#Afghanistan : #CNN - Afghan woman's choice: 12 years in jail or marry her rapist and risk death

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/asia/afghanistan-rape/index.html

Daughter Kills Mother

Olubukola Adefisayo claims that she had endured a life of torture by her mother Photo: PATIENCE OGBO

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"I am the murderer, I am not the suspect, I will tell you the truth, I killed my mum because she is a witch," said 26-year-old Olubukola Adefisayo, who is in police custody for allegedly killing her 62 year-old mother, Adedoyin Adeife.

The suspect was arrested by the Aguda Divisional Headquarters Area C Surulere on August 21, after report reached the police that she had killed her mother at their Number 2/4 Bola Bumi crescent, Aguda, Surulere.

The suspect is a graduate of Accountancy from the Oklahoma University in the United States of America. She confessed to being a cocaine addict from the age of 9 and was sexually abused by her uncle at the age of 3.

"I have two children age 3 and 2, but I gave them up for adoption. When I came to Nigeria, I started working for my mum as an estate agent. But she will not pay me well. I got angry because she is very rich. I see her writing cheques in million to her sister, but anytime I asked her for money she will not give me.

"I am sane and I am the murderer, I killed my mum after I discovered that she is a witch and had been sleeping with our 12 year old house help, Segun," Miss Adefisayo said.

She said she was jailed in the US for attempted murder. "I was living in the US and one of my neighbours had an issue with me over the laundry machine. After that issue, I went to jail and I decided to come back to Nigeria."

Miss Adefisayo indicted her mother for her drug addiction. "My mum introduced me to cocaine at the age of 9 and since then I have been an addict. After taking my cracked cocaine one day, I had a flash back on how my uncle raped me when I was 3 years old. I began to cry and I asked our house help, Segun, if anybody had touched him in a way he does not like. Segun told me that my mum did and my mum had also given him cocaine.

"I said why should mum have sex with Segun and it got me mad, we used to be poor and suddenly, we became rich because my mum used Bunmi, my sister for money rituals."

The suspect said she used a sledged hammer to kill her mother. "Segun told me that my mum also initiated him into witchcraft. I got really angry. I used white clothes to cover the entire mirror in our house; I lit seven candles and waited for 9.45pm which is spiritual time. When my mum came in that night, I asked her if she was a witch, but she was reluctant. I threatened to kill her with the hammer and then she said yes she is a witch and she killed my sister.

"My mum tried to collect the hammer from me and we started fighting. I overpowered her and hit her with the hammer on the head, she just slumped and died," she said.

When the suspect saw that her mother had died, she said she told the house help to pour acid on the body.

Police spokesperson, Frank Mba confirmed the incident.

Mr. Mba said: "After committing the crime on August 19, the suspect took the house help and they went to lodge in a hotel. She put a call to her sister in the US telling her that she had killed their mother.

"The case was reported to the police two days later and they went to their house and saw the lifeless body of the victim.

"From her confession, it is a combination of many factors. She need a psychiatrist and we need to decide if she committed the crime in her lucid period or as a result of the drugs she has been taking.

"Meanwhile, the case is been handled by the homicide department in Panti."

#Turkey : The Worst Kind Of Domestic Violence - When A Mother Kills Her Own Children

Two children from Hampshire found dead in Turkey

Two children from Hampshire have been discovered dead in Turkey.

Yaanis Mellersh eight, and his sister Mira, six, were found in the seaside town of Soke on Friday along with their German mother, Elke Mellersh, 45.

The Foreign Office said it had been made aware of the deaths of two British nationals on Saturday.

The children were supposed to be in the custody of their father, Justin Mellersh, 46, from Lyndhurst. They were reported missing in February last year.

Authorities in Turkey are investigating the deaths and the Foreign Office said it was providing consular advice.

BBC News - Two children from Hampshire found dead in Turkey

Charles (Chuck) Stuart :from Reading, Massachusetts murdered his pregnant wife and inflamed racial tensions in the Boston area by concocting a fictitious African-American assailant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stuart_(murderer)

#SanBernardino : Estranged Wife Dead In Murder / Suicide Act

A 37-year-old man went to his estranged wife's home Tuesday morning and shot her to death before taking his own life, police officials said.

