This small collection assists in illustrating the fact that fashionable gender theories fail to explain violence. Accurate study of historical facts can shed light on sociopaths and their behavior much better than politically correct indoctrination programs.
We have not done much research on this subject so only a few cases are offered at this time. The numerous cases of female serial killers who routinely tortured their victims (Bathory, Galou, Grese, Hassen, Saltykova, Soulakiotis and many others) are not included in this collection.
Vioence is not "gendered."
Vioence is not "gendered."
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1863 – Delia Broderick– New York, N.Y. – Two women kill a boy with red pepper by rubbing it in his mouth, nose and eyes.
1887 – Ellen Jones– Little Rock, Arkansas – She beat the a 2-year-old boy until he would be convulsed with spasms and then strip his clothes off, tie his hands behind and leave it a prey to the flies for hours.
1863 – Delia Broderick– New York, N.Y. – Two women kill a boy with red pepper by rubbing it in his mouth, nose and eyes.
1887 – Ellen Jones– Little Rock, Arkansas – She beat the a 2-year-old boy until he would be convulsed with spasms and then strip his clothes off, tie his hands behind and leave it a prey to the flies for hours.
1888 – Mrs. Edward Smith– Bergen/Passaic, New Jersey – Tortured five children by pounding fingers with a hammer, scalded their hands in hot water until the skin peeled off, beat them with rope, a stick, kicked them.
1893 – Mary Pushman– Butte, Montana – A mother gave her baby pins with its liquid food, stuck pins in its tongue and tortured it to death.
1907 – Kate Gravius– New York, New York – woman regularly tortured two children, aged 6 and 7, with hot coals.
1915 – Mrs. Steele– Muskegon, Michigan– Mrs. Albert Steele, of Muskegon, Wisconsin, murdered her 11-year-old step-daughter out of jealousy for her husband’s love for the child. The murder took place in 1915. Other women have done such things for the same reason, but Mrs. Steele went about her business in a fashion that was unusual. She tied the girl to a chair, blindfolded her and then poured acid down her throat. Then, in an effort to simulate a botched abortion in order to give an explanation for the death as well as providing support for a false allegation of incest to be used after the “abortion” was discovered, the step-mother, mutilated the corpse and threw the naked body in an alley, partially covering it with sand. Mrs. Steele was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
1920 – Anne Houde Gagnon– Fortierville, Quebec, Canada –“The girl, 16, after being beaten, was burned with a red hot poker and made to walk barefoot in the snow was forced to drink poison, the evidence disclosed. The post mortem Examination of the body revealed 54 wounds.”
1922 – Kate Webber– Cincinnati, Ohio – mother burned boy’s thumb with a clothing iron to cure him of thumb sucking.
1938 – Dorothy Boelhauff– San Diego, California – Mother whipped her 6-year-old foster son with a ruler, because “he wouldn't button his coat and tie his shoes,” then locked him in a closet. He died.
1922 – Kate Webber– Cincinnati, Ohio – mother burned boy’s thumb with a clothing iron to cure him of thumb sucking.
1938 – Dorothy Boelhauff– San Diego, California – Mother whipped her 6-year-old foster son with a ruler, because “he wouldn't button his coat and tie his shoes,” then locked him in a closet. He died.
1946 – Evelyn Shay– Grand Rapids, Michigan – Mother and her boyfriend tortured 4-year-old girl, beating and burning her into a hideous mass of bruises and sores. The father was residing at a tuberculosis sanitorium at the time.
1947 – Marie Spellman– Louisville, Kentucky– Mother seared a 7-year-old boy’s hands on a hot stove to keep him from stealing.
1947 – Mrs. Valazquez– Chicago, Illinois – Mother held 6-year-old daughter against a hot stove, stabbed her with an ice pick, placed her in chains, tied her to a washing machine, held a lighted match to her lips and struck her on the head with a hammer.
1948 – Shirleen Kunin– Los Angeles, California – frequently whipped 2-year-old daughter, once turned a garden hose in the baby’s mouth, and several times left the child unattended.
1953 – Jewell Louise Kelley– Texas City, Texas – According to the attending physician, the condition of the beaten child was worse than prisoners of war from Japanese camps.
1966 – Mrs. Gertrude Baniszewski– Indianapolis, In. – one of the most infamous torture-murders in American history; long term torture of a teen-aged girl.
1978 – Catherine L. Sherriod– Norfolk, Virginia – A woman regularly beat her 10 and 13-year old stepdaughters with a stick. Finally the 10-year-old died from one of the beatings.
1993 – Theresa Jimmie Cross Knorr– Salt Lake City, Utah – Serial killer mom variously beat, stabbed and shot her children and ordered her sons to burn their injured sister alive and they did so.
2008 – Rita Makekau– Waianae, Hawaii – “Imagine getting hit in the teeth with a hammer, or having a broom handle shoved down your throat. Five children say those are the kinds of attacks they suffered over a four-year period.”
2008 – Klara Mauerova– Brno, Czech Republic– cult member mother tortured her two young sons mercilessly over a period of six months. She sluiced off pieces of one of the boys’ skin and served the flash to other cult members and forced the victim to eat portions of his own mutilated body.
2010 – Lucy Viner-Mood & Lois Gibson–Langton Green, England – Two young women attacked the love rival of one of them, scalded her with boiling water and sugar during a “sadistic” 18-hour ordeal. They also cut the victim's hair, knocked her unconscious and woke her up by stubbing a cigarette out on her back, used a heavy metal neck chain was used to hit her around the head, kicked and struck her repeatedly with a high-heeled shoe.
2011 – Amy Marie Imler– Odessa, Texas – Woman accused of torturing her 8-year-old asthmatic daughter by pouring hot sauce in her eyes, smashing a kitten’s head in front of her, forcing her to eat cat feces, kicking her, “hog tying” her and withholding food.
2011 – Mary Mazalic– Mukilteo, Washington – Woman beat a 10-year-old girl with whips, burned her lit cigarettes and punished by being denied food so that when rescued her weight was only 51 pounds.
2011 – Sara Rae Walters– Osceola Township, Michigan – A woman abused her 3-year-old step-son, resulting in over 60 different injuries, including a subdural hematoma -- a collection of blood on the surface of the brain -- a core body temperature of 88 degrees and numerous other superficial lacerations and contusions.
2012 – Kerry Howle– Chesterton, Staffordshire, England– A woman forced a15-year-old boy to drink his own urine, to eat a mouldy sausage roll which she had spat on and coated in cigarette ash, made him lick up his own blood after striking him, and made horrifying threats.
2012 – Uchenna– Onitsha, Nigeria – Woman used a pestle to break her 10-year-old maid’s left hand and inflicted very deep cuts in her private parts with a razor blade and doused the wounds with pepper.
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