Maplegate House For Women
185 Mississauga Avenue P5A 1E3 Elliot Lake, ON, Canada

What is Femicide? "Femicide is the intentional killing of women and girls because they are women and girls." [1] There are different forms of femicide including: Intimate Femicide:The killing of women and girls by current or former partners or family members.... Non-Intimate Femicide:The killing of women and girls by someone without an intimate relationship with them (e.g. serial killings motivated by misogyny). Murder in the Name of ‘Honor’:The killing of women and girls because their lived experience (e.g. engaging in premarital sex) is judged as a violation of gender and/or family expectations. Female Infanticide and Gender-Based Sex-Selective Foeticide:The killing of female infants or fetuses because they are female. Genital Mutilation Related Femicide:The killing of women and girls resulting from complications associated with female genital mutilation. Dowry-Related Femicide:The killing of a woman or girl by the groom’s family because the dowry (e.g. money, property) provided by her family is judged as inadequate. Organized Crime Related Femicide:The killing of women and girls associated with gangs, drugs, human trafficking, and/or gun proliferation. [2] See more

February 10, 2020 We are SAD to inform you of another Femicide in Ontario. The Femicide Torch will be lit at Maplegate - 185 Mississauga Ave., Elliot Lake, tonight for Brittney Newman. PLEASE SHARE... A 27-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after a 25-year-old woman was stabbed to death in Mississauga on the weekend. Peel police identified the victim as Brittney Newman, of Mississauga. Police were called to a basement apartment in a home on Roadside Way, near Ninth Line and Erin Centre Boulevard, at 12:28 p.m. on Sunday, according to Const. Danny Marttini, spokesperson for Peel police. Newman died at the scene, Marttini said. The victim and accused were in a previous relationship. The couple's two children, both under the age of six, were in the apartment at the time of the stabbing but were not injured. "We do know that the children were there," Marttini said on Monday. "They are with family now." When police arrived, they found Newman suffering from what appeared to be stab wounds. She was pronounced dead there.

THE FEMICIDE TORCH AT MAPLEGATE WILL BE LIT TONIGHT - WATCH FOR IT WHEN YOU DRIVE BY 185 MISSISSAUGA AVE. A Toronto man wanted for the first-degree murder of his ex-wife, 28-year-old Heeral Patel, has been found dead, Peel Police say. A warrant for the arrest of Rakeshbhai Patel, 36, was issued on Jan. 16, three days after Heeral Patel’s body was found in a wooded area near Nexus Avenue and Fogal Road in Brampton.... Rakeshbhai Patel’s body was found in Toronto Friday, Peel police said in a Monday news release, adding that death is not being pursued as a criminal investigation. Toronto police had set up a command post to search for Heeral Patel after she was reported missing last week. She was last seen in the Islington Avenue and Steeles Avenue West area on Jan. 11 at around 11 p.m. Last week, Global News reported that Patel left her husband last year and was in the process of divorcing him. According to the Times of India, got the couple got married in Gujarat, India in 2013.

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