Domestic killing outbreak continues in Australia
Xinhua, September 23, 2015 Adjust font size:
A spate of vicious domestic violence acts by men against women continued on Wednesday in Australia with a 12-year-old girl allegedly murdered by a male relative.
Her body was found by police just before 6 a.m. on Wednesday in the Hunter Valley, north of Sydney, and the girl's 31-year-old relative is in police custody facing murder charges.
It brings the tally of murdered Australian women to three in the past week, allegedly at the hands of male family members.
Two girls under 13 have also been killed, allegedly at than hands of relatives.
On Tuesday, the 15-year-old son of one woman found his seven month pregnant mother stabbed to death in a Sydney suburb shortly before her partner -- not the boy's father -- handed himself into police.
It follows two murders of two women and one of the female child in Brisbane last week, and a machete attack on another woman which she survived.
Authorities have decried the outbreak, but have failed to effectively halt the abuse. Endi