http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24634310-12377,00.html
November 11, 2008
Article from: Australian Associated Press
ALL babies should be DNA-tested at birth to ensure men are not wrongly named as a child's father, a men's rights group says.
Mothers are being made to pay back money to men they wrongly claim fathered their children under changes to child support laws, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Men's Rights Agency director Reg Price said a DNA test at birth would stop men being wrongly identified as the father of a child.
"We believe that it should be done at birth - they do a blood test now and it would be quite simple to do it at that time," he said on Fairfax radio.
"It is absolutely dreadful what is going on out there, and it is quite easy to fix with a test at birth."
Mr Price said current laws made it difficult and costly for men to get permission for a DNA test, with court action often necessary.
"The big problem is the cost involved," he said.
"If (a woman) says that is the case (that they are the father), then a man has to go to court to get permission (for the DNA test)."
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Push for jail terms for theft of DNA
Quote: A husband who suspects he is not the father of his children could be jailed for two years if he steals hair or saliva for DNA testing, under legal changes being proposed by the Rudd Government.
Once again, the State (aka Government) intrudes into family life and sets itself up as THE PARENT.
<http://www.theaustr alian.news. com.au/story/ 0,25197,24633241 -5013404, 00.html>
The Australian
11 November 2008
Push for jail terms for theft of DNA
By Leigh Dayton, Science writer
A husband who suspects he is not the father of his children could be jailed for two years if he steals hair or saliva for DNA testing, under legal changes being proposed by the Rudd Government.
Similarly, a private investigator would not be able to obtain a sample of someone's DNA for testing without their permission.
If adopted, the DNA theft laws would also make it illegal to conduct a genetic test on a sample obtained without consent and to disclose the results of any such test.
The proposed changes to the criminal code are contained in a discussion paper released by Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus yesterday.
However, Mr Debus, who has portfolio responsibility for criminal law within the Attorney-General' s Department, said: "The proposed new offences don't interfere with the use of DNA testing by the police or courts or lawful access to private paternity testing by parents and guardians."
The proposed laws would not cover overseas online genetic testing services such as 23andMe and deCODEme.
The Australian Law Reform Commission's David Weisbrot said multinational protocols and strategies - such as those adopted for child abuse and sex crimes - must be set up to handle DNA theft laws.
The discussion paper on DNA theft was based on recommendations of the ALRC's 2003 report Essentially Yours: The Protection of Human Genetic Information in Australia, which highlighted the need to tighten laws in response to advances in human genetic technology.
The recommendations were accepted in December 2005 by the Howard government, but not acted on. In 2004, the British Human Tissue Act was amended to make DNA theft a criminal offence. The UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation in 2003 adopted the International Declaration on Human Genetic Data.
Professor Weisbrot said that, during the ALRC's public hearings, people were most concerned about the misuse of personal genetic information by insurers, employers, angry spouses and journalists tracking down "famous DNA".
At the time, there were stories about US president Bill Clinton who had his bodyguards collect a pint glass after he had drunk from it in a British pub," he said.
Professor Weisbrot noted that newspapers also reported a plot by "genetic trophy hunters" to acquire a sample of Prince Harry's DNA.
Central to the new discussion paper is the notion - detailed in the ALRC report - that non-consensual genetic testing can cause many types of harm, including physical harm if a person is assaulted in order to obtain a sample.
People can also be harmed emotionally if, for instance, their kinship or identity is questioned.
Men's Rights Agency co-director Sue Price said any decision to criminalise non-consensual genetic testing would be "well over the top".
"I had hoped that this had died a normal death, but it seemsthere are still people looking to prevent DNA testing," Ms Price said.
Liam Magill, who was awarded damages of $70,000 in 2001 after DNA paternity testing proved a family friend was the biological father of his two youngest children, agreed.
"The introduction of legislation that looked like this would be a total farce," he said.
Additional reporting: Matthew Clayfield
Once again, the State (aka Government) intrudes into family life and sets itself up as THE PARENT.
<http://www.theaustr alian.news. com.au/story/ 0,25197,24633241 -5013404, 00.html>
The Australian
11 November 2008
Push for jail terms for theft of DNA
By Leigh Dayton, Science writer
A husband who suspects he is not the father of his children could be jailed for two years if he steals hair or saliva for DNA testing, under legal changes being proposed by the Rudd Government.
Similarly, a private investigator would not be able to obtain a sample of someone's DNA for testing without their permission.
