Current Mother murders 3yo daughter

[_Mike_]

Community reeling after little Sophia allegedly stabbed to death by her mother at their Bundaberg home​

A community is reeling and a dad left “absolutely devastated” after a three-year-old girl was allegedly stabbed to death by her mother.

Lauren Ingrid Flanigan, 32, has been charged with the murder of her daughter, Sophia Rose, who was found with critical injuries in the front yard of their Moore Park Beach home on Regency Road in Bundaberg, Central Queensland, on Monday afternoon.

Community reeling after toddler allegedly stabbed to death as dad remembers ‘bubbly’ girl

‘Our hearts are heavy.’

7news.com.au

 

[Anj]

According to that article, the accused had three children aged three and under...
Other news articles suggest that she was the victim of domestic violence (according to her FB posts).
There's a lot going on there.
In a Courier Mail article ‘They failed my daughter’: Dad’s pain as mum charged with murder (behind a paywall) the father suggests there were warning signs which he reported.
“I’ve been fighting this for the last year.
“The system failed us and now my daughter Sophia has paid for it with her life.
“The questions now, Why did she die? Were there warning signs? Yes there were but they just let it off.”
“She was sticking knives in walls,” he said.“And I couldn’t even do a welfare check on the children.”
Also interesting is that the accused claims to be single on her FB page (Lauren Zonta), whereas most news articles suggest that she and her partner, MMA fighter and FIFO miner still live in the same house.
Poor Sophia Rose, an innocent life taken in such awful circumstances.

 

[BFew]

https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/crime/queensland-mum-ingrid-flanigan-accused-of-killing-3yo-daughter-found-unresponsive-in-jail-cell/news-story/5ab6f2a5902bed6d51623ece7da38f6e

May 31, 2025 - 10:21AM

'Queensland mum Ingrid Flanigan, accused of killing 3yo daughter, found unresponsive in jail cell'​

 

[Anj]

https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/crime/queensland-mum-ingrid-flanigan-accused-of-killing-3yo-daughter-found-unresponsive-in-jail-cell/news-story/5ab6f2a5902bed6d51623ece7da38f6e

May 31, 2025 - 10:21AM

'Queensland mum Ingrid Flanigan, accused of killing 3yo daughter, found unresponsive in jail cell'​

It is all very sad

 

[Whats a Battle]

Saw the Reddit comments regarding this case...so many people were quick to sympathise with the murderer saying she's just a mentally unwell woman in crisis. Sickening.

 

[Awakening]

Saw the Reddit comments regarding this case...so many people were quick to sympathise with the murderer saying she's just a mentally unwell woman in crisis. Sickening.

Maybe she is? Idk. Any news of her being diagnosed with something or having a psychotic episode?

 

[Kurve]

It's so hard to fathom how someone could do this to their child. Beyond words.

 

[Caj]

Maybe she is? Idk. Any news of her being diagnosed with something or having a psychotic episode?

Double standards much? If a guy did this he’d be correctly labelled a monster

For some reason when a mother kills her child there’s sympathy for her

 

[Awakening]

Double standards much? If a guy did this he’d be correctly labelled a monster

For some reason when a mother kills her child there’s sympathy for her

What are you on about? I haven’t expressed any sympathy for her. Men and Women experience psychotic episodes, so I’m not sure why you are making this about gender?

It’s hard to fathom how a parent could murder their child, so it’s natural to wonder if the killer was insane.

She had two other children but they are unharmed? She stabbed this poor girl which is particularly heinous and brutal.

There’s obviously a lot more to the story that’s yet to come out that might give us some clue as to why she did it.

 

[Kurve]

Double standards much? If a guy did this he’d be correctly labelled a monster

For some reason when a mother kills her child there’s sympathy for her

Sympathy in here is for the child she killed, her siblings and her dad.

We've also seen on this board quite recently, a knife wielding slasher rampage through a Bondi shopping complex stabbing people to death and a baby.

We don't start off with a firm assumption mental illness had to play a role if of course people will sometimes wonder if it did and in that case, it was revealed that Cauchi was floridly psychotic with a history of schizophrenia.

 

[Whats a Battle]

Double standards much? If a guy did this he’d be correctly labelled a monster

For some reason when a mother kills her child there’s sympathy for her

Got nothing to do with being a woman - the double standards are due to being an attractive woman.

