What the records say
- When
- 19 Dec 2014
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 16.93° S, 145.78° E
- Description
- Queensland Police announce the finding that eight children were stabbed to death in a home in Cairns.
Placed at the town its text puts it in, Cairns.
Cairns child killings
Familicide in Cairns, Australia
On 19 December 2014, eight children were found stabbed to death at a home in the Australian city of Cairns. Raina Thaiday, the mother of seven of the children and the aunt of the eighth, was charged with eight counts of murder in relation to the killings, but in 2017 was deemed unfit to stand trial by reason of insanity, following a diagnosis of schizophrenia. She was detained indefinitely at a psychiatric facility.
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