Kiesha Abrahams’ grim life and death
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GRIM details of little Kiesha Abrahams’ life in the care of her mother and stepfather have emerged following the discovery of her remains in bushland.
Detectives are expected to include in their brief of evidence witness statements alleging that Kiesha was the subject of harsh, brutal discipline and was sometimes “flogged”.
At other times, she was allegedly forced to put her hands on her head and stand in the corner of a room for hours.
Police records show the Abrahams family had 36 complaints lodged with police. No charges were laid.
Family friend Kylie Marshall told The Sunday Telegraph she thought Kiesha was unhappy when she was out and about.
Ms Marshall recalled encountering the trio outside a bottle shop at Bidwill. Kiesha was holding hands with her stepfather.
When she asked her mother, Kristi Abrahams, who was pregnant at the time, why Kiesha was crying, Abrahams allegedly responded: “She’s jealous. It’s because I’m pregnant and sick. She’s gotta make herself sick as well.”
The bubbly six-year-old, who loved singing into her Hannah Montana microphone, was barely seen at school and had been in class only five times during the 2010 school year before her disappearance in July.
After a nine-month investigation, Abrahams and her partner Robert Smith were arrested on Friday morning and charged with killing Kiesha and burying her in bushland at Shalvey. They have been remanded in custody and have yet to plead.
From day one, the pair were the main suspects.
Detectives drew up detailed profiles on both their lives, studying their bank accounts, unpicking their family history and following their daily habits.
Police seized their cars and mobile phones for “forensic testing”. When they were handed back, they had been bugged with listening devices so investigators could keep tabs on their conversations.
Last week, detectives got word that Abrahams and Smith would visit the little girl’s gravesite in a macabre service to mark her seventh birthday. The arrests were made at 1am as they allegedly left the bush block at Shalvey.
Detective Superintendent Geoff Beresford, director of the State Crime Command’s Serious Crime Directorate, signed off on the arrest warrant and said it was one of the most satisfying moments of the past year.
“It’s been a long, frustrating process for nine months. It’s a sad case (and) regrettably, there are no winners,” he said.
Neighbours of Abrahams and Smith at Seven Hills said arguments between the couple had escalated in recent days.
“There was a lot of fighting where I’d see him bashing on the back of the house yelling at her,” one neighbour said.
Anger has turned to mourning for Kiesha in the Mount Druitt community. Local residents said they felt betrayed by the couple, who received endless community support.
“We have to wait and see what happens (in court), but there are so many people who put their lives on hold to help them who feel like they’ve been betrayed or lied to,” one local, Kylie, said.
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My youngest today, was sobbing on the phone to her eldest Sister, it was the eldest birthday, I took over the phone she sobbed more, couldn’t explain why she was so upset, I know why, and the authorities refuse to follow through, If i was the Mother, it would be a different story
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Everytime i hear more of Kiesha’s horrific story i well up. It’s so horrible. But it chills me to the bone to think that there are so many other children in the same situation, being abused. We need to help them, so that no one else has to suffer as much as poor Kiesha. I promise i’ll never forget her.
R.I.P Kiesha
Sophia xxx
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So very many people let Kiesha down. The witnesses that gave info to the police about the abuse (after she disappeared), the Docs that gave her back to “IT” and gave little or no regard to her Bio Dad and Paternal Grandmothers rights. Too many mistakes were made and a poor little girl suffered terribly for it. Now her Dad has two dead children because everyone believes the mother and the old adage that the child/ren are better off with the Mum…
Not Kiesha.
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I wonder how long it will take the mother to accuse the step father of the abuse and killing, and that she had to keep quiet about the murder or she would suffer the same fate.
This is the standard line that is used by women in these situations, which is usually believed by not just the courts, but also the community who seem to believe that the courts are unbiased and always get it right.
If it was the biological father who had been arrested, this story would have by now eclipsed the Royal Wedding in the UK and any important occasion in other countries around the world. Just like the story of the Angel over the bridge. When are we going to see justice and fairness in the reporting of these stories in the media, let alone justice in the courts.
