{"id":760942,"date":"2026-06-26T06:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760942\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:02:11","slug":"woman-arrested-after-her-84-year-old-mother-found-dead-in-sydney-aged-care-home-australia-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760942\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested after her 84-year-old mother found dead in Sydney aged care home | Australia news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">An 84-year-old woman who was found dead in an aged care home was allegedly administered an unknown substance by her daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Emergency services were called to Our Lady of Consolation aged care home in Rooty Hill in Sydney\u2019s outer west around 11.35pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Police officers located the body of an 84-year-old woman inside the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A 53-year-old woman was arrested at the scene and was taken to Mount Druitt hospital for medical assessment, police said.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-name=\"standard link button Primary\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&amp;CMP=emailbutton\" class=\"dcr-rh233e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The 53-year-old woman is the daughter of the 84-year-old woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Supt Darrin Batchelor said the daughter was distressed when police arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWhat we believe at this stage is that the 53-year-old female allegedly administered a substance to the older woman,\u201d he told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWe don\u2019t know exactly what that substance is at the moment and whether it contributed to her passing last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He noted the daughter had no criminal history or medical training and has been compliant with officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cIt\u2019s really too early to determine what the motivation is at the moment, whether it was an assisted dying scenario, we really don\u2019t know,\u201d Batchelor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The daughter has since been transferred to the local police station where she remains in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A nine-year-old boy was present on the night but is now in the care of his family, Batchelor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A crime scene has been established and evidence is being collected by a forensic team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A toxicology and autopsy report is being prepared as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 84-year-old woman who was found dead in an aged care home was allegedly administered an unknown substance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-760942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760942","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=760942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}