Wife-killing husbands on the rise in PNG
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PORT MORESBY: Police have revealed that more than 200 family and sexual violence cases have been reported here and in Lae this year - that’s just a week short of three months.
They also lamented that domestic-related homicide is on the rise in settlements and wives are the majority of victims, with 23 cases reported.
Just what is wrong with husbands in Papua New Guinea? Are their violent behavior due to poor upbringing or lack of humanity and respect for the fairer sex?
Or are they lacking in spiritual faith?
And, there was also another news report that a pastor was charged with sexually assaulting a schoolgirl and was released on K500 bail on Monday, March 18, 2019.
What say you?
PNG Cyber Monitor reproduces below The National’s front page report for our readers who want more details on this nationwide community woe:
Crime hurts family
March 21, 2019The NationalMain Stories
Article Views: 23
By EHEYUC SESERU and MARJORIE FINKEO
WHAT’S happening in Papua New Guinea’s communities? More than 200 family and sexual violence cases have been reported in Lae and Port Moresby this year.
And we are only approaching the end of March.
In the NCD, police have lamented that domestic violence-related homicide is on the rise in settlements and wives are the majority of victims, with 23 cases reported between January and March.
Police have also appealed for more community campaigns to help raise public awareness on such violence to dissuade men from losing control and killing their wives in domestic fights.
Lae Police FSV Unit Officer-in-Charge Sgt Ruth Murup said police were working on more than 200 family and sexual violence cases since January, with most women survivors on the receiving end.
“In fact, more than 300 cases have been reported to us since January, with some victims only seeking advice,” she said.
“So we only talked with and referred them to other services, especially civil cases.”
“There are victims who wanted to seek legal advice from public solicitors and welfare officers. Cases with police alone is more than 200,” she added.
She said many women wanted justice by lodging police reports but they did not want to go through the court process.
“Some women reported their husband for abuses and violence at home.
“We brought in the husbands, talked to them about violence and the law, with warnings about laws protecting women.
“Some men are having negative perceptions about FSV and family support centres. They deemed such facilities as only for women and not men. We are responsible to help train male police officers on that as well.
“This would be specifically for officers to understand domestic violence and to help men and communities. About 85% of the complaints reported to this station are domestic violence.
“It’s a daily complaint, we need (community and government) support to check such rising violence,” she added.
NCD homicide Officer-In-Charge (OIC) Chief Sgt Ulagis Mantu said: “Many of the deaths are caused by men using knives, stones and other dangerous weapons to kill their wives in domestic quarrels.
“We must raise public awareness on such homicides to help dissuade men from losing control during domestic quarrels and turning violent,” he added.
Mantu said: “Investigations into 12 of the 23 cases have been completed with arrests and suspects charged in court. Seven cases were also alcohol-related fights leading to deaths in night clubs, and five due to domestic violence.”
He also identified ATS Block at 7-Mile, Vadavada Block, Erima, Morata and Gerehu as “black areas”.
“Churches, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), government (authorities) and other stakeholders should target settlements for awareness programmes to help raise awareness on homicide and domestic violence.
“(Counselling could help prevent) people from (turning) killing into a game. It’s a serious matter …”
Mantu said 11 cases of such homicides “are still under investigation”.
When contacted for a response on violence against women, PNG Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Roger Joseph said: “We are against domestic violence with women being the majority of victims. Men must respect the dignity of women.
“They are created equally by God and should be respected. It does not mean that (most) women are (physically) weak, they can be abused.
“Churches are and have been speaking or condemning today’s growing cases of domestic violence in the country,” he said.
Concerns over rise in child sex crimes in Lae
March 21, 2019The NationalNational
Article Views: 26
By PISAI GUMAR
POLICE in Lae are concerned about the increase in sex offences targeting children, the latest being the attack on two female students.
Metropolitan Superintendent Anthony Wagambie Jr said while there was a decrease in other crimes, sex offences were increasing.
The attack on the two students, aged 10 and 15, in two schools allegedly involved two men holding high positions. One, a pastor, appeared in court on Monday and was released on a K500 bail. The second is on the run.
“The sexual offence cases are occurring everyday caused by known figures in family homes and communities such as uncles, fathers and step-fathers, cousins and bubu (grandfathers),” he said.
Wagambie said the suspect who allegedly assaulted the 10-year-old had told her to accompany him to the office but then led her to his home where she was assaulted.
The mother found out when the girl told her she was not feeling well and would miss school the next day. She took her to hospital before reporting the matter to police.
Wagambie said the suspect was related to the mother.
He also said the suspect still on the run who allegedly assaulted the 15-year-old girl was also a relative who had been sexually abusing her since she was 10.
All police units have been told to be on the lookout for him as he is well-known in Lae.
Meanwhile, Lae police have also detained a man from Kaintiba who allegedly killed his wife because he wanted to marry the step-daughter.
The woman was reported missing at Six-Mile last Friday. Her body was found floating near the Lae Tidal Basin on Sunday.
“As police step up on policing major and petty crimes, the rate has dropped in Lae. (But) the frequency of sexual offences (involving) minors and females under 18 has increased,” he said.”
