Lauren Cassimatis

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471 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 28 Jun

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Australian True Crime · The Only Australian Woman Sentenced to Life Without Parole · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

Or there's such a deterioration in their sense of worth, their sense of esteem and their sense of, I guess, belonging that they look for crime as a way to heal.

So I'm thinking, for example, drug use, fraud, like there's often women that are committing dishonest defences because it's a way to take charge of their life or control their life.

Or there's situations where there's desperation.

victims of violence that leave a really unhealthy relationship, especially when they're mums.

They go out on their own.

They've been reliant on this abusive partner for so long that now they're left basically in a state of poverty.

They're trying to build a brand new life for them and their children.

They're trying to afford rent.

They're trying to get a job.

Often they can't get a job because they're just so broken or they've been isolated or been reliant financially for so long that they haven't been out there in the workforce.

So what do they do?

They then turn to fraud to survive.

There's others that I've had many female clients that have turned to prostitution.

And then there's others that go on to commit crimes against their new male partner.

And this is, I guess, similar to what happened with Catherine Knight's case is that even if this current partner isn't necessarily violent, there's almost this sense of resentment and there's a fear that they'll be abandoned.

So they want to sort of

maintain some control and that's when the violence might start off as emotional abuse and escalate to something physical as what happened here.

It feels like she entered every relationship expecting combat.

And I think that's a real, you see that often in victims of domestic violence.

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