{"id":779604,"date":"2026-07-05T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779604\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:01:10","slug":"woman-charged-with-murder-after-child-found-dead-in-central-coast-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779604\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged with murder after child found dead in Central Coast home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been charged with murder after a child was found dead in a home on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/australia-news\/nsw\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New South Wales<\/a> Central Coast on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, 32, went to Wyong Police Station just before 5pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NSW police officer badge \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9e85683e908ca48f9c8840930fadb46f6b01ce9d.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Police said the woman is believed to be known to the child.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/police-6iyz\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said they were unable to speak with her.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, police went to a property in Wyong due to a concern for welfare.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, they found the body of a child with significant arm injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The child has not been formally identified, but is believed to be a four-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p>The woman is believed to be known to the child, and she was arrested at Wyong Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>She has now been charged with murder (domestic violence).<\/p>\n<p>She was refused bail to appear in court later on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/crime-5w4\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crime<\/a> scene has been established, and police have begun an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been charged with murder after a child was found dead in a home on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-779604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/779604","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=779604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}