For Carrie Bickmore: A Sketch of a Research PROJECT Australian Domestic Violence – Violence-by-Women

Australian broadcaster Carrie Bickmere, 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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(incomplete, in progress)

1874 – Clara Donoghoe – Sydney, Australia – 1 child (Dec. 4)

1888 – Emma Elizabeth Aston – Upton park, East Ham, Australia – 2 chn (Apr.)

1891 – Mrs. Watson – Jumbowie, SA, Australia – 1 child (Mar. 1)

1893 – Balmain mother – Balmain, Australia –1 child (Jan. 9)

1895 – Clara Maddin – Townesville, Australia – 1 child (Feb. 27)

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)

1901 – Mrs. J. C. Drummond – Naranghi, Australia – 1 child (Jan.)

1901 – Mrs. Laffy – Australia – (Oct. 8)

1904 – Clarinda Selby – North Bangaroo, Australia – 2 chn (Nov. 16) duplicate - NEED TO CORRECT

1906 – Mrs. Albert Lambert – Townsville, Australia – 2 chn (Jan. 13)

1907 – Elizabeth Smith –Clifton, Australia – (Feb.)

1908 – Madame Soulard – New Caledonia, Australia (Mar. 27)

1910 – Cornelia McClusky – Bendigo, Victoria, Australia – brutal, 3 chn (Aug)

1910 – Mrs. Keys – Sydney, Australia – (May 18)

1912 – Florence Grace Gerson – Bunbury, Ausrtralia – 1 child (Oct.)

1913 – Sara Gouley – Wellington, Australia – 1 child (Mar. 30)

1913 – Agnes Ferry – Dimboola, Australia – 1 child (Nov. 3)

1914 – Mrs. Delaney – Felimington, Victoria, Australia – (Oct.)

1924 – Alice Maud Dodds –  Melbourne, Australia – 1 child (Jul. 28)

1925 – Madeline Annie Maher – Sydney, Australia – (Apr. 15)

1926 – Margaret May Wellesmore – Alexandria, Autralia – 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 – (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 – (Sep 30)

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)

1972 – Mrs Apolonia Quarisa – Griffith, Australia – 3 chn (Jun. 28)

1977 – Mrs Marjorie Dorothy McGree – Nowra, Australia – (Nov.)

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)

2000 – Katherine Mary Knight– Aberdeen, NSW, Australia

2001 – “Hunter Valley, Australia Mother” – Unnamed Mother M (perp), s (5, survived), (7 mo, survived); Hunter Valley, Australia (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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