Kira Elizabeth Jean Jasperson pleads guilty to assaulting police after fatal crash
The Nebo mother of a two-year-old boy who died tragically in a fatal car crash lashed out at police near a Sarina laundromat after she wasn’t able to collect her belongings from the wreck.
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The young mother of a child who was killed in a horror triple fatal ‘lost control’ at police when she was told she could not collect her dead son’s belongings.
It hit a muddy ditch near Grave Gully Bridge at Clark Creek about 10.15pm on November 11.
Tragically, young Izaya and two other passengers died as a result of the crash with Jasperson sustaining significant injuries and the driver — her partner and father of the Izaya — suffering minor injuries.
Mackay Magistrates Court heard the mother was still recovering from a frontal lobe injury from the crash when she went to collect her son’s belongings from police but was refused access.
Police prosecutor Senior Sergeant Hannah Beaumont said police spotted a car that had been linked to property damage driving through Sarina on November 22.
Sergeant Beaumont said police saw Jasperson, her mother and her partner get out of the car near a laundromat on the main street.
Jasperson began to yell in the street “they wouldn’t let me get my f---ing sh-- out of the car, f---ing dumb c--ts”.
The court heard police were forced to escort one of the laundromat’s customers as they were “too afraid to enter the store alone” because of Jasperson’s behaviour.
Police arrested the 19 year old for public nuisance and took her to Mackay Watch-house where she continued yelling “disgusting” curses and trying to hit police.
Jasperson pleaded guilty in Mackay Magistrates Court on February 1 to assaulting police twice, obstructing police twice, contravening a police direction and failing to wear a seatbelt.
Jasperson’s lawyer Robyn Cathcart told the court Jasperson’s behaviour was “very out of character” for the “quiet” young woman who had “lost control”.
Ms Cathcart said her client had tried to take her own life about Christmas time and was suffering from traumatic amnesia, regularly visiting Brisbane hospital for brain scans.
“It started as a tragic incident and has just escalated,” she said.
Magistrate Bronwyn Hartigan acknowledged the hardship Jasperson had been through, combined with her frontal lobe injury, had contributed to her behaviour.
Ms Hartigan sentenced Jasperson to 12 months of probation.
No convictions were recorded.
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