings of worthlessness, shame and guilt,” she points out, adding that the betrayal by someone they trust and depend upon and the powerlessness they feel in the situation can have a devastating effect too.
Activists question the delay in arrest
The fact that French diplomat, Pascal Mezurier, is still free although four days have passed since his alleged rape of his three- and- a half- year old daughter came to light, has enraged city human rights activists.
“Diplomatic immunity cannot be a protection in such a heinous crime. There should have been no delay in arresting him. The state government and the police are unnecessarily delaying discharging their duties. Immunity cannot be a reason to allow an alleged rapist to walk free," says Mr Mathew Philip, executive director, South India Cell for Human Rights Education and Monitoring (SICHREM).
“We've had a talk with the ministry of external affairs and consulted four experts in Delhi, and it is clear that Pascal Mezurier does not enjoy diplomatic immunity. I really don't understand why the state government is taking so long in acting against him,” says Ms Pramila Nesargi, a senior advocate, and counsel for the complainant.
Activists are also upset that while Mezurier has not been arrested, the child was sent for yet another medical examination to Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital. “Despite the vaginal and anal swab the child underwent at Baptist Hospital and the detection of sperm, she had to undergo yet another test at Bowring Hospital which was not required. This is a serious violation of her rights. Only if the doctor who conducted the first test was not sure about his findings, should she have been referred to another hospital," they argue.
Ms Nesargi too finds it hard to understand why the child had to undergo a second test when the swab test report of Baptist Hospital clearly said she was subjected to sexual abuse. “Baptist Hospital and MS Ramaiah Hospital are the only two competent hospitals in the city with a proper child protection unit and trained doctors and staff to handle child rape cases," she points out .
Monday, February 27, 2012
"Muslim fundamentalist" dad abandons daughter as baby, then tries to burn her alive as an adult for being "too emancipated" (Paris, France)
What a worthless sperm donor. Too bad he didn't stay missing in action, as he could have saved his daughter a lot of grief. Can't see that this girl suffered for "lacking" UNNAMED DAD in her life--just the opposite.
http://www.thelocal.fr/2685/20120227/
Father tries to set 23-year-old daughter alight
Published: 27 Feb 2012 10:35 GMT+1
Online: http://www.thelocal.fr/2685/20120227/
A man was being held by police on Monday after allegedly trying to set fire to his grown-up daughter in central Paris.
Le Parisien newspaper reported that the man sprayed teargas in the young woman's face and then covered her in petrol on Saturday evening.
The father was apparently annoyed that the woman planned to go out with a group of friends that evening and considered her "too emancipated".
The newspaper quoted a source describing him as a "Muslim fundamentalist."
The 23-year-old daughter has a room in a building in the city's 11th arrondissement, close to the Place de la Bastille.
The 49-year-old man went there at around 11.30pm on Saturday evening and started arguing with her in the hall of the building.
He then attacked her with the teargas and poured petrol over her head and face, after which he pulled out a lighter, causing her to scream.
"She managed to grab the lighter from his hands while passers-by heard her screams," said a source close to the inquiry. "The man quickly made a run for it."
The woman told police her father had been harassing her for several weeks. "She explained he was unhappy that she had a Jewish boyfriend," said the source.
Police caught up with the man on Sunday and are questioning him in connection with attempted murder.
The newspaper reported that the man had only recently reconnected with his daughter, after abandoning her as a child.
He had recently taken her to his native country of Tunisia where he had tried to arrange a marriage for her.
She had resisted, while promising to behave in accordance with his wishes back in Paris.
http://www.thelocal.fr/2685/20120227/
Father tries to set 23-year-old daughter alight
Published: 27 Feb 2012 10:35 GMT+1
Online: http://www.thelocal.fr/2685/20120227/
A man was being held by police on Monday after allegedly trying to set fire to his grown-up daughter in central Paris.
Le Parisien newspaper reported that the man sprayed teargas in the young woman's face and then covered her in petrol on Saturday evening.
The father was apparently annoyed that the woman planned to go out with a group of friends that evening and considered her "too emancipated".
The newspaper quoted a source describing him as a "Muslim fundamentalist."
The 23-year-old daughter has a room in a building in the city's 11th arrondissement, close to the Place de la Bastille.
The 49-year-old man went there at around 11.30pm on Saturday evening and started arguing with her in the hall of the building.
He then attacked her with the teargas and poured petrol over her head and face, after which he pulled out a lighter, causing her to scream.
"She managed to grab the lighter from his hands while passers-by heard her screams," said a source close to the inquiry. "The man quickly made a run for it."
The woman told police her father had been harassing her for several weeks. "She explained he was unhappy that she had a Jewish boyfriend," said the source.
Police caught up with the man on Sunday and are questioning him in connection with attempted murder.
The newspaper reported that the man had only recently reconnected with his daughter, after abandoning her as a child.
He had recently taken her to his native country of Tunisia where he had tried to arrange a marriage for her.
She had resisted, while promising to behave in accordance with his wishes back in Paris.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Mom, kids who fled abusive dad in France must now face new refugee hearing (Ottawa, Canada)
What few concessions were won for abused mothers and children over the last few decades are being eroded away. Soon there will be no legal way to save your life or the lives of your children.
Remember how we used to be told that women needed to get an education so they could support themselves and their kids and wouldn't "need" an abuser dad as a breadwinner? This woman is a civil engineer, her husband appears to be a deadbeat. But since the authorities refused to prosecute him for his violence, what good does it do her? Divorcing him in France would be useless, because Dad would have had visitation with the kids--the same kids he had threatened to murder (thank you, fathers rights....). And then there's the impossibility of immigration....
Dad is identified as GEORGES ABBOUD.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Mother+children+fled+violent+abuser+France+must+face+refugee+hearing/6176008/story.html
Mother and children who fled violent abuser in France must now face new refugee hearing
By Don Butler, The Ottawa Citizen
February 20, 2012 8:41 AM
OTTAWA — Omaima Makdesi and her three children fled to Canada in 2008 to escape a violently abusive husband who regularly beat and threatened to kill them. Last year, the Immigration and Refugee Board granted them protection as refugees.
It’s a common enough story. Desperate women regularly turn to Canada when authorities in their own countries are unable or unwilling to protect them.
The twist is that Makdesi and her children were living on the island of Martinique, a territory of France, and are dual citizens of France and Syria. While Syria is seen as a place where domestic abuse goes unpunished, few would say the same of France.
That places Makdesi’s family in the category of refugee claimants who’d be less likely to succeed under reforms unveiled last week by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.
Under the proposed changes, refugee claimants from countries designated safe by the minister — including France and most other EU countries — will be processed within 45 days, severely curtailing their time to prepare their cases. And if their claims are rejected, they’ll be swiftly deported, even if they apply for judicial review by the Federal Court of Canada.
Makdesi’s case also highlights the disconnect between the way the law handles refugees and the real-life perils many face. As the recent Shafia trial graphically demonstrated, even a democratic state can’t always protect vulnerable women and children from family members bent on mayhem.
In his decision, Gilles Guénette, the Ottawa-based IRB member who approved Makdesi’s refugee claim, acknowledged that France normally would be expected to protect its citizens. But in Makdesi’s case, he said, “the normal state protection that a French woman could obtain in France disappeared, was simply not there.”
Guénette’s ruling triggered an application for judicial review by the government. And last month, Federal Court Judge Richard Boivin emphatically quashed it and ordered a new hearing before a different IRB member.
Boivin found that Guénette — a lawyer and unsuccessful Ontario Progressive Conservative candidate in Ottawa-Vanier in 1988 — got pretty much everything wrong.
