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Are you a woman?
Literally took the words right out of my mouth!
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It's hard to convey tone on a keyboard, so please take this as it is asked: conversationally, not as a challenge.
Are you a woman?
I feel sick. This is a burned patch of ground.....and I dont know if it's my imagination, but I see an outline. :'(View attachment 72905
Again I ask: are you a woman?
Domestic violence is the leading cause of death and injury in women under 45 years old in Australia. If we widen that to include numbers for GBV, it is horrifying. And when it comes to domestic violence - to put it bluntly, Australians are pretty thick and our knowledge of it is only getting worse.
The attitude of men (as a whole, not specific individuals) about violence towards women NEEDS to change.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-18/charts-attitudes-to-violence-against-women/5750014
They are not 'my' statistics, they are the Australian (specifically Victorian) government's statistics.Fruity in your statistics, how many of these men who kill and injure women are affected by alcohol and or drugs?
Not sure if this has been pointed out, but that means he was heading away from Leeton and possibly to Cocoparra
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Those stats are also 2yrs old....I can recall 6 people murdered all within a week in and around Melbourne, but yet your trying to say there is a decrease in the statistics [emoji53]
Timeline (please repost and edit this as more info comes to light, or if there's anything left out.)
Sunday, 5 April:
11AM: Stephanie seen by another teacher/colleague collecting keys for the classroom/working on lesson plan (depending on which news site you read.)
11AM - 7.20PM: Police will allege Stephanie was killed between these times. “Sometime between 12 and 1pm on Easter Sunday something has happened. She would not just disappear,’’ her mother said.
12PM: Aaron tries to call Stephanie but it goes to voice mail.
12:59PM: E-mail sent from Stephanie about wedding bus.
4PM: Locals allegedly saw Stanford throw the laptop into the irrigation canal, with his car parked on "the left hand side of Griffith Rd, facing west." The ute did a U-turn and headed back towards Leeton. A gasoline can is found nearby. The spot was 6.5km from where her car would be found abandoned.
7.55PM: Aaron calls the restaurant, "The Village", to cancel dinner booked for 7 or 8pm (inconsistent reports). He has already driven past the restaurant to look for her car, and hasn't seen her at home either. He texts some friends to check if they have seen her.
Monday 6 April:
AM: Aaron makes phone calls to her family in Canowindra, approx 3 hours away.
AM or PM: Stanford's neighbours allege that they saw him washing clothes and spoke with him over the fence. He told them: "I've been quite busy, I've been working 120 hours a week because someone was away sick." (I can't find anything about whether the neighbours heard him come home.)
3PM: After calling Stephanie's mother and sister, Aaron reports Stephanie as missing.
Wednesday 8 April:
AM: Stephanie's family hire a helicopter to search for her car, concerned she has run off the road.
7.30PM: Stanford arrives home and is arrested. Police had found a camera with images of a burned body in Stanford's car, blood in his car and her keys in his house.
Thursday April 9:
AM: A Channel 9 helicopter spots Stephanie's car in a vineyard in Wamoon, 8km from Leeton.
Friday 10 April:
10AM: Police divers recover Stephanie's laptop.
5PM: Police find Stephanie's body at Cocoparra National Park, 75km from Leeton. Body is removed at 1am.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...brought-tears-happiest-day-life-together.html
http://www.theguardian.com/australi...hanie-scott-body-found-police-missing-teacher
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...297895294?sv=ed3c317c5adacff216e2cb879c26afc7
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-...eton-in-shock-over-stephanie-scott-death.html
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...fore-her-wedding/story-fni0cx12-1227294340843
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/stephanie...o-himself-say-neighbours-20150409-1mhkxa.html
Accused man's mother and brother 'led police' to national park where Stephanie Scott's body was found.
www.9news.com.au/national/2015/04/11/11/41/a-sister-s-heartbreaking-wedding-poem#UERFPqSrhAH6AkeZ.99
Didn't one of the quotes from the witness say he turned around and drove back towards town? I'll see if i can find it.
edited to add:
It says here that he ran back to his car, did a u-turn and sped back towards Leeton:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...orth-of-griffith/story-fni0cx12-1227299375456
Again I ask: are you a woman?
