{"id":217026,"date":"2025-10-16T05:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217026\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:35:07","slug":"nrl-stars-mum-aberrant-with-grief-before-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217026\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL star\u2019s mum \u2018aberrant\u2019 with grief before fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the time leading up to the driving, the defendant had been displaying very aberrant behaviour with respect to a recently deceased disabled child,\u201d barrister Martin Longhurst told the court.<\/p>\n<p>Chace Haas, 21, died in Gold Coast Hospital in August 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He had lived his entire life in a wheelchair after snapping his neck in a car accident at just five months of age.<\/p>\n<p>Taufua had struggled to accept his death, the court was told.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was going for frequent walks at all hours of the morning, indicating to family members she was taking her son [Chace] for a walk in his wheelchair and that she had been given messages by her son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The defence team is attempting to extract GPS data tracing her rambling walks from a fitness app, which will form part of her psychological assessment.<\/p>\n<p>The court granted the adjournment, ordering the report to be finalised before the case is mentioned again on November 20.<\/p>\n<p>Taufua was on parole at the time of the crash after being sentenced to nine months in prison for assaulting two security guards at The Star casino.<\/p>\n<p>She was subsequently returned to custody after the collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIn the time leading up to the driving, the defendant had been displaying very aberrant behaviour with respect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-217026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}