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Well, a biological mother and a non-biological step father abusing then killing the child.
How many times does this have to happen before someone tweaks that sole parenting is a bad environment for children?
Or does it only matter when the biological father commits the crime?
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Good to see that the detectives chose to, “unpick their family history” ie.profile the two suspects even though the ‘carers’ incriminated themselves after the techno intervention…the main thing, as should be the case with all family (law) investigations, is that the truth came out.
The community will just have to deal with the deceit and misplaced trust. Even youngsters the victim’s age will always remember this story.
A PhD friend of mine suggested to me that the only way that police would investigate my daughters’ mother for perjury and false reports to police would be if my daughters dissapeared or met with fowl play. Why can’t blatant lies be investigated and punished at an earlier stage? Answer. Not enough resourses..to protect children.
I can’t even begin to imagine Kiesha’s last moments at the hands of her sick protectors but their actions, after their daughter’s ‘dissapearance’, should warrant a doubled sentence and a new debate on the death penalty.
R.I.P. little one.
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You are so right Doody, let’s put the blame squarely where it lies.
The overwhelming majority of child murders are committed by mothers. Did you know that?
And where do you get your facts from about this case. Do you know this woman personally?
Also, please don’t insult us with the “poor vulnerable pregnant woman” rubbish.
That and the many other excuses women use to get off serious charges, has become such an insult to society that those who lie like this, are the direct cause for men to not hold women in the same esteem they use to.
It is the fault of women, that today men do not respect them much anymore. Too many women lie, cheat, steal, abuse, murder and then they lie about it and say they were abused by a man or were afraid of a man, which is why the committed the crime.
They abuse men and children and get away with it. Mothers abuse their own children up to 5 times more than the natural fathers do, yet they are never sent to prison for it.
Bollocks to you!
Pregnant or not, she is as guilty as he is and should be sent to prison for the same length of time as the mongrel male who abused this poor child.
She is as bad and as much a murderer as the stepfather!
It’s time the law stops discounting women during sentencing, when it comes to all forms of illegal behaviour.
And you Doody, you need to stop pushing the radical feminist agenda and start to truly look at the bad behaviour of women in this country. There is no majority of men abusing women.
It is pretty much equally perpetrated by both sexes, but mothers abuse children by far, much more than fathers do.
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Well, Doody, all I can say to you and the 4 other males you mentioned in your message, is that if what you say in your initial post is what you truly believe, then maybe it is you who should be looking in the mirror and maybe even those other men you mentioned should look also.
There is nothing wrong with my attitude toward women. Indeed, the many women whom are my friends and of course my own daughter who hangs off me, because I treat her with such love and respect, would I suspect, disagree with you whole heartedly.
After re-reading my post below, I see that nowhere did I call you a feminist. The fact that you made statements that are identical to those made by feminists, makes me wonder who you truly are.
There are many women who get on here under the guise of a man, and they do so to stir the pot.
That’s the price you pay with having an ID that can be taken as male or female.
If you are a man, then I apologise for the inference.
I am sorry you lost your first wife and that those daughters are without a mother. Good on you for being there for them. But that is precisely what any good father or parent would do anyway. Your daughters are very lucky indeed!
But in truth, what does all that have to do with me anyway?
It strikes me that you, and all those other men you mentioned, all seem to believe that what I stated in my previous post, was simply ugly poisonous hatred against women.
Well, I am sorry to inform you that all that I stated is actually true.
Do yourselves a favour and start doing a little research to learn some of this stuff, before you attack me unjustly.
The problem with too many men today, is that they have their heads in the sand and are completely ignorant of what the reality is with regard family law and domestic violence.
Most men swallow the lies they see on TV!
But then when you are introduced to the system through divorce or through some other means by an abusive wife, you are suddenly faced with a very savage beast that is there to destroy you and it will do it at the say so of a vindictive woman.
You have a lot to learn my friend, before you can take the moral high ground and attack me.
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