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Child attacker receives award
Herald Sun ^ | 16th January 2007 | Grant McArthur

Posted on 01/15/2007 4:44:40 PM PST by naturalman1975

A WOMAN who beat a four-year-old girl with a brick before slitting her throat and leaving her for dead in a laneway more than 30 years ago has been honoured for her work with troubled youths.

Just weeks after presenting Lynda Saville with a statewide internal award, the NSW Department of Juvenile Justice last night launched an urgent investigation into revelations about her past.

Donna Lee Skeiner still suffers more than three decades after Lynda Saville kidnapped and assaulted her before slitting her throat with a broken glass.

In 1973 the then child staggered back to the Moonee Ponds Hotel in darkness with blood streaming from her throat as her frantic mother and detectives searched for her.

This month the NSW Department of Justice presented Ms Saville – who was 19 when she attacked the girl – with its internal Award for Achievement, praising her for her work with troubled young people.

Ms Skeiner – who still has scars on her neck to match her emotional scars – said the award was an insult.

"She doesn't deserve to receive a dog bone after what she has done," she said.

"It is a joke and I am disgusted by it. I want the award reversed because she is living a lie. This affects my whole life and she gets an award?

"Where's my justice?"

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: donnaleeskeiner; insanity; itsexsfault; itsnotmyfault; lyndasaville
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I'm seriously conflicted here.

I'd love to believe a person can change and be rehabilitated. I do believe that.

But as a teacher, I'm aware that any finding of guilt connected to a serious assault on a child would disqualify me from teaching for ever, in the interests of protecting kids.

Why is this woman treated differently from a teacher? She's working with kids, and kids who are probably a lot more vulnerable than my students.

1 posted on 01/15/2007 4:44:41 PM PST by naturalman1975
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"A WOMAN who beat a four-year-old girl with a brick before slitting her throat and leaving her for dead"

Whether she's paid her 'debt to society' or not, in my mind, only God can forgive such an act. To do what she did to this child, this woman harbors a sickness that is beyond comprehension or cure.


2 posted on 01/15/2007 4:52:28 PM PST by Spok
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To: naturalman1975

Did she serve any time for this crime? How long?

This is absolutely disgusting.


3 posted on 01/15/2007 4:52:28 PM PST by sodpoodle (Official Thread Nanny)
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To: naturalman1975
A WOMAN who beat a four-year-old girl with a brick before slitting her throat and leaving her for dead in a laneway more than 30 years ago has been honoured for her work with troubled youths.

DOH!

4 posted on 01/15/2007 4:52:51 PM PST by My2Cents
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To: naturalman1975
I would like to believe that a person can be rehabilitated too. But this woman was found not guilty because of insanity. INSANITY!! I don't see how she was ever cleared to work with children. I wouldn't want her around my daughter. If she was insane once....what is too stop her from becoming insane again at some point? I don't care if 30 yrs have passed. I would be mad as hell too if I were the victim. I don't agree she should be awarded even if she has changed. I hate these insanity pleas....
5 posted on 01/15/2007 4:54:35 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah and dilligaf?)
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To: naturalman1975

I read the whole thing....here's the nutshell version of what this woman was up to 30+ yrs ago.....classic pedophile sex predator, pure and simple..............


The child was found wandering towards the hotel alone about 30 minutes later, carrying her tights and unable to remember what happened.
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She spent time in the Royal Park Hospital for the criminally insane.

Ms Saville said she had overcome her problems since the attack, blaming a former partner for dragging up her past.

"I've just had a bitter break-up with an ex-partner who is involved in this and have an apprehended violence order against her," she said.


6 posted on 01/15/2007 4:56:29 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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Even worse, if you read to the end of the article, she blames who I assume is a former lesbian partner on digging up the dirt about her.

She seems pretty darn indifferent about it with the one quote that begins, "It was 34 years ago, mate..."

Maybe the article is biased and the woman is more contrite about it than they make her out to be, but I'm going to side with the victim on this one. My daughter will be four in a few months. I can't imagine the kind of vermin that would do such a thing like that.

7 posted on 01/15/2007 4:58:15 PM PST by RepoGirl ("Tom, I'm getting dead from you, but I'm not getting Un-dead..." -- Frasier Crane)
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"I would like to believe that a person can be rehabilitated too" But I think that they are 1 in a million. Better to waste a few (convicts, of course) who MIGHT pull their heads out of their butts than endanger many many more.

