For Carrie Bickmore: A Sketch of a Research PROJECT Australian Domestic Violence – Violence-by-Women

Australian broadcaster Carrie Bickmore, is interested in the tragic domestic violence cases in which a parent murders a child. Regrettably, accurate information on Violence-by-Women is exceedingly hard to come by. This post offers brief notations on Australian cases in the hope that Australian scholars and researchers will follow through and create a thorough presentation of this overlooked, important if disturbing topic.

The image is taken from the notorious edited broadcast of Carrie Bickmore’s deceptive and bullying interview of the world’s most controversial Cassie Jaye, director of The Red Pill (2016, USA).

Commentary on the broadcast, The Project, June 8, 2017

Also see:

Female Serial Killers of Australia

Maternal Filicide:

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Australia - Domestic Violence – Violence by Women – A CHECKLIST

(includes mental illness cases)

(incomplete, in progress; many involve suicide of the murderess; att the moment we are only identifying the murder victims in this checklist)

1874 – Clara Donoghoe – Sydney, Australia – 1 child (Dec. 4)

1884 – Margaret Kelly – Jerilderie, near Yankee Station, NSW, Australia – 2 chn (Nov. 29)

1888 – Emma Elizabeth Aston – Upton park, East Ham, Australia – 2 chn (Apr.)

1888 – Mrs. Wm. Doyle – Dawson, near Toongabbie, Australia – d (11), s (9 mo)  (Nov. 12)

1891 – Mrs. Watson – Jumbowie, SA, Australia – 1 child (Mar. 1)

1893 – Balmain mother – Balmain, Australia –1 child (Jan. 9)

1894 – Mother (Name?) – Ecuuca, Eaglehawk – 1 child (Dec.)

1894 – Sarah Masters – Dandenong, Australia – d (19 mo) (Dec. 7)

1895 – Clara Maddin – Townesville, Australia – 1 child (Feb. 27)

1895 – Harriet Trippiett – Lauriston, Australia – 1 ch (6 wks; decap.) (discovery Feb. 1)

1898 – Amy Stewart – Auckland, Australia – 1 child (Jun. 28)

1898 – Mrs. Catherine Glover –Triabunna, Tasmania – 6 chn (Mar. 1)

1898 – Mrs. M’Carthy – Yarraville, Melbourne, Australia – 3 chn (May 11)

1898 – Ellen McNabb – Mount Alexander, Australia – 1 child (Nov. 25)

1899 – Edna Joehenson – Richmond, Australia – 1 child (Jul. 11)

1899 – Mrs. Youngman – Albert Park, Victoria, Australia – s (12) d (8, rescuded) (May 13)

1899 – Ann Rhoda Kidney – Woollahra, sub of Sydney, Australia – 1 ch (9 mo) (Jun. 9)

1901 – Mrs. J. C. Drummond – Naranghi, Australia – 1 child  (Jan.)

1901 – Mrs. Laffy – Australia – (Oct. 8)

1901 – Mrs.  (James) Day – Coleraine, Australia – 4 chn (May 31)

1901 – Mrs. Chamberlain – Port Melbourne, Australia – 2 daughters (Dec. 24?)

1904 – Clarinda Hope Selby – North Bangaroo, Australia – 2 chn (Nov. 15)
1906 - Mrs. Albert Lambert – Townsville, Australia – 2 chn (Jan. 13)
1907 - Elizabeth Smith – Clifton, Australia – 1 child, slit throat, near decapitation (Feb.)
1908 – Madame Soulard – New Caledonia, Australia – 3 chn (Mar. 27)

1910 – Cornelia McClusky – Bendigo, Victoria, Australia – brutal, 3 chn (Aug)

1910 – Mrs. Keys – Sydney, Australia – 3 chn (May 18)

1912 – Florence Grace Gerson – Bunbury, Australia – 1 child (Oct.)

1912 – Lillian May Wakefield – Crabtree, near Huonville, Australia – d (4), d (4 ½ mo),. D (7 mo) (Jul. 21)

1913 – Sara Gouley – Wellington, Australia – 1 child (Mar. 30)

1913 – Agnes Ferry – Dimboola, Australia – 1 child (Nov. 3)

1914 – Mrs. Delaney – Felimington, Victoria, Australia – son (10) (Oct. 26)

1915 – Annie Sophia Thiel – North Yanae, Victoria, Australia – 2 chn  (Dec.)

1916 – Ms. (Borraelough?) – Koerlong, near Mildura, Australia – Son, Earle (14), d Deborah (11) (Sep. 9)

1918 – Elizabeth Gibson – Broken Hill, Australia – (Gladys (d, 22) (Oct. 25)

1924 – Alice Maud Dodds –  Melbourne, Australia – 1 child (Jul. 28)

1924 – Mrs. Saeter – Newcastle, Australia – daughter (Apr.)

