A man from Massachusetts was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for pushing his father‘s head under water multiple times while claiming he was performing a baptism and exorcising a demon.
A group of people decided that Jack Callahan, who is 22 years old, did something wrong after a trial that lasted eight days. Callahan will find out his punishment on May 3rd.
In June 2021, the police in Duxbury received a call that a 19-year-old named Callahan was acting strangely and that his 57-year-old father, Scott Callahan, was missing near a pond in a park.
The police found Jack Callahan at a house feeling very upset and breathing very fast. The fire department found Scott Callahan in the pond at the same time. He was declared dead at the hospital later.
The younger man was trying to help his father, who had left a place where he was being treated for drinking too much alcohol. They used a ride-share service to get from Boston to the pond. The two started to fight, according to the prosecutors.
Scott Callahan died by drowning, and prosecutors say someone caused his death.
Jack Callahan said he didn’t do it when he was accused of murder. In 2021, he told the police that he thought his father was controlled by a demon and needed a baptism and exorcism, according to investigators. The Patriot Ledger reported that the information was not part of Callahan’s trial.
Callahan’s lawyer said the investigation was not done well. He said the state did not have enough proof to prove Callahan guilty.
Image from Pixabay and Free-PhotosIt is their husbands and boyfriends who are more likely to kill pregnant women than high blood pressure, bleeding, or infection.According to a recent study that was published on Wednesday in the BMJ, homicide is a major cause of mortality for pregnant women in the United States, and the risk is rising.
It’s “a shocking situation linked to a lethal combination of intimate partner violence and firearms,” the researchers said in a journal news release. They were led by Rebecca Lawn, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
Ending male violence in the United States, including gun violence, could save the lives of hundreds of women and their unborn children every year, the investigators said.
Intimate partner violence is common worldwide, with 1 in 3 women experiencing physical, sexual or psychological abuse from a partner during their lifetimes.
The problem is even worse in the United States, which has a higher prevalence of both past-year and lifetime intimate partner violence than other high-income countries. Researchers said the U.S. situation is very serious and deteriorating.
Between 2008 and 2019, about 68% of homicides in pregnancy involved firearms. Black women were at substantially higher risk of being killed than White women or Hispanic women. Rates of domestic homicides are also associated with state-level rates of gun ownership and firearms legislation, the authors said.
Few people accused of intimate partner violence are ever convicted, the authors said, noting many loopholes allow access to firearms.
And, they added, women may be facing more risk because of the recent dismantling of reproductive rights in the United States.
Controlling a woman’s reproductive choices is common in intimate partner violence. Restricting access to abortion may worsen the risks in abusive relationships.
Pregnancy is also a time for screening and intervention, because women have more interactions with healthcare providers. These interventions may help stop a pattern of abuse that could lead to homicide or adverse health outcomes, researchers said, but they must accompany urgent work to reduce all forms of violence against women.
Research on how to identify risk factors for homicide in pregnancy is also critical to prevention efforts, the researchers added.