{"id":720012,"date":"2026-06-07T00:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720012\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:28:10","slug":"father-of-infant-boy-charged-with-grievous-bodily-harm-on-sunshine-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720012\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of infant boy charged with grievous bodily harm on Sunshine Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The father of a nine-week-old boy has been charged after allegedly causing critical injuries to the baby on the Sunshine Coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Queensland Police said an infant was presented to Sunshine Coast University Hospital about 11pm on April 24.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The boy was admitted to the intensive care unit after suffering life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Detectives from the Sunshine Coast Child Protection and Child Trauma Unit began investigating the cause of the baby&#8217;s injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the infant boy suffered several serious injuries, including extensive brain and eye trauma, and multiple fractures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Following a lengthy investigation and <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-06-01\/sunshine-coast-police-investigating-nine-week-old-babys-injuries\/106746636\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106746636\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a public appeal<\/a>, police arrested the boy&#8217;s father in Warana on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 30-year-old Currimundi man has been charged with one count of grievous bodily harm domestic violence offence against a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was refused bail and will appear at Maroochydore Magistrates Court on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father of a nine-week-old boy has been charged after allegedly causing critical injuries to the baby on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[349054,349053,39043,349055,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-720012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-baby-grievous-bodily-harm","tag-baby-injured-sunshine-coast","tag-domestic-violence","tag-father-assaults-baby","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720012","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=720012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}