This week an Indigenous woman and her baby were killed. We need to talk about it.
Published on Mamamia
July 23, 2022
We don’t know her name yet. Or the name of her little baby.
For now, they are known as the 40-year-old woman and infant child whose bodies were found at an outstation north of Alice Springs on Sunday.
With them, was also the body of a 41-year-old man. A firearm was located at the scene and the police are treating the “horrific” incident as domestic violence.
But perhaps you didn’t hear about it?
And maybe you also didn't hear about Kwementyaye Murphy?
She was 36 when she was beaten to death by her husband, Stanley Scrutton in Alice Springs, 2014. The autopsy reported she had cuts and bruises covering her body, brain bleeding, bruised lungs, a bruised bowel, and fractured ribs.