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Get out of jail free: The mothers who killed their children but avoided prison because they were 'depressed' - as TWO walk free this week alone
By Stephen Gibbs for Daily Mail Australia
12:41 AEDT 26 Nov 2017, updated 13:31 AEDT 26 Nov 2017
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5112983/Mums-kill-babies-not-spend-day-jail.html
By Stephen Gibbs for Daily Mail Australia
12:41 AEDT 26 Nov 2017, updated 13:31 AEDT 26 Nov 2017
- Two mothers who killed their children escaped jail in separate cases this week
- Sofins Nikat suffocated her toddler and threw the body into a Melbourne creek
- A Sydney woman, who cannot be named, drowned her daughter, 2, in a bath
- Nikat pleaded guilty to infanticide and was sentenced to time already served
- The mentally-ill woman who drowned her child was found not guilty of murder
- The decisions follow a series of cases of killer mothers serving no prison time
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5112983/Mums-kill-babies-not-spend-day-jail.html
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The five types of parents who kill their children
Candace Sutton
news.com.au
OCTOBER 21, 2017 9:27pm
‘WARNING: Distressing content
EXCLUSIVE
Matthew Scown:
Laughing at his own luck, Matthew Scown caused national outrage when he was pictured walking free on early release from prison last week after pleading guilty to killing Tyrell Cobb.
The four-year-old had died in agonising pain in 2009, but Scown’s plea deal secured the Queenslander a reduced sentence.
Scown had become the de facto partner of and Tyrell’s mother, Heidi Strbak after she moved with her young son to the Gold Coast.
The couple had been together for less than a year when Tyrell died in May 2009 from internal bleeding and abdominal injuries caused by blunt force trauma.
A post-mortem revealed he had 53 bruises and 17 abrasions from head to legs when he died.
Scown was charged with murder a day after the boy’s death in 2009, but the case was dismissed at a committal hearing in 2010.
This month he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to four years, but released immediately for time served on remand.
Christopher Hoerler:
Amateur boxer Christopher Hoerler met Louise Anderson on New Year’s Eve, 1999 when little Jordan Anderson-Smith was a happy and healthy five month old boy.
But for that fact, baby Jordan’s existence might never have made headlines and he could have just celebrated his 18th birthday a few months ago.
Instead the horrific end to Jordan’s short life can be summed up in his devastating post-mortem report.
The seven-month-old suffered toes crushed by a fan clamp, broken ribs, a cut liver, a bruised pancreas and a torn lip.
He was tortured and killed after a party at Ms Anderson’s Wagga Wagga home.
Louise had separated from baby Jordan’s father, Cecil Smith, and 26-year-old Hoerler moved in with her in early January 2000.
After drinking and smoking cannabis, Hoerler claimed he heard a thump in the night and woke to find baby Jordan on the floor with red, brown and white fluid frothing from his mouth.
Bloodstains were splattered on the wall of the main bedroom, the baby’s cot sheet and on Hoerler’s blue Nike shorts.
An emotional Cecil Smith and his family farewelled Jordan in a tiny white coffin.
Twenty months later police charged Hoerler with baby Jordan’s murder.
On trial in 2003, Hoerler pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Granted parole in 2014, Hoerler was deported back to Papua New Guinea.
Nathan Forrest:
He played the grieving stepfather at Bailey Constable’s funeral, carrying the four-year-old’s coffin.
But the post-mortem on the body of the little boy with the cheeky grin who had loved Thomas the Tank Engine, showed that Nathan William Forrest had made a misery of Bailey’s final months.
Bailey Constable’s grandparents had fought to get child protection authorities to intervene.
Forrest was an “angry and aggressive man”, a ticking time bomb on drugs.
In the weeks before his death on April 1, 2011, Bailey told his grandparents Forrest hurt him and held him down in the bath.
On the last day of Bailey’s life, Forrest had been injecting methamphetamine.
When Bailey wet his bed, Forrest took him into the bathroom.
The boy’s mother, Jessica Constable, hears a series of loud bangs and Forrest yelling at her son.