1925 – Madeline Annie Maher – Sydney, Australia – 1 child (Apr. 15)

1926 – Margaret May Wellsmore – Alexandria, Australia – 2 chn (May 21)

1927 – Mrs. D. Lauren – Babinda, Australia – 1 child (Nov. 14)

1927 – Tryphene Rae – Gore, Australia – 4 chn (Apr. 11)

1928 – Martha McNeill – Rozelle, Sydney, Australia – 1 child (Sep. 22)

1929 – Mrs. W. Gavin – Kingsland, Australia – twins (Aug. 7)

1929 – Ruby Miller – Surat, Australia  – 2 chn dead, 2 critical cond. (Dec. 6)

1929 – Mildred May Roberts – Bankstown, Australia – 1 child (Mar. 19)

1930 – Iris Osborne – Stanmore, Australia – 1 child (Jan. 2)

1934 – Martha Turner – Malvern (Melbourne, Australia – 2 chn (May 1)

1935 – Rose Elsie Friend – Gladstone, Queensland, Australia – 1 child (Oct. 19)

1935 – Irene Gladys Taylor – Carroll, Australia – 3 chn (Jan. 30)

1939 – Helen Benson – Carrington, Australia – 2 chn (Jan. 10)

1944 – Thelma Alice Sinclair – Ungarie, Australia – husband, 1 child (Jan. 30)

1948 – Mrs. Vincent Lilian Rydge – Vaucluse, Sydney, Australia – son (5) (Sep 30)

1951 – Mary Bradley McDonald – Brisbane, Australuia – d (6), s (8 mo) (Jun.)

1953 – Carol MacDonald – Mahwah (New Jersey), Australia – 4 chn (May 3)

1953 – Dorothy Milne – Kirawee, Australia – 2 chn (May 26)

1954 – Lima Mary Harrison – Newcastle, Australia – husb (false jealousy) (Jun. 21)

1954 – Elsie Myra Banner – Essendon, Australia – 1 child (Mar.)

1965 – Laura Ann Corry – Point Yernon, Mervey Bay, Australia – 1 child (Jan. 25)

1968 – Mavis Green Gardner – Medlow Bath, Lithgow, Ausrtralia – (Sep.)

1972 – Mrs Apolonia Quarisa – Griffith, Australia – 3 chn (Jun. 28)

1977 – Mrs Marjorie Dorothy McGree – Nowra, Australia – 1 child (Oct. 8)

1993 – Gunn-Britt Ashfield – Nowra, NSW, Australia – Ashfield, now known as Angelic Karstrom, and her then boyfriend, Austin Allan Hughes, beat John Ashfield, 6, to death with a hammer (Aug. 1993)

2001 – “Hunter Valley, Australia Mother” – Hunter Valley, Australia – son (5, survived), (7 mo, survived) (Nov. 25)

2002 – “Sandstone Point Australia Mother” – Unnamed Mother (Mother-perpetrator), Unnamed Father (Father-”Left-Behind”); Sandstone, Point Australia Murder = November 22, 2002. (bodies found); Sentenced to life

2008 – “Canley Heights mother” Australia – 2 children (Feb. 19)

2010 – Gemma Killeen – Perth, Austalia – 1 child (Nov.)

2014 – Raina Thaiday – Cairns, Australia – 8 chn (Dec)

2015 – Akon Guode – Melbourne – Bol (1), Hanger (4), Madit (4); Alual (6) survived

2015 – Cara Lee Hall – Leda, Western Australia – husb, att murd 2 chn (Dec 6)

2000 – Katherine Mary Knight – Aberdeen, NSW, Australia – cannibal murd. of husb.

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Female Serial Killers of Australia

1886 – Harriet Ann Stevens – Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia – 2 murders & 1 attempt

1888 – Louisa Collins – Botany, NSW, Australia – 2 husbands plus 1 child suspected

1889 – Ellen Batts – Waverley, NSW, Australia – 3 babies

1892 – Jane Makin – Sydney, NSW, Australia –13 babies died; executed
1894 – Frances Knorr – Brunswick, Victoria, Australia – from 3 to 13 babies; executed
1894 – Martha Needle – Richmond, Victoria, Australia – 5 victims (1 survived)

1898 – Margaret Ann Smith – West Perth, WA, Australia – 3 babies

1904 – Mary Bellears & Thomas Barton – Euora, Victoria, Australia – “wholesale infanticide”

1907 – Alice Mitchell – Perth, Western Australia, Australia – 37 babies
1908 – Madge Clayton – Preston, Victoria, Australia – 6 infants
1909 – Ruth Rendell – Perth, WA, Australia – 4 step-children; executed

1913 – Isabella Newman – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia – 3 babies

1946 – Marjorie Coleman – Camperdown, NSW, Australia – 3 murders suspected

1952 – Yvonne Fletcher – Newton, SA, Australia – (2 husbands)

1952 – Dorothy Hahn – Adelaide, SA, Australia – 3 babies
1953 – Caroline Grills – Gladesville, NSW, Australia – murdered 3 women & 1 man

1969 – Barbara Wilkinson – Wahroonga, NSW, Australia –  6 babies
1980 – Helen Patricia Moore – Fullwood Pl., Claymore, NSW, Australia – 3 chn d., + crippled
1986 – Catherine Birnie – Willagee, WA, Australia – with her husband, she murdered 4 women; their fifth escaped, leading to the criminals’ apprehension.

