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To: chris37
Like this one girl, this story was made into a movie too starring Guy Pierce as the victim’s father, where this heavier girl was obsessed with a dancer that she baby sat for.

She tricked her and lead her to a violent, violent end for seemingly the purpose of killing her and becoming her. She is out of prison now as far as I know.

Not yet. But she has now served her minimum non-parole period. It's been denied for the moment, and she will be in prison until at least the end of next year.

The is the Rachel Barber case (name of the murdered girl). The murderer's name is Caroline Reed Robertson.

Her sentence was quite light (Twenty years with a minimum non parole period of fourteen years) considering the crime, but that was largely because of her age. Under the law in most of Australia, somebody between the age of 18-21 is a 'Young Offender', and unless there is a compelling reason not to, it's assumed they can be rehabilitated - so she got the benefit of that assumption because she was only nineteen at the time of her crime.

57 posted on 11/05/2013 6:23:12 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

That was a tough crime to watch when it came on ID and when I saw that movie.

I am happy to know she is still imprisoned. I really cannot imagine what I would do if I was the murdered girl’s father.

I suspect it would likely be something along the lines of well, you’re out of jail, and now your going to deal with me, and you are not going to like it all, and then I’d go serve my own light sentence.


58 posted on 11/05/2013 7:10:19 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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