Mother Convicted in Toddler’s ‘Hog-Tying’ Death Expecting Again
An Australian woman jailed in 2003 for the sickening “hog-tying” death of her 18-month-old daughter has revealed she is going to be a mother again.
In an interview in Saturday’s Qweekend magazine, Rebecca Mae Haliday, 27, who lives in Victoria and is a free woman after her parole expired in February, speaks of her fears for what will happen when authorities find out about the pregnancy.
Haliday begs the public to leave her in peace during her fresh shot at motherhood and says she is willing to abide by any conditions imposed by government authorities so she can keep the new baby.
Haliday and her former boyfriend Daniel Ronald Green, now 30, were both jailed for six years for the manslaughter of her youngest child Beanca Newman, who died in 2001 in their caravan home, north of Brisbane.
She also had a two-year-old son at the time of Beanca’s death. The pair admitted Beanca was tied up with rolled bedsheets night after night for weeks to teach her “that bedtime was bedtime.”
Haliday, then 20, did not take part in the restraining process but was conjointly charged because she consented to it. She told police that in the final weeks she believed the restraints were strengthened, as Green “hogtied” together Beanca’s separately bound hands and feet.
The toddler eventually died in her sleep from a combination of pneumonia and asphyxia.
Haliday’s other child Chris was taken in by his paternal grandmother Jenny Newman, who is raising him in Melbourne. There was no evidence the boy had been tied up.
News of Haliday’s pregnancy has shocked Newman, who told The Courier-Mail Friday she was “incredibly worried” for the unborn baby. “My message to the authorities is ‘protect this child,’” she said.
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Comment from Karen
Time: August 8, 2008, 3:46 pm
It’s appalling really, that we live in this ‘civilized’ world, surrounded by laws and regulations and STILL, STILL a woman who kills her own child is not sterilized prior to going to jail. How simple is that? How many chances should someone get to have a baby then kill it horribly before they are prevented from ever reproducing again? In some ways it makes me think of pedophiles. Pedophilia (according to the literature anyway) is not something that you can ‘recover’ from. People who practice it should not ever be allowed to enter society again. Because they will do it again. Well, if you kill your child, the fruit of your womb, you should never be allowed to have another child. Not ever. Because if you are a heinous enough person to do such a thing once, then you are certainly capable of doing it again. Sometimes I think that possibly the law is going out of it’s way to protect the criminals and chucking the rest of us out there as bait…so the criminals can do their criminal thing. Some days it makes you want to sit down and cry. And some days it makes you want to spray paint mean things on the pedophile’s house down the street (I know he’s there because in the USA the authorities have to TELL you when a sex offender is moving into the neighborhood). You could hear our house values plummeting as we opened the envelopes.