11 yo Murdered by his Father. Why ??!!!

Diwundrin

Diwundrin

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We are still recovering from the news yesterday that a father bashed his 11 year old son to death with a cricket bat at a school practice match. He did it full view of the other schoolkid players and parents and teachers and the child's mother. He did it before anyone could reach them to stop him.

He was a known nut case, and under an 'apprehended violence order' to stay away from the family home, but allowed access to see the son he professed to be the only thing he cared about in life in public, safe circumstances. Like a school cricket practice session.

His son asked his mother was it okay if he spent a few more minutes with Dad after practice as he didn't see him very often and he wanted more time with him because he felt sorry for him. So he walked back to his father on the edge of the field and to his death from the man he wanted to comfort in his loneliness.

One second a loving Dad, the next a homicidal maniac who'd brutally murdered his son and was turning on the crowd with a knife he'd bought along as backup for the bat.

No trial necessary. A cop placed one into his chest when pepper spray and brute force couldn't control him. A righteous shooting if ever there was one. It's emerging he planned the whole thing and 'death by cop' was the object of the exercise but why take his son??

We really need to rethink our mental health legislation.

Please don't point out that if the schoolboys and parents who witnessed this had all opened up with .38s they could have saved this boy.
They wouldn't have. It all happened too fast and people couldn't comprehend what they were seeing to react with more than shocked paralysis for too many seconds to save him.

We have our share of horrendous crimes, we just treat them a tad too 'humanely' imo.
Why wasn't this psycho locked up? Who judged that he should be free to live in society and murder a child as part of his 'rights' to liberty?? How could someone live with having made that call?

http://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/2144...ather-greg-who-had-history-of-mental-illness/

This is a sad, sad story on so many levels.
 
That shows the uselessness of AVOs and the mistaken belief that you're safe in public. Just because there are people surrounding you doesn't mean you're home free - as this poor child discovered it only takes seconds for tragedy to occur.

I'm glad they put the guy down, but it's a shame it was too little too late.
 
It gets worse.

Victoria Police's outdated IT system was one reason officers were unaware of outstanding arrest warrants when visiting Greg Anderson’s address in Chelsea Heights over an assault on January 27.
Chief Commissioner Ken Lay said there was a "gap" when unexecuted warrants returned to the responsible officer, and the warrants were not visible to wider police for two weeks.

"If police would’ve gone to that address a day later, those warrants would have been visible,’’ Mr Lay said.



"There were five warrants of apprehension in existence ... our members in attendance would not have been aware of those warrants because of shortcomings in our IT system.’’
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Victoria Police's outdated IT system was one reason officers were unaware of outstanding arrest warrants when visiting Greg Anderson’s address in Chelsea Heights over an assault on January 27.

Chief Commissioner Ken Lay said there was a "gap" when unexecuted warrants returned to the responsible officer, and the warrants were not visible to wider police for two weeks.

"If police would’ve gone to that address a day later, those warrants would have been visible,’’ Mr Lay said.


"There were five warrants of apprehension in existence ... our members in attendance would not have been aware of those warrants because of shortcomings in our IT system.’’
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When the public and politicians scream "law and order" they only mean more police on the beat. They don't imagine that those officers need better communication networks and technology to help them do their job. But hey, budgets cuts inevitably have to have an effect away from front line services.

Same with the ambos and fireys too.
 
When the public and politicians scream "law and order" they only mean more police on the beat. They don't imagine that those officers need better communication networks and technology to help them do their job. But hey, budgets cuts inevitably have to have an effect away from front line services.

Same with the ambos and fireys too.
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True, but unfortunately there's only a finite amount to fund the services with, and the best thing to ensure the maximum is available is to trim the waste and unecessary perks. There just isn't enough for everyone to get everything for nothing. There is also only so much you can tax workers before they realise they are working for less than others get for nothing and give up too.

So Poll, which service is the most vital? Which 'budgets cuts' do you want blame first? ... and where do you propose the extra moola to cover all the 'services' should come from? Do you have a plan to run a welfare/government service system on air?

It's easy to politicise 'budget cuts' but the bottom line is trumps and someone has get off their backside and live without handouts to allow the revenue to go round to better benefit the majority.
 
My comment was meant to illustrate that to expect a perfect system while underfunding it is not realistic.
You get what you are prepared to pay for.

I'm not one for always expecting taxation to decrease.
 
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