A nine-year-old boy who was said to have been murdered by a 24-year-old woman in a house in a suburb, ran out 'considerably' head injuries, revealed a senior police officer.
The boy was found dead on Saturday around 7 p.m. in his house in Kirwan, Townsville and the woman is accused of murder.
Detective senior Sergeant Dave Miles from the Queensland police said that the two had a 'loose' family bond and that the boy was under her care at that time.
He said that the child had sustained 'considerable head injury' and described the scene as 'confronting'.
“The injury corresponds to what I would say at this stage like a blunt trauma,” he told reporters on Monday.
“We will wait for the outcome of the autopsy before we can definitively determine which weapon was used.”
The detective said that the police had focused on the investigation on Saturday at a certain period.
“We think that the child suffered the injury within eight hours, but at what point the child died will be a matter of autopsy,” he said.
A woman is accused of the murder of a boy who, according to the police, took care of her at the time
Det Sen Sergeant Miles revealed that there were other children at home at that time, but no other adults.
“Everything that has to do with a traumatic injury and the death of a child in circumstances is pretty repulsive,” he said.
“No child may be exposed to something that clearly leads to these kinds of results for him or her.”
The 24-year-old case was briefly brought up at the Townsville Magistrates Court on Monday.
