IN LOVING MEMORY OF JANINE BALDING (7 OCTOBER 1967 TO 8 SEPTEMBER 1988)

            On this date, 8 September 1988, 20-year-old Janine Balding was raped and murdered by a gang of five youths in New South Wales, Australia. Please go to this previous Blog Post to learn more. 

 

Janine Balding

[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.mako.org.au/ausnews572.html]

Bev Balding with photo of her daughter Janine Balding in Wagga Wagga.

[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/gallery-e6frewxi-1111120226176?page=23]

 

“They should be put to death. I have no wish for revenge. People say that bringing back the death penalty is stooping to the level of the criminals. It’s not. Stooping to their level would be to terrorize them as they did Janine.”

- Bev Balding, the mother of Janine Balding.