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Wife-killing husbands on the rise in PNG
PORT MORESBY: Police have revealed that more than 200 family and sexual violence cases have been reported here and in Lae this year - that’s just a week short of three months.
They also lamented that domestic-related homicide is on the rise in settlements and wives are the majority of victims, with 23 cases reported.
Just what is wrong with husbands in Papua New Guinea? Are their violent behavior due to poor upbringing or lack of humanity and respect for the fairer sex?
Or are they lacking in spiritual faith?
And, there was also another news report that a pastor was charged with sexually assaulting a schoolgirl and was released on K500 bail on Monday, March 18, 2019.
What say you?
PNG Cyber Monitor reproduces below The National’s front page report for our readers who want more details on this nationwide community woe:
Crime hurts family
March 21, 2019The NationalMain Stories
Article Views: 23
By EHEYUC SESERU and MARJORIE FINKEO
WHAT’S happening in Papua New Guinea’s communities? More than 200 family and sexual violence cases have been reported in Lae and Port Moresby this year.
And we are only approaching the end of March.
In the NCD, police have lamented that domestic violence-related homicide is on the rise in settlements and wives are the majority of victims, with 23 cases reported between January and March.
Police have also appealed for more community campaigns to help raise public awareness on such violence to dissuade men from losing control and killing their wives in domestic fights.
Lae Police FSV Unit Officer-in-Charge Sgt Ruth Murup said police were working on more than 200 family and sexual violence cases since January, with most women survivors on the receiving end.
“In fact, more than 300 cases have been reported to us since January, with some victims only seeking advice,” she said.
“So we only talked with and referred them to other services, especially civil cases.”
“There are victims who wanted to seek legal advice from public solicitors and welfare officers. Cases with police alone is more than 200,” she added.
She said many women wanted justice by lodging police reports but they did not want to go through the court process.
“Some women reported their husband for abuses and violence at home.
“We brought in the husbands, talked to them about violence and the law, with warnings about laws protecting women.
“Some men are having negative perceptions about FSV and family support centres. They deemed such facilities as only for women and not men. We are responsible to help train male police officers on that as well.
“This would be specifically for officers to understand domestic violence and to help men and communities. About 85% of the complaints reported to this station are domestic violence.
“It’s a daily complaint, we need (community and government) support to check such rising violence,” she added.
NCD homicide Officer-In-Charge (OIC) Chief Sgt Ulagis Mantu said: “Many of the deaths are caused by men using knives, stones and other dangerous weapons to kill their wives in domestic quarrels.
“We must raise public awareness on such homicides to help dissuade men from losing control during domestic quarrels and turning violent,” he added.
Mantu said: “Investigations into 12 of the 23 cases have been completed with arrests and suspects charged in court. Seven cases were also alcohol-related fights leading to deaths in night clubs, and five due to domestic violence.”
He also identified ATS Block at 7-Mile, Vadavada Block, Erima, Morata and Gerehu as “black areas”.
“Churches, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), government (authorities) and other stakeholders should target settlements for awareness programmes to help raise awareness on homicide and domestic violence.
“(Counselling could help prevent) people from (turning) killing into a game. It’s a serious matter …”
Mantu said 11 cases of such homicides “are still under investigation”.
When contacted for a response on violence against women, PNG Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Roger Joseph said: “We are against domestic violence with women being the majority of victims. Men must respect the dignity of women.
“They are created equally by God and should be respected. It does not mean that (most) women are (physically) weak, they can be abused.
“Churches are and have been speaking or condemning today’s growing cases of domestic violence in the country,” he said.
Concerns over rise in child sex crimes in Lae
March 21, 2019The NationalNational
Article Views: 26
By PISAI GUMAR
POLICE in Lae are concerned about the increase in sex offences targeting children, the latest being the attack on two female students.
Metropolitan Superintendent Anthony Wagambie Jr said while there was a decrease in other crimes, sex offences were increasing.
The attack on the two students, aged 10 and 15, in two schools allegedly involved two men holding high positions. One, a pastor, appeared in court on Monday and was released on a K500 bail. The second is on the run.
“The sexual offence cases are occurring everyday caused by known figures in family homes and communities such as uncles, fathers and step-fathers, cousins and bubu (grandfathers),” he said.
Wagambie said the suspect who allegedly assaulted the 10-year-old had told her to accompany him to the office but then led her to his home where she was assaulted.
The mother found out when the girl told her she was not feeling well and would miss school the next day. She took her to hospital before reporting the matter to police.
Wagambie said the suspect was related to the mother.
He also said the suspect still on the run who allegedly assaulted the 15-year-old girl was also a relative who had been sexually abusing her since she was 10.
All police units have been told to be on the lookout for him as he is well-known in Lae.
Meanwhile, Lae police have also detained a man from Kaintiba who allegedly killed his wife because he wanted to marry the step-daughter.
The woman was reported missing at Six-Mile last Friday. Her body was found floating near the Lae Tidal Basin on Sunday.
“As police step up on policing major and petty crimes, the rate has dropped in Lae. (But) the frequency of sexual offences (involving) minors and females under 18 has increased,” he said.”
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