Let’s Talk: Could you ever forgive your child’s killer?

It’s a situation many of us don’t want to face as parents.

But if you were ever faced with it, what would you do? Could you ever forgive your child’s killer?

It’s the situation the family of murdered Gold Coast mum Tara Brown have faced this week, when her ex-partner and killer Lionel Patea penned a letter apologising for his actions.

In the letter Patea described how he remorseful he was.

“I would like to apologise from the bottom of my heart to both sides of our family,” he wrote.

“I would like to apologise to my daughter. These events and outcomes are simply unspeakable and I only have myself to blame.”

He went on to question how “such a tragedy” could occur.

“The question that haunts us all (is) how such a tragedy like this could ever have happened,” he wrote.

But Tara’s family aren’t having a bar of it.

Her mother Natalie Hinton told described the letter as “worthless”.

“His apology could have happened before his actions,” she told Nine.

“His apology to Tara, it’s worth nothing now that she’s gone.”

The family were also critical of the actions of police in the lead-up to her death, and revealed how her daughter is struggling without her mother.

“We started with ‘I miss mummy’, ‘I want mummy’ then we moved to ‘I want to see mummy’ and then just the other week she asked me if she was going to get a new mummy,” Hinton said.

How heartbreaking! Would you ever be able to forgive your child’s killer?