September 7
Posted by Daniel Fogarty on September 7th, 2010 | Category: Abusive Women female child murderer mother abusing child mother murdered child mother neglecting child Violent Women
A Melbourne mother accused of drugging her two young children before cutting their throats and wrists has been committed to stand trial.
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September 6
Posted by Not Credited on September 6th, 2010 | Category: mother abusing child mother murdered child mother neglecting child Murder
A New York mother beat her malnourished daughter, four, with a belt and force-fed her sleeping pills, a Brooklyn court was told yesterday. Carlotta Brett-Pierce, who was arrested after her daughter Marchella Pierce was found dead weighing just 15lbs, allegedly gave the child bloody beatings after she crept out of bed at night for food.
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September 6
Posted by Elizabeth Willmott Harrop on September 6th, 2010 | Category: Abusive Women Female child abuse Female Initiated Violence mother abusing child mother abusing ex-partner mother abusing partner mother murdered child mother neglecting child mother sexually abusing child Violent Women
Female child abusers are the 21st century equivalent of lesbians in the Victorian age: not legislated against because they do not exist. The nature of woman being incapable of “deviancy”, as the bigoted Victorians said. Hence in New Zealand, the Accident Compensation Corporation was unable to accept claims from boys sexually abused by women, until the law changed in 2005. Prior to that the perpetrator of “sexual indecency” had to be male.
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September 4
Posted by Andrea Petrie on September 4th, 2010 | Category: Abusive Women mother murdered child Murder
A Melbourne mother twice convicted of killing her two young sons has today been jailed for 27 years. Qualified nurse Donna Fitchett, 51, drugged and murdered sons Thomas, 11, and Matthew, 9, at their Balwyn North home on September 6, 2005, in what she described as her ‘‘greatest act of love’’. But Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Curtain today branded Fitchett’s actions her ‘‘greatest act of betrayal’’.
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August 24
Posted by Ash Patil on August 24th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child Murder
A woman who left her baby to die in a bathtub has been found guilty of his manslaughter.
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August 24
Posted by Not Credited on August 24th, 2010 | Category: Abusive Women mother murdered child Violent Women
A woman accused of murdering her baby boy by allowing him to drown in a bath has been found guilty of manslaughter.
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August 19
Posted by Not Credited on August 19th, 2010 | Category: Abusive Women mother murdered child Murder Violent Women
THE mother of two young children found dead in a river has confessed to suffocating them before faking a car accident, police say.
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August 9
Posted by Lisa Davies, Chief Court Reporter on August 9th, 2010 | Category: Abusive Women mother murdered child Murder
A WOMEN'S water polo champion accused of murdering her baby daughter was so desperate to represent Australia in the pool she didn't want to be saddled with the respon
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August 7
Posted by Not Credited on August 7th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child Murder
Theresa Riggi has been charged with murdering her three children at a flat in Edinburgh.
Police h
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August 6
Posted by Not Credited on August 6th, 2010 | Category: Abusive Women mother abusing child mother murdered child mother neglecting child Violent Women
THE mother of a four-year-old boy found dead in a tumble dryer has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect.
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July 30
Posted by Not Credited on July 30th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child Murder
A FRENCH mother has admitted killing eight newborn babies, investigators have said.
Police have charged Dominiq
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July 27
Posted by Larry Celona and Leonard Greene on July 27th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child Murder Violent Women
A STATEN Island mother, and not her son, reportedly slit the throats of her three children and then started a fire that killed her and another child.
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July 22
Posted by Tracy DeLatte on July 22nd, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child Murder
A TEXAS mother who strangled her two children earlier this week told an emergency services operator she did so because they were both autistic and she wanted normal c
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July 20
Posted by SCOTT GOLDSTEIN and JASON TRAHAN on July 20th, 2010 | Category: Abusive Women mother murdered child Murder Violent Women
An Irving mother is in custody on suspicion of capital murder after her 5-year-old son was killed and his 2-year-old sister was critically hurt.
