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RSS Feeds`No domestic homicide just happens´: Toronto police conference takes on intimate partner violence
(The Star Golf)

 
 

27 may 2018 05:08:52

 
`No domestic homicide just happens´: Toronto police conference takes on intimate partner violence
(The Star Golf)
 


Each time Dawn Novak hears about another woman killed at the hands of a domestic partner, she is disturbed anew by a sentiment far too commonly expressed in the aftermath. “Always, what angers me a great deal is when I hear the sound bites of neighbours saying, ‘Oh, who would have known? He was such a nice man.’”Nice men “don’t murder their family,” Novak said. And there are always red flags that were missed. “No domestic homicide just happens,” she said. This week, Novak will deliver the opening speech at a Toronto police conference on domestic homicides — part of the federal government’s Victims and Survivors of Crime Week. It’s a topic that event organizer Det. Ann-Marie Tupling says is too often “pushed aside” despite its tragic prevalence. In giving the talk, Novak feels she is “returning to ground zero.” Twelve years ago this month, her daughter Natalie, a 20-year-old from Bracebridge, was killed by her abuser and former boyfriend in her Toronto apartment.Natalie, who was in Ryerson University’s hospitality and tourism management program, was staying in the city to work over the summer.Just before 3:30 a.m. on May 15, 2006, screams were heard coming from Novak’s bedroom in a Chinatown home she rented with five other students. Summoned by multiple 911 calls, police and paramedics arrived to find she had been repeatedly stabbed and her throat slit in what one homicide cop described as a “vicious attack.”In 2009, Novak’s ex-boyfriend, Arssei Hindessa, was convicted of second-degree murder. Sentencing him to 18 years in prison before parole eligibility, Justice Anne Molloy called the murder “extreme butchery,” noting it had “elements of planning and deliberation” that edged on first-degree murder.As research has repeatedly shown, there are typically many signs that put a domestic violence victim at a high risk of ...


 
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