If adopted, the DNA theft laws would also make it illegal to conduct a genetic test on a sample obtained without consent and to disclose the results of any such test.
The proposed changes to the criminal code are contained in a discussion paper released by Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus yesterday.
However, Mr Debus, who has portfolio responsibility for criminal law within the Attorney-General' s Department, said: "The proposed new offences don't interfere with the use of DNA testing by the police or courts or lawful access to private paternity testing by parents and guardians."
The proposed laws would not cover overseas online genetic testing services such as 23andMe and deCODEme.
The Australian Law Reform Commission's David Weisbrot said multinational protocols and strategies - such as those adopted for child abuse and sex crimes - must be set up to handle DNA theft laws.
The discussion paper on DNA theft was based on recommendations of the ALRC's 2003 report Essentially Yours: The Protection of Human Genetic Information in Australia, which highlighted the need to tighten laws in response to advances in human genetic technology.
The recommendations were accepted in December 2005 by the Howard government, but not acted on. In 2004, the British Human Tissue Act was amended to make DNA theft a criminal offence. The UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation in 2003 adopted the International Declaration on Human Genetic Data.
Professor Weisbrot said that, during the ALRC's public hearings, people were most concerned about the misuse of personal genetic information by insurers, employers, angry spouses and journalists tracking down "famous DNA".
At the time, there were stories about US president Bill Clinton who had his bodyguards collect a pint glass after he had drunk from it in a British pub," he said.
Professor Weisbrot noted that newspapers also reported a plot by "genetic trophy hunters" to acquire a sample of Prince Harry's DNA.
Central to the new discussion paper is the notion - detailed in the ALRC report - that non-consensual genetic testing can cause many types of harm, including physical harm if a person is assaulted in order to obtain a sample.
People can also be harmed emotionally if, for instance, their kinship or identity is questioned.
Men's Rights Agency co-director Sue Price said any decision to criminalise non-consensual genetic testing would be "well over the top".
"I had hoped that this had died a normal death, but it seemsthere are still people looking to prevent DNA testing," Ms Price said.
Liam Magill, who was awarded damages of $70,000 in 2001 after DNA paternity testing proved a family friend was the biological father of his two youngest children, agreed.
"The introduction of legislation that looked like this would be a total farce," he said.
Additional reporting: Matthew Clayfield
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Time 4 a laugh or two
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.)
(I'm still not over the pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour.
(Don't try this at home; maybe at work)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home. What the. ..?!)
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes... Lucky pig! Can you imagine?)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)
Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm......)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing)
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
( I know some people like that.)
Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)
Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)
Now that you've smiled at least once, it's your turn to spread these crazy facts and send this to someone you want to bring a smile to, maybe even a chuckle.
In other words, send it to everyone ! (and God love that pig!)
(Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.)
(I'm still not over the pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour.
(Don't try this at home; maybe at work)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home. What the. ..?!)
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes... Lucky pig! Can you imagine?)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)
Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm......)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing)
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
( I know some people like that.)
Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)
Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)
Now that you've smiled at least once, it's your turn to spread these crazy facts and send this to someone you want to bring a smile to, maybe even a chuckle.
In other words, send it to everyone ! (and God love that pig!)
Monday, November 3, 2008
Misandry USA style.
Dear dad4justice,
This time, Dallas hates men.
If you haven't heard about this week-old misandry, you can complain to the Dallas officials responsible for teaching little boys to hate themselves and their fathers, and little girls to hate all boys and men.
http://mediaradar.org/alert20081102.php
Joe Biden started all this with his unconstitutional VAWA.
Did YOU vote for VAWA Joe and his sidekick, GynObama?
Here's more news about the prevaricating GynObama:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79900
and...
he told the "SF Chronicle" he wants to bankrupt the coal biz:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/opinionshop/detail?&entry_id=23562
His words are on audiotape! Listen to this socialist.
Remember: socialism and feminism are inextricably linked.
A vote for Obama/Biden is a vote against men and money.
Ciao,
Marc
MHR Enterprises
PO Box 33086
Los Gatos, CA 95031-3086
eMail: Marc@TheNoNonsenseMan.com
Website: http://www.TheNoNonsenseMan.com
BLOG: http://TheNoNonsenseMan.MensNewsDaily.com
STORE: http://www.cafepress.com/NoNonsenseShop
RADIO: http://MarcRudovRadio.com
This time, Dallas hates men.
If you haven't heard about this week-old misandry, you can complain to the Dallas officials responsible for teaching little boys to hate themselves and their fathers, and little girls to hate all boys and men.
http://mediaradar.org/alert20081102.php
Joe Biden started all this with his unconstitutional VAWA.