His findings on the availability of state protection in France were “unreasonable, were based on irrelevant considerations and were made without regard to the evidence,” Boivin wrote.
He said Guénette also applied the wrong legal test when assessing whether Makdesi and her children had a viable “internal flight alternative” — another place within France they could go to escape their abuser.
Since his appointment to the IRB in late 2006, Guénette has consistently approved more than 80 per cent of the refugee claims he hears — among the highest grant rate of any IRB member. Kenney reappointed him to a further five year term in 2009.
In a brief interview, Guénette declined to comment on Boivin’s judgment or offer an explanation for his unusually high rate of refugee claim approvals.
Boivin’s decision leaves Makdesi and her children in limbo. If the new IRB hearing goes against them, the family, now living in Ottawa, will likely face removal from Canada — and an unwanted reunion with Makdesi’s seriously disgruntled spouse.
Makdesi, a highly educated civil engineer, wed Georges Abboud in an arranged marriage in 1991 in their native Syria. Abboud didn’t graduate from high school and deeply resented his wife’s education, Makdesi told immigration officials in a 2008 statement.
It wasn’t long before Abboud began to assert his control. “He acted as if he owned me,” Makdesi told immigration officials. “It became routine for him to hit and insult me.”
Abboud moved to Martinique in 1997, and summoned his family to join him in 2000. The physical abuse resumed. Both Makdesi and the children were targets.
Makdesi finally went to the police in Martinique in 2004 after Abboud beat her so badly that she was bedridden for eight days. The police arranged a mediation session, but allowed Abboud to act as interpreter, since Makdesi’s French was poor. No charges were laid.
Makdesi lost confidence in the police after that. The IRB’s Guénette cited the handling of the 2004 assault to justify his conclusion that state protection by France did not exist “at that particular moment.”
Boivin found that a single incident was “not sufficient in and of itself to rebut the general presumption of state protection,” which, he said, “need not be perfect, but adequate.”
In 2008, Abboud’s behaviour worsened, according to Makdesi. After an argument with his daughter, Marina, he put a knife to her throat and threatened her. When his son, Mario, tried to protect his sister, he was stabbed in the arm.
A month later, Abboud again threatened Marina with a knife. When Makdesi told him she wanted a divorce, she says he threatened to kill her and “would not be responsible” if anything happened to their children.
In a tearful interview at their east-end townhouse, Makdesi and Marina described a virtual reign of terror.
“Every time we heard his car coming,” Marina said of her siblings, “we used to hide in our room and lock the door. My brother was afraid that he’d kill my mom.”
Makdesi, speaking through an interpreter, said her husband told her that, if she didn’t obey him, “I’ll kill you and drink a glass of your blood.”
In the weeks prior to the family’s escape to Canada, Abboud withheld the keys to the family car, cut off their cellphones, gave them no money and refused to let his children — all top students — attend school. “He had this face I’d never seen before,” said his daughter. “It was like a monster.”
Desperate, the family searched for a way out. Fleeing to another part of France wasn’t an option, because under French law, Abboud would have visitation rights with his minor children.
Returning to Syria was a non-starter, said Makdesi, who’s from Homs, the city now under bombardment by Syrian troops. If she’d taken her children there, she said, her husband could “just shoot us in a minute. He would say that it’s a case of honour, and nobody would say anything.”
Makdesi came to Canada because she has a brother here who offered to help. “We were emotionally exhausted,” said Marina. “We needed a solution and fast, as the situation at home was getting worse and worse.”
After they fled, Abboud returned to Syria and confronted Makdesi’s father, demanding to know where she and the children had gone. He wouldn’t tell him, but Abboud has since found out they are here.
When Guénette approved their refugee claim last year, the family was ecstatic. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is ours now,’” Marina cried, gesturing at the plainly furnished townhouse. “We can walk on it and feel like we can stay here.”
But a month later, they received a letter informing them that the government would be challenging Guénette’s decision “and the earth started changing,” Marina said.
Marina, 20, now works for the City of Ottawa’s translation services branch, and is highly regarded there. Last year, a supervisor described her in a letter to Citizenship and Immigration as “exactly the type of employee that every Canadian employer would be privileged to hire, retain and promote.”
Her brother and sister are attending high school. Makdesi, who places a high value on education, is learning English. “Going to school here in Canada,” she said, “is a gift from God.”
Ottawa lawyer Rezaur Rahman, who represents Makdesi, acknowledged that the odds are stacked against his clients at the new IRB hearing. “On our shoulders, the decision of the Federal Court will be hanging like a very heavy weight.”
He will marshal his best legal arguments. But he hopes the IRB member who hears the case will bear something else in mind, too.
“At the end of the day, there’s a human being.”
Remember how we used to be told that women needed to get an education so they could support themselves and their kids and wouldn't "need" an abuser dad as a breadwinner? This woman is a civil engineer, her husband appears to be a deadbeat. But since the authorities refused to prosecute him for his violence, what good does it do her? Divorcing him in France would be useless, because Dad would have had visitation with the kids--the same kids he had threatened to murder (thank you, fathers rights....). And then there's the impossibility of immigration....
Dad is identified as GEORGES ABBOUD.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Mother+children+fled+violent+abuser+France+must+face+refugee+hearing/6176008/story.html
Mother and children who fled violent abuser in France must now face new refugee hearing
By Don Butler, The Ottawa Citizen
February 20, 2012 8:41 AM
OTTAWA — Omaima Makdesi and her three children fled to Canada in 2008 to escape a violently abusive husband who regularly beat and threatened to kill them. Last year, the Immigration and Refugee Board granted them protection as refugees.
It’s a common enough story. Desperate women regularly turn to Canada when authorities in their own countries are unable or unwilling to protect them.
The twist is that Makdesi and her children were living on the island of Martinique, a territory of France, and are dual citizens of France and Syria. While Syria is seen as a place where domestic abuse goes unpunished, few would say the same of France.
That places Makdesi’s family in the category of refugee claimants who’d be less likely to succeed under reforms unveiled last week by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.
Under the proposed changes, refugee claimants from countries designated safe by the minister — including France and most other EU countries — will be processed within 45 days, severely curtailing their time to prepare their cases. And if their claims are rejected, they’ll be swiftly deported, even if they apply for judicial review by the Federal Court of Canada.
Makdesi’s case also highlights the disconnect between the way the law handles refugees and the real-life perils many face. As the recent Shafia trial graphically demonstrated, even a democratic state can’t always protect vulnerable women and children from family members bent on mayhem.
In his decision, Gilles Guénette, the Ottawa-based IRB member who approved Makdesi’s refugee claim, acknowledged that France normally would be expected to protect its citizens. But in Makdesi’s case, he said, “the normal state protection that a French woman could obtain in France disappeared, was simply not there.”
Guénette’s ruling triggered an application for judicial review by the government. And last month, Federal Court Judge Richard Boivin emphatically quashed it and ordered a new hearing before a different IRB member.
Boivin found that Guénette — a lawyer and unsuccessful Ontario Progressive Conservative candidate in Ottawa-Vanier in 1988 — got pretty much everything wrong.
His findings on the availability of state protection in France were “unreasonable, were based on irrelevant considerations and were made without regard to the evidence,” Boivin wrote.
He said Guénette also applied the wrong legal test when assessing whether Makdesi and her children had a viable “internal flight alternative” — another place within France they could go to escape their abuser.
Since his appointment to the IRB in late 2006, Guénette has consistently approved more than 80 per cent of the refugee claims he hears — among the highest grant rate of any IRB member. Kenney reappointed him to a further five year term in 2009.
