TRIGGER WARNING: This post deals with themes of mental health and child abuse, and may be upsetting for some readers.
UPDATE:
Another tragic story dominated the news cycle today, after 47-year-old Margaret Tannous was found with serious head injuries yesterday evening in Sydney.
Soon after, her 57-year-old husband, George Tannous, turned himself in at the Bankstown police station, and he was charged with murder.
Elie Boukarim, Margaret’s son, has since posted an emotional tribute online, which reads in part: “You were the strongest woman, the strongest PERSON i knew … You taught me that the most power you have in this life is in your brain and not your fists or your muscles, you taught me to do right by people even though they do wrong to you.”
This incident is more evidence of a need for drastic reform the area of combatting domestic violence.
Previously Mamamia wrote:
Last week an eleven-year-old boy was violently murdered and Australia turned a blind eye.
Well, we discussed it. Of course we did.
Hundreds of column centimetres were written about the tragedy of young Luke Batty’s death at the hands of his father, Greg Anderson, after cricket practice last week. We debriefed about the shock of it all. The sadness. The plight of the mentally ill. Rosie Batty, Luke’s grieving mother, spoke of the importance of forgiveness. Websites murmured that compassion – not anger- was the appropriate response.