Australian broadcaster Carrie Bickmore, is interested in the
tragic domestic violence cases in which a parent murders a child. Regrettably,
accurate information on Violence-by-Women is exceedingly hard to come by. This
post offers brief notations on Australian cases in the hope that Australian
scholars and researchers will follow through and create a thorough
presentation of this overlooked, important if disturbing topic.
The image is taken from the notorious edited broadcast of
Carrie Bickmore’s deceptive and bullying interview of the world’s most
controversial Cassie Jaye, director of The Red Pill (2016, USA).
Also see:
Female Serial Killers of Australia
Maternal Filicide:
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Australia - Domestic
Violence – Violence by Women – A CHECKLIST
(includes mental
illness cases)
(incomplete, in progress; many involve suicide of the
murderess; att the moment we are only identifying the murder victims in this
checklist)
1874 – Clara Donoghoe – Sydney, Australia – 1 child (Dec. 4)
1884 – Margaret Kelly – Jerilderie, near Yankee Station,
NSW, Australia – 2 chn (Nov. 29)
1888 – Emma Elizabeth Aston – Upton park, East Ham,
Australia – 2 chn (Apr.)
1888 – Mrs. Wm. Doyle – Dawson, near Toongabbie, Australia –
d (11), s (9 mo) (Nov. 12)
1891 – Mrs. Watson – Jumbowie, SA, Australia – 1 child (Mar.
1)
1893 – Balmain mother – Balmain, Australia –1 child (Jan. 9)
1894 – Mother (Name?) – Ecuuca, Eaglehawk – 1 child (Dec.)
1894 – Sarah Masters – Dandenong, Australia – d (19 mo)
(Dec. 7)
1895 – Clara Maddin – Townesville, Australia – 1 child (Feb.
27)
1895 – Harriet Trippiett – Lauriston, Australia – 1 ch (6
wks; decap.) (discovery Feb. 1)
1898 – Amy Stewart – Auckland, Australia – 1 child (Jun. 28)
1898 – Mrs. Catherine Glover –Triabunna, Tasmania – 6 chn
(Mar. 1)
1898 – Mrs. M’Carthy – Yarraville, Melbourne, Australia – 3
chn (May 11)
1898 – Ellen McNabb – Mount Alexander, Australia – 1 child
(Nov. 25)
1899 – Edna Joehenson – Richmond, Australia – 1 child (Jul.
11)
1899 – Mrs. Youngman – Albert Park, Victoria, Australia – s
(12) d (8, rescuded) (May 13)
1899 – Ann Rhoda Kidney – Woollahra, sub of Sydney,
Australia – 1 ch (9 mo) (Jun. 9)
1901 – Mrs. J. C. Drummond – Naranghi, Australia – 1
child (Jan.)
1901 – Mrs. Laffy – Australia – (Oct. 8)
1901 – Mrs. (James)
Day – Coleraine, Australia – 4 chn (May 31)
1901 – Mrs. Chamberlain – Port Melbourne, Australia – 2
daughters (Dec. 24?)
1904 – Clarinda Hope Selby – North Bangaroo, Australia –
2 chn (Nov. 15)
1906 - Mrs. Albert Lambert – Townsville, Australia – 2 chn (Jan. 13)
1907 - Elizabeth Smith – Clifton, Australia –
1 child, slit throat, near decapitation (Feb.)
1908 – Madame Soulard – New
Caledonia, Australia – 3 chn (Mar. 27)
1910 – Cornelia McClusky – Bendigo, Victoria, Australia –
brutal, 3 chn (Aug)
1910 – Mrs. Keys – Sydney, Australia – 3 chn (May 18)
1912 – Florence Grace Gerson – Bunbury, Australia – 1 child
(Oct.)
1912 – Lillian May Wakefield – Crabtree, near Huonville,
Australia – d (4), d (4 ½ mo),. D (7 mo) (Jul. 21)
1913 – Sara Gouley – Wellington, Australia – 1 child (Mar.
30)
1913 – Agnes Ferry – Dimboola, Australia – 1 child (Nov. 3)
1914 – Mrs. Delaney – Felimington, Victoria, Australia – son
(10) (Oct. 26)
1915 – Annie Sophia Thiel – North Yanae, Victoria, Australia
– 2 chn (Dec.)
