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 sentence.

Rachel Pfitzner was sentenced last December over the October 2007 murder, committed at Ambarvale in southwest Sydney.

A NSW Supreme Court registrar yesterday listed Pfitzner's appeal hearing for December 3.

Documents listed the appeal as being against the "severity of sentence".

It is understood that Pfitzner appeal is being funded by Legal Aid.

Fathers' groups like Fathers4Equality are outraged that government funds are being used to fund the case of a convicted, self-confessed child murderer. Father4Equality are also concerned that the NSW government, who many believe was complicit in the murder of Dean Shillington by virtue of their racist & sexist management of his case, continue to provide questionable support for this child murderer.  

The matter will be mentioned next on July 29.

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