{"id":472928,"date":"2026-05-07T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/472928\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:17:12","slug":"vigils-across-australia-for-murdered-five-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/472928\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigils across Australia for murdered five-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People gathered across Australia to hold vigils for a five-year-old girl whose alleged abduction and murder \u2060shocked the nation and sparked riots in the Outback town of Alice Springs.<\/p>\n<p>The gatherings come a week after Kumanjayi Little Baby was found dead by authorities following a five-day search involving hundreds of volunteers and police.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest \u2060of a man suspected of abducting and murdering her triggered violent clashes in Alice Springs, with a crowd of 400 Indigenous people gathering to demand &#8220;payback,&#8221; referring to traditional and mostly physical punishment in Aboriginal societies.<\/p>\n<p>The Alice Springs community has \u200csince been conducting &#8220;sorry business,&#8221; the mourning period and cultural practices that occur after an Indigenous person&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People hold candles as they stand in silence during a vigil in honour \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/002453f7-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nPeople hold candles during a vigil held in Sydney<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060girl&#8217;s family will hold a vigil in the \u200cOutback town this evening and others will be held across \u2060the country \u200cin remembrance of the girl.<\/p>\n<p>Vigil organisers have asked attendees to bring candles and wear pink &#8211; the girl&#8217;s favourite colour.<\/p>\n<p>Kumanjayi Little Baby disappeared from her home \u2060on the outskirts of Alice Springs on the evening of 25 April.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flowers and candles are placed on steps during a vigil \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/002453f8-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nCandles and flowers are seen during the vigil in Sydney<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds \u2060of people were involved in a search effort to locate her, scouring dense bushland around the town, a popular tourist destination in Australia&#8217;s Northern Territory.<\/p>\n<p>Police on Sunday charged Jefferson Lewis, 47, with her murder and two other offences, which cannot be publicly disclosed \u200cfor legal reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People gathered across Australia to hold vigils for a five-year-old girl whose alleged abduction and murder \u2060shocked the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-472928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}