When Bailey emerged from the bathroom, he fell to his knees.
Ms Constable put him to bed, but when Forrest checked on Bailey later he came back saying that the boy was dead.
A post-mortem found Bailey’s body covered with old and new injuries.
His forehead, cheeks and the back of his head were bruised and he had black eyes.
He had been belted across the buttocks and there were old cuts across his nose.
Forrest pleaded guilty to Bailey’s manslaughter in 2013.
As Justice Elizabeth Fullerton jailed Forrest for a minimum of six years, he smiled and gave his family the thumbs up in court.
Given time served, Forrest’s earliest possible release date was in May this year.
Robert Farquharson:
Separated father Robert Farquharson, drove his three sons into a farm dam near his Winchelsea, Victoria home after a Father’s Day access visit in 2005.
Jai, 10, Tyler, seven, and Bailey, two, drowned, but Farquharson managed to escape and said he couldn’t save his trapped sons.
He claimed he had lost consciousness during a coughing fit at about 7pm and crashed through the dam fence.
Three months later police charged him with his sons’ murder but even his estranged wife, Cindy Gambino said she believed “he would not have hurt a hair on their heads”.
Farquharson’s 2007 murder trial heard that it would have taken a 220-degree turn to manoeuvre his vehicle off the highway and into the dam, and that Jai’s body was half way out the car’s front door.
Farquharson's friend, Greg King, told the court that the father of three had intended to kill his children to get back at his former wife.
Mr King said two months before the incident, Farquharson had spoken of taking revenge on Ms Gambino and “take away the things that mean the most to her”.
Shane Atkinson, who found Farquharson on the side of the road after the crash, said he had twice refused to call triple-0.
Instead the father went personally to tell Ms Gambino of the drownings and Mr Atkinson had to borrow a mobile phone to call police.
The day before a jury found him guilty, Farquharson who was on bail ordered three red tulips for his sons’ graves and a card for what would have been Jai’s 13th birthday.
Ms Gambino collapsed after the verdict and was taken from the court in an ambulance.
Farquharson is serving three life sentences without parole.
Kathleen Folbigg:
Kathleen Folbigg, now aged 50, has generally ben regarded as a model prisoner since her incarceration for suffocating her four infant children between 1989 and 1999.
A campaign for Folbigg claims she was wrongly convicted and a petition for a review of her case to the NSW Governor is currently before the NSW Attorney-General.
But Folbigg was sentenced in 2003 for the murder of her children Patrick, Sarah and Laura and for the manslaughter of Caleb.
Folbigg and her then husband Craig Folbigg’s first child, Caleb, died at the age of 20 days old in 1989.
The death was followed by those of Patrick, aged eight months, in October 1990,
Sarah Kathleen, aged 10 months, in August 1993 and 18-month-old Laura Elizabeth in March 1999.
The deaths were only regarded as suspicious after the discovery of a diary in which she had written “I am my father’s daughter”.
Folbigg’s own father murdered her mother when she was a child.
Her trial heard that she smothered her children because she couldn’t cope with the stress of raising them.
Folbigg appeared in court last month to appeal a short sentence for punching another inmate in row over a toaster.
The otherwise well-behaved Folbigg who acted as a den mother to fellow female inmates, has been transferred from Silverwater maximum security prison to Cessnock jail.
Rachel Pfitzner
Dean Shillingsworth was a “clingy” little boy who craved attention from his mother, Rachel Pfitzner.
Since separating from the boy’s father Paul Shillingsworth, who she loathed, Pfitzner had been in a custody battle with the mother of her former partner.
Pfitzner hated Ann Coffey and in October 2007, a custody order was likely to return little Dean to the care of his paternal grandmother.
Pfitzner was not coping with motherhood and she took her resulting rage out on her son.
Neighbours would hear her raging at him and on one occasion when she locked him outside in the cold, they heard him begging, “Mummy, Mummy, I am sorry.”
Pfitzner often couldn’t afford to feed him and she hadn't managed to adequately toilet train her son, who was aged two years and eight months.
