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[humanist]

What is wrong with judges and their refusal to acknowledge domestic violence as a crime against another person therefore being stricter with their sentencing.

Cyprus Mail

A MAN who admitted to beating his wife after a row at work yesterday wanted to shake the hand of a judge who let him off with a suspended sentence and a £300 fine.

Ekrem Karadayi, 52, from the Turkish occupied village of Elia, admitted to the single charge of attacking his wife on July 10 this year and causing her injuries in the Nicosia village of Astromeritis.

According to the state prosecution, the defendant had had a blazing argument with his wife Cigdem at the building site where they both worked.

At one point, his wife decided to walk away from him, fuelling his anger.

He then grabbed hold of her and slapped her several times in the face.

Yesterday, Karadayi was in the dock and could not sit still, continuously getting up and down in his seat and saying: “It was only my wife. I love my wife”.

He continued mumbling as the judge read out the sentence to the court.

He was initially taken aback when the judge announced that he would jail him for four months and began thumping his own chest.

But he broke out in to a smile when Judge Angelos David added his sentence would be suspended for a period of three years.

The judge also ordered the defendant to pay a £300 fine.

The delighted Karadayi then wanted to shake the judge’s hand before police officers stopped him.

Walking out of the courtroom escorted by three policemen, Karadayi shouted, “Thanks mate!”

[Filitsa]

“It was only my wife. I love my wife”.

Only?! Only???!!!

You see, Humanist, it's still a "man's world."

[Hazza]

It doesn't say there if she is going to go back to that animal or not. Unfortunately, we hear of women getting beaten up, punched, kicked, slapped, raped etc by their husbands, yet they end up going back to him for more.

Scum like this should be doing a very long stretch.

[humanist]

Filitsa I can see very clearly. I couldn't believe it.

Hey Hazza, perhaps she has no other choice, perhaps she does not know she has a choice. I have over and over again women saying they go back because they have no choice they'll end up on the street, or they have children to care for, their community willjudge them negatively etc.

[Eliko]

Filitsa, I do not know of any man who would agree with you when you state it's a 'Man's World'.

I think it is a disgrace for a man to beat his wife, or any woman, unfortunately there are times when THAT principle becomes the very weapon that rules the roost in domestic upheavals, advantage wife/woman.

My father once told me that scientists have discovered a weapon far more deadly than the hydrogen bomb, when I asked him what it was he replied :- "The woman's tongue sonny, the woman's tongue !"

[Filitsa]

My father once told me that scientists have discovered a weapon far more deadly than the hydrogen bomb, when I asked him what it was he replied :- "The woman's tongue sonny, the woman's tongue !" Rolling Eyes

:lol

My mother once told me that the H-bomb is a product of the A-bomb, the man's tongue.

On a more serious note:

Filitsa, I do not know of any man who would agree with you when you state it's a 'Man's World'.

I want to respond that the reason they would disagree is precisely because it's a 'man's world,' Eliko, but this would be presumptuous of me. Instead I'll ask why they would disagree. ???

Domestic violence, in which the victim is a woman in most cases, is still treated like a misdemeanor, as evidenced above, in even the most progressive nations. Weren't we outraged when we read about the treatment of poor Indian girls? Boys are valued as potential breadwinners. What about female genital mutilation in certain African cultures? In industrial nations, the examples may be less brutal, yet telling: all other factors fixed, men still receive higher salaries, and they still seem to climb the corporate ladder quicker and with greater ease.

[Filitsa]

And then came the F-bomb! It knows no gender discrimination!

[paliometoxo]

yes but now its just going to keep happening maybe next time they have a fight it could be worse!

[Filitsa]

It doesn't say there if she is going to go back to that animal or not. Unfortunately, we hear of women getting beaten up, punched, kicked, slapped, raped etc by their husbands, yet they end up going back to him for more.

It's a sad and twisted psychodrama called "co-dependency."

[Southerner]

yes but now its just going to keep happening maybe next time they have a fight it could be worse!

It will only last as long as women allow it to last, women, not men, have got to get their feelings and views aired in public, and protest until someone takes notice.
The judge is a disgrace to civilised society.