Only 7 years for murdering your own child?

[i-need-a-martini]

Maybe there are circumstances that haven't been revealed (like depression) but if taken at face value, I don't understand how this woman gets only 7 years for what she did to this little girl?

http://www.smh.com.au/queensland/dead-girl-was-invisible-to-state-system-coroner-20140627-zsoyp.html

[kabarine]

I read that article and I cried for that little girl and the pain she would have gone through before she died 😞

[punch*drunk]

They should have jailed the rest of the family too for allowing it to happen. How the hell can they all know thats going on and not do something about it?

[j*oono]

And her husband only three years for turning a blind eye.  That is a shocking story.  Some people have a lot to answer for.  Very sad.

[bluecat*dancing]

The system really let this little girl down. I've read that a year before her murder, she was voluntarily handed over to authorities who handed her back 9 days later.

[*mrgrizz*]

i would hazard to guess the child was aborigional........i could be wrong

 a aborigional child was killed over here in the care of child protection. have heard nothing of it since the origional report

[cherry*135]

Very sad. How one human can do that to another is inexplicable let alone a mother doing that to their child.

At the very least, the fact that she didn't attend school for 12 months should have been investigated thoroughly.

Not sure how old this persons other children are. It must be very damaging to them living in a household where abuse is carried out on their sister which also caused her death. I hope their mother never gets care of them again.

[bluecat*dancing]

A child is killed in QLD, therefore she must be Aborignal? Because an Aboriginal child in care elsewhere in Australia was murdered whilst in care the child in QLD must be Aboriginal?

It is misconceived stereotypical attitudes as this that perpertuates racist bull**bleep**.

[cherry*135]

More info:

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/girl-8-bashed-to-death-by-mother-with-vacuum-pipe-was-...

😞

[bluecat*dancing]

The school was told that the family had moved back to New Zealand.