Barbara Kay: First, kill the husband. Second, claim sympathy as a widow
From June 14, 2010 Canada’s National Post
Most of you have probably already read the article, but I was actually present in the courtroom in a similar case, here in Yuma a few years ago.
I’d volunteered to show up in place of the family of the late Bill Kirkham, who was beaten with a lamp and left to bleed out as his live-in, Margo, walked her dogs and chatted with friends on the phone.
He was found by his AA sponsor the next morning.
By the time the Yuma court got around to sentencing his murderer, Bill’s family was fatigued in their very souls and like so many others, battered by the system. They’d been treated by local LEOs as family of an abuser from the get-go, which is where I came in.
My job was just to observe and report, while giving these good people a bit of peace, because they had no idea what that day would bring.
So I went, and was truly astonished to hear this violent, remorseless woman attempt some kind of throwing herself on the mercy of the court thing — because she was a widow!!!
Even the judge did a double take.
She got three years, and our local paper located her kids in Florida, who was glad that judge put their mother away. The article of the time didn’t elaborate, but can you even imagine how abusive she must’ve been to her own children?
It’s really not forward-looking or helpful in any way to continue to pretend that only men abuse, only woman are victims.
It only enriches the hatemongers who claim they have the ultimate solution for domestic violence — to the tune of multiple billions of dollars each year.
Meanwhile, men like Bill Kirkham are left alone to bleed out, and no one will help them.
