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How many more?
DEAR EDITOR,
My heart bleeds. I feel the pain for the now motherless kids. How many more editor? How many more before the government acts? Another woman murdered at the hands of a cowardly man.
A few weeks ago a woman is shot multiple times and the killer has the temerity to fake mental illness. Which mentally deranged man would shoot a woman multiple times, leave her to die in the streets like a stray animal, open his car door, close the car door, find his keys, turn the car on, drive to the police station, hand over his gun, engage the police in a rational conversation, then confesses?
That’s a rational mind at work not a mind impaired by mental illness. I do not doubt he may have concurrent mental illness, but he clearly knew right from wrong hence cannot blame mental illness.
I can also write about the young woman who was set afire by her boyfriend. Also the innocent woman who lost an arm and her kids at the hands of a cowardly man. What about the woman who was strangled by her man because she dared to argue with him? What about the woman who was hanged by her reputed husband. I can go on but I’ll stop there.
How many more before you act Mr. President? How many more before our Madam First Lady speaks out? As a First Lady, women’s issues should be topical for you. Cutting ribbons wouldn’t get women anywhere. Be more vocal. Have a greater influence on our present policies.
I think we need a national debate on domestic abuse. The time for that has passed, but it is better to be late than never.
Domestic abuse needs to be talked about in our schools. Young men and women should be educated about domestic abuse. Social service needs to develop policies to address domestic abuse. They need to build safe homes for women and children of domestic abuse. The police need to be educated about domestic abuse.
Many times they mock and turn away our innocent women victims of domestic abuse. Our health care professionals need to be educated about domestic abuse and steps they can take for a suspected case of domestic abuse. Our judiciary needs to be more harsh with these killer men. They should make them examples and set a deterrent. Our innocent women need to be empowered to leave such relationships and when they decide to leave they should be supported. Our women professionals need to speak up. Be the voice for the voiceless women. Our men folks need to also speak up and support our women.
As I write this letter I am close to tears. Close to tears because as a child I saw men physically abusing my mom. Close to tears because as a child I saw my uncle abusing his girlfriends. Close to tears because I saw my neighbours abusing their girlfriends. Close to tears for the innocent children who would have to grow up without their mothers. I couldn’t care less about their fathers. They are killers and will never get my sympathy.
Why wouldn’t our ministers act? Why wouldn’t our MPs act. Why wouldn’t our Permanent Secretaries act?
I’ll close as I started. My heart bleeds. How many more?
Regards
Dr Mark Devonish MBBS MSc MRCP(UK)
Consultant Acute Medicine
Nottingham University Hospital
UK
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