Erin Patterson is getting much less sympathy despite ostensibly having more reason for her murders. Not that there's ever a reason to murder, but killing the people who financially abuse you vs killing a defenceless child in cold blood. Yet she gets absolutely no sympathy, because she isn't attractive, despite also being a woman.

 

[BFew]

Erin Patterson is getting much less sympathy despite ostensibly having more reason for her murders. Not that there's ever a reason to murder, but killing the people who financially abuse you ....

The Jury's out on your financial abuse allegation.

EP's motives for the financial ties she had with her husband and in-laws, and the full and truthful facts surrounding this, are still currently in dispute, although not on trial in a trial where the prosecution has not put forward a motive.

 

[Whats a Battle]

The Jury's out on your financial abuse allegation.

EP's motives for the financial ties she had with her husband and in-laws, and the full and truthful facts surrounding this, are still currently in dispute, although not on trial in a trial where the prosecution has not put forward a motive.

Fair enough (even though in my opinion the financial abuse is reasonably clear and I would not tolerate it if I were in her position) - but my point still stands, EP is not getting the love in that this woman is, because she's not attractive.

 

[Awakening]

Sympathy in here is for the child she killed, her siblings and her dad.

We've also seen on this board quite recently, a knife wielding slasher rampage through a Bondi shopping complex stabbing people to death and a baby.

We don't start off with a firm assumption mental illness had to play a role if of course people will sometimes wonder if it did and in that case, it was revealed that Cauchi was floridly psychotic with a history of schizophrenia.

The cauchi case is shocking enough, but it seems it may have been completely avoidable, if he’d received proper treatment.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

The cauchi case is shocking enough, but it seems it may have been completely avoidable, if he’d received proper treatment.

Unfortunately he didn’t want it. No one can be compelled to accept treatment.

Just like police won’t arrest someone until they have actually done something.

 

[BFew]

No one can be compelled to accept treatment.

That's not correct in NSW.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

That's not correct in NSW.

Gotta find them first I would think there’d be quite a process to go through. Although his parents reported their concerns, Cauchi’s psych thought he was ok

 

[rdhopkins2]

The mother has died in hospital. I suppose we will never find out the answers for this terrible tragedy.

https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/crime/lauren-flanigan-mum-charged-with-murder-of-3yo-daughter-sophia-rose-dies-in-hospital/news-story/1d3e9f9a682cd63f800868505d529318

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

The mother has died in hospital. I suppose we will never find out the answers for this terrible tragedy.

https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/crime/lauren-flanigan-mum-charged-with-murder-of-3yo-daughter-sophia-rose-dies-in-hospital/news-story/1d3e9f9a682cd63f800868505d529318

It’s a very strange and tragic story. So much unsaid. Will we ever find out?

 

[MsTeschmacher]

It is incredibly difficult to get someone formed under the Mental Health ACT in most states. Someone who is psychotic may be guarded, paranoid & very suspicious and able to bluff their way through a quick MH assessment in the community. More often than not the Clinic will be unable to step in until things get pretty serious. I'm not sure what the answer is.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

It is incredibly difficult to get someone formed under the Mental Health ACT in most states. Someone who is psychotic may be guarded, paranoid & very suspicious and able to bluff their way through a quick MH assessment in the community. More often than not the Clinic will be unable to step in until things get pretty serious. I'm not sure what the answer is.

The stories are legion of mentally ill, even dangerous people presenting as normal and well to psychologists and psychiatrists, in order to evade medication or hospitalisation. They know what to say to convince others that they’re ok.

 

[Awakening]

The stories are legion of mentally ill, even dangerous people presenting as normal and well to psychologists and psychiatrists, in order to evade medication or hospitalisation. They know what to say to convince others that they’re ok.

Can confirm.

 

[Lady O]

Fair enough (even though in my opinion the financial abuse is reasonably clear and I would not tolerate it if I were in her position) - but my point still stands, EP is not getting the love in that this woman is, because she's not attractive.

Yes, I noticed the drawing of her in court was very unflattering (she ain't that ugly), and I'm wondering if that is some kind of subtle indictment of her?

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Here is her photo as a young women. So she isn't ugly, she is just overweight.

 

[Anj]

There's one other aspect of this that I don't think anybody has thought of.
What if another prisoner got to her (instead of the suspected suicide)?
We hear frequently about prisoners being attacked for crimes against children by other prisoners.
It's probably wrong, and just a thought.
I guess the postmortem will give more clarity.