Man killed woman and tortured girls while on parole

Sean Maraffko, 42, has pleaded guilty to the stabbing murder of Joanne Kate Wicking, 29, who had taken him in after his release from jail.
The violent offender had been paroled just three weeks before murdering the mother of four from Kilmore, Victoria.
Maraffko, who had been paroled after bashing a former partner, flew into a rage and punched and stabbed Ms Wikcing four times, turning on two of her daughters, then aged eight and ten, hitting and kicking them and gagging one with duct tape.
"I want him to be dust, be dead," the younger of the girls said in a victim impact statement tendered to the Supreme Court.
"I can't understand how he could do that to a little kid," she wrote, adding her pain of her mother being in heaven and not being around for birthdays, Christmas and Mothers days.
Ms Wicking's four children were all home at the time of her brutal death, the Victorian Supreme Court heard today.
Maraffko, 42, who gave his address to the court as Queensland, had pleaded guilty to murder and two counts of intentionally causing serious injury.
Prosecutor Gavin Silbert, SC, told the court Maraffko had been out of prison for just three weeks and was on parole.
A mutual friend had organised for him to live with Ms Wicking.


The Queensland baker pleaded guilty to murder and to seriously injuring the girls, who were then aged eight and 10.


Their sisters, who were two and four, were also home at the time of the attack.


The court heard horrific details of Maraffko's crimes, which were discovered after one of the girls ran down the street with her mouth covered with tape.


Maraffko's lawyer told the court that he was born with a drug addiction and was abused by his biological and adoptive parents.


A psychiatrist said Maraffko had a long history of self-harm and failing to his control anger.


Maraffko will be sentenced at a later date.