MRAs do this as a means of shutting down discussions around family violence while perpetuating the categorically unfounded myth that men are hard done by in the family court justice system. Batty herself has weathered this accusations (which, ironically, sit alongside other accusations that she put Luke in harm's way by allowing him to see his father).

The truth is that while Batty accepted Anderson posed a threat to her own safety, she also knew he had never behaved violently towards Luke until the moment he brandished the knife in 2013. Because of this, she allowed the pair to maintain contact and supported them continuing a familial relationship. It wasn't until Anderson's threatening behaviour broadened to include Luke that she sought to prevent him from seeing him - and even then, the Family Court ultimately ruled in his partial favour.

Batty did everything women are told to do, despite the often contradictory messages. She left an abusive man. She encouraged a relationship between her son and his father while trying to protect her child. Yet Anderson was still able to inflict his final and most brutal punishment against her for removing herself from his control - robbing her of her beloved child. And in the fallout, Batty has endured reprehensible abuse, trolling, totally unsubstantiated accusations of fraud and, almost inconceivably, numerous claims that she's just another man-hating attention seeker suckling at the (apparently) gold plated teat of the capitalist feminist machine. That trolling has escalated since she announced her decision to step down.

Despite the abuse meted out against her, Batty wakes up every day and continues to survive the most unconscionable act of violence perpetrated against her. For four long years, she did this in the public eye because it was so important to her to try to produce something out of Luke's murder that might represent lasting change. She has done it even while Latham has noxiously pursued her over her alleged treatment of staff at the LBF and 'theft" of funds, a claim he has yet to back-up with sources willing to go on the record. His bizarre fantasies have been categorically denied by staff members and an independent auditor but he's still managed to outrage the collection of lunatics who consider him some kind of truth telling "journalist". In turn, they have wasted no time directing their ludicrous conspiracy theories towards Batty.

Never forget that this is the person we came close to electing as Prime Minister in 2004 - a man who has used his bitter hatred of feminists to doggedly pursue a woman whose ex partner murdered her son in front of her because he's angry that she's correctly named male violence as the problem.