When the hungry toddler went out to find food from others, Pfitzner would punish him for embarrassing her.
On October 11, 2007 Pfitzner finally snapped.
On a visit with Dean to friends, who could see the boy was hungry and gave him a hamburger, Pfitzner became enraged.
As she later told a prison psychiatrist, when they got back home she grabbed him by his hooded jumper and shook him until he frothed at the mouth.
When she realised her son as dead, Pfitzner stripped him naked, wrapped him in plastic bags and put his body in a tartan suitcase.
She took the suitcase to a duck pond at Ambarvale in Sydney’s southwest, tossed it in and watched it sink.
Children later discovered the body in the suitcase while playing at the pond.
Pfitzner was jailed for a maximum 25 years and six months.’
Read more at:
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...n/news-story/afd823940356d06353f3e039fc04e204
Candace Sutton
news.com.au
OCTOBER 21, 2017 9:27pm
‘WARNING: Distressing content
EXCLUSIVE
Matthew Scown:
Laughing at his own luck, Matthew Scown caused national outrage when he was pictured walking free on early release from prison last week after pleading guilty to killing Tyrell Cobb.
The four-year-old had died in agonising pain in 2009, but Scown’s plea deal secured the Queenslander a reduced sentence.
Scown had become the de facto partner of and Tyrell’s mother, Heidi Strbak after she moved with her young son to the Gold Coast.
The couple had been together for less than a year when Tyrell died in May 2009 from internal bleeding and abdominal injuries caused by blunt force trauma.
A post-mortem revealed he had 53 bruises and 17 abrasions from head to legs when he died.
Scown was charged with murder a day after the boy’s death in 2009, but the case was dismissed at a committal hearing in 2010.
This month he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to four years, but released immediately for time served on remand.
Christopher Hoerler:
Amateur boxer Christopher Hoerler met Louise Anderson on New Year’s Eve, 1999 when little Jordan Anderson-Smith was a happy and healthy five month old boy.
But for that fact, baby Jordan’s existence might never have made headlines and he could have just celebrated his 18th birthday a few months ago.
Instead the horrific end to Jordan’s short life can be summed up in his devastating post-mortem report.
The seven-month-old suffered toes crushed by a fan clamp, broken ribs, a cut liver, a bruised pancreas and a torn lip.
He was tortured and killed after a party at Ms Anderson’s Wagga Wagga home.
Louise had separated from baby Jordan’s father, Cecil Smith, and 26-year-old Hoerler moved in with her in early January 2000.
After drinking and smoking cannabis, Hoerler claimed he heard a thump in the night and woke to find baby Jordan on the floor with red, brown and white fluid frothing from his mouth.
Bloodstains were splattered on the wall of the main bedroom, the baby’s cot sheet and on Hoerler’s blue Nike shorts.
An emotional Cecil Smith and his family farewelled Jordan in a tiny white coffin.
Twenty months later police charged Hoerler with baby Jordan’s murder.
On trial in 2003, Hoerler pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Granted parole in 2014, Hoerler was deported back to Papua New Guinea.
Nathan Forrest:
He played the grieving stepfather at Bailey Constable’s funeral, carrying the four-year-old’s coffin.
But the post-mortem on the body of the little boy with the cheeky grin who had loved Thomas the Tank Engine, showed that Nathan William Forrest had made a misery of Bailey’s final months.
Bailey Constable’s grandparents had fought to get child protection authorities to intervene.
Forrest was an “angry and aggressive man”, a ticking time bomb on drugs.
In the weeks before his death on April 1, 2011, Bailey told his grandparents Forrest hurt him and held him down in the bath.
On the last day of Bailey’s life, Forrest had been injecting methamphetamine.
When Bailey wet his bed, Forrest took him into the bathroom.
The boy’s mother, Jessica Constable, hears a series of loud bangs and Forrest yelling at her son.
When Bailey emerged from the bathroom, he fell to his knees.
Ms Constable put him to bed, but when Forrest checked on Bailey later he came back saying that the boy was dead.
