MAN KILLS DAUGHTER

There has been a very sad report in the Papua New Guinea newspapers of a man alleged to have beaten his daughter to death with an electric cord.

This will cause contempt and deep horror across the nation with AusAID and UN lesbians rejoicing at yet another example of family violence to women or girls at the hands of a man. It may not be as simple as that.

The young girl was 14 years old and did not come home from school and stayed out until 9.00pm. She had turned off her mobile phone perhaps so that her father could not find her. It may have been that the battery was flat.

The father may have been out of his mind in worry. Parents are being constantly worried by reports in the media of young girls who go missing. They were at so and so market in blue jeans and red top on Thursday and just disappeared.

At times we read of young girls found dead in a swamp, having been kidnapped, gang raped and killed. Their killers are never brought to justice. The father in this case had 6 hours to worry about all this and go out of his mind in fear.

I know that I watch my two daughters like a hawk. I start to worry if they are two hours late coming home from school. I start to pound the pavement looking for them. My elder daughter has had two attempts of men to pull her into a car.

Being 13 and 14 years old, they are starting to move out. Now they go off to Ela beach with their friends and come home in the late afternoon. The time is coming when they want to stay the night with a friend.

They have been given a mobile phone so that they can be contacted and let me know if they are having problems. It makes me worry when the phone is turned off. I worry more when a stranger answers the phone. Where is my daughter?

So I feel sorry for the man who killed his daughter. She should not have been beaten like that. But his blind fear for her safety was suddenly translated into blind mindless fury. She may have been the joy of his life from a younger age.

Did she refuse to tell him where she had been? Did she tell him he had no right to know? Did she quote the United Nations Charter on the Rights of Children. Underage children have the right of association. Did she tell him she had the right to stay out as long as she wanted?

Now she is dead. The family is now weak and dysfunctional. That will make the foreign lesbians very happy. Their message is working. It is breaking up families so that girls can be free.

The man will never forget this as long as he lives. Gaol is not the answer though a legal necessity.

Post Script: In the Sunday newspaper, there was a report that the girl was driven home by the family of a friend. As an experienced father, I do not assume that she had spent six hours with the family of a girlfriend.

She may have gone off with her girl friend, come home to the girl's family and then been driven home to her hysterical father who may have rung the family earlier to check and knew she was not there.