Did YOU vote for VAWA Joe and his sidekick, GynObama?
Here's more news about the prevaricating GynObama:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79900
and...
he told the "SF Chronicle" he wants to bankrupt the coal biz:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/opinionshop/detail?&entry_id=23562
His words are on audiotape! Listen to this socialist.
Remember: socialism and feminism are inextricably linked.
A vote for Obama/Biden is a vote against men and money.
Ciao,
Marc
MHR Enterprises
PO Box 33086
Los Gatos, CA 95031-3086
eMail: Marc@TheNoNonsenseMan.com
Website: http://www.TheNoNonsenseMan.com
BLOG: http://TheNoNonsenseMan.MensNewsDaily.com
STORE: http://www.cafepress.com/NoNonsenseShop
RADIO: http://MarcRudovRadio.com
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Justice is a sick joke in New Zealand
Justice? Woman who lied and sent her partner to prison for 10 months gets away with 50 hours community service!If anybody knows what it is like to be celled up when you're innocent of any crime, then you can relate to how this bloke feels. I was sent to prison on false allegations of sexual abuse and domestic violence, but who cares in feminazi New Zealand with it's corrupt judiciary! Kiwi injustice hurts big time!
Lies put me in jail
4:00AM Sunday Nov 02, 2008
Lies put me in jail
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10540632
A woman who helped send her former partner to prison for 10 months after lying in court has escaped with 50 hours community service.
Marion Anne Carter, 61, was sentenced in Hamilton last week after earlier pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice.
Her lies under oath helped convict Robert "Bob" Sutton of two rapes, four assaults with a weapon and nine assaults on a number of people that saw him jailed in November 2005.
Sutton told the Herald on Sunday from his takeaway and dairy in Mourea, near Rotorua, yesterday he "wasn't very impressed" with her punishment.
"I don't wish jail on anybody but her. I was gutted by the fact that I did 10 months in jail for her lies, and she turns around and she gets 50 hours and that's it."
The allegations dated back to 1995 when Sutton was operating a hotel in the King Country town of Piopio.
He had maintained his innocence since the day he was arrested by two detectives but the truth only emerged when two witnesses came forward after national media coverage of his sentencing
One came forward with a letter written by Carter telling the complainants what to say on the witness stand, and the other remembered being there when Carter wrote the instructions.
"I was found guilty and on bail about to be sentenced... a woman picked up a paper and made the connection," Sutton said.
"What Anne had done, she'd written instructions out for the `witnesses' of what she wanted them to say at court, and she'd written it out for this woman."
A year later, the Court of Appeal quashed Sutton's convictions and ordered a new trial but police decided not to proceed.
Since then the father-of-four has been working on keeping the nightmares at bay.
He shared a prison cell with a murderer and made friends with gangsters, killers and rapists in the general prison population. The 58-year-old said he didn't hate his partner of 10 years but admitted he was "stupid" for leaving his wife of 15 years and their two children for a woman happy to arrange his demise.
After suffering sideway glances from locals, he believes he finally has his "life back on track".
With the support of his loyal customers, he is making back some of the $140,000 he forked out for solicitors and wages while he was in jail.
"I've put all my heart and soul back into the shop that I own. Now I'm in a good position, even though I paid out a lot of
money."
But he will never forgive Carter.
Lies put me in jail
4:00AM Sunday Nov 02, 2008
Lies put me in jail
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10540632
A woman who helped send her former partner to prison for 10 months after lying in court has escaped with 50 hours community service.
Marion Anne Carter, 61, was sentenced in Hamilton last week after earlier pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice.
Her lies under oath helped convict Robert "Bob" Sutton of two rapes, four assaults with a weapon and nine assaults on a number of people that saw him jailed in November 2005.
Sutton told the Herald on Sunday from his takeaway and dairy in Mourea, near Rotorua, yesterday he "wasn't very impressed" with her punishment.
"I don't wish jail on anybody but her. I was gutted by the fact that I did 10 months in jail for her lies, and she turns around and she gets 50 hours and that's it."
The allegations dated back to 1995 when Sutton was operating a hotel in the King Country town of Piopio.
He had maintained his innocence since the day he was arrested by two detectives but the truth only emerged when two witnesses came forward after national media coverage of his sentencing
One came forward with a letter written by Carter telling the complainants what to say on the witness stand, and the other remembered being there when Carter wrote the instructions.