In a brief interview, Guénette declined to comment on Boivin’s judgment or offer an explanation for his unusually high rate of refugee claim approvals.
Boivin’s decision leaves Makdesi and her children in limbo. If the new IRB hearing goes against them, the family, now living in Ottawa, will likely face removal from Canada — and an unwanted reunion with Makdesi’s seriously disgruntled spouse.
Makdesi, a highly educated civil engineer, wed Georges Abboud in an arranged marriage in 1991 in their native Syria. Abboud didn’t graduate from high school and deeply resented his wife’s education, Makdesi told immigration officials in a 2008 statement.
It wasn’t long before Abboud began to assert his control. “He acted as if he owned me,” Makdesi told immigration officials. “It became routine for him to hit and insult me.”
Abboud moved to Martinique in 1997, and summoned his family to join him in 2000. The physical abuse resumed. Both Makdesi and the children were targets.
Makdesi finally went to the police in Martinique in 2004 after Abboud beat her so badly that she was bedridden for eight days. The police arranged a mediation session, but allowed Abboud to act as interpreter, since Makdesi’s French was poor. No charges were laid.
Makdesi lost confidence in the police after that. The IRB’s Guénette cited the handling of the 2004 assault to justify his conclusion that state protection by France did not exist “at that particular moment.”
Boivin found that a single incident was “not sufficient in and of itself to rebut the general presumption of state protection,” which, he said, “need not be perfect, but adequate.”
In 2008, Abboud’s behaviour worsened, according to Makdesi. After an argument with his daughter, Marina, he put a knife to her throat and threatened her. When his son, Mario, tried to protect his sister, he was stabbed in the arm.
A month later, Abboud again threatened Marina with a knife. When Makdesi told him she wanted a divorce, she says he threatened to kill her and “would not be responsible” if anything happened to their children.
In a tearful interview at their east-end townhouse, Makdesi and Marina described a virtual reign of terror.
“Every time we heard his car coming,” Marina said of her siblings, “we used to hide in our room and lock the door. My brother was afraid that he’d kill my mom.”
Makdesi, speaking through an interpreter, said her husband told her that, if she didn’t obey him, “I’ll kill you and drink a glass of your blood.”
In the weeks prior to the family’s escape to Canada, Abboud withheld the keys to the family car, cut off their cellphones, gave them no money and refused to let his children — all top students — attend school. “He had this face I’d never seen before,” said his daughter. “It was like a monster.”
Desperate, the family searched for a way out. Fleeing to another part of France wasn’t an option, because under French law, Abboud would have visitation rights with his minor children.
Returning to Syria was a non-starter, said Makdesi, who’s from Homs, the city now under bombardment by Syrian troops. If she’d taken her children there, she said, her husband could “just shoot us in a minute. He would say that it’s a case of honour, and nobody would say anything.”
Makdesi came to Canada because she has a brother here who offered to help. “We were emotionally exhausted,” said Marina. “We needed a solution and fast, as the situation at home was getting worse and worse.”
After they fled, Abboud returned to Syria and confronted Makdesi’s father, demanding to know where she and the children had gone. He wouldn’t tell him, but Abboud has since found out they are here.
When Guénette approved their refugee claim last year, the family was ecstatic. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is ours now,’” Marina cried, gesturing at the plainly furnished townhouse. “We can walk on it and feel like we can stay here.”
But a month later, they received a letter informing them that the government would be challenging Guénette’s decision “and the earth started changing,” Marina said.
Marina, 20, now works for the City of Ottawa’s translation services branch, and is highly regarded there. Last year, a supervisor described her in a letter to Citizenship and Immigration as “exactly the type of employee that every Canadian employer would be privileged to hire, retain and promote.”
Her brother and sister are attending high school. Makdesi, who places a high value on education, is learning English. “Going to school here in Canada,” she said, “is a gift from God.”
Ottawa lawyer Rezaur Rahman, who represents Makdesi, acknowledged that the odds are stacked against his clients at the new IRB hearing. “On our shoulders, the decision of the Federal Court will be hanging like a very heavy weight.”
He will marshal his best legal arguments. But he hopes the IRB member who hears the case will bear something else in mind, too.
“At the end of the day, there’s a human being.”
Monday, November 28, 2011
Dad accused of killing 3-year-old son by locking him in washing machine (Meaux, France)
The dad is identified as CHRISTOPHE CHEMPENOIS.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/toddler-forced-washing-machine-dies-124407381.html
Toddler Forced Into Washing Machine Dies
A father has been accused of killing his three-year-old son by locking him in a washing machine and starting a cold wash cycle in France.
Christophe Chempenois, 33, inflicted the "punishment" on the toddler for misbehaving at his nursery school, police said.
The child named Bastien had thrown a drawing by a classmate down a toilet earlier that day.
On Friday evening, Champenois allegedly forced the child naked into the washing machine and let it run for "several minutes", reports said.
Neighbour Alice told the French capital's newspaper Le Parisien the toddler's mother Charlene, 25, had rushed to her door carrying his body after the incident, claiming he had fallen down some stairs.
"I took him in my arms like a broken doll," Alice told the newspaper.
"I felt the last beat of his heart. Charlene didn't move. She was red all over. She didn't understand he was dead."
Bastien is said to have died within minutes of being taken out of the family's home, near the Paris suburb of Meaux.
A local police spokesman said: "A 33-year-old man has been arrested for murder of a minor.
"The man's wife has also been arrested for non-assistance of a person in danger.
"This man... will be held in custody until a date for his trial can be set."
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/toddler-forced-washing-machine-dies-124407381.html
Toddler Forced Into Washing Machine Dies
A father has been accused of killing his three-year-old son by locking him in a washing machine and starting a cold wash cycle in France.
Christophe Chempenois, 33, inflicted the "punishment" on the toddler for misbehaving at his nursery school, police said.
The child named Bastien had thrown a drawing by a classmate down a toilet earlier that day.
On Friday evening, Champenois allegedly forced the child naked into the washing machine and let it run for "several minutes", reports said.
Neighbour Alice told the French capital's newspaper Le Parisien the toddler's mother Charlene, 25, had rushed to her door carrying his body after the incident, claiming he had fallen down some stairs.
"I took him in my arms like a broken doll," Alice told the newspaper.
"I felt the last beat of his heart. Charlene didn't move. She was red all over. She didn't understand he was dead."
Bastien is said to have died within minutes of being taken out of the family's home, near the Paris suburb of Meaux.
A local police spokesman said: "A 33-year-old man has been arrested for murder of a minor.
"The man's wife has also been arrested for non-assistance of a person in danger.
"This man... will be held in custody until a date for his trial can be set."
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Dad murders mom, burns two kids alive in car fire (Culoz, France)
UNNAMED DAD. Even though he is dead as well.
Father kills children aged four and six after dousing car with petrol and setting it alight
Third child, 11, escapes with serious burns
Wife later found strangled to death at family home
Father, 33, also killed in blaze
By Daniel Miller
Last updated at 12:06 PM on 4th October 2011
A crazed father doused his car with petrol then got inside and set it ablaze with three of his children trapped inside.
Two children aged four and six and the 33-year-old man all died in the drama at a supermarket filling station in Culoz, south-east France.
The third child, an 11-year-old boy, managed to get out of the burning car and escaped with serious burns injuries, police said.
The man's 29-year-old wife was later found strangled to death at the family's home 60 miles away after the tragedy at 8.30pm on Monday evening.
