Man charged over death of Australian Indigenous girl that sparked outback riots
Police in Australia's Northern Territory said on Sunday they had charged a man with murdering an Indigenous girl, days after the 5-year-old's death sparked violent clashes in an outback town. Jefferson Lewis, 47, was also charged with two other offenses, which cannot be publicly disclosed for legal reasons, over the death of Kumanjayi Little Baby, the name by which the victim is known in line with Indigenous custom, police said in a statement. Lewis, who had presented himself to one of the camps on the outskirts of the outback town, was charged on Saturday (May 2) evening and will appear in court in the territory's capital, Darwin, on Tuesday (May 5), police said. The girl's killing and subsequent capture of the suspect, after he was found and beaten unconscious by locals, sparked protests by roughly 400 Indigenous people near Alice Springs late on Thursday (April 30). Lewis has past convictions for physical assault and had recently been released from prison.
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