Police stand with their bicycles as they watch a small protest outside the venue of the G20 finance ministers and central bankers in the northern Australian city of Cairns
Police stand with their bicycles as they watch a small protest outside the venue of the G20 finance ministers and central bankers in the northern Australian city of Cairns September 21, 2014. Financial leaders of the Group of 20 top economies remain committed to chasing higher global growth, but were divided on how to achieve it as Germany pushed back at calls from the United States and others for more immediate stimulus. But the efforts of the finance ministers and central bankers, meeting this weekend in the tropical Australia tourist town of Cairns, risk being drowned out by growing alarm over geopolitical tensions and increased market volatility. Reuters/Stuart McDill

The Cairns mother may never get charged for stabbing eight children to death. Seven of those children were her own, while the other was her niece's.

There is a possibility that Raina Mersane Ina Thaiday aka Mersane Warria may never face any criminal charges. It was reported that the woman would dodge criminal charges if psychiatrists suggest that the case should be dealt in a specialised mental health court. The 37-year-old woman is under police guard in the hospital at present after she had been accused of stabbing eight children to death. The children, four girls and four boys, were aged between 2 and 14. The case was briefly mentioned in the Cairns Magistrates Court on Monday.

Steve McFarlane, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait ­Islander Legal Service solicitor, who is advocating for her, said that it would take a psychiatric assessment to determine if the case should be referred to the Mental Health Court. "Once she gets assessed, it may go to a mental health court at that stage, '' The Australian quoted McFarlane, ''I think she probably knows what's happened but doesn't realise it, or it hasn't sunk in. (That) is my personal opinion only.'' The Mental Health Court is capable of removing mentally sick offenders from the criminal judiciary system. Such cases are then dealt in the mental health system. The Mental Health Court, in Queensland, is responsible for defining if an accused is mentally stable enough to be charged with crimes.

Police officers, in the meantime, photographed the crime scene while they removed and bagged an item which might prove to be pivotal in the case. Brisbane Times reported that the item looked to be a metal bar. It was recovered from a park next to the property. The importance of the item will be proved only when the case is placed in the criminal court. Police documents revealed that the mother had killed all the eight children on Friday, Dec. 19.

The community, meanwhile, continues to face the tragedy, which robbed them off their "little darlings."

Contact the writer: s.mukhopadhyay@IBTimes.com.au

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