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sixpoints
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By all accounts a 34 year old female is responsible for the deaths of eight children in a suburb of Cairns.
It appers all eight victims were siblings and were stabbed. The location was their home. Reports indicate the ages ranged from 18 months to 15 years.
This is horrific.
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stui magpie 
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Horrible stuff.
| Quote: | QUEENSLAND Police have confirmed that eight children have been found dead at a home in Cairns.
Reports suggest they were killed in a mass stabbing with the victims eight children ranging in age from 18 months to 15 years.
Emergency crews were called to the address on Murray Street in Manoora at 11.20am. |
Lots of details here.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/cairns-stabbing-eight-children-found-dead-at-a-home-in-cairns/story-fnii5s3y-1227161857604
Kids rang in age from 18 months to 15 years, all siblings.
Mum has her own wound in the chest and has been taken to Hospital in a stable condition.
Apparently they're a torres st islander family.
Horrible stuff at any time, so close to Christmas.................
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Tannin 
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Four times worse than the Sydney one.
Bet you a million dollars it doesn't go to 17 pages.
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| stui magpie wrote: | Horrible stuff.
[quote]QUEENSLAND Police have confirmed that eight children have been found dead at a home in Cairns.
Reports suggest they were killed in a mass stabbing with the victims eight children ranging in age from 18 months to 15 years.
Emergency crews were called to the address on Murray Street in Manoora at 11.20am.[/quote]
Lots of details here.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/cairns-stabbing-eight-children-found-dead-at-a-home-in-cairns/story-fnii5s3y-1227161857604
Kids rang in age from 18 months to 15 years, all siblings.
Mum has her own wound in the chest and has been taken to Hospital in a stable condition.
Apparently they're a torres st islander family.
Horrible stuff at any time, so close to Christmas.................
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in a mass stabbing with the victims eight children ranging in age from 18 months to 15 years was killed? |
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stui magpie
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Course not. Unfortunately Domestic Violence is way more common than 17 hour Terrorist sieges.
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London Dave 
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| stui magpie wrote: | ^
Course not. Unfortunately Domestic Violence is way more common than 17 hour Terrorist sieges. |
That would be domestic violence that leaves 8 people dead? |
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Dave The Man 
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Ex-Husband?
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Dave The Man
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| London Dave wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | ^
Course not. Unfortunately Domestic Violence is way more common than 17 hour Terrorist sieges. |
That would be domestic violence that leaves 8 people dead? |
We seen when Dad looses Custody of the Child
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sixpoints
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| stui magpie wrote: | ^
Course not. Unfortunately Domestic Violence is way more common than 17 hour Terrorist sieges. |
Domestic violence is very much more common and therefore a much greater issue than terrorism in this country.
Pity it isn't treated this way.
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HAL
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| Dave The Man wrote: | [quote="London Dave"][quote="stui magpie"]^
Course not. Unfortunately Domestic Violence is way more common than 17 hour Terrorist sieges.[/quote]
That would be domestic violence that leaves 8 people dead?[/quote]
We seen when Dad looses Custody of the Child |
Then what is it? |
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Dave The Man
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| sixpoints wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | ^
Course not. Unfortunately Domestic Violence is way more common than 17 hour Terrorist sieges. |
Domestic violence is very much more common and therefore a much greater issue than terrorism in this country.
Pity it isn't treated this way. |
Because the Government cant hide there Budget behind it
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stui magpie
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| London Dave wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | ^
Course not. Unfortunately Domestic Violence is way more common than 17 hour Terrorist sieges. |
That would be domestic violence that leaves 8 people dead? |
For context, I was specifically responding to Tannin's comment about betting it wouldn't go to 17 pages.
Having said that, I'll agree that having 8 kids all killed in one instance is (thankfully) pretty rare but this is a horrible tragedy that happened before anyone was aware it was in play, unlike the Martin Place business which had 17 hours to attract worldwide attention as it played out, with the novelty factor of being the first terrorist attack on Australian Soil.
We get domestic sieges all the time that often end up with as many people dead as in Martin place, but you don't get multiple TV networks all camped outside.
This case may play out for a few days at most, but will be lucky to get a single page let alone 17.
Is that to say it's less of a tragedy? **** no. It's just not going to attract as much attention, sell as many papers, TV ratings, website clicks etc.
In the article, it says that mum was 34.
Another sibling of the dead kids came home to find them all. He is 20.
The maths make me feel sad even without the deaths.
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stui magpie
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Looking messy.
No suspects, yet no one else should be worried. 1 of the kids was not a sibling of the others, but was related.
Police are asking people to chill a bit and saying there's some very unhelpful social media posts happening.
As the kids are all Torres St Islanders they won't be releasing names until all the relatives have been advised.
The fact that all the media reporting the incident that I've seen all throw to advertising Lifeline throws that this is a domestic situation. I can get capping yourself, but not taking family with you.
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| stui magpie wrote: | | ..... I can get capping yourself, but not taking family with you. |
Me too.
Still, we don't know much yet.
Very very sad.
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HAL
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