Police officers responded to a 9-1-1 call just before 8:15 a.m. at a home in the 1300 block of E. Hardt Street. The 9-1-1 caller told dispatchers that two adults were "down" inside the home...read more
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-san-bernardino-murder-suicide,0,4222382.story

#Ohio Executes Reginald Brooks For The Murder Of His Three Sons

Reginald Brooks’ execution was carried out. His time of death was 2:04 p.m.

An Ohio man who killed his three sons after his wife served him with divorce papers was executed Tuesday afternoon, after exhausting his final appeals, according to officials.

Reginald Brooks, who has spent nearly three decades on death row, was convicted of shooting to death each of his three sons, aged 11, 15 and 17, while they were in their beds in East Cleveland in 1982. His wife had served him with divorce papers two days before the killings.

Defense lawyers have argued that Brooks was a paranoid schizophrenic and suffered from mental illness before he killed his sons. He was denied clemency by both the Ohio Parole Board and Kasich.

Brooks, 66, was the oldest person put to death since Ohio resumed executions in 1999...read more

http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2011/11/ohio-executes-reginald-brooks.html

#Florida Executes Oba Chandler- Chandler Murdered A Mother Along With Her Two Daughters

More than two decades after tossing an Ohio mother and her two daughters overboard from his boat to their horrific deaths, Oba Chandler finally paid the ultimate price.

The 65-year-old convicted triple murderer was put to death by lethal injection late this afternoon at Florida State Prison in Starke.

He died as he has spent the last 17 years in prison -- alone. Chandler had never had a visitor during his time on death row. And that didn't change today.

Hal Rogers, husband and father of the victims, sat in the front row of the small viewing room outside the death chamber. On either side of him sat relatives and prosecutors who tried the case and sent Chandler to death row. Of the 32 witnesses, only his attorney in the death-appeals process, Baya Harrison, was there to support him.

A couple of feet in front of Rogers, Chandler lay on a gurney, his arms strapped down and a sheet covering nearly his entire body. Only his face and massive arms were uncovered.

"Inmate Chandler, do you have any last statement you'd like to make," the team warden in the room asked him.

Without opening his eyes or looking at anyone, Chandler said simply, "No."

The drugs to end his life began flowing at 4:08. He was pronounced dead 17 minutes later.

Though Chandler had nothing to say to witnesses before he was executed, he did leave a written statement behind.

"Oba Chandler last statement. You are killing a innocent man today."

It is not known how long before the execution that the note was penned.

Earlier in the day, between 10 and 11 a.m., Chandler, the smooth-talking con man who lured three tourists onto his boat and then killed them more than two decades ago, ate his final meal...read more

http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2011/11/florida-executes-oba-chandler.html

British Man Kills Wife For Breaking His Star War Toys !

— a 30-year-old British man murdered his wife after finding she had smashed his Darth Vader action figures and then “ran sobbing to his mother who lived nearby,” reports the Mirror:

A Star Wars fan was yesterday jailed for life after murdering his wife in an alleged revenge attack for smashing up his cherished toy collection.

http://www.disinfo.com/2011/11/british-man-kills-wife-for-breaking-his-star-wars-toys/

Husband Shocks Wife To Death - A Sex Game Gone Wrong !

A 37-year-old Lower Windsor Township man is charged with using electricity to shock his wife in what police describe as some "bizarre sex" that killed her inside the bedroom of their southern York County trailer.

Toby Taylor, 37, of the 100 block of Oak Leaf Court, was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment.

Late Wednesday night, police say they responded Taylor's home in the Restless Oak Village mobile home park for a reported electrocution that turned into a cardiac arrest.
Upon arriving, police found Kirsten Taylor, 29, unconscious and began to perform CPR. She was taken to York Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 11:25 p.m., according to the coroner's
office....read more


http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.com/2008/01/but-you-dont-plug-her-in-to-mains-you.html

#Buner : Newly Married Husband Kills Wife

A man killed his wife in the Sorra Wagaie area of Buner district on Wednesday.

According to Wagaie Police station Syed Rozey gunned down his newly-wedded wife Bakth-e-Siya for unknown reasons. “They were a newly-married couple but the husband did not like his wife from the beginning. He would often beat her and then send her back to her parents’ house,” said a neighbour of Rozey on condition of anonymity. Police have launched a search for the accused.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/289450/murder-in-buner-newly-married-husband-kills-wife/

#Nigeria : Wife Murders Husband

RESIDENTS of Ugbihoko quarters in Egor North East local government council of Edo state were thrown into mourning as one Mr. Daniel Iyamu, was found dead in cold blood, yesterday.
Mr. Iyamu, a Benin-based actor was reportedly murdered in his sleep by his wife, both of whom reside at No 1 Agonse Street, Ugbihoko quarters.

