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Hey, lovely RCP listeners. Well, we wanted to just thank you for your incredible support and response to our series with Jess Hill about her books, see what you made me do, and our discussion regarding coercive control.

And many of you asked that we interview Rosie Batty, and so I reached out to Rosie and was absolutely delighted that she agreed to come on Real Crime Profile.

Now, these episodes are incredibly hard-listened. They are intense as Rosie talks for one of the first times in a long while about her son Luke, who was murdered aged 11 by his father on 12th of February 2014 in Australia.

So I just wanted to give you a trigger warning as we get into the detail about what happened, which is incredibly important that we do because we must understand the inextricable links between domestic abuse and child abuse, and just how dangerous coercive control is, and more so that it's largely not being identified as a high risk factor to serious harm and homicide.

That's what we want to change. And so I wanted to let you know that in the wake of Hannah Clark and her children, Alia, Leana, and Trays, horrific murders in February 2020, that I have launched a petition in Australia to criminalize coercive control.

And if you would like to be an activist and add your signature to the petition, that would be wonderful. It's going to be in our show notes so you can click on the link and add your signature.

And there's also links in the show notes, and at the end of these episodes, if you're experiencing domestic abuse or stalking and if you need help and advice.

So don't feel that you're alone. Please don't suffer and silence. There's help out there for you. And there's the link to the dash risk checklist website.

So without further ado, here's our interview with Rosie Batty.

The violent death of a child at the hands of a parent is hard to comprehend. And tonight, a community in Victoria is struggling to understand the events that occurred last night at a suburban sports ground outside Melbourne.

An 11 year old boy was killed by his father as his horrified schoolmates looked on. Today, 730 learned that police had been warned the family could be in danger.

The boy Luke Batty was only 11 years old. He had just finished training with the local under 12's team. Witness reports say they saw his father bash him over the head with a cricket bat.

A shocked school community witnessed the entire unfolding tragedy.

Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI profiled former New York City prosecutor and writer producer C. U.S.'s criminal minds. And with me today is Laura Rich's criminal behavior analyst, former New Scotland Yard, author of the book, Cleasing Domestic Violence and the Domestic Abuse Stalking and Harisman and on the base violence risk model.

And I am Lisa Zambetti. I'm the casting director for CBS's Criminal Minds and we are thrilled. We are honored. We are so excited to introduce you to today's guest.

That would be me. My name is Rosie, Rosie Batty and I guess I became well known just over six years ago with the murder of my son by his father in a highly visible public place.

And so since that time, I guess my title and credentials are anti-violence domestic violence campaigner advocate because I haven't really stopped advocating and raising awareness of this pandemic, this pandemic that's been around since probably time began.

But it's taken us an awful long time to even become aware of it in amongst our own communities and amongst the society we exist within.

Very well put.

We are so happy to have you on Rosie and I have to say you've been very modest there because actually the work that you've been doing and raising awareness about Luke and what happened led to the establishment of the Royal Commission into family violence in Victorian 2015 where 227.

The family violence prevention act you were also Australian of the year 2015 and officer you were appointed officer of the order of Australia, which is part of the Queen's birthday 2019 honors so wow you're amazing and we are so happy to have you on your inspiring your incredible so many of our listeners.

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