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Murder Apologist Bingo - A Game for Disabled People

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Murder apologist bingo - for the version with comments, go to https://www.dropbox.com/s/mx6f1m6uslia8l0/final%20image%20murder%20apologist%20bingo.jpg?dl=0 She could be any woman, that woman.   Middle aged, with an unremarkable face.    Like me, she’s the parent of several disabled children.  She doesn’t look like the type of women who would murder her children.  The newspapers clearly thought the same.   She’s an ordinary mother accused of an extraordinary crime.    ‘Australian mum is arrested over the death of her two children’, one article reads.    ‘Mum accused of killing children with poison’, says another. Queensland mother Maree Mavis Crabtree has been accused of poisoning her two disabled children, Erin and Jonathon, aged 18 and 26.   They are described as severely disabled.   An arrest has been made.  There is no further information available. The comments on social media flow thick and fast.  ‘I don’t think anyone can m