Detectives have charged the parents of a three-year-old boy with manslaughter following a car crash on the Gold Coast last year.<\/p>\n
Police allege the then 22-year-old mother was driving with the 24-year-old father along with two boys aged one and three when she crashed into bushland at Stapylton about 5am on October 25.<\/p>\n
A witness took the mother and the three-year-old, who had sustained significant head injuries, to the Beenleigh police station, while the man left the scene with the one-year-old boy before officers arrived, according to police.<\/p>\n
Officers performed CPR on the three-year-old boy, but he was not revived.<\/p>\n
Police launched Operation X-ray Grid to investigate the crash, which included officers from the Gold Coast Child Protection and Investigation Unit, along with other specialist units, to undertake forensic and mechanical investigations.<\/p>\n
The mother, now aged 23, from Labrador, has been charged with manslaughter, domestic violence offence against a child, trafficking in dangerous drugs, driving a motor vehicle without a driver’s licence and possessing anything used in the commission of a crime.<\/p>\n
She did not appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court for a Friday hearing where her Legal Aid lawyer, Ollie Labone, applied for bail on her behalf.<\/p>\n
Her matter has been adjourned until Monday, where she will be required to appear in person.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Beenleigh father, who has been in custody since October, has been charged with manslaughter, domestic violence offence against a child, and trafficking in dangerous drugs.<\/p>\n
He was self-represented and appeared via video link when his matter was mentioned in court.<\/p>\n
When asked by the magistrate if he had applied for Legal Aid, he said his mother might pay for a lawyer on his behalf.<\/p>\n
The pair has been remanded in custody.<\/p>\n
Officers said investigations remained ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives have charged the parents of a three-year-old boy with manslaughter following a car crash on the Gold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,254315,254316,44,10471,254317],"class_list":["post-506477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crash-manslaghter-charges","tag-gold-coast-crash","tag-news","tag-queensland-police-service","tag-stapylton-crash-charges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506477","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=506477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}