Mums knuckle-up over baby-sitting

You'd think it was something from a one-hour nighttime cop/lawyer drama series, but no, it's for real-- read it here. Excerpt:

'TWO women armed with a knuckleduster* invaded a house because of a baby-sitting dispute, a court heard yesterday.

Rachael Anne Jones, 35, and Shelby Wilson, 28, had both been drinking when they made a late-night visit to "sort out" a transport issue, Darwin Magistrates Court was told.

The court heard one woman grabbed a knife from the kitchen during the rural Darwin home invasion on December 6 last year.
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"I don't want the ladies to think it's a lay-down misere they're going to get a home detention order," he said. "There must come a point single mothers must go to jail when they have kids when they commit serious crimes."

The magistrate adjourned their sentences to November 6.'

Well, I guess time will tell if he's serious about that.

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* For those not familiar with the term, a "knuckleduster" is also called "brass knuckles".