Charlise Mutten’s mother reportedly pregnant with murder accused’s child
Charlise Mutten’s mother, Kallista, is reportedly pregnant with the man charged with killing her nine-year-old daughter.
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The man charged with murdering nine-year-old Charlise Mutten has children of his own, fathering the first when he was a 16-year-old schoolboy, it can be revealed.
Charlise’s mother, Kallista Mutten, had left her daughter in the care of her fiancee Justin Laurens Stein, 31, when police allege he killed Charlise and stuffed her body in a barrel earlier this month.
Mother-of-two Ms Mutten is reportedly now pregnant with Stein’s child.
Stein, whose mother Annemie Stein told The Daily Telegraph last week had had a “tortured life”, fathered a daughter at the age of 16 while at the elite private Sydney school and a son when he was 19, both to different mothers, according to documents.
Unemployed, he had been paying child support only for the son. The other details are not known.
Charlise had been living in the care of her grandmother at Coolangatta since the age of five when her mother was jailed for dangerous driving causing death. High on ice, she killed a friend who was a passnger in her car when she recklessly tried to overtake a semi-trailer.
She got to know Stein while serving her prison sentence and they wrote to each other, getting engaged in November 2020.
Ms Mutten and Charlise had been holidaying with Stein at his millionaire parents’ lavish Blue Mountains wedding venue Wildenstein at Mt Wilson since before Christmas as the couple planned their wedding at a local church which Ms Mutten posted photographs on her Facebook page.
Stein has been charged with murdering his stepdaughter between 7pm on Tuesday January 11 and 10am on January 12 at Mt Wilson while Ms Mutten was staying at the Riviera Ski Park at Lower Portland, an hour and a half’s drive away.
Her mother reported her missing on the morning of January 14.
Stein remains in jail on remand having not applied for bail. He has exercised his right to silence and has not made a statement to homicide detectives who are understood to be still trying to talk to Ms Mutten who has been under medical care in hospital.
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