IMHO


8 posted on 01/15/2007 5:15:32 PM PST by enraged (A short drop and a quick stop, oops! sorry about that head popping off thing.)
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I have been called a cynic before... but I don't believe in rehabilitation; a white-collar criminal, maybe, but never a violent criminal, nuts or not!


9 posted on 01/15/2007 5:27:18 PM PST by republican4ever (Israel's fate determines the fate of the world, whether we believe and like it or not.)
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To: naturalman1975
A WOMAN who beat a four-year-old girl with a brick before slitting her throat and leaving her for dead in a laneway more than 30 years ago has been honoured for her work with troubled youths.

WTF ?

10 posted on 01/15/2007 5:33:42 PM PST by Charlespg (Peace= When we trod the ruins of Mecca and Medina under our infidel boots.)
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I do not believe a serial sex offender can EVER be rehabilated ... I am totally in agreement with you....I would like to see child killers and rapists tossed into general prison population myself. Let each day they live be a hellish nightmare like they gave their victims.....We have seen time after time that we let these perverts out and they just commit the same crime over and over and sometimes they don't just stop at raping ..They go on to killing their victims. ...I have gotten in many arguments on here over sex offenders. I posted links showing how often they repeat........ I am not writing about the 18 yr old boy who has sex with his 15 yr old girlfriend kind of charge either. I think those charges are getting out of hand sometimes........ If Joseph Edward Duncan III who was a known offender had been kept in jail then 3 members of the Groene family would be alive today. And that poor little girl Shasta wouldn't have been raped and tortured.
11 posted on 01/15/2007 5:50:05 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah and dilligaf?)
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To: Spok

This screams for an investigation of child disappearances in the area where this woman lives and where she lives, works, travels, etc. The sickness this woman exhibited at 19 is incurable so it is possible she has committed such acts since then but not been caught! What the hell is wrong with her state?


12 posted on 01/15/2007 5:57:43 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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I'm seriously conflicted here.

YOU'RE WHAT!!!!!!!????????

AND A TEACHER????????????

OMG, YOUR POOR STUDENTS>

Everytime I see crap for brains like that I thank God my grandkids are homeschooled.

13 posted on 01/15/2007 6:12:08 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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Yes, I am a teacher - and a very good one as it happens.

And because I am a teacher I believe it is possible for a teenager - and that is what this woman was at the time she committed this horrendous crime - to turn their life around. Whatever they did.

Nonetheless there are certain things that are so horrendous that they can't be forgiven by society and this seems like one of them.

Therefore I am conflicted.


14 posted on 01/15/2007 6:37:25 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

She's a lesbian, too. Wow, what a horrific life.


15 posted on 01/15/2007 7:07:44 PM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: republican4ever

I believe that God can restore people and He does. That's one of His jobs! If she or any other person turned to Him, repented, turned their lives around, then all this is possible. There IS a God factor, but I don't know if that's what happened in her case. If she's a lesbian, she certainly isn't following His principles. But, I won't judge her because I don't know all the facts.


16 posted on 01/15/2007 7:09:59 PM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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Oh come on. You know this is just to show how people can be rehabilitated so they can start letting pedophiles run daycares.../sarc
17 posted on 01/15/2007 7:11:28 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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And you are very foolish and deceived by the society in which you live, to hang onto that kind of believe system, my friend. YOU are the problem with this country, and with the justice system, made up of juror members who do not respond in human form to evil.

You are NOT a good teacher, if you think there would ever be any kind of excuse or rehabilitation deserving of such a wicked, despicable crime against the innocent. Too bad you would have a totally different view if the victim was your own child or grandchild.

Nope, I wouldn't want you ever teaching my kids anything. There really IS a difference between good and evil, right and wrong. You, my friend, probably blur that line in other areas of your life as well.

That woman should have never seen the light of the day the rest of her natural life, after commiting that crime. She gave up her right to her own freedom the moment she chose to cut up that precious little girl.

The end.


18 posted on 01/15/2007 7:15:22 PM PST by adopt4Him (The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.)
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She sounds like a carpet muncher to me.

If so that explains why she received the award and also why she was allowed to work with children in spite of her past.


19 posted on 01/15/2007 7:17:15 PM PST by sport
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To: Marysecretary

I believe it doesn't happen as often and dramatically as one would hope. Therefore, I am still skeptical. And as for judging, no one ever knows all the facts, not even jurors in trials. One can only judge what one can see.


20 posted on 01/15/2007 7:18:23 PM PST by republican4ever (Israel's fate determines the fate of the world, whether we believe and like it or not.)
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