Little Girls Lost: The Stories of Four of Australia's Most by Helen Reade

March 4, 2017 by admin

By Helen Reade

Little ladies misplaced tells the hearbreaking tales of the murders of 4 women. however it additionally offers a groundbreaking account of ways the women' grieving mom and dad led to alterations within the legislation to ease the insufferable burden for themselves - and for the households of different murder sufferers. the writer, Helen Reade, provides the reader an intimate perception into the concepts and activities of the sufferers' households as they keep in mind the occasions prime as much as - together with - and after the appalling occasions. those contain: the stabbing homicide of 5-year-old Nicole Hanns in 1974; the sexual attack and homicide of 9-year-old Ebony Simpson in 1992; the rape andmurders of Bega schoolgirls, 14-year-old Lauren Barry and her buddy 16-year-old Nichole Collins in 1997.

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