A nine-year-old girl clung to a seat as her grandmother grappled with the woman. Now, the would-be kidnapper’s shocking past can be revealed.
A woman who tried to kidnap a nine-year-old girl waiting at a Sydney bus stop with her grandmother, stating “she’s mine” as the child clung to the seat, was previously jailed for killing her own baby daughter in a scalding bath.has chosen not to identify in order to report her prior offending, is due to be sentenced on Wednesday for the terrifying ordeal on a Riverwood street on the afternoon of December 30, 2022.
Court records indicate the woman has a long history of drug use and mental illness including schizophrenia. The details of her latest crime can be revealed after she pleaded guilty to attempting to take a child with intent to remove from parental control and common assault.According to the agreed facts, obtained by this masthead, the woman approached a nine-year-old girl and her grandmother as they waited for a bus to go to the shops.
The woman became agitated, resisting officers as she was put in the police vehicle, and “appeared to be highly intoxicated”. She was taken to Bankstown Hospital, where she remained for a month and was charged upon her release.In 2003, the woman killed her baby daughter by lowering her into a plastic bath filled with hot water, causing “extreme” redness and loss of skin, according to the sentencing judgment. The child suffered burns to 75 per cent of her body.
The baby girl was under a blanket in the pram and her skin was “very cold”. She was taken to hospital but pronounced dead.“I tried to wash it off, but it wouldn’t come off,” she said.
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