Outrage as convicted killer Alicia Schiller granted permission to receive IVF treatment while serving 16-year sentence
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A convicted murderer has been allowed out of prison to receive IVF treatment, angering her victim’s family.
Alicia Schiller is currently serving a 16-year sentence in Victoria for the 2014 stabbing death of 25-year-old Tyrrell Evertsen.
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The couple lived together in the Geelong suburb of Norlane.
Schiller killed the mother of three in a drug-fueled rage after she took $50 from her bedroom.
Evertsen’s partner and four-year-old son were in the home at the time.
Ten years after the murder, Schiller, now 30, was allowed to leave her prison cell at the Dame Phyllis Frost Center to access IVF treatment.
If the treatment is successful, it is understood that the child will be raised in a special ward in the maximum security prison.
The news outraged Evertsen’s relatives, who described Schiller as evil.
“She took a life, is she entitled to a better life?” Yvonne Gentle, the mother of Evertsen’s partner, said.
“I think it’s a selfish act to raise a child in prison.”
The nonprofit inmate advocacy group’s coordinator, Brett Collins, said he was pleased to hear Schiller would be allowed to undergo the treatment.
He said it would be “a shame” if she was deprived of the opportunity to have a child.
“It’s actually kind of giving back to the community and it’s going to bring life back to the community that was taken away,” Collins said.
Schiller covers the costs of treatment and the necessary transport.
The ruling follows a landmark ruling in 2010 in which the Supreme Court allowed a female prisoner to resume IVF treatment she had already begun before her incarceration.
IVF treatment was found to be reasonable and “necessary for the preservation of health” under section 47(1)(f) of the Criminal Code.
The opposition is calling for the decision to be overturned, but Prisons Minister Enver Erdogan said it was in the hands of medical professionals.
“The Supreme Court has said that access to IVF and infertility treatment is a medically necessary treatment and therefore we are required to provide the logistics and transportation for these issues,” he said.
— With Rochelle Brown
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