Young girl’s killing sparks violent clashes with police in Australia
- Posted on May 1, 2026
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Young girl’s killing sparks violent clashes with police in Australia
Violent crowds clashed with police outside a hospital in a remote Australian outback town as they demanded authorities hand over an accused child-killer. Jefferson Lewis was arrested for the alleged murder of a five-year-old girl now known as Kumanjayi Little Baby, a pseudonym given by her family as a cultural measure among their Indigenous Warlpiri people to avoid the utterance of a deceased person’s name during a mourning period.