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July 20
Posted by LISA ROOSE-CHURCH on July 20th, 2010 | Category: Abusive Women mother murdered child Murder Violent Women
Editor’s note: The following article contains graphic desciptions of abuse, violence and the injuries resulting from them which many readers are likely to find di
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July 20
Posted by Not Credited on July 20th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child Murder Violent Women
Darlie Lynn Routier, 40, of Rowlett is on death row for the June 1996 stabbing death of her 5-year-old son, Damon. She also was charged with killing his ol
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July 16
Posted by Not Credited on July 16th, 2010 | Category: Dean Shillingsworth mother murdered child Rachel Pfitzner
THE mother of toddler Dean Shillingsworth, who admitted to stuffing her son's body in a suitcase and throwing it into a duck pond, is appealing against her 19-year
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July 10
Posted by MARISSA CALLIGEROS on July 10th, 2010 | Category: mother abusing partner mother murdered child mother murdered father Mother-child murder/suicide Murder Violent Women
An eight-month-old boy believed to have been
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July 8
Posted by Not Credited on July 8th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child mother murdered father Violent Women
A central Queensland woman suspected of shooting dead her baby and injuring her ex-husband was reportedly involved in a custody fight.
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May 25
Posted by Not Credited on May 25th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child Perjury
FORMER national representative water polo player Keli Lane, who has been charged with the murder of her missing newborn daughter Tegan, will face an additional char
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May 18
Posted by Not Credited on May 18th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
May 18, 2010 : MELBOURNE woman Donna Fitchett has been found guilty of killing her two sons.
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May 3
Posted by Katie Bice on May 3rd, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A MUM who drugged and killed her two sons said it was her "greatest act of love", a court has heard. The Supreme Court in Melbourne heard Donna Fitchett, 51, hatched a meticulous plan to kill Thomas
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April 30
Posted by Emma Schmidt on April 30th, 2010 | Category: mother abusing child mother murdered child
April 30, 2010: POLICE expect to charge a woman with attempted murder after her children's necks and wrists were slashed yesterday. Detectives are treating the incident as an attempted murder-suicid
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April 19
Posted by Not Credited on April 19th, 2010 | Category: Abusive Women mother murdered child
April - 18 - 2010 : In a horrific account of child abuse, Gabriela Espinosa, 23, admitted to Fresno, California police detectives that she drowned her two-month old infant in a bathtub. The mother, Es
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April 11
Posted by Nataliya Vasilyeva and Kristin M Hall on April 11th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child mother neglecting child
A TOP Russian official has urged the freezing of all child adoptions by US families after a woman from Tennessee put her seven-year-old adopted Russian grandson alone on a one-way flight back to hi
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April 10
Posted by Dan Karpenchuk on April 10th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child double standards
Updated Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:19am AEST An Australian-born woman who is accused of killing her two children has been ordered by a Canadian court to undergo a psychiatric assessment. Allyson McConnell,
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March 28
Posted by Not Credited on March 28th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
THE father of five children murdered by their mother has been stuck with the bill for her trial and conviction. Court bills murdered kids' father He is disgusted at state's actions Lawyer appeals
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March 27
Posted by Tom Callis on March 27th, 2010 | Category: mother abusing child mother murdered child
A woman who gave her daughter a toxic drink on Christmas more than four years ago in a murder-suicide attempt is seeking to have her convictions reversed. March 26. 2010 Rhonda Marchi's attorney, G
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March 27
Posted by GLENDA KWEK AND NICK RALSTON on March 27th, 2010 | Category: mother abusing child mother murdered child
A 28-year-old mother has been charged with murder after the body of her two-year-old daughter was found in a house in Sydney’s inner west. March 22, 2010 The woman, who cannot be named for l
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March 24
Posted by Tony Barboza and Garrett Therolf on March 24th, 2010 | Category: mother’s boyfriend abusing child mother’s boyfriend murdered child mother abusing child mother murdered child mother neglecting child
Family members of Deandre Green, a 2-year-old boy who was fatally beaten last week, allegedly by his mother's boyfriend, said they had warned police and Los Angeles County child welfare officials at l
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March 24
Posted by Danielle Canada on March 24th, 2010 | Category: Abusive Women mother abusing child mother murdered child Violent Women
The Rockville, Maryland woman arrested for murdering her two special needs foster children and storing their bodies in a freezer will never see the light of day again. by Danielle Canada March 23, 20
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March 22
Posted by Not Credited on March 22nd, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A WOMAN has been charged with murdering her two-year-old daughter at a home in Sydney's innerwest. Mother rings ambulance Daughter not breathing Mother later charged with murder March 22, 2010
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March 22
Posted by Not Credited on March 22nd, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A YOUNG mother with a history of violence has faced court charged with her daughter's murder, as police alleged the two-year-old was killed kilometres from the family home where her body was found.
