The issue of men breaching such orders is often raised in court but what the answer is to ensuring the safety of women and children, I'm really not sure.
SHOCKING is the only way to describe the deaths of two children in the past week who were the subject of a protection order.
The issue of men breaching such orders is often raised in court but what the answer is to ensuring the safety of women and children, I'm
really not sure.
The father of the children, Edward Livingstone, twice breached an order in the months leading up to the murders. How on earth a $500 fine was expected to deter this man, hell-bent on ensuring he punished his former partner for leaving him, is beyond me. I wonder if his job as a prison worker saved him from conviction.
Often these women don't want to take such a drastic measure as an order but it is clearly needed in many cases. But are these protection orders worth the paper they are written on? Somehow, I think a man determined to make himself heard or felt doesn't think about the consequences of breaching them.
In the months leading up to the shooting of Bradley, 9, and Ellen, 6, Livingstone had said he was going to kill the children and burn the house down to punish their mother for no longer loving him.
