women who kill

26 Sep: Female domestic violence – Woman murders her 6-year-old daughter

Sydney woman, part-Aboriginal Kristi Abrahams pleaded guilty to murdering her daughter, Kiesha (pictured below), whose remains were found in bushland in Sydney’s west in early 2011, eight months after she was reported missing. Abrahams showed no emotion as she was sentenced to a non-parole period of 16 years for murder and interfering with a corpse. “Rot in hell!” someone in the public gallery yelled out as she was led away.   Kristi Abrahams The judge told the court the crime ranked in the mid-range of seriousness, because it was an impulsive and uncontrolled act of violence. He said Abrahams has shown remorse and is unlikely to reoffend, and that her intellectual disability and own experience of being abused as a child contributed to her crime. The judge said Abrahams was put in a foster home as a 10-year-old, after her mother died. But Justice Harrison also said Kiesha deserved to…