A post-mortem found Bailey’s body covered with old and new injuries.
His forehead, cheeks and the back of his head were bruised and he had black eyes.
He had been belted across the buttocks and there were old cuts across his nose.
Forrest pleaded guilty to Bailey’s manslaughter in 2013.
As Justice Elizabeth Fullerton jailed Forrest for a minimum of six years, he smiled and gave his family the thumbs up in court.
Given time served, Forrest’s earliest possible release date was in May this year.
Robert Farquharson:
Separated father Robert Farquharson, drove his three sons into a farm dam near his Winchelsea, Victoria home after a Father’s Day access visit in 2005.
Jai, 10, Tyler, seven, and Bailey, two, drowned, but Farquharson managed to escape and said he couldn’t save his trapped sons.
He claimed he had lost consciousness during a coughing fit at about 7pm and crashed through the dam fence.
Three months later police charged him with his sons’ murder but even his estranged wife, Cindy Gambino said she believed “he would not have hurt a hair on their heads”.
Farquharson’s 2007 murder trial heard that it would have taken a 220-degree turn to manoeuvre his vehicle off the highway and into the dam, and that Jai’s body was half way out the car’s front door.
Farquharson's friend, Greg King, told the court that the father of three had intended to kill his children to get back at his former wife.
Mr King said two months before the incident, Farquharson had spoken of taking revenge on Ms Gambino and “take away the things that mean the most to her”.
Shane Atkinson, who found Farquharson on the side of the road after the crash, said he had twice refused to call triple-0.
Instead the father went personally to tell Ms Gambino of the drownings and Mr Atkinson had to borrow a mobile phone to call police.
The day before a jury found him guilty, Farquharson who was on bail ordered three red tulips for his sons’ graves and a card for what would have been Jai’s 13th birthday.
Ms Gambino collapsed after the verdict and was taken from the court in an ambulance.
Farquharson is serving three life sentences without parole.
Kathleen Folbigg:
Kathleen Folbigg, now aged 50, has generally ben regarded as a model prisoner since her incarceration for suffocating her four infant children between 1989 and 1999.
A campaign for Folbigg claims she was wrongly convicted and a petition for a review of her case to the NSW Governor is currently before the NSW Attorney-General.
But Folbigg was sentenced in 2003 for the murder of her children Patrick, Sarah and Laura and for the manslaughter of Caleb.
Folbigg and her then husband Craig Folbigg’s first child, Caleb, died at the age of 20 days old in 1989.
The death was followed by those of Patrick, aged eight months, in October 1990,
Sarah Kathleen, aged 10 months, in August 1993 and 18-month-old Laura Elizabeth in March 1999.
The deaths were only regarded as suspicious after the discovery of a diary in which she had written “I am my father’s daughter”.
Folbigg’s own father murdered her mother when she was a child.
Her trial heard that she smothered her children because she couldn’t cope with the stress of raising them.
Folbigg appeared in court last month to appeal a short sentence for punching another inmate in row over a toaster.
The otherwise well-behaved Folbigg who acted as a den mother to fellow female inmates, has been transferred from Silverwater maximum security prison to Cessnock jail.
Rachel Pfitzner
Dean Shillingsworth was a “clingy” little boy who craved attention from his mother, Rachel Pfitzner.
Since separating from the boy’s father Paul Shillingsworth, who she loathed, Pfitzner had been in a custody battle with the mother of her former partner.
Pfitzner hated Ann Coffey and in October 2007, a custody order was likely to return little Dean to the care of his paternal grandmother.
Pfitzner was not coping with motherhood and she took her resulting rage out on her son.
Neighbours would hear her raging at him and on one occasion when she locked him outside in the cold, they heard him begging, “Mummy, Mummy, I am sorry.”
Pfitzner often couldn’t afford to feed him and she hadn't managed to adequately toilet train her son, who was aged two years and eight months.
When the hungry toddler went out to find food from others, Pfitzner would punish him for embarrassing her.
On October 11, 2007 Pfitzner finally snapped.
