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

[i-need-a-martini]

I don't think she was indigenous. An early photo of her (with her eyes blacked out) suggested she could be asian or islander.

Actually she could be anything and what does it matter? 

[*mrgrizz*]

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

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**.

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really

i am answering the question why they only got 7 years.

my opinion is neither misconceived or stereotypical

[bluecat*dancing]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/family-accused-of-covering-up-abuse-...

[i-need-a-martini]

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

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**.

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really

i am answering the question why they only got 7 years.

my opinion is neither misconceived or stereotypical

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Actually the opposite is true Mr Grizz.

Indigenous adult offenders in Qld are more likely to get imprisonment. The opposite is true of children - they are less likely to be sent to a juvenile detention centre.

[bluecat*dancing]

Regardless of the child's ethnicity, the sentence was woeful.

[i-need-a-martini]

I did also read the little girl had a heart condition that caused her death. So perhaps this is the reason for the low sentence.

Poor little thing...

[cherry*135]

Yes, the sentence was woeful.

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

Too sad

Faith

[cherry*135]

Mother plead guilty to manslaughter...why the sentence was lower?

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

It wasn't premeditated, and the heart defect was cited in the post mortem as a cause of death combined with the beating.  Vacuum tubes are light and perhaps on its own not likely to cause a mortal injury.

Personally I think the sentence is woefully inadequate.