Samantha Toni Rae Kaarsberg and Amy Jean Breeze plead guilty to home invasion

Two Toowoomba mothers, aged 27 and 26, have received jail terms for a horrifying home invasion where they stormed into a home and bashed a woman while demanding guns and drugs.

Samantha Toni Rae Kaarsberg was sentenced to jail and 18 months probation.

Two Toowoomba mothers have received jail terms for their respective roles in a violent home invasion in which another young mother was assaulted and threatened.

Samantha Toni Rae Kaarsberg, 27, Amy Jean Breeze, 26, and a juvenile co-offender had gone to the home of the 26-year-old victim about 12.40pm, January 29, 2021, Toowoomba District Court heard.

The victim, who had her two-year-old daughter in another room, didn’t know the intruders but knew of them through associates, Crown prosecutor Erin Kelly said.

The victim was herded into a bedroom where demands for a gun and keys were made.

Telling them she had no gun, the woman showed them the car keys but then further demands were made for a gun, drugs and car keys, she said.

As Breeze held the door shut, Kaarsberg assaulted the woman, punching her a number of times and kicking once.

The group took the keys to the car which was driven away by Kaarsberg, Ms Kelly said.

Kaarsberg and Breeze pleaded guilty to demanding property by menace, assault occasioning bodily harm in company and unlawful use of a motor vehicle.

Kaarsberg’s barrister Frank Martin said his client had been on parole and so was in custody and was pregnant with her second child.

He said the incident arose from a man known to all concerned who told the women to go to the home to retrieve his property including a gun.

Breeze’s barrister Scott Lynch said his client was a mother of six who had played a lesser role in the incident.

Judge Ian Dearden sentenced Kaarsberg to 15 months in jail with 41 days custody declared served and suspended after 41 days for 18 months.

She was also placed on 18 months probation to include random drug testing.

Breeze was sentenced to six months in jail, fully suspended for 18 months, with 18 months probation to include random drug testing.