After looking at the CA Protective Parents Association site which has important information for ALL WOMEN to learn about early and for Protective Parents of any gender to comprehend, there was a resource from the Center of Judicial Excellence about children who whose lives were ended during a custody matter or by a parent, relative or partner of one of the parents. Sadly the information is needed to inform our current situations and laws which are still highly deficient and even 'backwards'.
What typically can happen is a protective parent, generally a mother, will report concerns and even present criminal or medical evidence of abuse of herself or her children, only to be pegged a 'parental alienator. The protective parent can be left with little or no supervised parenting visits or limited parenting time.
The CA Protective Parents Association site had a request for 'other child fatalities' that may not be listed in their data base which was started in I thought about the case of the young Hannah Nazareth of Pittsfield MA whose body was found in the apartment she lived in with her father,Anthony Nazareth, who had been a heroin addict but had been mostly successful in his recovery.
In a Berkshire Eagle account, the mother summarized the tragic passing of both Anthony and the killing of Hannah as due to his addiction to drugs and her daughter's loss of life being 'collateral damage. I think more abuse advocates would place 'cause' on an aspect of Anthony's determination to assert his connection and control over "his" family and "his" daughter on "his" terms.
He knew he had options and chose on his own volition to not use them. He made choices others would be forced to live with and that shows a sense not of despair or imbalance as much as it does Control. I can imagine there could have been a battle in his mind, and hopefully there was that or a clear delusion he was somehow 'taking her with him. I explore these tough considerations in the case of the man who claimed the lives of the people in his family in Sheffield MA in March which sadly included not only his wife of many years both adults being patent attorneys but their three young children.
