Demonic Men, Angelic Women III
August 24, 2004
On the front page of the May 25 th, 2004 Boston Globe is the article, “Mother Slain, Child Found Dead; 2 Held.” The article notes that when the police knocked on the front door of the Beneche apartment, an officer who remained outside noticed a trash bag was tossed from the window of the apartment. In that bag was Jims Beneche’s two year old son, Xavier Ravenell. The police were at his apartment to question him about the death of his son’s mother.
Without any real evidence of who the actual murderer is, the police arrested Beneche for the murder of Kayla Ravenell. As of May 25 th no charges were filed concerning the death of Xavier. The police also arrested his girlfriend, Jessica Deane and charged her with being an accessory after the fact of murder. Law enforcement did what they have been trained to do by domestic violence advocates. When in doubt, charge the “bigger and stronger” person with murder.
The training for law enforcement is, when in doubt consider the male to be the guilty party. A Massachusetts criminal justice training manual documents quite clearly for law enforcement that sexism is the cause of most domestic violence incidents.
Men are privileged, this law enforcement training manual tells us, and they often abuse that privilege. Women are innocent and they are most often the victims of men’s violent behavior. In domestic violence training the traditional presumption of innocence is turned upside down. As soon as the call comes into the law enforcement agency, before the officers actually respond to the call, the presumption is that the male will be the abuser and the female his innocent victim. Well, at least that’s what the training manuals say. And this DA must have read them.
Before any real evidence was in the district attorney, similar to the majority of domestic violence advocates and majority of other DAs, at least in Massachusetts, claims that he knows Beneche is guilty. Beneche is guilty because he is a man. In fact Suffolk County District Attorney, Daniel F. Conley publicly announced that, “A vulnerable woman has been killed at the hands of an abusive ex-boyfriend.” Guilty as charged. That is what the DA has been trained to believe. It’s demonic males, angelic female.
Conley didn’t think it was necessary to wait for all the evidence to be collected. Often criminal justice domestic violence training claims that men are guilty 95% of the time. This of course is not true, never-the-less DA Conley just decided to take a chance and ignore the 5% chance of innocence.
The police arrest Beneche and charged him with murder. Conley makes his claim with little to no evidence to support it, perhaps, because this is what the vast majority of criminal justice domestic violence training teaches those in the criminal justice system. This is true regardless of the degree of violence. Men, the Massachusetts training manuals notes, are the violent offenders and women their innocent victims.
Law enforcement is trained to believe that the violence women suffer from is singularly or primarilycaused by patriarchal sexism and the power and control that men want to exhibit over women. In Massachusetts the lead domestic violence agency claims they know what causes domestic violence. It happens, Jane Doe claims, because of sexism and power and control of men over women in our society.
In fact, a training manual for domestic violence advocates who work in police departments claims that, “Violence is learned behavior. This violent behavior is taught specifically to the males in many if not most societies.” The same “law enforcement training manual” notes further that when boys observe violence in their home they grow up to beat women. This is not in a fundamental feminist book, this is actually in a law enforcement training manual.
When women, this training manual notes, observe violence in their home they will grow up and become innocent victims. The lesson the manual wants law enforcement to know is that men are demonic and women their innocent victims. This is fundamental feminism 101 at work in the criminal justice system.
Two reporters assigned to the story by the Globe collected evidence that belies the inherent female innocence. The lawyer for Beneche claims that the girlfriend Deane, who is pregnant with Beneche’s child, committed the murder, not his client. The lawyer for Deane said that Deane had been asked to leave the apartment because Beneche was expecting a visit from Ravenell. One could assume that might upset Deane who is pregnant with Beneche’s child.
A woman who describes herself as Deane’s best friend said that Deane and Ravenell “hated each others guts.” She claims that she saw Deane enter the apartment where Ravenell was murdered while Beneche was sitting on a wall across the street. Another person who is friendly with the Deane claims that she had heard Deane state on a number of occasions that she wanted to hurt the baby because of support payments Beneche had to make.
Mary Ravenell, the mother of Kayla Ravenell claims that she never saw any evidence that Beneche would hurt her daughter and in fact she describes Beneche as “a gentleman.” She also states that it was Deane who would call her daughter all the time and constantly threatened her.
This leap before you look criminal justice process by Conley’s office is driven by contemporary fundamental feminist domestic violence training. This training is based on what fundamental feminist actual believe is true. Fundamental feminists claim that domestic violence is caused by misogynist men who believe they have the right to beat and batter women at will.
And as this horrific double murder documents, those in the criminal justice system, as DA Conley documents, are being trained to believe this is true. What would we think of the criminal justice system if it simply arrested everyone who “might be” or seems “most likely” to be the one guilty of the crime.
What ever happened to collecting the evidence and then making the arrest? Where has all the “unbiased” criminal justice training gone? Why or how is the preponderance of evidence training ignored and replaced with ignore him, believe her. If you think these are rash claims I suggest that you read some criminal justice domestic violence training manuals.
After Collecting the Evidence
On August 21, 2004 a Boston Globe article, “Couple Charged in Baby’s Death,” reports that the DAs office had upgraded the charges against Deane, who had only been charged with an accessory after the fact, to first degree murder of both mother and child.
After being told that the charges had been changed the mother of Kayla Ravenell said, “I was hoping that both would be charged with the same crime. I was very upset when I found out [Deane} was only an accessory.
In fact the lawyer for Beneche still claims that Deane is the murder and at most Beneche should be charged with being an accessory after the fact. The lawyer claims that a letter discovered in Deane’s purse expressed a desire by Deane to kill Kayla Revenell.
Attention – Attention, Suffolk County District Attorney, Daniel F. Conley
Perhaps someone from Conley’s office might want to read Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, U.S. Department of Justice, March, 1998. It documents between 1976 and 1996 the following comparisons for male and female intimate victims:
Male Victims Female Victims
62% killed by wives 64% killed by husbands
4% killed by ex-wives 5% killed by ex-husbands
This report documents that 31,260 women and 20,311 men were murdered by an intimate. If that same person from Conley’s office is actually interested in Department of Justice facts and not information fed to them from domestic violence agencies they would also discover that the National Violence Against Women Survey documents that 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are physically assaulted by in intimate partner annually. That is not the 15 percent as claimed by Jane Doe.
Why should Conley’s office bother reading the facts when he has an organization like Jane Doe to spoon feed them the information he needs to know. Perhaps someone from Conley’s office might visit the Jane Doe website. That the website documents that Jane Doe has yet to discover there is a difference between “battering” and “domestic violence” in Massachusetts. That might be clue number one.
Someone at DA Conley’s office needs to ask Jane Doe to read Massachusetts Law. Then again, why would Jane Doe bother with the facts when they know it’s sexist men abusing innocent women. It’s men the abusers, women their innocent victims. It’s boys guilty of dating violence, girls their innocent victims. I’m not missing anything here, am I? Oh, that’s right. If someone is lying it is most likely the man. That’s what they do. Oh boy, this criminal justice training is great isn’t it.
Both Jane Doe and DA Conley, it seems, know that when you investigate an intimate partner murder you will find, as Conley publicly announced, “A vulnerable woman has been killed at the hands of an abusive ex-boyfriend.” The DA knows it’s as simple as that. Why bother with the facts or wait until all the evidence is collected.
In fact, after collecting much of the evidence and listening to people who knew both of the suspects Conley’s office continued, as trained, to ignore the fact that the women might be just as guilty as the man. Angelic women can’t be the killers of men, other women, or children. Can they?
