Fat Bully loses his assets to Thai wife

[izzix]

Fat 'bully' loses to Thai bride used as servant

Caroline Overington | May 23, 2009
Article from: The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 88,00.html


A TASMANIAN man who went to Thailand to find a sixth wife and put her into domestic servitude has lost three-quarters of his assets, including his house and his business, in a Family Court case.

The court heard that the man, who was born in 1945 and at one point was so obese he could hardly leave his bed, had forced his young bride into hard physical labour throughout the 10-year marriage.

He had been married five times before he travelled to Thailand in 1997 to find her. She was 25 years his junior, and spoke no English.

The man told the court the woman had been working as a prostitute in Thailand and he saved her from that life. She denied it, saying she worked in a factory. In any case, he brought her to Australia soon after they met and set her to work in his market garden outside Hobart, where she toiled for $40 a month. She was also asked to carry out what the judge described as "disgusting" tasks, related to the man's physical care.

In the course of the marriage, the woman gave birth to four of the man's children.

The Family Court, sitting in Hobart in April, heard that the husband grew fatter and more sedentary, and had taken to sitting on a stool, waving a large stick and shouting orders at the woman and their children. When she left him, he sought custody of the children, and most of the assets, saying all had belonged to him before the marriage.

Her victory in the court has been hailed by female lawyers and domestic violence support workers as a sign that men should not think they can travel to poor countries and find brides to work as domestic servants.

The judge said the husband was "a huge man, some five foot eight in height, but weighed at his worst, something near 200kg".

"His enormous weight caused him to be gravely disabled and that he was able to get around only with difficulty," the judge said.

The wife and two of the children told the court that the husband "tended to lie around in bed; that he tended to play with the computer, and called upon every member of the family to look to his various wants, which included bathing him, dressing him, cleaning up his toiletry and applying ointment to bleeding buttocks".

"The father in effect was nothing else but a bully," the judge said. "He demanded that his wants be attended to before anybody else's. He adopted an authoritarian manner whereby he sat on his stool and waved a large stick at them, demanding that they do certain things in relation to the gardening.

"He insisted that (his wife) carry out physical labouring tasks as well as looking after his more private needs, notwithstanding that she had had a bad caesarean and was in considerable pain."

The husband told the court he was the victim of domestic violence, and that his wife had once tried to kill him with a meat cleaver. The judge found to the contrary, saying she "worked exceptionally hard".

The value of the couple's property was put at $200,000, the total of which was "put in by the father (because) the mother had nothing".

But the judge said she had done an "enormous amount of work" in the house and the market garden, and awarded her 75 per cent of the assets.

National Council of Women president Margaret Smith hailed the decision as "one of the very good decisions of the Family Court".

"We mostly hear of cases where men tell their wives they have no rights, they will lose their children, so this should be a signpost to women who find themselves trapped like this, to know there is a way out," Ms Smith said.

[beer monkey]

Gave birth to 4 of his children in 10 years, and putting creams on his 5 times married bleeding buttocks, cleaning his crap up..whilst he sat on a stool waving a stick and shouting and playing on his computer all day...what a lard ar$e...maybe the beer mat thief should do some community service and do a 4 week day and night shift looking after him....that will teach her.
And well done to the lady in her victory.

[dill]

she will have a much better life now that she is done with that guy ,im sure.
all the best to her.
and hopefully will make other people out there think twice about using and abusing and thinking they can do what they want with no after affects.

[mortiboy]

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This was probably him!..... Poor woman!

[jackspratt]

Oh dear - here we go again

Interesting Family Court Decision in Oz

Postby jackspratt on May 23, 2009, 9:46 am

Fat 'bully' loses to Thai bride used as servant


A TASMANIAN man who went to Thailand to find a sixth wife and put her into domestic servitude has lost three-quarters of his assets, including his house and his business, in a Family Court case.

Izzie, is it beyond your very limited wit to check what other posts have been made, before proceeding to add further clutter

[beer monkey]

lol...i think Izzy might have pipped you at the post....

[jackspratt]

I think this one needs to be referred to the judges.

Before I posted, I did a check of the board, and did not see anything from Izzie, or anyone else.

Perhaps the mods could adjudicate - do posts from a different timezone show up as Thailand time, or local (posters) time?

[old-timer]

I'm not a mod by I can answer this - Thai time
Izzix posted at 11.28pm on the 22nd
Jackspratt posted 9.46am on the 23rd

izzix posted first

[beer monkey]

I think this one needs to be referred to the judges.

Judges not needed .....'check the time zone'..(your words)


I think you are losing old son.....

[jackspratt]

Please refer to the other thread

[wazza]

Tasmania is a lovely place, full of ex Poms and Irish convicts

[BKKSTAN]

Tasmania is a lovely place, full of ex Poms and Irish convicts

What does an Irish convict look like?

[wazza]

ULick


can u pls reply