Eight trees planted for children slain in house of horror

DPA international ^ | December 20, 2015

[Kaslin]

Sydney (dpa) - Relatives of eight children slain in their beds one year ago gathered Sunday to plant eight blossoming frangipani trees in their memory.

The stabbings of three sisters, ages 2, 11 and 12, their four brothers, ages 5, 6, 8 and 9, and their 14-year-old cousin still shocks the community of Manoora, a suburb of Cairns in tropical far north Australia.

The mother of the children, Raina Thaiday, 38, was found by her 20-year-old son in the garden of 34 Murray Street that the morning covered in blood and suffering self-inflicted wounds.

Within days she was charged with the killings and is undergoing psychiatric assessment to determine whether she is mentally fit to stand trial.

But a year on, the pain still runs deep in the indigenous Torres Strait Islander community, even more so as the horror that happened 12 months ago is still unexplained.

On Saturday, more than 200 people attended a concert at a nearby park with indigenous music in memory of the children.

Church elder James Gela said the tree planting is the first stage of a permanent memorial at the site where the house stood, before it was demolished six months ago and has become a makeshift park.

Eight fruit trees remain in the garden, and the eight frangipani trees were chosen as they blossom with scented flowers in the weeks before Christmas.

"The idea behind that was that ... at the anniversary of the incident ... these trees will blossom so it'll be a sign of new life," Gela told broadcaster ABC.

Police who entered the house and found the bodies still carry the horror of what they saw.

Sergeant Brad McLeish arrived at the house within minutes of a desperate emergency call by Thaiday's son. McLeish and a colleague strapped on chest cameras to record the horror as they walked through the house.

Nothing he'd seen in a dozen years of death investigations prepared him for what he saw. The shock was even deepend for him with children the same age as those in the house.

"It doesn't compare. It stands alone," McLeish told the Cairns Post newspaper. "It was just a crime scene of absolute horror and tragedy."

[IAMNO1]

Lets hope that their tree memorial for murdered loved-ones stands the test of time better than here in our own humble country in Longmont, CO, TWICE!:

http://www.timescall.com/top-stories/ci_29104131/second-memorial-tree-cut-down-less-than-month

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Sad story.

PING!

[vladimir998]

But, but, but I thought they had no mass murders there because they confiscated guns!

[Fred Nerks]

The perp was the mother, she also killed a relative teenage girl who was visiting. Gun or no gun had nothing to do with it, the children never stood a chance. She can only be described as crazy; said she heard voices telling to do it.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.dpa-international.com/news/international/families-of-eight-children-murdered-a-year-ago-gather-for-memorial-a-47712178.html

... Relatives of eight children stabbed to death in their home in northern Australia gathered Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the tragedy, the motive for which is still not clear.

Raina Thaiday, 38, has been charged with the murders of her seven children and a niece. She is currently under assessment to determine whether she is mentally fit to stand trial in June.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

The point is...one of the deadliest mass shootings in history paved the way to gun control in Australia....what will this lead to? Knife registration?

[Fred Nerks]

...“Eight kids!” Lukey says, throwing his head back, eyes closed to the sun. “It just sorta ­happened. She was screaming, like she was ­possessed. Then she was blueing with a lady across the road here. Standing on the other side of that big tree, hitting the fence across the road, screaming out.” He points to the house to the right of Lukey’s. “One minute they were out on the road, then it cooled down. She went back to her home and then she started up again.” Lukey recalls Raina rambling things he couldn’t understand, things drawn from what seems to have been a fervent religious devotion. “She was singing out, ‘I’m the creator, I’m the chosen one, you’ll all listen to me’. That’s when we knew somethin’ was wrong.” John nods his head. “The children had slept out in the yard for two nights beforehand,” John says. “The most bizarre thing. She pulled everything out of the house and she said she was going to spring clean. Then she took a hose in there and hosed the whole lot of it out, the walls, everything.” “I just remember that scream,” Lukey says, shaking his head.

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[Fred Nerks]

And now you can tell me, which one of those little children could have protected themselves from their crazy mother with a GUN?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***indigenous Torres Strait Islander community***
And we’ve had it hammered into our heads that ONLY White Men do such things!
Here is a native woman who did it and no mention in the USA press.
No guns involved, “SEE! Gun control works!”

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

If the teenage niece had one, and she had been taught proficiency, the way American children were once taught, then I suppose she could have. But then again, how many right-minded teenagers would bring a gun over on a visit?

[Fred Nerks]

...how many right-minded teenagers would bring a gun over on a visit?

That woman was apparently the elder girl's aunt, and it sounds like the woman had a drug-fuelled episode. Even if the girl had any kind of weapon, wouldn't have done her much good. They were all killed while they were sleeping, iirc.