"I was found guilty and on bail about to be sentenced... a woman picked up a paper and made the connection," Sutton said.
"What Anne had done, she'd written instructions out for the `witnesses' of what she wanted them to say at court, and she'd written it out for this woman."
A year later, the Court of Appeal quashed Sutton's convictions and ordered a new trial but police decided not to proceed.
Since then the father-of-four has been working on keeping the nightmares at bay.
He shared a prison cell with a murderer and made friends with gangsters, killers and rapists in the general prison population. The 58-year-old said he didn't hate his partner of 10 years but admitted he was "stupid" for leaving his wife of 15 years and their two children for a woman happy to arrange his demise.
After suffering sideway glances from locals, he believes he finally has his "life back on track".
With the support of his loyal customers, he is making back some of the $140,000 he forked out for solicitors and wages while he was in jail.
"I've put all my heart and soul back into the shop that I own. Now I'm in a good position, even though I paid out a lot of
money."
But he will never forgive Carter.
CYFS too quick to take kids, says study
I have many examples of the barbaric behaviour shown by the appalling CYFS monsters. These CYFS creeps put the Nazi's to shame. What else would you expect when the Minister in charge of the department is a dyke and a raving alcoholic.
Good stuff Ruth Dyson, enjoy the blood on your hands bitch @!!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10480677
CYFS too quick to take kids, says study
5:00AM Thursday Dec 06, 2007
By Simon Collins
Former CYFS chief social worker Mike Doolan.
Former CYFS chief social worker Mike Doolan.
The Government's top social workers say a "culture of blame" over child abuse is driving social workers into taking children from their families to avoid any risk of being blamed if things go wrong.
Child, Youth and Family Services (CYFS) chief social worker, Dr Marie Connolly, and her predecessor Mike Doolan say "sensationalist" media coverage of high-profile child deaths is making social workers less willing to trust the families of the children referred to them.
The number of children and young people in CYFS care has risen by half this decade, from 3533 in 1999-2000 to 5191 at the end of last year, despite an actual decline in child deaths from 1.07 a year for every 100,000 children in the 1990s to 0.79 a year in the first five years of this decade.
In a new book on child homicide, Dr Connolly and Mr Doolan call for a move away from the "culture of blame" to what they call a "public health model of welfare" which targets the whole range of factors that lead people to harm children.
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In a foreword, the director of the Australian Centre for Child Protection, Dorothy Scott, calls for specific moves to:
* Cut problem drinking by raising alcohol prices, restricting advertising and tightening parents' control of their children's drinking.
* Make sure health services reach all new mothers and catch post-natal depression.
* Work proactively with vulnerable men in custody disputes.
A detailed study of nine cases where CYFS was involved before children were killed found that three of the cases followed Family Court custody hearings.
In one case, a father killed his child just hours after the court ordered him to transfer custody to the mother.
In another case, a mother agreed to transfer custody to the father, but the father "reported significant management difficulties with the child" and killed her two weeks later.
Although all nine case studies involved families where the parents had split, the broader analysis of all 91 children killed in New Zealand between 1991 and 2000 found that more than half the children died at the hands of their biological parents - 30 per cent fathers and 24 per cent mothers.
Only 18 per cent were killed by step-parents and the other 28 per cent were killed by other relatives, acquaintances or strangers.
Almost two-thirds of the children killed were preschoolers and a quarter were under 1 - a fact the book attributes to "their physical vulnerability, their total dependence on adults, and their capacity to cry incessantly and drive an exhausted/enraged parent to act in ways that they normally would not".
Yet despite these cases, the book strongly endorses the current law that requires social workers to keep children within the extended family whenever possible. But in the book, Dr Connolly and Mr Doolan say that every high-profile child death review has led to tightening managerial controls over social workers which have made them less willing to risk leaving children with their families.
NZ CHILD HOMICIDES
1991-2000
WHO DIED
Boys 53 per cent
Girls 46 per cent
Unknown (unborn child) 1 per cent
0-1 year old 26 per cent
1-4 years old 37 per cent
5-10 years old 19 per cent
11-14 years old 18 per cent
Maori 52 per cent
Pakeha 39 per cent
Asian 4 per cent
Samoan 3 per cent
Unknown 2 per cent
HOW THEY DIED
Battered 47 per cent
Stabbed/knifed 20 per cent
Strangled/suffocated 19 per cent
Poisoned 5 per cent
Drowned 3 per cent
Shot 2 per cent
Neglected 2 per cent
Unknown 1 per cent
WHO KILLED THEM
Men 66 per cent
Women 34 per cent
Biological fathers 30 per cent
Biological mothers 24 per cent
De facto step-parents 18 per cent
Other relatives 9 per cent
Neighbours/acquaintances 6 per cent
Non-family caregivers 2 per cent
Boarders 1 per cent
Strangers 6 per cent
Unknown 4 per cent
Source: Connolly & Doolan, Lives Cut Short.
