On 17 Nov 2010 two year old, Yazmina Acar's was killed by her father in an act of revenge against her mother. Her father, Ramazan Acar, stabbed his daughter to death and dumped her in grassland in Greenvale, Victoria, only days before her third birthday. In July 2011 Ramazan Acar jailed for life over murder of daughter Yazmina. The judge said the crime was in the worst category of murders because the victim was a child and the motive was revenge on Acar's former partner and the girl's mother, Rachelle D'Argent.
Coroner investigates the murder of Yazmina Acar – News.com 4 Dec, 2015
REVENGE does not get much more disturbing than the killing of two-year-old
Yazmina Acar by her own father.
Yazmina Acar was killed by her father.
REVENGE does not get much more disturbing than the killing of Yazmina Acar.
The two-year-old was an innocent victim who died at the hands of her father and a coroner’s investigation into the murder has ruled there was probably nothing that could have been done to prevent it.
Yazmina was murdered just over five years ago when she was coerced into the car with her father Ramazan Acar, thinking he was taking her to get a Kinder Surprise.
Instead, he stabbed his child to death and dumped her in grassland in Greenvale, Victoria, only days before her third birthday.
Acar turned up at the home of his ex-fiancee, Rachelle D’Argent, in Hallam on November 17 just after 6pm.
Ms D’Argent asked Acar to leave as he was in breach of a current intervention order.
Acar refused so Ms D’Argent gave in and let her daughter go to a local milk bar.
The father allegedly drove off erratically.
Ms D’Argent started receiving cryptic and bizarre text messages and Facebook posts, which made her realise Acar had no intention of bringing Yazmina back to safety.
Acar was later dubbed the “Facebook killer” after posting the disturbing comment, “bout 2 kill ma’ kid”.
In one phone call to Ms D’Argent he said “I’m going to do it. Do you have any last words for her?”
Yazmina talked into the phone, “I love you,” she said.
“I love you too,” Ms D’Argent replied.
She never saw or spoke to her daughter again.
Ms D’Argent received another text message from her estranged lover, informing her it was over and he “did it”.
Another text message read: “I h8t you.”
Acar then took to Facebook and wrote a message directed at Ms D’Argent, which said “pay bk u slut”.
The Facebook page of Ramazan Acar showing his posting on how he was going to kill his daughter Yazmina.
When Acar, who was 24 at the time, was arrested he told police Ms D’Argent took Yazmina away from him, putting him through hell.
“She won’t understand what I went through, like, I wanted her to feel it,” he said.
It was later found Acar was intoxicated at the time of the murder.
Yazmina was born in the Narre Warren area but moved to Meadow Heights with her mother when she was seven months old after Ms D’Argent and Acar split.
The coroner’s investigation discovered it was a tense and volatile relationship between the pair, who met as teenagers.
There were a number of meetings with Victoria Police and clear evidence of family violence.
In September 2010, Acar was served an intervention order, which he breached the same month by sending text messages to Ms D’Argent.
He breached the intervention order again on September 30 for sending text messages.
Ms D’Argent reported it to police and it had to be forwarded to Broadmeadows police station.
The two reports were not received at Broadmeadows until October 14 and 15.
Acar was then taken into custody and interviewed and he admitted to the breaches, but justified it by his desire to be in contact with Yazmina.
Acar was then released and, about a month later, Yazmina was dead.
Rachelle D'Argent is comforted by a friend at a birthday party she had organised for her daughter Yazmina’s third birthday.
State Coroner Ian Gray said the only issue that arose in relation to Victoria Police was the time it took for files to be sent to Broadmeadows after the reported breaches and Acar being released.
Judge Gray said even if Acar was remanded in custody and not released, there was nothing to suggest he wouldn’t have been walking free before the day he killed his daughter.
“It is a matter of speculation whether an earlier interview, even if combined with arrest and remand in custody, would have affected the tragic outcome,” Judge Gray reported.
During Acar’s murder trial, psychiatrist Dr Danny Sullivan said Acar had mixed personality disorder with borderline anti-social and narcissistic traits.
He said Acar was “an overwhelming picture of a man who had become so consumed with punishing his ex-partner that everything else fell by the wayside”.
Justice Elizabeth Curtain said Acar murdered with the worst possible motives, revenge and spite.
“You killed your daughter to get back at her mother. You used your daughter, an innocent victim, as the instrument of your overarching desire to inflict pain on your former partner,” she said.
“This murder occurred in the context of a relationship which had at times been violent, where intervention orders were in place and where you were serving the operation period of a suspended sentence in respect of an assault on Ms D’Argent.