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March 21
Posted by Cheryl Phillips on March 21st, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
The mother of two-year old Timothy Peno is now facing murder charges after the toddler died Friday morning at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. March 19, 7:51 PMProvidence Headl
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March 16
Posted by Not Credited on March 16th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A woman accused of strangling or smothering to death her six newborn babies has admitted killing the infants. Partner discovered murdered babies Called police Mother had "no mental problems" Fal
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March 12
Posted by www.oneinthree.com.au on March 12th, 2010 | Category: Family abuse mother’s boyfriend abusing child mother abusing child mother murdered child mother neglecting child family violence
Family violence and abuse is a serious and deeply entrenched problem in Australia. It has significant impacts upon the lives of men, women and children. It knows no boundaries of gender, geography, so
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March 10
Posted by Laura Italiano on March 10th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A WOMAN charged with murdering her eight-year-old son inside a New York hotel last month has begged to be taken in handcuffs to his funeral, the New York Post reported overnight. The woman reportedly
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March 10
Posted by Not Credited on March 10th, 2010 | Category: Abusive Women mother’s boyfriend murdered child mother murdered child Violent Women
Changes to how Ontario courts handle child custody cases came into effect March 1, reforms the government says will provide better protection for children. March 2, 2010 The move came about, in large
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March 9
Posted by Jordanna Schriever on March 9th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A MAGISTRATE has granted a mother accused of murdering her four-year-old son and attempting to murder his nine-year-old brother access to the surviving child. Police have previously alleged the woman
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March 3
Posted by Amanda Codispoti on March 3rd, 2010 | Category: mother’s boyfriend murdered child mother murdered child
Slain tot's mother surrenders to police By Amanda Codispoti | The Roanoke Times The mother and stepfather of slain toddler Aveion Lewis were indicted today on charges of murder and child abuse, accor
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March 2
Posted by Kellene Stockwell on March 2nd, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A Reno mother accused of murdering her infant son, made her first court appearance at the Washoe County Jail. Kellene Stockwell Channel 2 News Mar 02, 2010 Josela Posada originally told police she
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March 2
Posted by Sarah Newell Williamson on March 2nd, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
On Jan. 18, a 4-year-old boy died when his mother wrecked the truck she was driving, crashing into a tree on Blackburn Bridge Road near Maiden. By Sarah Newell Williamson | Hickory Daily Record | Pub
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March 1
Posted by Not Credited on March 1st, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child mother neglecting child
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Authorities in North Carolina say two toddlers left without adult supervision have died in a house fire, and their mother has been charged with murder. Charlotte-Mecklenburg P
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March 1
Posted by NOREEN O’DONNELL on March 1st, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
The cases shock us: Andrea Yates drowning her five children in the bathroom of her suburban Houston home, Susan Smith letting her car roll into a South Carolina lake with her two sons strapped into th
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March 1
Posted by Libby Purves on March 1st, 2010 | Category: child abuse mother’s boyfriend murdered child mother murdered child single parents sole custody
The odious self-pity of Khyra Ishaq’s father cannot obscure the paternal duty that men like him have taken on I am sorry to take you back to the terrible story of Khyra Ishaq, who died of starv
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February 28
Posted by Not Credited on February 28th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
The Associated Press Posted on Saturday, 02.27.10 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A Volusia County woman whose 4-month-old baby drowned last year has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. As part of a plea de
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February 25
Posted by Not Credited on February 25th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A student found slain on a college campus in suburban New York was strangled by her mother, who then tried to kill herself, US police said. February 25, 2010 - 11:00AM Stacey Pagli, 37, was arres
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February 24
Posted by Christine Flatley on February 24th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A WOMAN who gassed her children to death in the family car as an act of revenge towards her ex-husband has been jailed for life. By Christine Flatley From: AAP February 24, 2010 The 43-year-old
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February 23
Posted by Dimitrios Kalantzis on February 23rd, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
Formal murder charges were expected to be filed today against Gregoria A. Perez, a Kankakee resident who was arrested Saturday for allegedly killing her 1-year-old daughter. By Dimitrios Kalantzis
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February 23
Posted by RANDI ROSSMANN on February 23rd, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child Mother-child murder/suicide
