‘Evil’: Mum’s tears after fiance murdered girl

The parent of murdered schoolgirl Charlise Mutten has tearfully declared she hates herself for placing her spot successful her daughter’s slayer successful an affectional caller interview.

The nine-year-old was changeable dormant by her mum’s fiance, Justin Stein successful January 2022 portion connected a Christmas vacation successful the Blue Mountains.

Charlise had been surviving with her grandparents but they’d allowed her mother, Kallista Mutten, to instrumentality her for the vacation period.

Stein was jailed for beingness successful August aft a assemblage recovered him blameworthy of murdering Charlise earlier stuffing her assemblage successful a tube and dumping it adjacent the Colo River.

At proceedings helium argued Ms Mutten killed her girl and that he’d helped screen it up — an relationship the assemblage rejected.

Sentencing Stein, Justice Helen Wilson said his actions were “unspeakably vicious”, noting the nine-year-old miss called him “daddy”.

“This was a shockingly callous transgression of precise large heinousness; it was gravely reprehensible and highly wicked,” she said.

“There are nary facts which tin mitigate its seriousness.”

Kallista had met Stein successful 2018 portion they were some successful prison, opening a narration aft they were released and believing they some wanted to enactment towards a amended life.

“I americium forced to unrecorded with the information that I trusted idiosyncratic with my girl and that due to the fact that of my spot successful someone, I enactment my girl successful harm’s way,” She told 60 Minutes connected Sunday.

I hatred myself for it. I truly do. It’s taken this for maine to aftermath up and realise that I already had idiosyncratic that loved maine … He’s a monster, axenic evil.”

The brace moved into Stein’s Mount Wilson home, successful the Blue Mountains westbound of Sydney.

At the extremity of 2021 Charlise’s grandparents agreed to fto her walk the holidays with Kallista and Stein.

Ms Mutten said Stein had asked Charlise to telephone him daddy, saying helium was “always going to beryllium a begetter figure”.

“That was a precise touching infinitesimal for some of america due to the fact that she’s ever longed for a dad,” she said.

In the days starring up to her death, the trio were staying successful a caravan connected the Hawkesbury River, erstwhile Stein said helium was going to instrumentality to Mount Wilson and Charlise asked to spell with him connected January 11.

Ms Mutten reported her missing 3 days later.

She told 60 Minutes her narration with Stein had been erratic, successful nary tiny portion owed to their cause use, but she ne'er believed helium was susceptible of what happened.

“The thought of what she had gone, would’ve gone through, that’s … that’s what breaks me,” Ms Mutten said.

“There is conscionable not capable justness that volition marque it amended for maine and my family.”

The tribunal recovered Stein killed Charlise wrong a 15-hour play betwixt the evening of January 11 and the greeting of January 12.

He returned connected January 12, lying and claiming Charlise was sick and being cared for.

They returned to the bare Mount Wilson location 11 hours aboriginal aft consuming drugs and having enactment successful Centennial Park, with Stein present claiming Charlise had been kidnapped and convinced her not to interaction police.

Lead Investigator, Detective Sergeant Brad Gardiner, told 60 Minutes Ms Mutten was an casual scapegoat and received a batch of hatred but is present forced to unrecorded with her decisions.

Ms Mutten said she understands wherefore she was judged and present knows “Charlise deserved more”.

“I bash instrumentality accountability of the things that I person done,” she said.

“I privation I had been determination much for her and, like, I spot that present and I’ve got to unrecorded with that.”

She told the programme she hopes Charlise is remembered arsenic a bundle of joyousness with a benignant soul.

“We conscionable had this astonishing transportation and that she conscionable absolutely, she was my fig 1 fan,” she said.

“She conscionable was conscionable the astir unthinkable astonishing small girl.”