A police spokesman said: 'The man pulled over to apparently fill his car with petrol but instead doused the car, leapt inside and set it alight.
'Of the three children in the car, only one 11-year-old managed to escape while all the other occupants died.'
An investigation into the man's mental state was now underway, the spokesman added.
Father kills children aged four and six after dousing car with petrol and setting it alight
Third child, 11, escapes with serious burns
Wife later found strangled to death at family home
Father, 33, also killed in blaze
By Daniel Miller
Last updated at 12:06 PM on 4th October 2011
A crazed father doused his car with petrol then got inside and set it ablaze with three of his children trapped inside.
Two children aged four and six and the 33-year-old man all died in the drama at a supermarket filling station in Culoz, south-east France.
The third child, an 11-year-old boy, managed to get out of the burning car and escaped with serious burns injuries, police said.
The man's 29-year-old wife was later found strangled to death at the family's home 60 miles away after the tragedy at 8.30pm on Monday evening.
A police spokesman said: 'The man pulled over to apparently fill his car with petrol but instead doused the car, leapt inside and set it alight.
'Of the three children in the car, only one 11-year-old managed to escape while all the other occupants died.'
An investigation into the man's mental state was now underway, the spokesman added.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
"Mystery" plagues dad's murder spree; mom, four children slaughtered and buried (Paris, France)
Dad XAVIER DUPONT DE LIGONNES sounds like a classic psychopath to me. Typical treatment here of a killer daddy. It's not really HIS fault, see. It's really that his mother was too religious. Right. Pure unsubstantiated nonsense at this point, but that doesn't stop all the mommy-blaming speculation, does it?
http://www.news24.com/World/News/Mystery-plagues-French-dads-family-murders-20110511
Mystery plagues French dad's murder spree
2011-05-11 13:18
Paris - Cold-hearted killer or crazed cultist? As French police issued an international arrest warrant for a fugitive father, more clues emerged as to why he might have slaughtered all five of his family.
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes, a 50-year-old businessman from an aristocratic family, is suspected of the murders of his wife and their four children, who were found buried under the terrace of the family's elegant townhouse.
Each had been a victim of what French prosecutors described as a "methodical execution", with two bullets fired from a silenced weapon, at close range, to their heads, before they were rolled in lime and buried under cement.
Following the killings - thought to have taken place between April 3 and 6 at the home in the western city of Nantes - the father settled the children's school fees, wrote letters to friends and eventually went on the run.
No trace of father
He is known to have stayed in a hotel in the southern Var region on April 15 and to have abandoned the family car there, but there has been no trace of him since and on Tuesday prosecutors issued an arrest warrant.
"Of course he is still presumed innocent, but this warrant from a judge is the equivalent of the opening of a criminal enquiry," explained local Nantes chief prosecutor Xavier de Ronsin, announcing an international manhunt.
"At this stage of the judicial inquiry, the gravity of the charges facing him, and the suspicion that he was the perpetrator of five murders, legally justifies this change in his status in the case," he said.
Ronsin said police had investigated 330 reported sightings of the fugitive around Europe, but had not yet found any of them convincing, and added that they had no concrete reason to suspect he had fled abroad.
Respected, well-heeled family
Nantes residents were shocked by the murders, which destroyed a respected and well-heeled family which had no history of odd or criminal behaviour and was involved in the work of the local Catholic diocese.
Dupont de Ligonnes told his teenage children's private Catholic high school that he had been transferred to a job in Australia. He told friends that he was a US secret agent and was being taken into a witness protection programme.
Such claims led to speculation that he had had some kind of mental crisis before snapping and killing his family, but since his disappearance evidence has emerged of the suspect's peculiar religious background.
In Nantes, the family were seen as mainstream, traditionalist Catholics, and the slain mother Agnes was a volunteer in church activities and education.
But it has emerged that in the 1960s the suspected killer's own mother, Genevieve Dupont de Ligonnes, founded a closed prayer group known as "Philadelphia" which is suspected of sect-like activities.
Strange cult beliefs
Georges Fenech, the head of Miviludes -- the French state's cult-monitoring agency - told AFP the group collected money from followers, claimed to receive direct messages from Jesus Christ and had a mystical apocalyptic bent.
"Xavier grew up as a child alongside his mother, at the time his mother was setting up this prayer group," he said. "He was doubtless surrounded by this very mystical, fearful atmosphere."
In 1994 members of the sect gathered in Rennes, fearing that the end of the world was upon them, and support groups for the victims of cult recruitment say psychiatric hospitals have been forced to treat many former adepts.
Evidence of cold-hearted slaughter
But, while the mystic angle has added a layer of mystery to the murders, investigators have not yet confirmed it played a role. Other evidence points more to a cold-blooded slaughter than a religious frenzy.
Dupont de Ligonnes joined a gun club to learn how to shoot in December and obtained a permit to own a weapon on February 2, shortly after inheriting a .22 calibre rifle on the death of his father.
On March 12 he bought a silencer and ammunition, and on April 1 and 2 he collected cement, lime, a spade and a hoe.
Investigators think he killed his wife and his teenage children on April 3 or 4. He dined with his adult son, 20-year-old Thomas, near his university on April 4. Thomas came to Nantes the next day and died that day or the next.
Abnormal writing style
On April 11, the children's school received a cheque for outstanding fees, and the suspect's friends and his sister Christine received bizarre letters explaining his flight.
"He says he is taking part in a trial in the United States involving international drug traffickers," said Christine's lawyer Stephane Goldenstein.
"It's an enigmatic and preposterous letter in which he pretends to be an undercover agent," he continued.
"He adds: 'When you read this we will no longer be French citizens, but American residents living under new identities.'
"He gives instructions to friends to gather his things and recover money and kitchen appliances."
Goldenstein said the letter was type-written without the spelling mistakes that Xavier often made in emails, and added the family was not convinced it came from her son.
"His mother is convinced he is innocent," he added.
Ronsin's investigating team has been reinforced by several dozen specialist officers. The manhunt continues.
http://www.news24.com/World/News/Mystery-plagues-French-dads-family-murders-20110511
Mystery plagues French dad's murder spree
2011-05-11 13:18
Paris - Cold-hearted killer or crazed cultist? As French police issued an international arrest warrant for a fugitive father, more clues emerged as to why he might have slaughtered all five of his family.
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes, a 50-year-old businessman from an aristocratic family, is suspected of the murders of his wife and their four children, who were found buried under the terrace of the family's elegant townhouse.
Each had been a victim of what French prosecutors described as a "methodical execution", with two bullets fired from a silenced weapon, at close range, to their heads, before they were rolled in lime and buried under cement.
Following the killings - thought to have taken place between April 3 and 6 at the home in the western city of Nantes - the father settled the children's school fees, wrote letters to friends and eventually went on the run.
No trace of father
He is known to have stayed in a hotel in the southern Var region on April 15 and to have abandoned the family car there, but there has been no trace of him since and on Tuesday prosecutors issued an arrest warrant.
"Of course he is still presumed innocent, but this warrant from a judge is the equivalent of the opening of a criminal enquiry," explained local Nantes chief prosecutor Xavier de Ronsin, announcing an international manhunt.
"At this stage of the judicial inquiry, the gravity of the charges facing him, and the suspicion that he was the perpetrator of five murders, legally justifies this change in his status in the case," he said.
Ronsin said police had investigated 330 reported sightings of the fugitive around Europe, but had not yet found any of them convincing, and added that they had no concrete reason to suspect he had fled abroad.
Respected, well-heeled family
Nantes residents were shocked by the murders, which destroyed a respected and well-heeled family which had no history of odd or criminal behaviour and was involved in the work of the local Catholic diocese.
