Through continued torture Michaela Barriball eventually murdered helpless infant boy Malachi Subecz whom our wise Family Court ordered to her care. None of the articles we found regarding this case made any mention of Malachi’s father. Fathers clearly aren’t even important enough to consider, at least until they fail to maintain their affectionately named ‘child support’ payments. Clearly little of that money in Malachi’s case was actually spent on his care given that he was fed so little that he weighed the same at his death at 5 years old as he had two years earlier. Whether these payments were adding to Michaela Barriball’s income or merely reimbursing government for her benefit money, the case reminds us that so-called ‘child support’ can serve primarily as ‘mummy’s lifestyle enhancement’ and how foolish it is to provide such money without any accountability for how it is spent.

Our Family Court appeared to think that sole parenthood by some unrelated woman would be better than care by the child’s father or extended biological family. It seems that Malachi’s mother, imprisoned for her own criminal behaviour (that also wasn’t clarified – we can’t go besmirching the feminist image of women’s moral superiority now can we?) expressed a preference for this unrelated woman to care for him. It goes without question that a mother’s wishes should always be prioritized by the Family Court.

Commentary on this case has sought to hold responsible child-care staff, our child welfare department and others for not raising an alarm or intervening. Sentencing judge Justice Davison was reported as saying “Unless responsible adults are prepared to speak out and contact the police, the opportunities to prevent further trauma or damage to the child are lost”. Fair enough, but where’s accountability for the Family Court? One might say “Unless the Family Court discontinues its feminist bias and starts following up on cases to see how often its decisions harm children, children’s lives will continue to be harmed.” Rest in peace Malachi.

Michaela Barriball is just another reminder that women can be as cruel and violent as any man. She is another reminder of the dishonesty of feminists and of the White Ribbon campaign that implies only male violence and female victimhood are true or worth worrying about. Michaela Barriball highlights the foolishness of government and its departments in supporting White Ribbon and displaying its posters in their foyers. Shame on this society for denigrating the male half of our population on the basis of a small proportion of miscreants, and for failing to value men’s and fathers’ wisdom and contribution.