Interpol search for Philippines woman, 31, working in Sydney who 'tried to kill her young daughter TWICE'
- An Interpol red notice has been issued for a Filipino woman working in Sydney
- Maria Kathrina Katleen Maligro Mountney is wanted by authorities in Philippines
- The 31-year-old was charged with two counts of attempted parricide in 2016
An Interpol red notice has been issued for Filipino national Maria Kathrina Katleen Maligro Mountney (pictured), who is working in Sydney
A Filipino woman working in Sydney is wanted by authorities in her homeland after she allegedly tried to murder her young daughter twice.
An Interpol red notice has been issued for Maria Kathrina Katleen Maligro Mountney, who also goes by the names of Maria Cabrera and Maria Catton.
The 31-year-old was charged with two counts of attempted parricide in the Philippines in 2016, while she was in Australia.
The charges come after her former husband and daughter filed affidavits with local police, where they claimed she tried to kill the young girl on two occasions.
Ms Mountney allegedly threatened to throw her daughter off a bridge and also said she was going to kill her while holding a butcher's knife to her stomach, according to police charge sheets seen by The Sydney Morning Herald.
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She also allegedly 'physically tortured' the girl and yelled at her 'on a daily basis', police documents state.
Ms Mountney's former husband, Shaun Mountney, alleged she physically abused the girl and her sister.
Ms Mountney was charged with two counts of attempted parricide in the Philippines in 2016
'Maria hit our eldest daughter in the head most days in Australia, and started hitting her sister, five, in the head a few months before we left her,' Mr Mountney told The Sydney Morning Herald.
Affidavits detailing Ms Mountney's alleged violence have also been prepared by Mr Mountney's mother and daughters from another relationship.
Ms Mountney, who is reportedly working in a Sydney medical centre, has not been arrested.
In a now deleted Facebook post, she wrote she cries 'every single day missing my children thinking of them every single day'.
An Interpol red notice is not an arrest warrant but a way to communicate information between international authorities.
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