Mother's lack of mental health awareness preceded daughter's fatal psychosis, inquest hears

10-year-old Biddy Porter was killed by a 14-year-old girl experiencing acute psychosis; the teenager remains in custody under mental health tribunal oversight.

In the winter of 2020, a ten-year-old girl named Biddy Porter lost her life at a rural New South Wales property, killed by a fourteen-year-old in the grip of undiagnosed schizophrenia and acute psychosis. An inquest now examines not only the tragedy itself but the long chain of unheeded warnings — a mother's unfamiliarity with mental illness, a referral lost to a spam folder, a system that came too late. It is a story about what happens when the language of suffering goes unrecognized by those closest to the one who is suffering, and about the children — both of them — who bore the cost.

Mother's lack of mental health awareness preceded daughter's fatal psychosis, inquest hears

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