Mum pleads guilty at Kingaroy court to attempting to pervert justice

A South East Queensland nurse’s efforts to protect her son after he molested five young girls including her own granddaughters, went so far as trying to get her own daughter killed.

A nurse’s shocking efforts to protect her sexually abusive son, who molested five young girls including her own granddaughters, went to so far to to trying to order a hit on her own daughter, a court has heard.

A South Burnett nurse’s efforts to protect her son after he molested five young girls including her own granddaughters, went so far as trying to get her own daughter killed.

Court documents from the woman’s sentencing revealed her son was initially charged over the sexual abuse of five young girls, and child exploitation material, in mid-2021.

Two of the girls were the woman’s own granddaughters, Judge Jennifer Rosengren’s sentencing remarks said.

His offences were uncovered when one of the woman’s daughters used his phone.

The sentencing documents say the woman and her son moved to the region in mid-2023 and struck up a friendship with a neighbouring couple.

In November 2023, she told one of the neighbours, a man, about the allegations against her son.

Judge Rosengren said the woman then gave him some of the statements made by the complainants, including one from her daughter, who was identified as the first that “needed to go” and she wanted them all “taken out”.

The court heard a neighbour the woman befriended was “fearful” she may actually hurt the witnesses and complainants and so agreed to kill them for her, before reporting the threats to the police.

The neighbour said it was something he could do, the court heard.

In the following days the 60-year-old woman handed over more statements and “continuously” spoke to her neighbour about “wanting to kill the people who had provided the statements in the prosecution case” against her son.

These conversations included asking the neighbour if he could get a gun to kill the girls.

The court heard the neighbour was “fearful” she may actually hurt the witnesses and complainants and so agreed to kill them.

She then lost contact with her neighbours when they moved, but in June 2024 they reached out about getting some possessions stored at the woman’s property.

When the neighbour asked about the case, she told him she had some “big New Zealand males coming to sort things out”, Judge Rosengren said.

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The next day the neighbour reported the woman to police.

Police started recording conversations between the pair and when he asked for the names, photos, and addresses of those she wanted killed, they were handed over.

Judge Jennifer Rosengren told the woman her behaviour was “serious, deliberate, persistent and protracted” and she “repeatedly lied to the police, and your lies continued, even after you were aware that they had evidence against you”.

She told him she “hoped that they died one by one” and to burn the address list when he was done, the court heard.

Judge Rosengren said she was finally arrested in August 2024 and subsequently lied to police as to why she had handed the list out.

The court heard she had no previous criminal history.

Judge Rosengren told the woman her behaviour was “serious, deliberate, persistent and protracted” and she “repeatedly lied to the police, and your lies continued, even after you were aware that they had evidence against you”.

The court heard the woman grew up in an abusive household, had previously worked in customer service and nursing but never held a job for longer than a year.

She had long-term drug and alcohol issues of her own and had been diagnosed with PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and polysubstance dependency disorder, it heard

She pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Judge Rosengren sentenced her to three-and-a-half years, to be suspended after 12 months.

The suspended sentence would remain in place for four years.

Originally published as Mum pleads guilty at Kingaroy court to attempting to pervert justice