* Lives Cut Short, by Marie Connolly and Mike Doolan, Dunmore Publishing for the Children's Commissioner, $24.95.
Good stuff Ruth Dyson, enjoy the blood on your hands bitch @!!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10480677
CYFS too quick to take kids, says study
5:00AM Thursday Dec 06, 2007
By Simon Collins
Former CYFS chief social worker Mike Doolan.
Former CYFS chief social worker Mike Doolan.
The Government's top social workers say a "culture of blame" over child abuse is driving social workers into taking children from their families to avoid any risk of being blamed if things go wrong.
Child, Youth and Family Services (CYFS) chief social worker, Dr Marie Connolly, and her predecessor Mike Doolan say "sensationalist" media coverage of high-profile child deaths is making social workers less willing to trust the families of the children referred to them.
The number of children and young people in CYFS care has risen by half this decade, from 3533 in 1999-2000 to 5191 at the end of last year, despite an actual decline in child deaths from 1.07 a year for every 100,000 children in the 1990s to 0.79 a year in the first five years of this decade.
In a new book on child homicide, Dr Connolly and Mr Doolan call for a move away from the "culture of blame" to what they call a "public health model of welfare" which targets the whole range of factors that lead people to harm children.
Advertisement
In a foreword, the director of the Australian Centre for Child Protection, Dorothy Scott, calls for specific moves to:
* Cut problem drinking by raising alcohol prices, restricting advertising and tightening parents' control of their children's drinking.
* Make sure health services reach all new mothers and catch post-natal depression.
* Work proactively with vulnerable men in custody disputes.
A detailed study of nine cases where CYFS was involved before children were killed found that three of the cases followed Family Court custody hearings.
In one case, a father killed his child just hours after the court ordered him to transfer custody to the mother.
In another case, a mother agreed to transfer custody to the father, but the father "reported significant management difficulties with the child" and killed her two weeks later.
Although all nine case studies involved families where the parents had split, the broader analysis of all 91 children killed in New Zealand between 1991 and 2000 found that more than half the children died at the hands of their biological parents - 30 per cent fathers and 24 per cent mothers.
Only 18 per cent were killed by step-parents and the other 28 per cent were killed by other relatives, acquaintances or strangers.
Almost two-thirds of the children killed were preschoolers and a quarter were under 1 - a fact the book attributes to "their physical vulnerability, their total dependence on adults, and their capacity to cry incessantly and drive an exhausted/enraged parent to act in ways that they normally would not".
Yet despite these cases, the book strongly endorses the current law that requires social workers to keep children within the extended family whenever possible. But in the book, Dr Connolly and Mr Doolan say that every high-profile child death review has led to tightening managerial controls over social workers which have made them less willing to risk leaving children with their families.
NZ CHILD HOMICIDES
1991-2000
WHO DIED
Boys 53 per cent
Girls 46 per cent
Unknown (unborn child) 1 per cent
0-1 year old 26 per cent
1-4 years old 37 per cent
5-10 years old 19 per cent
11-14 years old 18 per cent
Maori 52 per cent
Pakeha 39 per cent
Asian 4 per cent
Samoan 3 per cent
Unknown 2 per cent
HOW THEY DIED
Battered 47 per cent
Stabbed/knifed 20 per cent
Strangled/suffocated 19 per cent
Poisoned 5 per cent
Drowned 3 per cent
Shot 2 per cent
Neglected 2 per cent
Unknown 1 per cent
WHO KILLED THEM
Men 66 per cent
Women 34 per cent
Biological fathers 30 per cent
Biological mothers 24 per cent
De facto step-parents 18 per cent
Other relatives 9 per cent
Neighbours/acquaintances 6 per cent
Non-family caregivers 2 per cent
Boarders 1 per cent
Strangers 6 per cent
Unknown 4 per cent
Source: Connolly & Doolan, Lives Cut Short.
* Lives Cut Short, by Marie Connolly and Mike Doolan, Dunmore Publishing for the Children's Commissioner, $24.95.
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