Deceased/Not Found Australia - Leonie Hutchinson, 18 mos, Scone, NSW, Dec 2001 *Arrest*

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A New South Wales woman has been found not guilty by reason of mental illness of murdering her 16-month-old daughter, who was last seen in the NSW Hunter Valley in 2000.

The 44-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was accused of murdering the girl, who can only be known as 'Astra', when she lived at Scone...

A body has never been found, but Supreme Court justice Robert Hulme found the woman had killed the child while the woman was suffering from schizophrenia.

The Newcastle court heard the woman suffered delusions in the lead-up to the girl's birth, including drug-induced hallucinations about a bloodthirsty wolfman who might want a child sacrifice.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-...-toddler-scone/8820114?pfmredir=sm&smid=Page:

 

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Justice Robert Allan Hulme provided an answer to a more than 16-year mystery in Newcastle Supreme Court on Friday when he found that the girl, who he said could now be referred to as “Astra”, was dead.

Justice Hulme said he was also satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the girl, who was about 16 months old when she was last seen, died as a result of a “deliberate act” at the hands of her mother.

However, both psychiatrists called during the five-week judge-alone trial agreed the mother was labouring under a mental illness, namely schizophrenia, around the time she killed the child and opined that that mental illness affected her ability to understand right and wrong.

http://www.sconeadvocate.com.au/story/4864622/mum-not-guilty-of-murder/

 

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had previously spoken of having to slit a child's throat for the 'wolfman' so she could go home with aliens and made delusional claims about her own mother and pedophiles...
Justice Hulme referred to extensive police inquiries into the disappearance of the toddler - given the pseudonym Astra.

'In all of the circumstances it would be astonishing if Astra was alive after having disappeared at an age when she was barely able to walk, with there being no evidence, independent of the accused, of her being alive in the following 16 years,' he said.

'I am satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Astra is dead.'

He also concluded her death was caused by a deliberate act or omission of her mother.

'I cannot determine what the act or omission was, but a charge of murder may be proved even in circumstances where the precise cause of death is not known.'

He referred to a considerable body of evidence 'that before, during and after the time of Astra's death the accused persisted with delusional and persecutory beliefs about various matters but particularly concerning her mother and Community Services'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4802460/amp/Mother-killed-toddler-daughter-not-guilty.html