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Serial killers usually have a traumatic childhood, so it must be apparent that something went tremendously wrong with Aileen as a child that led her to be a psychotic serial killer. One of the main reasons that Aileen Wuornos became a serial killer was due to her upbringing. Her mother abandoned her very early in her childhood and her father was a convicted pedophile who eventually committed suicide in prison. One could only assume that she was adopted by close family members or a foster child. Another disturbing revelation about her childhood was that Aileen had sexual relations at a young age, but with her brother Keith.
“Idle No More” Movement and the Canadian Government The Native-led protest movement “Idle No More” serves many purposes, one of which is taking on the Canadian government and to call on people all over the country to join together and help protect the Indigenous land and water, and also revitalise Indigenous culture. Four women in Saskatchewan, who had strong beliefs about Bill C-45 and wanted to make a difference, started this movement in late October 2012. These women were concerned the bill would corrode all that was left of indigenous rights. Very quickly after the word began to spread, Idle No More held a national day of protest and action in places all over Canada. It was then that the movement began to make process, and caught the
In 1982, dozens of young women in King County, Washington, disappeared (McCarthy). Some were murdered and others were brutally discarded around King County. Many of these young women were teenagers. Almost all of the victims were involved with street prostitution and they met their fate while working on the street. For twenty years, theses deaths and disappearances were attributed to the so-called “Green River Killer,” which was an unidentified serial murderer (The Seattle).
Women all over were rounded up and stolen as “prostitutes” (sex-slaves) for the Japanese soldiers. Houses were broken into at random, and girls who were barely old enough to walk, and old women who were so crippled by time that they too could barely walk, were raped in from of their entire families. Women and girls were gang-raped in the streets so violently that those who ruptured and bled out were the lucky ones, for the survivors had to deal with the mental and physical scarring for years to come; a startling number committed suicide. Chang speaks of massive numbers of women a time later who, after giving birth to Japanese babies and were in such emotional turmoil that they threw themselves into the Yangzi River. In homes, incest was forced upon families.
Ridgway growing up around this society developed him into a man who undervalued women and also felt to gain power after living a very broken-childhood, which is why violence upon women was his escape to accomplish a sense of authority. During the time in-between 1982 to 2001, Ridgway had only been arrested twice, with many killings of other women that had gone unheard of. The social institutions did not fulfill the needs of a stable society. In 2001, that is when Ridgway had been arrested on the suspicion of murdering four women 19 years after in
Death of Sarah Payne Sarah Evelyn Isobel Payne born on the 13 October 1991 was brutally murdered on the 1 July 2000, Sarah was the victim of a high-profile murder in England in July 2000. Her murderer, Roy Whiting, was convicted in December 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment. The later investigation became a high profile murder case in the United Kingdom. Following his conviction, Whiting was imprisoned for life and is currently being held in the maximum security Wakefield prison, West Yorkshire. In my opinion I feel like the punishment given to this prisoner was fair because he murdered a girl at a young age who was helpless and had no chance of survival.
It was DNA evidence that led to a conviction in the 1998 murder case of 10-year-old Anna Palmer who was attacked and killed outside of her own front door in Salt Lake City. The crime was heinous, and included multiple stab wounds to her body, but following the crime, investigators had no witnesses, little evidence, and no apparent suspects, the news station reports. However, in 2009, forensic analysts were called in to assist in the case, and they decided to examine the girl’s fingernails for DNA samples. Using visible and alternative light sources to look for DNA not belonging to the girl, they made a hit, and matched it to a man named Matthew Brock, who had lived a block away at the time of the her murder and was age nineteen then. Brock was already in prison serving a ten year sentence for a sex related crime with a child, and he pled guilty in 2011 to an aggravated murder charge in the death of Anna Palmer and is now in prison for life.
Imagine that you get convicted for murder and sentenced 15 to 25 years in prison? Visualize you’re in this taciturn, diminutive and depressing prison cell, where your freedom is torn away, and abide by the government law system. Thinking that today’s United State of America has the most corrupted prison system, but after reading this article, “A History of Women’s Prisons”, by Jessica Pishko, and gained knowledge of the more atrocious prison environment back in 1820’s. The needs of women held in detention have received little attention and continue to be neglected by health systems and prison authorities. Women prisoners are a clear minority group within prisons all over the world; that minority status doesn’t justify the widespread ignorance