1916 – Ms. (Borraelough?) – Koerlong, near Mildura,
Australia – Son, Earle (14), d Deborah (11) (Sep. 9)
1918 – Elizabeth Gibson – Broken Hill, Australia – (Gladys
(d, 22) (Oct. 25)
1924 – Alice Maud Dodds –
Melbourne, Australia – 1 child (Jul. 28)
1924 – Mrs. Saeter – Newcastle, Australia – daughter (Apr.)
1925 – Madeline Annie Maher – Sydney, Australia – 1 child
(Apr. 15)
1926 – Margaret May Wellsmore – Alexandria, Australia – 2
chn (May 21)
1927 – Mrs. D. Lauren – Babinda, Australia – 1 child (Nov.
14)
1927 – Tryphene Rae – Gore, Australia – 4 chn (Apr. 11)
1928 – Martha McNeill – Rozelle, Sydney, Australia – 1 child
(Sep. 22)
1929 – Mrs. W. Gavin – Kingsland, Australia – twins (Aug. 7)
1929 – Ruby Miller – Surat, Australia – 2 chn dead, 2 critical cond. (Dec. 6)
1929 – Mildred May Roberts – Bankstown, Australia – 1 child
(Mar. 19)
1930 – Iris Osborne – Stanmore, Australia – 1 child (Jan. 2)
1934 – Martha Turner – Malvern (Melbourne, Australia – 2 chn
(May 1)
1935 – Rose Elsie Friend – Gladstone, Queensland, Australia
– 1 child (Oct. 19)
1935 – Irene Gladys Taylor – Carroll, Australia – 3 chn
(Jan. 30)
1939 – Helen Benson – Carrington, Australia – 2 chn (Jan.
10)
1944 – Thelma Alice Sinclair – Ungarie, Australia – husband,
1 child (Jan. 30)
1948 – Mrs. Vincent Lilian Rydge – Vaucluse, Sydney,
Australia – son (5) (Sep 30)
1951 – Mary Bradley McDonald – Brisbane, Australuia – d (6),
s (8 mo) (Jun.)
1953 – Carol MacDonald – Mahwah (New Jersey), Australia – 4
chn (May 3)
1953 – Dorothy Milne – Kirawee, Australia – 2 chn (May 26)
1954 – Lima Mary Harrison – Newcastle, Australia – husb (false jealousy) (Jun. 21)
1954 – Elsie Myra Banner – Essendon, Australia – 1 child
(Mar.)
1965 – Laura Ann Corry – Point Yernon,
Mervey Bay, Australia – 1 child (Jan. 25)
1968 – Mavis Green Gardner – Medlow Bath,
Lithgow, Ausrtralia – (Sep.)
1972 – Mrs Apolonia Quarisa –
Griffith, Australia – 3 chn (Jun. 28)
1977 – Mrs Marjorie Dorothy McGree –
Nowra, Australia – 1 child (Oct. 8)
1993 – Gunn-Britt Ashfield – Nowra,
NSW, Australia – Ashfield, now known as Angelic Karstrom, and her then
boyfriend, Austin Allan Hughes, beat John Ashfield, 6, to death with a hammer
(Aug. 1993)
2001 – “Hunter Valley, Australia Mother” – Hunter Valley,
Australia – son (5, survived), (7 mo, survived) (Nov. 25)
2002 – “Sandstone Point Australia Mother” – Unnamed Mother
(Mother-perpetrator), Unnamed Father (Father-”Left-Behind”); Sandstone, Point
Australia Murder = November 22, 2002. (bodies found); Sentenced to life
2008 – “Canley Heights mother” Australia – 2 children (Feb.
19)
2010 – Gemma Killeen – Perth, Austalia – 1 child (Nov.)
2014 – Raina Thaiday – Cairns, Australia – 8 chn (Dec)
2015 – Akon Guode – Melbourne – Bol (1), Hanger (4), Madit
(4); Alual (6) survived
2015 – Cara Lee Hall – Leda, Western Australia – husb, att
murd 2 chn (Dec 6)
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