A FORMER Caboolture woman jailed in 2003 for the sickening "hog-tying" death of her 18-month-old daughter has revealed she is going to be a mother again.

In an interview in today's Qweekend magazine, Rebecca Mae Haliday, 27, who now lives in Victoria and is a free woman after her parole expired in February, speaks of her fears for what will happen when authorities find out about the pregnancy.
Haliday begs the public to leave her in peace during her fresh shot at motherhood and says she is willing to abide by any conditions imposed by government authorities so she can keep the new baby.
Haliday and her former boyfriend Daniel Ronald Green, now 30, were both jailed for six years for the manslaughter of her youngest child Beanca Newman, who died in 2001 in their caravan home, north of Brisbane.
She also had a son, two-and-a-half, at the time of Beanca's death.
The pair admitted Beanca was tied up with rolled bedsheets night after night for weeks to teach her "that bedtime was bedtime".

Haliday, then 20, did not take part in the restraining process but was conjointly charged because she consented to it. She told police that in the final weeks she believed the restraints were strengthened, as Green "hogtied" together Beanca's separately bound hands and feet.

The toddler eventually died in her sleep from a combination of pneumonia and asphyxia.

Haliday's other child Chris was taken in by his paternal grandmother Jenny Newman, who is raising him in Melbourne. There was no evidence the boy had been tied up.

News of Haliday's pregnancy has shocked Ms Newman who told The Courier-Mail yesterday she was "incredibly worried" for the unborn baby.

"My message to the authorities is 'protect this child'," she said.

News of Haliday's pregnancy follows a spate of shocking child neglect cases around the country which have prompted the Federal Government to announce plans for a national strategy to tackle the issue.

The strategy is expected to involve information sharing across jurisdictions and better prevention measures.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday called on the community to report any evidence of child neglect.

"If you have a reasonable suspicion or reasonable concern that a young child is the subject of abuse I think you've got a moral responsibility to act," Mr Rudd said.

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sick cunt!! she should have been spayed!

Outdoors, where's your outrage toward the man who actually did the tying? They are both as guilty as sin, and if you're going to be upset with one, why not the other? Neither one of them should EVER be allowed to have kids in their custody.

And if you ask me, six years is far too short a sentence for either of them. The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach.

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Outdoors, where's your outrage toward the man who actually did the tying? They are both as guilty as sin, and if you're going to be upset with one, why not the other? Neither one of them should EVER be allowed to have kids in their custody.

And if you ask me, six years is far too short a sentence for either of them. The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach.

i didn't mention -nuetering?


six years-crock of shit!!!

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Outdoors, where's your outrage toward the man who actually did the tying?

The question is both fair and unfair.

Be outraged, sure, at the man. He is an animal who deserves whatever he got and probably more.

Tera, YOU be outraged.

Tell us your outrage.

Your comments are spot-on. Except for highlighting Outdoors.

Outdoors is likely to be outraged too, but he was responding to the article, which talks of the mother. The man is mentioned in passing.

I can see where you are coming from Tera. But don't whack blindly just because one member or another doesn't mention something that occurs to you. That's why we all join in adding our own.

How about the woman's mother, the grandmother, who now has one of the children? What has been her part in this. She raised the mother. She did the 'nurturing' of her 'female sensibilities'. It was her role to guide and bring forth her daughter's empathy and mothering skills, but she appears to have done a pig's ear of the job. Yet she gets to look after a grandchild. Astonishing. She gets a second go after fucking up with her own daughter.

OUTRAGEOUS !

Were there no signs? Frankly, I think anyone who will give her child a 'different' (read, illiterate) name like Beanca is a loony who shouldn't be allowed withing a hundred yards of a child. Ain't that right Tera ?

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How about the woman's mother, the grandmother, who now has one of the children? What has been her part in this. She raised the mother. She did the 'nurturing' of her 'female sensibilities'. It was her role to guide and bring forth her daughter's empathy and mothering skills, but she appears to have done a pig's ear of the job. Yet she gets to look after a grandchild. Astonishing. She gets a second go after fucking up with her own daughter.

The grandmother who now has care of the other child, Chris, is not the mother of Rebecca. The grandmother (Jenny) who cares for Chris is the mother of Chris and Beanca's father (Simon). Rebecca ran away to Queensland with a new boyfriend and the kids without even letting Simon know. On hearing about Beanca's death, Jenny went to Queensland to bring little Chris back to Melbourne. Unfortunately Chris has autism and has not spoken since witnessing his sisters death. Jenny (the grandmother) continues to do an amazing job raising Chris with the help of her son Simon.

So in reply to your comment Percy, you are wrong, horribly wrong.