Farquharson to Freeman: The horror of parents killing their kids
4/18/202635 min
WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT: After the news of a notorious child killer being savagely beaten in prison, Andrew Rule looks at more cases of parents harming their own children.
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First 90 secondsAndrew Rule· Host0:00
[pensive music] This was the classic example of the husband and father getting back at the ex-partner by hurting their children, and that this festering resentment of everything that had happened to him meant that he struck back in what he probably thought was the only way he could, which was an incredibly evil, a self-centered thing to do. The action of a quiet sociopath, really. A terrible thing. I'm Andrew Rule. This is Life and Crimes. Today, we're going to bounce off a story that's in the news, and that story is the one of Arthur Freeman. Not Desi Freeman. Before Desi, there was Artie, and Arthur Freeman is that dreadful, dreadful man who threw his little daughter, Darcy, off the West Gate Bridge in 2009. Now, I have to say, in all his decades of covering crime and crimes, that that story is one of the ones that gives me chills. I cannot drive over the West Gate Bridge without thinking about it, and I know that so many people associated in any way with the death of Darcy Freeman, and I'm talking about police, I'm talking about ambulance people, I'm talking about lawyers, specifically a lawyer friend of mine, it affected so many people because it was so dark and so awful. I