Domestic violence is the leading cause of death and injury in women under 45 years old in Australia. If we widen that to include numbers for GBV, it is horrifying. And when it comes to domestic violence - to put it bluntly, Australians are pretty thick and our knowledge of it is only getting worse.
The attitude of men (as a whole, not specific individuals) about violence towards women NEEDS to change.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-18/charts-attitudes-to-violence-against-women/5750014
Yes, there is excessive domestic violence and no one is arguing that (it isn't new, by the way). BUT **Domestic violence does not equate to murder**. There is no murder epidemic. There has never been a murder epidemic and there probably never will be a murder epidemic. That is my only point. Spreading unnecessary fear amongst women does not empower them, it weakens them.
Whether I am a man or a woman is completely irrelevant (or are you, perhaps, stereotyping?) As it happens, I'm not a woman, but I am married to one (and I don't beat her up, swear at her, rape her, shout at her, tell her she is ****). For the record, she is an Emergency Medicine Consultant ("Specialist"), so she sees the results of violence on a regular basis, and it isn't just men beating up women. The reality is that Domestic Violence (and violence generally) is much more pronounced in certain socio-economic groups relative to others. Less well educated people are more prone to engage in and be victims of domestic violence (and violence in general). Improve the educational level of the entire population and the problem will go away. Continue with a poorly educated population of drug and alcohol fuelled morons (who have more children than the well-educated segments of the population) and the problems will remain (and probably worsen as the demographics shift).
I don't know what the answer is, but the idea that all "Men" are somehow the problem is flawed. The issue is intelligence and education. One of those things can be fixed, and it might be enough.
Yes, I must've remembered that at the same time you posted it as I just added more info to the timeline
Whether I am a man or a woman is completely irrelevant
Thank you for your interesting opinion. What kind of education do you propose? Any ideas on how to improve intelligence? Do you really believe that a higher socio-economic level protects women/men from domestic violence? I could go on, but I understand that the purpose of this thread is sleuthing the perpetrator named in msm, the circumstances of this tragic murder in sympathy for the victims, etc. I do not want to 'derail' the discussion into academic debate - if you know what I mean. Many different WS's most likely from differing socio-economic levels and levels of education and intelligence - come here to express interest/opinions as we join together and sleuth this tragic murder. My opinion only.
Of course, it is only speculation in this case that the person was drunk and or under the influence of drugs, but the following statistics indicate that alcohol is a significant factor in homicides.
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current series/rip/1-10/04.html
"Alcohol and homicide
Alcohol is also involved in a significant number of homicides. Recent research using the AIC's National Homicide Monitoring Program's (NHMP) database concluded that around half (47%) of all homicides in Australia between 2000 and 2006 were alcohol related (Dearden & Payne 2009). In this study, a homicide was classified as alcohol related if police had recorded the offender as having been drinking or drunk or toxicology reports showed the victim had consumed alcohol. In the majority of these homicides (60%), both the offender and victim had consumed alcohol. Other findings include:
male victims of homicide are significantly more likely than females to have consumed alcohol
alcohol-related homicides most frequently involvea male offender and victim who will likely know one another
almost half (44%) of all intimate partner homicides, and the majority (87%) of intimate partner homicides involving Indigenous people, are alcohol related
homicides occurring on weekends and in the hours between 6 pm and 6 am are more likely to involve alcohol
homicides in recreational settings are more likely to involve alcohol, although those incidents that occur in residential locations or on the street account for a greater proportion of alcohol-related homicides
alcohol is most frequently associated with those deaths involving physical altercations, blunt force injuries and stab wounds (Carcach & Conroy 2001; Darke & Duflou 2008; Dearden & Payne 2009)."