Dupont de Ligonnes told his teenage children's private Catholic high school that he had been transferred to a job in Australia. He told friends that he was a US secret agent and was being taken into a witness protection programme.
Such claims led to speculation that he had had some kind of mental crisis before snapping and killing his family, but since his disappearance evidence has emerged of the suspect's peculiar religious background.
In Nantes, the family were seen as mainstream, traditionalist Catholics, and the slain mother Agnes was a volunteer in church activities and education.
But it has emerged that in the 1960s the suspected killer's own mother, Genevieve Dupont de Ligonnes, founded a closed prayer group known as "Philadelphia" which is suspected of sect-like activities.
Strange cult beliefs
Georges Fenech, the head of Miviludes -- the French state's cult-monitoring agency - told AFP the group collected money from followers, claimed to receive direct messages from Jesus Christ and had a mystical apocalyptic bent.
"Xavier grew up as a child alongside his mother, at the time his mother was setting up this prayer group," he said. "He was doubtless surrounded by this very mystical, fearful atmosphere."
In 1994 members of the sect gathered in Rennes, fearing that the end of the world was upon them, and support groups for the victims of cult recruitment say psychiatric hospitals have been forced to treat many former adepts.
Evidence of cold-hearted slaughter
But, while the mystic angle has added a layer of mystery to the murders, investigators have not yet confirmed it played a role. Other evidence points more to a cold-blooded slaughter than a religious frenzy.
Dupont de Ligonnes joined a gun club to learn how to shoot in December and obtained a permit to own a weapon on February 2, shortly after inheriting a .22 calibre rifle on the death of his father.
On March 12 he bought a silencer and ammunition, and on April 1 and 2 he collected cement, lime, a spade and a hoe.
Investigators think he killed his wife and his teenage children on April 3 or 4. He dined with his adult son, 20-year-old Thomas, near his university on April 4. Thomas came to Nantes the next day and died that day or the next.
Abnormal writing style
On April 11, the children's school received a cheque for outstanding fees, and the suspect's friends and his sister Christine received bizarre letters explaining his flight.
"He says he is taking part in a trial in the United States involving international drug traffickers," said Christine's lawyer Stephane Goldenstein.
"It's an enigmatic and preposterous letter in which he pretends to be an undercover agent," he continued.
"He adds: 'When you read this we will no longer be French citizens, but American residents living under new identities.'
"He gives instructions to friends to gather his things and recover money and kitchen appliances."
Goldenstein said the letter was type-written without the spelling mistakes that Xavier often made in emails, and added the family was not convinced it came from her son.
"His mother is convinced he is innocent," he added.
Ronsin's investigating team has been reinforced by several dozen specialist officers. The manhunt continues.
Monday, May 16, 2011
"Mystery" plagues dad's murder spree; mom, four children slaughtered and buried (Paris, France)
Dad XAVIER DUPONT DE LIGONNES sounds like a classic psychopath to me.
http://www.news24.com/World/News/Mystery-plagues-French-dads-family-murders-20110511
Mystery plagues French dad's murder spree
2011-05-11 13:18
Paris - Cold-hearted killer or crazed cultist? As French police issued an international arrest warrant for a fugitive father, more clues emerged as to why he might have slaughtered all five of his family.
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes, a 50-year-old businessman from an aristocratic family, is suspected of the murders of his wife and their four children, who were found buried under the terrace of the family's elegant townhouse.
Each had been a victim of what French prosecutors described as a "methodical execution", with two bullets fired from a silenced weapon, at close range, to their heads, before they were rolled in lime and buried under cement.
Following the killings - thought to have taken place between April 3 and 6 at the home in the western city of Nantes - the father settled the children's school fees, wrote letters to friends and eventually went on the run.
No trace of father
He is known to have stayed in a hotel in the southern Var region on April 15 and to have abandoned the family car there, but there has been no trace of him since and on Tuesday prosecutors issued an arrest warrant.
"Of course he is still presumed innocent, but this warrant from a judge is the equivalent of the opening of a criminal enquiry," explained local Nantes chief prosecutor Xavier de Ronsin, announcing an international manhunt.
"At this stage of the judicial inquiry, the gravity of the charges facing him, and the suspicion that he was the perpetrator of five murders, legally justifies this change in his status in the case," he said.
Ronsin said police had investigated 330 reported sightings of the fugitive around Europe, but had not yet found any of them convincing, and added that they had no concrete reason to suspect he had fled abroad.
Respected, well-heeled family
Nantes residents were shocked by the murders, which destroyed a respected and well-heeled family which had no history of odd or criminal behaviour and was involved in the work of the local Catholic diocese.
Dupont de Ligonnes told his teenage children's private Catholic high school that he had been transferred to a job in Australia. He told friends that he was a US secret agent and was being taken into a witness protection programme.
Such claims led to speculation that he had had some kind of mental crisis before snapping and killing his family, but since his disappearance evidence has emerged of the suspect's peculiar religious background.
In Nantes, the family were seen as mainstream, traditionalist Catholics, and the slain mother Agnes was a volunteer in church activities and education.
But it has emerged that in the 1960s the suspected killer's own mother, Genevieve Dupont de Ligonnes, founded a closed prayer group known as "Philadelphia" which is suspected of sect-like activities.
Strange cult beliefs
Georges Fenech, the head of Miviludes -- the French state's cult-monitoring agency - told AFP the group collected money from followers, claimed to receive direct messages from Jesus Christ and had a mystical apocalyptic bent.
"Xavier grew up as a child alongside his mother, at the time his mother was setting up this prayer group," he said. "He was doubtless surrounded by this very mystical, fearful atmosphere."
In 1994 members of the sect gathered in Rennes, fearing that the end of the world was upon them, and support groups for the victims of cult recruitment say psychiatric hospitals have been forced to treat many former adepts.
Evidence of cold-hearted slaughter
But, while the mystic angle has added a layer of mystery to the murders, investigators have not yet confirmed it played a role. Other evidence points more to a cold-blooded slaughter than a religious frenzy.
Dupont de Ligonnes joined a gun club to learn how to shoot in December and obtained a permit to own a weapon on February 2, shortly after inheriting a .22 calibre rifle on the death of his father.
On March 12 he bought a silencer and ammunition, and on April 1 and 2 he collected cement, lime, a spade and a hoe.
Investigators think he killed his wife and his teenage children on April 3 or 4. He dined with his adult son, 20-year-old Thomas, near his university on April 4. Thomas came to Nantes the next day and died that day or the next.
Abnormal writing style
On April 11, the children's school received a cheque for outstanding fees, and the suspect's friends and his sister Christine received bizarre letters explaining his flight.
"He says he is taking part in a trial in the United States involving international drug traffickers," said Christine's lawyer Stephane Goldenstein.
"It's an enigmatic and preposterous letter in which he pretends to be an undercover agent," he continued.
"He adds: 'When you read this we will no longer be French citizens, but American residents living under new identities.'
"He gives instructions to friends to gather his things and recover money and kitchen appliances."
Goldenstein said the letter was type-written without the spelling mistakes that Xavier often made in emails, and added the family was not convinced it came from her son.
"His mother is convinced he is innocent," he added.
Ronsin's investigating team has been reinforced by several dozen specialist officers. The manhunt continues.
http://www.news24.com/World/News/Mystery-plagues-French-dads-family-murders-20110511
Mystery plagues French dad's murder spree
2011-05-11 13:18
Paris - Cold-hearted killer or crazed cultist? As French police issued an international arrest warrant for a fugitive father, more clues emerged as to why he might have slaughtered all five of his family.
