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Posted: Wed 18:26, 06 Apr 2011 Post subject: Australian criminal of throwing daughter off bridg |
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"I think that there's also numerous people grieving here now, apparently, merely I just do think that this namely one chance as the community and professional cohorts apt see at ways in which we can better protect children."
Freeman will be sentenced at a later date.
On Monday, the Victorian Supreme Court convicted father-of-three Arthur Freeman, 37, of assassinating daughter Darcey by hurling her like "a rag doll" over the railing of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge on January 29, 2009.
He then parked ashore the bridge, left his two sons elderly two and six in the car and elected up the little girl and threw her to her death.
MELBOURNE (AFP) Australian child protection officials Tuesday phoned for an pressing review of custody squabble protocols after a dad was found guilty of throwing his daughter off a bridge "favor a rag doll".
The four-year-old plunged 58 metres (190 feet), sustaining large inner injuries and ultimately drowning in a case that shocked the metropolis.
"I don't want to be blaming people," he said.
Geary said in Darcey's case child protection authorities had no been accused the tiny girl's home held panics for her safety and that of her two brothers.
The tribunal listened namely Darcey's six-year-old sibling Ben told police his sister "didn't even screech" in her fall.
Victoria's Child Safety Commissioner Bernie Geary said he had surveyed the case and ambitioned a review of the rules between courts and officials where there were concerns about the safety of a child.
His lawyer argued that Freeman was mentally injured at the time, but the prosecution said it was a simple case of spousal retaliate behind an acrimonious break-up of his seven-year marriage.
The jury, who had been inquired to judge if Freeman was "mad or bad",[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], late Monday found him criminal, some members sobbing for the decision was read out.
Minutes ahead he slew Darcey, Freeman telephoned his sometime partner Peta Barnes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who had been waiting at the educate where their daughter was to deserving to start the daytime, and told her: "Say farewell to your kid".
"I said 'go back and get her. Darcey can't swim'. But he kept on driving. He didn't go back and get her," he said in a taped interview played to the court.
Freeman drove to the Federal Law Courts intricate in Melbourne where he started sobbing uncontrollably and was arrested.
"We just need to nourish vigilance and this case reminds us of the magnitude of the best interests of the child," Geary said.
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