Daily Champion learnt that the deceased was found stone dead on his bed after neighbours forcefully broke his door open.

Sources said his children cried to neighbours that their father was yet to get up at about 10 am which prompted them to break the door....read more

 

http://allafrica.com/stories/201111101076.html

#India : Husband Murder's Wife Over Suspected Affair

Kinnathukadavu Police are searching for a 32-year-old man who allegedly murdered his wife by hitting her on the head with an iron rod.

Senthilkumar(32) suspected his wife Usha (25) whom relatives and neighbours claim often argued of having an extramarital affair. However, Police suspect that the man killed his wife while in an intense rage after yet another argument.

"It seems that they did not have a peaceful marriage, they fought violently and often neighbours had to intervene to restore peace," said Ravikumar inspector of Kinnathukadavu police station.

Senthilkumar was working as a helper at a private marriage. On Monday night, the couple went to bed after another row, the next day on waking he hit his wife on the head with an iron rod.

A murder case has been filed against Senthilkumar at the Kinnathukadavu police station.

http://news.oneindia.in/2011/11/09/coimbatore-police-hunts-a-murderer-who-kills-his-wife.html

#India : Woman Kills Herself And Daughters After Row With Husband

Ghaziabad, Nov 9: A 46-year-old woman poisoned her two daughters and consumed poison herself on Monday night, confirmed police.

Sunita Upadhyay allegedly mixed a lethal agricultural fumigant, aluminum phosphide in the dinner and gave it to her daughters. Rakesh Kumar Upadhyaya, the victim's husband and father works at Bhushan Steel. He was interrogated by the policemen.

"Upadhyaya said he came home from work around 7.30pm on Monday. He was not feeling well and also had a minor argument . He woke up around 5.30am and heard his wife and daughters vomiting. He rushed them to Sarvodaya Hospital, where they died soon after," said Jitendra Kumar Shahi, superintendent of police.

Dr Ashok Malik was quoted as saying, "If the patients had been brought in a little earlier they could have been saved. The poison had spread to almost all of their organs by the time they arrived."

"I really don't know what happened . There is discord in every family; we also had minor tiffs, but nothing more," said Upadhyaya.

Meanwhile, he admitted that his son had hung himself on Sept. 19, 2001. One of his daughter was working as a teacher and one was studying engineering.

http://news.oneindia.in/2011/11/09/woman-kills-herself-and-daughters-after-tiff-with-hubby.html

#Spain : Domestic Violence In Spain

Spain now has one of the highest rates of divorce in Europe with 1 in 2.3 marriages ending in divorce.  This equates to a marital break-up every 3.7 minutes.  To make matters worse, Spain has a shocking domestic violence problem, which yet again came to a head when four women were killed by their partners on ‘Black Tuesday’ (26^th February 2008).  This brought to 17, the number of women murdered by their partners by the end of February 2008 setting that year firmly on target to exceed the horrors of previous years.  Clearly, seismic changes are dangerously vibrating through Spanish society.

In fact, it is not surprising that tremendous pressures have been placed upon the old-fashioned, family values normally associated with Spain.  Suppressed by the long, deeply conservative dictatorship of Franco (1939 – 1975), Spain remained in a time-lock throughout the heady decades of North European liberalism between the 1960s and 1980s.  Flower power, the Pill, mobility of population and the sexual and social revolution of the First World largely bypassed Spain.  Indeed, until 1981 it was not even possible to get divorced legally

Suddenly, in 1978, Spain established a secular constitution on lines similar to the rest of democratic northern Europe.  This propelled the country into new uncertainties as previously unconscionable freedom and liberality were allowed.  This was enhanced by unimaginable wealth as the country dramatically accelerated from its position as thirteenth biggest economy in the world in 1973 to its present position as eighth.  All of a sudden, it was possible to get divorced, homosexuality was tolerated, incomes rose, personal expenditure increased and the equality of women became, at least in theory, acceptable...read more

http://www.culturespain.com/articles/on-the-rocks-divorce-and-domestic-violence-in-spain/