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes, a 50-year-old businessman from an aristocratic family, is suspected of the murders of his wife and their four children, who were found buried under the terrace of the family's elegant townhouse.
Each had been a victim of what French prosecutors described as a "methodical execution", with two bullets fired from a silenced weapon, at close range, to their heads, before they were rolled in lime and buried under cement.
Following the killings - thought to have taken place between April 3 and 6 at the home in the western city of Nantes - the father settled the children's school fees, wrote letters to friends and eventually went on the run.
No trace of father
He is known to have stayed in a hotel in the southern Var region on April 15 and to have abandoned the family car there, but there has been no trace of him since and on Tuesday prosecutors issued an arrest warrant.
"Of course he is still presumed innocent, but this warrant from a judge is the equivalent of the opening of a criminal enquiry," explained local Nantes chief prosecutor Xavier de Ronsin, announcing an international manhunt.
"At this stage of the judicial inquiry, the gravity of the charges facing him, and the suspicion that he was the perpetrator of five murders, legally justifies this change in his status in the case," he said.
Ronsin said police had investigated 330 reported sightings of the fugitive around Europe, but had not yet found any of them convincing, and added that they had no concrete reason to suspect he had fled abroad.
Respected, well-heeled family
Nantes residents were shocked by the murders, which destroyed a respected and well-heeled family which had no history of odd or criminal behaviour and was involved in the work of the local Catholic diocese.
Dupont de Ligonnes told his teenage children's private Catholic high school that he had been transferred to a job in Australia. He told friends that he was a US secret agent and was being taken into a witness protection programme.
Such claims led to speculation that he had had some kind of mental crisis before snapping and killing his family, but since his disappearance evidence has emerged of the suspect's peculiar religious background.
In Nantes, the family were seen as mainstream, traditionalist Catholics, and the slain mother Agnes was a volunteer in church activities and education.
But it has emerged that in the 1960s the suspected killer's own mother, Genevieve Dupont de Ligonnes, founded a closed prayer group known as "Philadelphia" which is suspected of sect-like activities.
Strange cult beliefs
Georges Fenech, the head of Miviludes -- the French state's cult-monitoring agency - told AFP the group collected money from followers, claimed to receive direct messages from Jesus Christ and had a mystical apocalyptic bent.
"Xavier grew up as a child alongside his mother, at the time his mother was setting up this prayer group," he said. "He was doubtless surrounded by this very mystical, fearful atmosphere."
In 1994 members of the sect gathered in Rennes, fearing that the end of the world was upon them, and support groups for the victims of cult recruitment say psychiatric hospitals have been forced to treat many former adepts.
Evidence of cold-hearted slaughter
But, while the mystic angle has added a layer of mystery to the murders, investigators have not yet confirmed it played a role. Other evidence points more to a cold-blooded slaughter than a religious frenzy.
Dupont de Ligonnes joined a gun club to learn how to shoot in December and obtained a permit to own a weapon on February 2, shortly after inheriting a .22 calibre rifle on the death of his father.
On March 12 he bought a silencer and ammunition, and on April 1 and 2 he collected cement, lime, a spade and a hoe.
Investigators think he killed his wife and his teenage children on April 3 or 4. He dined with his adult son, 20-year-old Thomas, near his university on April 4. Thomas came to Nantes the next day and died that day or the next.
Abnormal writing style
On April 11, the children's school received a cheque for outstanding fees, and the suspect's friends and his sister Christine received bizarre letters explaining his flight.
"He says he is taking part in a trial in the United States involving international drug traffickers," said Christine's lawyer Stephane Goldenstein.
"It's an enigmatic and preposterous letter in which he pretends to be an undercover agent," he continued.
"He adds: 'When you read this we will no longer be French citizens, but American residents living under new identities.'
"He gives instructions to friends to gather his things and recover money and kitchen appliances."
Goldenstein said the letter was type-written without the spelling mistakes that Xavier often made in emails, and added the family was not convinced it came from her son.
"His mother is convinced he is innocent," he added.
Ronsin's investigating team has been reinforced by several dozen specialist officers. The manhunt continues.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Dad who abducted 6-year-old twins commits suicide; children still missing (Switzerland)
Studies have shown that fathers generally do not kidnap their children because they want to protect them or want "parenting time." The primary reason has always been to punish the mother (for whatever "crimes" the father has convicted her) and/or to force the mother to return to him. This is obviously the case here with dad MATTHIAS SCHEPP, who claimed he "could not live" without his estranged wife, and then threw himself under a train and killed himself. I truly fear for the fate of these children....
Hat tip to E.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12375700
6 February 2011 Last updated at 00:17 ET
Police hunt missing six-year-old Swiss twins
Police from three countries are hunting for a pair of six-year-old Swiss twins whose father killed himself after abducting them.
Canadian-born Matthias Schepp had snatched Alessia and Livia from the Swiss home of his wife, from whom he was separated, on 30 January.
He then travelled to France and then Italy, where he threw himself under a train on Friday.
Helicopters, trackers dogs and scores of volunteers are helping the search.
Mr Schepp had sent his estranged wife a letter from Marseille in France, saying he was desperate and could not live without her, Italy's Ansa news agency reports.
The agency quoted Swiss police as saying he had withdrawn large amounts of money from cashpoints in the city.
His body was found on the tracks near the Cerignola Campagna in Italy's Puglia region on Friday - his car was found nearby.
Investigators said they did not know whether Mr Schepp had taken his daughters with him to France and Italy.
An extensive search is underway in Puglia involving French, Italian and Swiss police.
Rescue workers are investigating wells and water tanks as well as searching the area by air.
On Saturday, residents of St Sulpice, from where the girls were taken, staged a walk around the town in a show of support.
Hat tip to E.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12375700
6 February 2011 Last updated at 00:17 ET
Police hunt missing six-year-old Swiss twins
Police from three countries are hunting for a pair of six-year-old Swiss twins whose father killed himself after abducting them.
Canadian-born Matthias Schepp had snatched Alessia and Livia from the Swiss home of his wife, from whom he was separated, on 30 January.
He then travelled to France and then Italy, where he threw himself under a train on Friday.
Helicopters, trackers dogs and scores of volunteers are helping the search.
Mr Schepp had sent his estranged wife a letter from Marseille in France, saying he was desperate and could not live without her, Italy's Ansa news agency reports.
The agency quoted Swiss police as saying he had withdrawn large amounts of money from cashpoints in the city.
His body was found on the tracks near the Cerignola Campagna in Italy's Puglia region on Friday - his car was found nearby.
Investigators said they did not know whether Mr Schepp had taken his daughters with him to France and Italy.
An extensive search is underway in Puglia involving French, Italian and Swiss police.
Rescue workers are investigating wells and water tanks as well as searching the area by air.
On Saturday, residents of St Sulpice, from where the girls were taken, staged a walk around the town in a show of support.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
"Separated" dad leaves 4-year-old daughter outside in the cold while he parties at nightclub (Colmar, France)
Even though UNNAMED DAD has been convicted (an 8-month suspended jail sentence), he still isn't identified. How nice for UNNAMED DAD.
http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/frenchman-convicted-for-leaving-child-outside-nightclub_116340.html
Frenchman convicted for leaving child outside nightclub
09/12/2010
A French court on Thursday handed an eight-month suspended jail sentence to a man who left his four-year-old daughter in the freezing cold outside a nightclub while he partied inside.
The court in Colmar in eastern France heard that the 36-year-old hotel worker drank three or four litres of beer at a friend's house one night last month before going home and finding his daughter fast asleep.
