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Tania Burgess (pictured) was 15-years-old when she was ambushed and stabbed 48 times while walking home from school. The teen uttered the name of her killer moments before she died
A man who brutally murdered 15-year-old Tania Burgess by stabbing her 48 times has walked free from jail.
Tania was 15 when a boy, then 16, ambushed and stabbed her at Foresters Beach on the NSW Central Coast on July 19, 2005 and left her to die.
Witnesses rushed to Tania's aid and heard the young teen utter the name of her killer moments before she died.
The 32-year-old man was released on parole from Cessnock Correctional Centre on Monday morning.
He will remain anonymous 17 years after the frenzied attack because of state laws which ban the identification of adults who committed crimes as children.
He is only known by the initials DL.
The now 32-year-old killer, who can only be named as DL because he committed the offence as a minor, will be released on parole on August 1 - 17 years after the frenzied attack
Parents Mandy and Chris Burgess are fighting to change the law which keeps the identify of their daughter's killer a secret.
'He gets to take no responsibility for anything that he's done,' her father, Mr Burgess, told 9News.
Tania's mother said there was no justice for her daughter as her killer would walk free and remain anonymous.
'Whether he was a youth at that age or 16 or now in this thirties as a man. I'll never forget it,' Ms Burgess said.
'What I care more about is that he will not hurt any other family again like he did to us.
'There's no justice. It's just a legal system we abide by.
'What happened to Tania, there is no justice. Nothing to what happened to her and what we saw that day is justice.'
Tania was taking a shortcut home through Forrester's Beach Resort (pictured) carpark when DL - a boy she caught the bus with but did not go to school with - attacked her
After being identified by a dying Tania, DL was arrested on the evening of the horrific murder. He received the maximum term of 22 years but on appeal had his sentence reduced by four years