Autopsies Monday show that Amy Beam and her young daughter apparently died from an overdose of pills, more evidence that their deaths were the result of a murder-suicide. By RANDI ROSSMANN THE PRESS
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February 23
Posted by Fiona Evans on February 23rd, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
POLICE investigating the death of a girl aged two at her Yorkshire home are awaiting the results of further tests on the toddler. The body of Jasmine Bellfield, who was known to social services, was
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February 23
Posted by Sys Admin on February 23rd, 2010 | Category: female child murderer female murderer mother murdered child
An Auckland woman on trial for the murder of a three-year-old child while he was in her care in 2008 apologised to his family in hospital, a court was told today. Last updated 18:27 23/02/2010 Patri
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February 23
Posted by Dan Morse on February 23rd, 2010 | Category: mother abusing child mother murdered child
A Maryland woman described by prosecutors as a torturer and maimer of her adopted girls was convicted Monday of killing two of them and stuffing their bodies into a freezer and inflicting more than 80
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February 23
Posted by Deborah O’Malley on February 23rd, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A North Side woman is charged today in the murder of her newborn baby girl. February 22, 8:28 AM | Chicago Crime Examiner | Deborah O'Malley Marisol Molina, 25, of the 6100 block of North Sheridan
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February 20
Posted by Not Credited on February 20th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A four-year-old girl was found dead at home, as her mother was arrested on suspicion of murder. Published: 6:01PM BST 19 Jun 2009 Zoe-Ann David was discovered on Friday with her mother Zoe David l
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February 20
Posted by Murray Wardrop on February 20th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A mother has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her six-week-old baby girl as a serious case review was launched into the child's care. By Murray Wardrop Published: 7:00AM BST 19 Jun 2009 T
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February 20
Posted by John Bingham and Sarah Knapton on February 20th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A mother drowned her four-year-old daughter in the bath because she was embarrassed by the girl's disability, a court heard. By John Bingham and Sarah Knapton Published: 6:25AM BST 09 Sep 2008 Jo
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February 20
Posted by Andrew Hough on February 20th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A mother has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of her young daughter was found at their house in West Yorkshire, police said. By Andrew Hough Published: 8:00AM GMT 20 Feb 2010 We
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February 20
Posted by Tristan Swanwick on February 20th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A WOMAN who gassed her two children to death as an act of revenge against her former husband has been found guilty of murder in the Brisbane Supreme Court. Tristan Swanwick February 19, 2010 09:45pm
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February 14
Posted by NineMSN on February 14th, 2010 | Category: child murder mother murdered child
An Australian woman suspected of drowning her two young children in a bathtub was trying to take them away from their home in a small town in Canada, her estranged husband feared. Thu Feb 4 2010 10
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February 13
Posted by Not Credited on February 13th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
THE British mother of two toddlers whose bodies were found in the boot of a car appeared before a judge today charged with their murders. NewsCore February 13, 2010Grieving relatives sat in the p
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February 11
Posted by Ash Patil on February 11th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child mother neglecting child Violent Women
Are Women becoming more Violent, Murderous & Abusive of children....or was it simply ignored by the media in the past? Read a newly compiled collation of very recent media articles that shatter t
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February 10
Posted by Tristan Swanwick on February 10th, 2010 | Category: child murder mother murdered child Murder
A WOMAN killed her two children and attempted to kill another "in an act of hate" towards her ex-husband, a court heard today. Tristan Swanwick February 10, 2010The Supreme Court in Brisbane was tol
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February 10
Posted by Not Credited on February 10th, 2010 | Category: child murder mother murdered child
A woman gassed her children to death in the family car so her ex-husband couldn't have custody of them on Christmas Day, a court has been told. February 10, 2010 The Queensland Supreme Court today w
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February 10
Posted by Not Credited on February 10th, 2010 | Category: Abusive Women child abuse child murder mother murdered child Murder
A US mother has been convicted of murdering her four-year-old daughter and accused of concocting symptoms of ADHD and bipolar disorder in the girl. By staff writers From: news.com.au February 10
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February 9
Posted by Jordanna Schriever on February 9th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A MOTHER of two accused of the August murder of her four-year-old son and the attempted murder of his nine-year-old brother has been released on bail. Police have previously alleged the woman, whose
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February 8
Posted by Caroline Overington on February 8th, 2010 | Category: Caroline Overington mother murdered child Murder
