Djab Wurrung woman is recovering from injuries after allegedly being knocked unconscious with a rock tied to a stick near Ballarat
amp.theguardian.com
All we have is this re Sissy
Police said the attacker was believed to be a Caucasian male wearing black jeans, a cap and no shoes or shirt.
I thought there was an identikit image released but I must have imagined it, can’t find it now. IMO it could be the same person, and perhaps minimally dressed for the reasons you say. And maybe not. Not enough info to know.
But I think enough for the keyboard warriors to re-engage attacks on Sissy, and a theory as to why she’s gone private.
Also in Sissy’s case:
Police said they would be ramping up patrols in the local area as an added safety measure.
None of this “ramping up patrols” after SM disappeared. Just another aspect of police’s response that seems out of the ordinary expected response. I’m fascinated by this. Part of me wonders if police initially focused on MM for a few weeks before realising the answer lay elsewhere. But overall I’m confident police have good reasons for everything they’ve done, it’s just unusual on several levels IMO. Suggests to me there’s a LOT more going on behind the scenes than we are being allowed to know.
Very interesting post Toowong(s), particularly your last paragraph.
The attack on Sissy, IMO appears to be an attempted murder, with the weapon being an improvised club, seemingly fashioned to provide maximum force. I wonder if the "ramping up of patrols"
did actually occur after the attack on Sissy,
Can anyone living locally recall whether or not "ramping up patrols" actually occurred?
It certainly seems that Sissy wasn't particularly impressed by police's response to the attack on her (which could very easily have killed her, or caused major brain injury incapacitating her for the rest of her life)
and I don't blame her.
From what Sissy has said, the police response to her attack was pretty wishy-washy - sounds like she was virtually fobbed off. Such a response seems rather incongruous compared to the response to Samantha's disappearance.
I have a theory about this, which is informed by my own personal experiences as a single woman with no immediate family.
I'd be willing to bet big $$$ that when police received an urgent phone call/visit from Mick, (prompted by him being unable to contact his wife Samantha when she hadn't returned from her run), things would have started happening pretty quickly at the police end.
IMO there exists a sub-conscious bias in our culture which may explain the gaping difference between the police response to Sissy's attack, and Samantha's disappearance. I got the impression (possibly mistakenly) that Sissy didn't have a partner with her when liaising with police, who'd go into bat for her.
IMO she would have had a well-known profile in the community, having stood as a Greens Senate Candide, as well as being an indigenous activist. She may have been known in the community as a single woman.
Please note that I'm not suggesting that police's pretty ordinary response to Sissy's report to them was deliberate.
In any situation which requires action from another party in order to address the issue, it's "the squeaky gate that gets the oil". Hence IMO, when police received a report from Mick (a well-known successful business
man) about Samantha's disappearance, it would immediately be recognised by officers receiving the report that Mick would become an awfully squeaky gate if they didn't respond appropriately.
IIRC my understanding is that as Sissy didn't know who her assailant was, and couldn't provide information which would identify him, she was informed that not much could be done. No mention of checking phone numbers pinging in the area which could have led to her assailant. In fact, at that point there was a similar lack of information re Samantha's situation.
IMO this is subconscious discrimination. This is a common occurrence in my experience, and that of other female "singletons" no longer considered youthful - (maybe 35-ish and up) - not taken seriously/considered to be overreacting. If one eventually refuses to take "no" for an answer, they are considered to be a real "".
JMO
PS I really like your Websleuths name Toowong(s). Is it Toowong(s) as in " Two Wongs don't make a right"?