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Woman who set fire to Canberra home with children inside jailed for more than nine years
A Canberra woman has been jailed for more than nine years, after the ACT Supreme Court found she made an “extreme breach of parental obligation” when she tried to kill her two children by setting fire to their home.
Key points:
- Earlier this week, the court heard the woman had been suffering a major depressive episode at the time of the fire
- By the time fire crews rescued her and her children, they were unconscious and required CPR
- The woman will be eligible for parole in 2025
While sentencing the 48-year-old woman, ACT Supreme Court Justice David Mossop described how her primary-school-aged children were “on the cusp of death” when they were pulled unconscious from the burning home in July last year.
The court heard as smoke engulfed the…
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