SH0CK TWIST: POLICE PROBE WHETHER C-A-N-N-I-B-A-L-I-S-M IS LINKED TO ALLEGED MUR-DER OF 4-YEAR-OLD BOY – AS HIS MOTHER IS CHARGED
Police are investigating whether cannibalism was a factor in the death of a four-year-old boy, as his mother is charged with murder.
A 32-year-old woman visited Wyong Police Station, on the NSW Central Coast, at 4.40pm on Saturday.
Officers then conducted a welfare check at a unit on Byron Street where they discovered the dead boy who had significant injuries to his arm.
The mother was later charged with murder (domestic violence).
Police sources told the Sydney Morning Herald on Sunday that cannibalism was being investigated as a possible factor.
Superintendent Chad Gillies described the scene as ‘extremely confronting’.
‘It’s been confirmed the child had injuries. I am not going to speculate further on what those injuries are,’ he said at a press conference.
He said the child and woman were the only occupants at the unit.
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The woman allegedly turned up to a police station and direct officers to her house
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Police are investigating whether cannibalism was a factor in the death of a four-year-old boy – as his mother is charged with murder
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Officers conducted a welfare check at a unit on Byron Street where they discovered the dead boy who had significant injuries to his arm
‘There is a domestic relationship to the child… the 32-year-old female and the four-year-old child lived at the unit together,’ Superintendent Gillies said.
The woman and the boy cannot be identified for legal reasons.
He added the 32-year-old woman was known to police.
Neighbours told reporters the pair had moved in several months ago.
They said he had seemed happy and energetic and there was no sign to cause alarm.
‘He was a little angel,’ neighbour Harry Chislett told The Daily Telegraph.
‘Sometimes he would be up running around until 9pm (or) 10pm, like he was running marathons at times.
‘He often (had) his red (toy) car and was always asking to play with Skyler, my puppy.’
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Officers then conducted a welfare check at a unit on Byron Street where they discovered the dead boy who had significant injuries to his arm
Another mechanic neighbour said the boy asked him to fix his mother’s car because it was broken.
The NSW Department of Communities and Justice said they were reviewing their records after confirming it had ‘previous contact’ with the boy and his mother.
Opposition families and communities spokesperson Natasha Maclaren-Jones said the case raised questions about understaffing, with caseworkers in the department battling with limited resources.
‘If this family was known to the department … the minister must explain (what) support was provided,’ she said.
Superintendent Gillies said detectives would ‘methodically’ investigate the case.
‘We try to understand what’s happened, why it’s happened, and from my perspective, we owe that to that little boy to make sure that we get the exact circumstances and present them to the court in due course,’ he said.
The woman did not appear in court for a bail hearing.
The matter will return to court on September 1.
SOURCE: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15953947/cannibalism-wyong-boy-dead-mother-murder.html
