female killers

Cassandra Rose Doohan was aged 18 when she violently shook four-month-old Anastasia (pictured), inflicting catastrophic injuries on the infant, at their Capel home in Western Australia’s South West region in May 2017. Anastasia’s father found her limp and “floppy” body in her cot after he came out of the shower and the girl died at Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth two days later. The Supreme Court was told the baby died of head and neck injuries, but a post mortem examination revealed Anastasia had numerous other injuries including broken bones that were likely to have been inflicted in the days and weeks before the fatal assault. Doohan, pleaded guilty to her murder, with the Supreme Court hearing she also admitted mistreating the baby in the weeks before. The court was told Doohan’s relatives had regularly seen injuries on the baby, including bruises on her face, a friction burn to her…