There is nothing more horrendous than the cold-blooded murder of a young child. There is no pain like that which is felt by the parents of children like 13 year old Daniel Morcombe, whose children seemingly disappear in the blink of an eye and never come home – until what is left of them is found. Young Daniel Morcombe was a 13 year old Australian child who went shopping for Xmas presents for his mum and dad one summer day back in 2003, and never returned. He disappeared from a bus stop in Queensland and for the past eight years his parents did what all parents in their situation do – they held onto the slightest hope that their boy would come home one day. But that hope is now shattered and we now know that Daniel is not coming home – his remains have been discovered in bushland at Beerwah on the Sunshine Coast. A man has been arrested and charged with his murder.

The remarkable courage and dignity with which Daniel’s parents have received this devastating news has inspired incredible admiration and support from the Australian people, in some ways this brings a closure of a kind to them and the years of waiting and wondering about what happened to their little boy on that December day in 2003. But there will never be a closure to the pain they are feeling for they have yet to endure the ordeal of a court trial and learn the details of what happened to Daniel in the hours and days after he was taken, a devastating filling-in of the unknown moments that were Daniel’s last in his life. I could not imagine a more torturous ordeal for any man or woman than to have to face what Mr and Mrs Morcombe have yet to face.

I would like those people who oppose the death penalty to stop for a moment and just think about Daniel Morcombe, and other children like him. I would those people to imagine the terror and pain a young child would feel in the last moments of their life in the hands of a cold-blooded killer. I want them to try and hear in their mind that child crying out for their mum and dad, to feel their fear and incomprehension at what is happening to them. And their realisation that no-one is coming to help them. I want those people to imagine what it would be like to know that the last thing those children ever saw was the ugly, twisted face of pure evil. I want to know how would they feel if they had to sit in a courtroom and listen to every single graphic detail of what was done to their child – and how their child cried, screamed, fought and begged for their life…like Daniel’s parents will have to do. With the person responsible sitting just feet away from you. How would YOU feel if you had to do this…?

Now tell me that hanging is ‘too good’ for child-killers…or rather, don’t even bother.

 

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Eighteen years ago Gunn-Britt Ashfield and her boyfriend, Austin Allan Hughes, spent two and a half hours bashing her six year old son, John, to death with a hammer. They then took him to hospital and blamed his injuries on local teenagers. It did not take long for police to see through their story – nor anyone else who saw her ‘appeal for information’ on the television news after John died. As soon as you saw her face it was apparent she was lying through her rotten teeth.

Having spent eighteen years in prison for the murder of her child this creature has been released on parole - nobody was there to meet her except for the media who she ignored. So I ask: Who let the dog out?
Ashfield suddenly ‘realised the significance of her crime’ two years ago…when the possibility of parole became apparent. Interesting that a woman who has shown no remorse whatsoever for what she did to her child – and her four other children – has a change of mind once freedom is on the horizon.

She has been banned from going anywhere near her son’s grave and will be electronically monitored and subject to a curfew. Compared to what she did to her child and his sister and brothers, her life has been and continues to be a picnic. Ashfield and Hughes should have hanged for what they did.

Keep looking over your shoulder woman…

 

 

 

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