Madrid: The shocking murder of two Spanish children by their father has thrown the spotlight on “Violence by Proxy” and how far partners are rejected to make their ex suffer.
“The violence of guardianship is double and inhuman because it tries to cause pain not only to the woman but also to their children,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said as Spain rolled Olivia’s death, 6, and his one-year-old sister.
Anna.
Following a six-week investigation, the investigation judge said the father would likely plan to kill them and hide the evidence of their deaths in sequence “to cause his ex-partner, imaginable pain he could imagine, inhumane pain”.
In Spain, 39 minors have been killed since 2013 by their father or by their mother’s partners or ex-partners, government figures show.
“We talk about the violence caused by children from victims of women when the perpetrators no longer have detention.
His life,” said Carmen Ruiz Repullo, a sociologist who specializes in gender violence.
“This is usually when he has decided to end the relationship and the perpetrators Eating he can continue to hurt him through his children.
“In highlighting and giving names such as murder, the authorities began to identify such cases, he told AFP.
“When you cannot identify what is happening, it often shades the meaning of the situation and you don’t have a tool to hurt it.” This violence “by the proxy” tried to endanger the women to hit “where it was the most painful”, said Victoria Rosell, head of the task of the Spanish government to gender violence.
With Olivia, whose body is weighted on the oceans, and Anna, whose body has not been found, the goal is to cause maximum pain in the mother by hiding the girls “where they will never be found, in the most unclear place”, said Angeles Carmona, the head of the observatory for domestic and gender-based violence.
In an open letter, the girl said it was “the most terrible action someone can do – kill their own children”.
“This is thanks to the girls who we now know the meaning of representative violence,” he wrote.
Soulivia and Anna’s death had not been included in the official count.
In rare cases, such murders have also been carried out by Mothers, Gender Violence Activists said this month, a 28-year-old woman conducted a court in Germany who was accused of distributing five of her six children in it.
Bath.
Even though the motives were still unclear, the prosecutor said it was associated with her isolated husband who had just found a new boyfriend.