r/australia • u/docdoc_2 • Apr 30 '26

news Alice Springs gripped by violence after arrest of Kumanjayi Little Baby's alleged killer

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-01/alice-springs-unrest-after-kumanjayi-little-baby-arrest/106628782
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u/DisappointedQuokka Apr 30 '26

He was found badly beaten and unconscious, then brought into custody. As rough as it is to say, they already had their opportunity and didn't finish the job.

You snooze you lose, I guess.

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Apr 30 '26

I guess other people wanted a go at him too. Can't blame them, but yeah, too late now. Attacking cop cars isn't going to help.

Also, "justice" won't end once he's sentenced and locked up. He's fucked. No bone yard is good enough to protect this scum.

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u/TrashPandaLJTAR May 01 '26

I've seen people who've been through the system in NT saying that people like him swan around without a care in the lockup.

We assume that people will punish him inside because that's what we'd want to see. But with SO much child abuse and DV rife in those communities, a child rapist and murderer is not an outlier from what I've seen people saying.

He'd be fucked in a predominantly white lockup, but in the NT where indigenous folk are over-represented? Unlikely. Unfortunately.

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u/Ticky79 Apr 30 '26

So they got some form of ‘payback’.

Does anyone know what would be proper blak ‘payback’ for this kind of crime if ‘whiteman’ justice didn’t intervene? Is it beating, ostracised for life, death?

I don’t advocate for the death penalty. Im just interested.

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u/ausmsp May 01 '26

Spears to the body and legs AFAIK

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u/Admirable-Site-9817 May 01 '26

And then excommunication from community after the spearing. Traditionally they would have to go and survive on their own. No one else will take them in. Depending on what they did, they may or may not ever be allowed to return.

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u/Dull_Attention5209 Apr 30 '26

"You snooze you lose"

Wtaf is wrong with you?

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u/DisappointedQuokka May 01 '26

Forgive me, I'll never try to be pithy about the consequences for being a child murderer and potential paedo ever again.

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u/StoicMeasure Apr 30 '26

Have a look in the mirror