2003 – Kathleen Folbigg – Mayfield, NSW, Australia – 4 own chn (& 2 others?)

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SEE MORE: Female Serial Killer Collections

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“In My Own Delusions” (An Australian Cover-Up)

Feminists continue to treat violence by women as a non-existent phenomenon. Feminists use “theories” based on Marxist notions to argue that violent women are victims of an all-powerful  “patriarchy,” and unlike other grown-ups (men), these persons cannot he held responsible for their character and deeds: even when it involves the battery, bludgeoning, hacking, stabbing, poisoning, shooting, maiming, dismembering, torturing of one or many women, girls, boys or men.

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In the area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia posters promoting the treatment of men as human beings with civil rights have garnered hostility by professional feminists, based at Monash University. An organization calling itself the National Union of Students, which has a “Women’s Department” but, apparently, has no Men’s Department, produced a video in response to the posters’ promotion of integrity in examining domestic violence. It is called “In My Own Voice,” and features men holding up signs bearing slogans focusing on violence against adult females, but ignoring violence against girls, boys and adult males. 

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The Katherine Mary Knight case – “Extreme domestic violence: Woman has sex, then stabs, skins and beheads husband and cooks his body parts,” by Anna Marshall, Australian News Commentary, 3 July 2006

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Excerpt from: NUS Women's Department: The blog of the National Union of Students Women's Department

"The men’s rights movement has come to our Australian universities. Here they call themselves ‘A voice for men’ and use incorrect* statistics to claim, among other things, that domestic violence is half the fault of women.

"If the ‘A voice for men’ group don’t speak for you then speak for yourself! Around Australia male university students are standing up and rejecting false claims about domestic violence and violence against women."

(* Here is a document used a source for these “incorrect” statistics: “References Examining Assaults By Women On Their Spouses Or Male Partners: An Annotated Bibliography,” Martin S. Fiebert, Department of Psychology, California State University, Long Beach Last updated: June 2012)

 

Here is an article which discusses this controversy: Greg Canning, “Feminist Lies and the suppression of data,” A Voice for Men, Aug. 28, 2012

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More pertinent FACTS, by the boatload:

Summary of issues, A Voice for Men

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►►►Australia-Related Posts on The Unknown History of MISANDRY (in progress)

►Australian Child Care Providers (“Baby Farmers”) who murdered children

1889 – Ellen Batts  – Waverly, Australia – 3 babies

1892 – Jane Makin – Sydney, Australia –13 babies died; executed
1894 – Frances Knorr – Brunswick, Australia – from 3 to 13 babies died; executed
1898 – Margaret Ann Smith – West Perth, Australia – 3 babies

1904 – Mary Bellears & Thomas Barton – Euora, Australia – midwife “wholesale infanticide"

1907 – Alice Mitchell – Perth, Australia – 37 babies died
1908 – Madge Clayton – Preston, Australia – 6 infants
1913 – Isabella Newman – Melbourne, Australia – 3 babies died

►Australian Female Serial Killers

1886 – Harriet Ann Stevens – Wangaratta, Australia; 2 murders & 1 attempt

1888 – Louisa Collins – Botany, Australia – 2 husbands plus 1 child suspected

1894 – Martha Needle – Richmond, Australia – 5 victims (1 survived)

1909 – Ruth Rendell – Perth, Australia – Murdered four step-children; executed

1946 – Marjorie Coleman – Camperdown, Australia – 3 murders suspected

1952 – Yvonne Fletcher – Newton, Australia – (2 husbands)

1952 – Dorothy Hahn – Adelaide, Australia – 3 babies
1953 – Caroline Grills – Gladesville, Australia – murdered 3 women & 1 man

1969 – Barbara Wilkinson – Wahroonga, Australia –  6 babies
1980 – Helen Patricia Moore – Fullwood Place, Claymore, Australia – 3 children died
1986 – Catherine Birnie – Willagee, Australia – with her husband, she murdered 4 women; their fifth escaped, leading to the criminals’ apprehension.

2003 – Kathleen Folbigg  – Mayfield, Australia – 4 own chn (& 2 others?)

► Other Items of Interest

1977 – Canberra fathers’ rights

1951 – Jean Lee – “Badger Game” murderess

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