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Street blocked off by police
Children stabbed to death in the Cairns suburb of Manoora
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officers swarm the area. The children’s ages are believed to be between 18 months to 15 years.

The circumstances are currently unknown but a woman is believed to have been taken to hospital with multiple stab wounds to her upper body and around her neck.

Detectives are reportedly searching through the yard of the property.
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Neighbours said the children lived there with their stepfather.
http://www.news.com.au/national/que...uburb-of-manoora/story-fnj4alav-1227161862831

They said 8 people had been stabbed, then updated confirming that it was just kids.
School holidays started a week ago in QLD as far as I know.
 
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I was just comin over here to post this, the woman is cooperating with the police and giving them info. bet it was the sf freaking out for the holiday
 
  • Families hold memorial for eight children killed at Manoora home one year on

Cairns pastor James Gela from the Keriba Yadyl Torres Strait Islander Corporation has been helping the families through their ordeal.

He said while it was not in keeping with traditional custom, they decided to put on a public event on Saturday as a one-off remembrance day.

The day is titled Serer Ge Buai Giz - Au Esoau Kemer Kemer Uteb Narid which, translated is "Celebrating Family - Thanking The Wider Community".

The home in which the children died has since been demolished and is now an extension of the neighbouring park where friends, family and strangers have continued to lay tributes.

Eight fruit trees remain, and the family will plant eight frangipani trees of different colours during Sunday's ceremony, the first stage of a permanent memorial

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-...al-for-eight-children-killed-in-house/7040294
 
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Mersane Warria, the 37-year-old mother of the other children, who were aged between 18 months and 14 years old, has been arrested and is under police guard in hospital where she is being treated for stab wounds.
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4 May 2017

A mother who admitted killing eight children in a home in Cairns will not face a criminal trial, after Queensland's Mental Health Court ruled she was of "unsound mind" when they were fatally stabbed.

The bodies of the four boys and four girls, aged between two and 14, were found in the house on Murray Street at Manoora on December 19, 2014.

Raina Mersane Ina Thaiday, also known as Mersane Warria, who was the mother of seven of the victims and aunt of the other, was charged with their murders.

But the court ruled Thaiday, now 40, was not responsible for her actions because she suffered a psychotic episode, triggered by undiagnosed schizophrenia.

The ruling — made last month but only allowed to be published today — meant all charges against her would be dropped and the case discontinued.

Under Queensland law, a person who is found to be of unsound mind is declared not to be criminally responsible for their actions and cannot be prosecuted for the offence in future.

Thaiday is currently subject to a treatment order at a high-security ward in Park Centre for Mental Health on Brisbane's outskirts.

It is unclear if she will ever be released back into the community.

Before the killings, she had no previous criminal history and had never been treated for mental health issues, the court heard.

Thaiday sat silently in the dock and showed little emotion while details of the case were read out in court.

She stared ahead for most of the proceedings, although briefly acknowledged her adult son Lewis, who found his dead siblings and his mother with self-inflicted stab wounds.

Three psychiatrists said it was likely Thaiday's mental state had been deteriorating for months, and in the days leading up to the killings, she believed she could communicate with spirits, threw items from the house into the front yard, and was walking up and down the street yelling.

When Thaiday finally acted with violence, she was not under the influence of drugs, alcohol or any other substance, the psychiatrists said.

Psychiatrist Dr Pamela van de Hoef said Thaiday was driven by "unshakable false beliefs" and her actions were "shockingly out of character".

"She believed at the time, and for some days and weeks before that, that the end of the world was coming," she said.

Another psychiatrist, Dr Jane Phillips, said Thaiday suffered a severe schizophrenic psychosis.

"She heard the sound of a bird ... and believed that was a message that she must kill her children in order to save them," she told the court.

Justice Jean Dalton said the defence case for insanity was made based on "a very convincing body of evidence".

"Ms Thaiday had a mental illness that deprived her of capacity at the time of the killing," Justice Dalton said.

Dr Frank Varghese, one of two psychiatrists assisting Justice Dalton, said Thaiday's "apocalyptic delusional state" was one of the worst cases of schizophrenia he had ever seen.

He said it may have been triggered by Thaiday's long-term cannabis usage, which only stopped months before the killings.

"This is schizophrenia at its very depth and its worst in terms of the terror for the patient, as well as the consequences for the individuals killed," he said.

Justice Dalton allowed Thaiday escorted leave on the grounds of The Park centre, with psychiatrists believing it could help with her treatment.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-...en-in-cairns-wont-face-criminal-trial/8489830
 
She’s lucky she’s not in the US! They’d get her stable on her meds and then try her for murder.
 
http://people.com/crime/andrea-yate...ing-her-5-children-she-misses-them-every-day/
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On a sprawling campus an hour outside San Antonio, Andrea Yates is housed at Kerrville State Hospital, a 202-bed facility that looks more like a college campus than a detention center. There are no armed guards, no fences, no bars.

She lives in a private patient room. In addition to watching videos of her children, she walks around the gardens in the grounds of the facility and creates aprons, cards and other artwork in the craft room.

She anonymously sells the aprons and cards she creates, turning proceeds over to support the Yates Children Memorial Fund, a charity benefiting women’s mental health that was founded by her attorney, George Parnham.

Yates is the only patient in the facility who is not allowed to go outside the grounds.
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There is no end date for Yates’ commitment to the state hospital, and there are no open requests to have her released at this time.
 
. Thaiday's "apocalyptic delusional state" was one of the worst cases of schizophrenia he had ever seen.

He said it may have been triggered by Thaiday's long-term cannabis usage, which only stopped months before the killings.
:shifty:
 
Interesting, yet ANOTHER story where disgusting marijuana addiction is linked to a sadistic, horrific, violent crime.

Terrifying a "person" like this isnt gonna spend the rest of its life in a cage.
 
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Why is it that voices in people's heads always tell them to kill their children but not themselves?

I got the impression this one tried? And we never hear about it when they succeed, because they are not around to ask what preceded tragedy .....
 
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