Tara Cassidy

Nov 30, 2024 | cairnspost.com.au | Tara Cassidy

Warning: GraphicI’ve covered some of Australia’s most horrific criminal cases; the kind that would turn your stomach and make you hug your loved ones a little tighter at night. So when I stepped into a courtroom to cover a murder case on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in 2019, I remember thinking there wasn’t much that could surprise me. After everything I’d witnessed of what humans were capable of, surely, I’d seen it all. I was naïve. I was wrong.

Nov 30, 2024 | townsvillebulletin.com.au | Tara Cassidy

Warning: GraphicI’ve covered some of Australia’s most horrific criminal cases; the kind that would turn your stomach and make you hug your loved ones a little tighter at night. So when I stepped into a courtroom to cover a murder case on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in 2019, I remember thinking there wasn’t much that could surprise me. After everything I’d witnessed of what humans were capable of, surely, I’d seen it all. I was naïve. I was wrong.

Feb 20, 2024 | articles.listnr.com | Tara Cassidy

An elderly woman’s died in hospital after being found with maggot infested wounds at a Brisbane aged care facility. Whistleblower Katleyn said she worked at BlueCare’s Kallangur Pilgrim Aged Care for 13 years, but never returned after the incident last year. I bent down so I could see (the wound), that’s when I saw just maggots all over, the wound was severely infected, it had this horrific smell,” she said.

Aug 30, 2023 | articles.listnr.com | Tara Cassidy

At sixteen, Queensland woman Lily Arthur was arrested in the middle of the night after police found out she was pregnant. Her crime? “Being exposed to moral danger”, aka being sexually active in the 1960s, even though she was of legal age and only a month off 17. Ms Arthur was forced into a Magdalene Laundry in Brisbane, a place which was meant to provide protection and employment to unmarried mothers or women who were poor but, in reality, saw them forced to work full-time hours for free.