Emily Dietrich was approached by the Advertiser at her Glenfield home but said she was too upset to comment on the case, which has made headlines in the US, Australia and the UK.

However, earlier in the week she posted an emotional plea to Facebook, decrying the interview, and making a reference to her daughter’s murderer and stepmother Elisa Baker being a “putrid monster”. 

“Just let the putrid monster rot in her cell instead of giving her attention for her actions, and just let my daughter’s name rest,” Ms Dietrich posted. 

“Zahra is not a ratings raiser, she was a beautiful girl and now a glowing, winged angel.” 

Furthermore, saying she had “cried herself to sleep out of shock, disgust and bad memories,” in the Facebook post. 

Ms Dietrich has remained largely silent on the death of her daughter. 

In a 2011 interview screened on an affiliate of American network NBC, Ms Dietrich said she held “a lot of resentment towards her former partner (Adam Baker) – there’s a big difference between being not guilty and being innocent,” she said. 

The comments were made after Elisa Baker was jailed for second-degree murder. 

“I could only glare at her for a moment,” she said. 

“I mainly wanted her to see me, and for her to see the pain that she’s caused on my face and my mother’s face.”