Posting from Dastardly Dads blogger Jan Kurth

(I received this email from Jan Kurth, author of the Dastardly Dads blog explaining a recent posting on the Dastardly Dads blog. Since the Intimate Violence Deaths in the News blog is tracking deaths resulting from Intimate Violence, these cases are relevant. CCC)




This is a post I did recently that lists 76 cases of children who were killed where their fathers "contributed" to the their death and there was an active, identifiable custody, visitation and/or child support situation involved.

http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2010/02/76-killer-dads-fathers-who-ended-their.html

These cases are not a scientific sampling nor is this a comprehensive list by any means. For the most part, these are cases I have collected since I started Dastardly Dads last summer, though a few cases predate this. In time span, they are mostly over the past two years (some were just coming to trial) though there are some odd exceptions of murders that took place earlier.

Note that this does NOT include all DV murders or child murders by fathers. If the murder took place WHILE the couple was still "together" or even as they were parting or just after, but before there was a custody or visitation agreement, I didn't count it. As I was thinking about it today, I suspect that most of these murders take place just as a woman is thinking of leaving or just after she was leaving, and before they went to court and a custody/visitation "agreement" was put in place.

I DID include murders by custodial fathers though, even if there wasn't currently a custody "dispute" (often the paper doesn't report if there was a dispute anyway.)

There are also a lot of cases of father who killed children, especially babies, during visitation. Many are "shaken baby" cases where Dad got "frustrated" with the crying, etc. and ended up killing the child.

Check out dastardlydads.blogspot.com for a full spectrum of cases of fathers abusing children. (I also include crimes against the female partner when "their" children were involved or impacted.)

~Jan Kurth