On a visit with Dean to friends, who could see the boy was hungry and gave him a hamburger, Pfitzner became enraged.
As she later told a prison psychiatrist, when they got back home she grabbed him by his hooded jumper and shook him until he frothed at the mouth.
When she realised her son as dead, Pfitzner stripped him naked, wrapped him in plastic bags and put his body in a tartan suitcase.
She took the suitcase to a duck pond at Ambarvale in Sydney’s southwest, tossed it in and watched it sink.
Children later discovered the body in the suitcase while playing at the pond.
Pfitzner was jailed for a maximum 25 years and six months.’
Read more at:
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...n/news-story/afd823940356d06353f3e039fc04e204
"A St. Louis Area Regional A.M.B.E.R. Alert was issued when the child was reported missing. The boy's mother says she put Tyler (Dasher) to bed Monday night and then overslept Tuesday morning. When she went to check on the boy just before noon he was gone.
St. Louis County Police spokesman Rick Eckhard said there did not appear to be any sign of forced entry to the home, but police were checking all door locks.
"A witness told police they saw someone carrying a baby just a couple of hours before Tyler’s body was found. The person was near an elementary school and was carrying the child and a blue blanket, according to the station.""
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/15/dead-child-found-in-st-louis-suburb-near-cemetery.html
"Shelby Dasher clutched a wad of tissues in her right hand as she tearfully admitted in court here Wednesday that she had killed her 13-month-old son out of frustration that he kept crying."
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_dd2099ae-d2f9-5b27-817b-61a87084e480.html
St. Louis County Police spokesman Rick Eckhard said there did not appear to be any sign of forced entry to the home, but police were checking all door locks.
"A witness told police they saw someone carrying a baby just a couple of hours before Tyler’s body was found. The person was near an elementary school and was carrying the child and a blue blanket, according to the station.""
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/15/dead-child-found-in-st-louis-suburb-near-cemetery.html
"Shelby Dasher clutched a wad of tissues in her right hand as she tearfully admitted in court here Wednesday that she had killed her 13-month-old son out of frustration that he kept crying."
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_dd2099ae-d2f9-5b27-817b-61a87084e480.html
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Sanaya Sahib, 15 months old, Australia, 2016
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Her mother claimed that a man abducted the child from the park, but she actually smother her and puy the body into a creek in the park. Unusual case because despite her attempt to cover up the crime, the mother was found to be mentally ill when she killed Sanaya and was soon released from prison.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...delberg-West-Vic-9-April-2016-*Arrest*/page38
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Her mother claimed that a man abducted the child from the park, but she actually smother her and puy the body into a creek in the park. Unusual case because despite her attempt to cover up the crime, the mother was found to be mentally ill when she killed Sanaya and was soon released from prison.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...delberg-West-Vic-9-April-2016-*Arrest*/page38
Some of these perpetrators are mentally ill. But they should be in locked prison mental wards with appropriate staff and medications. Some offenders are not the biological parents, which still matters despite our feelings that we should all treat everyone the same. The mother's who suffocate multiple infants have a form of Munchasen's by proxy, and seek the sympathy and attention they receive after the child's death. I know of no cure for this. Life is unkind and adults don't always make the best choices in life or get help when they are sinking. Unfortunately, the children are often the victims.
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How about little Deorr Kuntz- person of interest his mom and dad - allegedly lost ( never found) whilst camping in a remote location or the little Indian girl whose name I cannot recall right now ( my apologies) who was adopted and dad said she had been left by the tree and when he went back she was gone. Later found dead in a storm drain .
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SHERIN MATTHEWS is her name
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I read that article. What it doesn't mention is that her son Brandon had gonadotropin-independent precocious puberty:
Michelle Jones v. State
From the above link:
Here, the jury had before it the testimony of Blevins, who stated that when she discussed Brandon's physical disorder with Jones, Jones commented that "she did not want to raise a freak."
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I cannot believe someone like Jones has a PhD, I truly cannot. Hero, nothing. I can think of a few words to call her that are unprintable here.
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you guys I'm starting to think this could be our longest thread (Tears)
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