He then decided to go clubbing and put the girl in the back of his car and drove to the Evasion discotheque in the town of Riquewihr, where he left her in the vehicle and went inside to carry on drinking.
Police arrived at the scene after being alerted by clubbers who spotted the girl wandering around the car park around 3:30 am saying she was sick of waiting in the car.
The father, who is separated from the child's mother, told the court he recognised that he had made a "big mistake" and promised to try to work on his alcohol problem.
He was convicted of neglecting his parental duties.
http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/frenchman-convicted-for-leaving-child-outside-nightclub_116340.html
Frenchman convicted for leaving child outside nightclub
09/12/2010
A French court on Thursday handed an eight-month suspended jail sentence to a man who left his four-year-old daughter in the freezing cold outside a nightclub while he partied inside.
The court in Colmar in eastern France heard that the 36-year-old hotel worker drank three or four litres of beer at a friend's house one night last month before going home and finding his daughter fast asleep.
He then decided to go clubbing and put the girl in the back of his car and drove to the Evasion discotheque in the town of Riquewihr, where he left her in the vehicle and went inside to carry on drinking.
Police arrived at the scene after being alerted by clubbers who spotted the girl wandering around the car park around 3:30 am saying she was sick of waiting in the car.
The father, who is separated from the child's mother, told the court he recognised that he had made a "big mistake" and promised to try to work on his alcohol problem.
He was convicted of neglecting his parental duties.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Jean Paul custody case gets new hearing (San Antonio, Texas)
Dad JEAN PHILIPPE LACOMBE embodies the kind of abuser dad who uses child custody as a way to terrorize his ex-wife and child. Scamming the police to abduct your kid for you at gunpoint is not something a loving or protective parent does. Period.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/jean_paul_says_hell_never_go_back_as_judge_orders_new_hearing_104989904.html?showFullArticle=y
Jean Paul custody case gets new hearing
By Craig Kapitan - Express-News
Web Posted: 10/15/2010 12:00 AM CDT
A state district judge chastised the father of Jean Paul Lacombe on Thursday for making “a mockery” of the Texas court system, but also gave the father's attorneys a new chance to argue their case in the international custody dispute.
The legal team for Jean Philippe Lacombe, a dual citizen of Mexico and France wanted in the United States on kidnapping and perjury charges, had argued the father wasn't properly notified of a court hearing this summer.
In that hearing in August, Judge Larry Noll ruled that Mexican court documents gave mother Berenice Diaz rightful custody of the boy, 11.
Neither Jean Philippe Lacombe nor his attorneys appeared in court for that hearing. A week later, a French tribunal issued a similar decision.
Noll agreed to put his earlier ruling on hold after the father's attorneys argued that notice of the hearing was delivered to the wrong attorney.
No date has been set for the new hearing.
Neither parent — nor the boy — showed up in Noll's courtroom for the ruling Thursday.
Jean Paul Lacombe, however, waited on another floor of the Bexar courthouse. He wanted to meet with the judge in private, without lawyers for either side present, his mother's attorneys told the judge.
“No matter what my father pays his lawyers, I'll never go back with him,” Jean Paul Lacombe said outside the courthouse as his mother and her attorneys stood nearby. “I don't feel safe with him.”
Noll declined to immediately meet with the child, but the request is pending.
Jean Paul Lacombe mentioned last October, when deputy constables pulled him off his school bus as he cried for help, as a reason he feels unsafe with his father.
A day earlier, his father had convinced state District Judge Sol Casseb III to give him emergency custody of the boy until a hearing could be held days later to determine which parent had been granted custody by the Mexican court system.
After retrieving the boy, however, the father left the country instead of appearing in court.
The judge also angrily mentioned the bus incident and the father's disappearance throughout the hearing, which began Oct. 4.
Failure to appear “was an abuse of court systems of this state that cannot be overlooked or condoned,” Noll said as he read his ruling. “He will not be allowed to engage in a snatch-and-run episode without consequences.”
Jean Philippe Lacombe's attorneys also asked the judge to rule that Mexico — not Bexar County — had the proper jurisdiction for such a hearing. The judge denied the request, saying the father is the one who initiated the legal process in Texas.
Outside the courtroom, both sides said they were satisfied with the judge's ruling.
“Judges haven't yet heard both sides of the story,” said former state District Judge Lori Massey, who represents the father.
The French tribunal used Noll's ruling in part to reach its decision, she said. Noll's final ruling, she added, “is going to have ripple effects in France and Mexico.”
Massey said it hasn't been decided if Jean Philippe Lacombe will return to the United States for the next hearing. But attorneys can try the case without him and given his legal situation, his appearance seems unlikely, she has indicated.
Attorneys Miguel Ortiz and Steve Cichowski, who represent Diaz, said Noll will have the same facts the French tribunal did and should reach the same conclusion.
Giving the father “one more chance to come into the court and tell his side of the story ... is the best thing that could happen for both parties,” Cichowski said. “If he is serious about the best interest of this child, I would definitely think he would show up.”
Regardless, Jean Paul Lacombe said Thursday that he hopes the ordeal can end soon, and that he can stay in San Antonio.
“I just want to live peacefully like a normal kid in America,” he said.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/jean_paul_says_hell_never_go_back_as_judge_orders_new_hearing_104989904.html?showFullArticle=y
Jean Paul custody case gets new hearing
By Craig Kapitan - Express-News
Web Posted: 10/15/2010 12:00 AM CDT
A state district judge chastised the father of Jean Paul Lacombe on Thursday for making “a mockery” of the Texas court system, but also gave the father's attorneys a new chance to argue their case in the international custody dispute.
The legal team for Jean Philippe Lacombe, a dual citizen of Mexico and France wanted in the United States on kidnapping and perjury charges, had argued the father wasn't properly notified of a court hearing this summer.
In that hearing in August, Judge Larry Noll ruled that Mexican court documents gave mother Berenice Diaz rightful custody of the boy, 11.
Neither Jean Philippe Lacombe nor his attorneys appeared in court for that hearing. A week later, a French tribunal issued a similar decision.
Noll agreed to put his earlier ruling on hold after the father's attorneys argued that notice of the hearing was delivered to the wrong attorney.
No date has been set for the new hearing.
Neither parent — nor the boy — showed up in Noll's courtroom for the ruling Thursday.
Jean Paul Lacombe, however, waited on another floor of the Bexar courthouse. He wanted to meet with the judge in private, without lawyers for either side present, his mother's attorneys told the judge.
“No matter what my father pays his lawyers, I'll never go back with him,” Jean Paul Lacombe said outside the courthouse as his mother and her attorneys stood nearby. “I don't feel safe with him.”
Noll declined to immediately meet with the child, but the request is pending.
Jean Paul Lacombe mentioned last October, when deputy constables pulled him off his school bus as he cried for help, as a reason he feels unsafe with his father.
A day earlier, his father had convinced state District Judge Sol Casseb III to give him emergency custody of the boy until a hearing could be held days later to determine which parent had been granted custody by the Mexican court system.
After retrieving the boy, however, the father left the country instead of appearing in court.
The judge also angrily mentioned the bus incident and the father's disappearance throughout the hearing, which began Oct. 4.
Failure to appear “was an abuse of court systems of this state that cannot be overlooked or condoned,” Noll said as he read his ruling. “He will not be allowed to engage in a snatch-and-run episode without consequences.”
Jean Philippe Lacombe's attorneys also asked the judge to rule that Mexico — not Bexar County — had the proper jurisdiction for such a hearing. The judge denied the request, saying the father is the one who initiated the legal process in Texas.
