A four-month-old baby girl has died in suspicious circumstances after being found in a critical condition in Logan, south of Brisbane.
The child was rushed to Queensland Children’s Hospital in a critical condition on Tuesday, but died a short time later,news.com.au reported.
Detectives in the child protection unit and the homicide and child trauma squads are investigating.
This marks the second suspicious death of a young child in Queensland in less than 48 hours.
A four-month-old baby girl has died in suspicious circumstances after being found in a critical condition in Logan, south of Brisbane
This marks the second suspicious death of a young child in Queensland in less than 48 hours
Just one day before, the body of a nine-month-old infant was found washed up on Surfers Paradise beach on the Gold Coast.
The baby girl found dead in the shallows of a popular Gold Coast beach was living with her homeless parents in a hut made from sticks prior to her death, the Daily Mail has revealed.
Expert police divers have begun the mission of searching for clues along the southern Gold Coast shoreline.
Sitting in sand dunes only metres from the surf, the shack made of dead wood and twigs was home to the baby girl, her two-year-old brother and their father, 48 and mother, 23.
As police continue to search for answers local residents told how they reported the family’s living conditions to authorities, but no action was taken.
Reverend Jon Brooks, head of a local housing crisis centre, told Daily Mail Australia the family lived ‘as rough as it gets’.
‘Anybody who does it homeless does it poorly, but if it is the family I believe it might be, they were in the worst position you could find yourself in,’ Rev Brooks said.
Reverend Jon Brooks, head of a local housing crisis centre, told Daily Mail Australia the family lived ‘as rough as it gets’
‘Anybody who does it homeless does it poorly, but if it is the family I believe it might be, they were in the worst position you could find yourself in,’ Rev Brooks said
‘I wasn’t aware they’d been living in a humpy – the last I knew they were moving from toilet blocks, to parks, to even under bridges.’
‘They moved up here from down south and we gave them assistance with a different organisation that houses homeless people up here. We also provided them meals at lunch time.’
Police are continuing to hold the baby girl’s parents in custody, but have not yet laid charges.
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