Zahra Baker's jailed stepmother has claimed the disabled Australian schoolgirl was not murdered. Source: AAP
ZAHRA Baker's stepmother has claimed in a US jailhouse interview the disabled Australian schoolgirl was not murdered, but died in the family's North Carolina home after suffering a stomach bug.
Elisa Baker, who pleaded guilty to the murder and dismemberment of 10-year-old bone cancer survivor Zahra in a deal with prosecutors in 2011, alleged it was Zahra's father, former Queensland sugar mill worker Adam Baker, who chopped up the girl's body.
"I plead guilty to something I didn't even do and it wasn't even a murder," Baker said in an interview with North Carolina TV station WSOC.
She said she was furious Mr Baker was never charged in relation to Zahra's death and was allowed to return to Australia.
"It makes me so, so angry," Baker said.
"He's gone back to Australia.
"He has a life."
Baker, 44, is serving a maximum 18-year jail sentence for Zahra's dismemberment and murder.
When it is complete, she will serve another 10 years for an unrelated conspiracy to distribute prescription drugs charge.
On the day of Zahra's death in September, 2010, Baker said Zahra had a stomach bug.
When she went to check on Zahra in her bedroom, Baker said her stepdaughter was not breathing.
"I didn't see her chest moving up and down," Baker said.
She said she started doing CPR, but did not call an ambulance.
Instead, she said she called Mr Baker, who allegedly told her: "Calm down. I'll take care of it".
The next day she alleged Mr Baker dismembered Zahra in the bathroom, an act she thought may be an Aboriginal ritual, and he asked her to help dump the body parts.
"I thought it was maybe a strange ritual that he done," she said.
"For all I know, the Aborigines."
Zahra's body parts were found scattered in various areas of bushland near the family's home in Hickory, North Carolina.
Mr Baker met Baker on the internet, they married and moved to North Carolina with Zahra in 2008.
Baker, held in the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, said other inmates taunted her with the nickname "baby killer".
She described Zahra, who had a leg amputated at the age of five after being stricken by bone cancer, as a blessing and said Zarah's name was tattooed on her back, along with the names of her other children.
"She stays on my mind, every day," Baker said.
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