Outside the courtroom, both sides said they were satisfied with the judge's ruling.
“Judges haven't yet heard both sides of the story,” said former state District Judge Lori Massey, who represents the father.
The French tribunal used Noll's ruling in part to reach its decision, she said. Noll's final ruling, she added, “is going to have ripple effects in France and Mexico.”
Massey said it hasn't been decided if Jean Philippe Lacombe will return to the United States for the next hearing. But attorneys can try the case without him and given his legal situation, his appearance seems unlikely, she has indicated.
Attorneys Miguel Ortiz and Steve Cichowski, who represent Diaz, said Noll will have the same facts the French tribunal did and should reach the same conclusion.
Giving the father “one more chance to come into the court and tell his side of the story ... is the best thing that could happen for both parties,” Cichowski said. “If he is serious about the best interest of this child, I would definitely think he would show up.”
Regardless, Jean Paul Lacombe said Thursday that he hopes the ordeal can end soon, and that he can stay in San Antonio.
“I just want to live peacefully like a normal kid in America,” he said.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Dad forces son to eat bad school report, choking the boy (France)
Notice that UNNAMED DAD didn't force this kid to just eat a one-page school report. No, he forced him to eat a 3-page report, which the child then choked on. Then Daddy--no doubt a true blue academic scholar himself--pushed the report further down the child's throat, before slapping him. In other words, this isn't just bad parenting, this "morceau de merde" could have killed this child. Social services was called after teachers noticed the boy's swollen eye and cut lip. Daddy got a suspended 2-month sentence.
INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT: Was there a mother in this home? No mention of one.
Hat tip to Sam.
http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/french-father-forced-son-to-eat-bad-school-report/story-e6frflri-1225872402089
French father forced son to eat bad school report
From: NewsCore May 28, 2010 9:39AM
The man rammed the three-page summary into his child's mouth, causing the boy to choke.
Dad forced son to eat bad school report
Also slapped boy around the face
Given suspended prison sentence
A FATHER who forced his 12-year-old son to eat a bad school report has escaped a prison sentence.
The unnamed man rammed the three-page summary into his child's mouth, causing the boy to choke.
When the boy failed to swallow the report, the man tried to push it further down his throat before slapping him around the face, a court in Poitiers was told.
The boy's swollen eye and cut lip were spotted by a teacher in class the next day.
Social services were alerted and the father was charged with assault.
He received a two-month suspended prison sentence.
"I have apologised to my son for what I did and things have been much better since," he told the court.
"I do not hit him anymore."
INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT: Was there a mother in this home? No mention of one.
Hat tip to Sam.
http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/french-father-forced-son-to-eat-bad-school-report/story-e6frflri-1225872402089
French father forced son to eat bad school report
From: NewsCore May 28, 2010 9:39AM
The man rammed the three-page summary into his child's mouth, causing the boy to choke.
Dad forced son to eat bad school report
Also slapped boy around the face
Given suspended prison sentence
A FATHER who forced his 12-year-old son to eat a bad school report has escaped a prison sentence.
The unnamed man rammed the three-page summary into his child's mouth, causing the boy to choke.
When the boy failed to swallow the report, the man tried to push it further down his throat before slapping him around the face, a court in Poitiers was told.
The boy's swollen eye and cut lip were spotted by a teacher in class the next day.
Social services were alerted and the father was charged with assault.
He received a two-month suspended prison sentence.
"I have apologised to my son for what I did and things have been much better since," he told the court.
"I do not hit him anymore."
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
American judge orders American mom to return son to father in France (Denver, Colorado)
Where's the pro-America crowd who backed MARK GOLDMAN on his case? Why is an American judge so eager to sell out an American mother? Maybe, it's because it's a mom? Mom claims she was coerced into the custody agreement and that Dad FRANCOIS SALINIER was physically and emotionally abusive. She also fears for the boy's safety.
http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2010/03/03/news/local/doc4b8ded67c4c75196644682.txt
Published: March 03, 2010 12:06 am
Judge orders woman to return child to France
Father invoked a treaty on child abduction in seeking court order.
DENVER — A judge, acting in an international child abduction case, has ordered a Pueblo mother to return her 7 1/2-year-old son to his father in France.
The mother, Amanda Minarik, had refused to return the boy to Paris on Jan. 3, as scheduled at the end of a visit during Christmastime.
The father, Francois Salinier, invoked a treaty on child abduction to seek a court order compelling Minarik to return the boy. A 2006 child custody agreement specifies the boy is to live with his father in France.
Chief U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel, in a 21-page decision on Monday, ordered Minarik to return the boy no later than Sunday.
In three days of court hearings last week, Minarik's attorney, Joseph Antolinez, assured the judge that she would comply, if that turned out to be Daniel's decision. The treaty requires children who have been removed from their lawful custody to be returned unless there is good reason to the contrary.
The judge rejected Minarik's contention that her son would be subject to a grave risk of physical or psychological harm by being returned to Paris. Daniel also rejected her contention that her ex-husband coerced her into the custody agreement.
Minarik and Salinier lived in Pueblo and Colorado Springs after the their son was born in 2002, but they moved to France in mid-2004. She moved back to Pueblo in early 2006 and they were divorced in France.
The judge said he was unable to determine whether either Minarik or Salinier was telling the truth about her claims, which Salinier denied, that he physically and emotionally abused her.
In her testimony last week, Minarik conceded she thinks he is the boy's father. In a Jan. 3 e-mail to Salinier, she said he might not be the father.
Daniel stated the boy testified he would prefer to live in France with his half-sister, an 11-year-old daughter of Minarik, from an earlier relationship. The daughter lives in Pueblo with her mother. She is not part of the custody case.
http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2010/03/03/news/local/doc4b8ded67c4c75196644682.txt
Published: March 03, 2010 12:06 am
Judge orders woman to return child to France
Father invoked a treaty on child abduction in seeking court order.
DENVER — A judge, acting in an international child abduction case, has ordered a Pueblo mother to return her 7 1/2-year-old son to his father in France.
The mother, Amanda Minarik, had refused to return the boy to Paris on Jan. 3, as scheduled at the end of a visit during Christmastime.
The father, Francois Salinier, invoked a treaty on child abduction to seek a court order compelling Minarik to return the boy. A 2006 child custody agreement specifies the boy is to live with his father in France.
Chief U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel, in a 21-page decision on Monday, ordered Minarik to return the boy no later than Sunday.
In three days of court hearings last week, Minarik's attorney, Joseph Antolinez, assured the judge that she would comply, if that turned out to be Daniel's decision. The treaty requires children who have been removed from their lawful custody to be returned unless there is good reason to the contrary.
The judge rejected Minarik's contention that her son would be subject to a grave risk of physical or psychological harm by being returned to Paris. Daniel also rejected her contention that her ex-husband coerced her into the custody agreement.
Minarik and Salinier lived in Pueblo and Colorado Springs after the their son was born in 2002, but they moved to France in mid-2004. She moved back to Pueblo in early 2006 and they were divorced in France.
The judge said he was unable to determine whether either Minarik or Salinier was telling the truth about her claims, which Salinier denied, that he physically and emotionally abused her.
In her testimony last week, Minarik conceded she thinks he is the boy's father. In a Jan. 3 e-mail to Salinier, she said he might not be the father.
Daniel stated the boy testified he would prefer to live in France with his half-sister, an 11-year-old daughter of Minarik, from an earlier relationship. The daughter lives in Pueblo with her mother. She is not part of the custody case.
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