I think we can all agree: A man who exploits a child for sex before beating her to death, dumping her body and going about his normal life like nothing happened, 100% deserves to face ‘hell’ in prison.
We do not need journalists turning a child killing sex predator into a pity party.
This is not an exhaustive collection of horrid headlines around the murder of Donhomla Tunchanok but I wanted to document them anyway.
When men murder women and girls, journalists, sub editors and editors fall over themselves in the rush to turn them into … things.
A ride on mower is used in a femicide – she becomes the MOWER MURDER.
A wheelie bin is used in a femicide – she becomes the WHEELIE BIN MURDER.
A suitcase is used in a femicide – she becomes the SUITCASE MURDER.
Meanwhile, the same media that reduces Donhomla to a suitcase is outdoing each other in humanising the man who allegedly killed her.
We know he drives trucks, we know he lost weight, we know he ‘faces hell’ in prison, we know his ‘head has been shaved’, we know he had a ‘sad’ life, we know he had a ‘lonely’ life, we know he had a ‘quiet’ life … is there anything we don’t know about him?
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