Examples of Female Violence/Murder
Lindsay Jackel
Two more examples of female violence and murder - one of mother and
one of child - sent to help dispel the dichotomous myth of female
virtue and male violence.
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24 May 1997
Augusta Chronicle (Georgia - USA)
By Sandy Hodson
Daughter pleads guilty in mother's death
...Friday in Richmond County Superior Court, Ruth Vaiden, 34, pleaded
guilty to voluntary manslaughter and armed robbery and received a
30-year prison sentence....
...Ms. Vaiden's death stemmed from her daughter's fraud. It began in
March 1996 when Ruth Vaiden intercepted a credit card approval form
sent to her mother. Ruth Vaiden forged her mother's signature, added
her own name to the card and had the bills and other correspondence
sent to herself, Mr. Craig said.
Ms. Vaiden knew nothing of the credit card until the morning of Nov. 2
when a credit card representative called to ask when she intended to
pay off the outstanding balance of more than $15,000....
Ruth Vaiden went armed. The argument escalated and she shot her mother
- once in the left shoulder, once in the left hip and a third time
directly into the back after Ms. Vaiden fell into the bathtub, Mr.
Craig said.
Ruth Vaiden pretended to discover her mother's body Nov. 4, the
following Monday, but 10 days later she began confessing incriminating
details, including the fact she threw the handgun she used and her
mother's wallet and jewelry into the Savannah River....
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25 May 1997
Augusta Chronicle (Georgia - USA)
Suspect admits to child's death
ALBANY - A woman accused in the scalding death of a 5-year-old boy
pleaded guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge and is expected
to testify against the boy's mother, a defense attorney said.
Gloria Atkins, 42, faced nearly all the same charges in the death of
Brad McCray as the boy's mother, Topeka McCray, including malice
murder and felony murder, according to court records.
The roommates were accused of submerging the boy to his waist in
scalding bath water for soiling his pants in November 1993.
The two were to be tried together June 2. However, Ms. McCray's
attorney, David Perry, said Ms. Atkins pleaded guilty Friday to the
lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter, in addition to cruelty to a
child and concealing the death of another.
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