Kiwi mum Ellen Craig sentenced for killing toddler at Australian cult in 1987
By Jeremy Wilkinson, Open Justice Multimedia Journalist of
The Supreme Court of New South Wales in Sydney.
Photo: AFP
"I'm here today 35 years after the unthinkable," the father of a murdered toddler told a courtroom.
"My daughter was taken in the most horrible and senseless manner imaginable at the hands of her own mother."
Gerard Stanhope spent 30 years thinking his daughter Tillie Craig was still alive and was desperate to track her down after her mother took her to live at a cult in rural Sydney.
He last saw Tillie a few months before her death but was told she was alive and well by her Kiwi mother Ellen Craig.
"The reality is that Tillie was violently murdered by the person she should have been able to trust to protect her the most," Stanhope said.
"It's a woun...
