Children attend a church service for eight children who were killed in the Cairns suburb of Manoora, December 21, 2014. Eight children have been killed in the northern Australian city of Cairns, police said on Friday, in what several media outlets reported was a mass stabbing. REUTERS/Dan Peled/Pool (AUSTRALIA - Tags: CRIME LAW) - RTR4ITBK
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The house where an Australian mother allegedly killed eight children, most of them her own, will likely be demolished in keeping with indigenous culture to make way for a memorial, a government official said on Monday.
The fate of the house in the tropical northern city of Cairns was being discussed while a judge denied a request to transfer the murder case against 37-year-old Raina Mersane Ina Thaiday to Queensland state's Mental Health Court.
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