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Killer Has Custody Of Son, 6


A WOMAN who shook her baby to death will spend the next six years in mental health care but will retain custody of her six-year-old son, the District Court ruled yesterday.
The decision ends criminal proceedings against Ka Touch – the state's longest-running child-killing case.
Judge Paul Rice ordered Touch serve her time in the community. He said the killing of four-month-old Melinda Long was "deliberate but not malicious".
"In violently shaking Melinda or subjecting her to blunt trauma, a reasonable person in your position would have realised you were exposing her to an appreciable risk of serious injury," he said. "(But) I do not think you represent a danger to your six-year-old son because of the supports and treatments available to you."
Touch, of Kilburn, inflicted fatal injuries on Melinda between November, 2001, and February, 2002.
The little girl lived at home briefly before being returned to hospital with broken bones and brain damage.
She had suffered at least two significant acts of trauma, bleeding behind the eyes and in the brain, fractures in both legs and broken ribs on her left-hand side.
Touch was ruled unfit to stand trial in June, 2004. Attempts to have the case permanently stayed failed in March, 2006.
In sentencing, Judge Rice said Touch was illiterate, "socially isolated" and had "borderline to low normal intellect".
He said she would continue to suffer chronic psychological problems and had also battled breast cancer but her chances for rehabilitation seemed "positive".
Adelaide Advertiser (19-12-2006)
Sean Fewster


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