A WOMAN who allegedly drowned her two young children in a bath was trying to bring them home to Australia. Caroline Overington From: The Australian February 04, 2010 Dad scared of losing childr
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February 4
Posted by Neil Keene and David Barrett on February 4th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
AN AUSTRALIAN woman who allegedly drowned her two young children in a bath in Canada was trying to bring them back to her home on the NSW Central Coast. By Neil Keene and David Barrett From: The D
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February 4
Posted by Sys Admin on February 4th, 2010 | Category: Caroline Overington mother murdered child
HIS greatest fear was that his estranged wife would take his children from their home in a tiny, snowy town in Canada, and run away to Australia. Caroline Overington From: The Australian February
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February 4
Posted by Caroline Overington on February 4th, 2010 | Category: Caroline Overington mother murdered child
A WOMAN who allegedly drowned her two young children in a bath was trying to bring them home to Australia. Caroline Overington From: The Australian February 04, 2010The dad's greatest fear was hi
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February 3
Posted by Todd Cardy on February 3rd, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child Murder Todd Cardy
A WOMAN on trial for the murder of her newborn 40 years ago has told a court she is "responsible" for her baby's death but has no memory of how he died. Todd Cardy, court reporter From: The Sunday
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February 3
Posted by Larissa Cummings on February 3rd, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child Murder
SHE was at their hospital bedsides as they fought off raging fevers through the night. By Larissa Cummings From: The Daily Telegraph October 07, 2009But the actions of this mother will now be scru
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February 3
Posted by Larissa Cummings on February 3rd, 2010 | Category: Larissa Cummings mother murdered child Murder
THE mother of an 18-month-old girl who died in hospital from a presumed viral infection appeared "calm and detached" after attempts to revive the child failed, an inquest has heard. Larissa Cumming
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February 3
Posted by Not Credited on February 3rd, 2010 | Category: mother abusing child mother murdered child mother neglecting child Murder
A BATHURST woman said her seven-week-old son and "the Lord" had told her to drown him in a bath to let him "be at peace", a court has heard. AAP February 03, 2010The woman, who cannot be named for
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January 29
Posted by Not Credited on January 29th, 2010 | Category: Child murder mother abusing child mother murdered child Murder
A mother who recently split from her partner is facing questioning over the murder of her two young children after their bodies were found in her car. Friday, January 29, 2010 Fiona Donnison, 43, w
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December 10
Posted by Patrick Caruana on December 10th, 2009 | Category: child murder Child in suitcase Dean Shillingsworth mother abusing child mother murdered child mother neglecting child Single Mothers Violent Women
Mr Barbour said a non-government agency involved with the family was more concerned about the welfare of Pfitzner than her children..."Because their focus was on the mother they lost sight of the risk
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November 19
Posted by Alysia Patterson on November 19th, 2009 | Category: Abusive Women child abuse child murder mother abusing child mother murdered child mother neglecting child Murder Violent Women
A MISSING five-year-old girl whose mother was accused of offering her for sex was found dead near a heavily wooded road yesterday, ending a week-long search. By Alysia Patterson in Washington | The
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October 8
Posted by AAP on October 8th, 2009 | Category: Abusive Women child abuse child murder Child in suitcase mother abusing child mother denying contact mother murdered child mother neglecting child Murder Violent Women
A MOTHER threatened to kill her toddler son a year before violently shaking him and dumping his body in a suitcase, a Sydney court has been told. AAP | October 08, 2009 Court told mum threatened
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September 24
Posted by Jessica Strutt on September 24th, 2009 | Category: Abusive Women Child Abuse Jessica Strutt mother’s boyfriend abusing child mother’s boyfriend murdered child mother abusing child mother murdered child mother neglecting child Violent Women
Mothers are more likely than fathers to neglect and emotionally and physically abuse their children, information obtained under freedom of information laws reveals. The West Australian September 23,
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September 13
Posted by Laurie Nowell on September 13th, 2009 | Category: Laurie Nowell mother’s boyfriend abusing child mother’s boyfriend murdered child mother abusing child mother murdered child mother neglecting child
Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) 13 September 2009, Page 35 By Laurie Nowell Child abuse is rising dramatically in Australia, according to the first in-depth study to be released on the issue in a dec
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July 30
Posted by Prof Micheal Woods, University of Western Sydney on July 30th, 2009 | Category: Child abuse Domestic Violence Family abuse misrepresentation in the media mother abusing child mother murdered child Press Release
Dads not the Demons Recent data from the Department of Child Protection in Western Australia has debunked a common misconception about fathers and violence. The data shows that natural mothers are f
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