{"id":83948,"date":"2025-08-21T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83948\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T03:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:04:07","slug":"children-filmed-playing-on-scooters-while-their-mother-allegedly-lay-dead-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83948\/","title":{"rendered":"Children filmed playing on scooters while their mother allegedly lay dead inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBye, see you in Dandenong,\u201d Kumar says at the end of the two-minute video. \u201cSay \u2018see you in Dandenong\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another video filmed by Kumar in darkness, the children played on scooters outside the unit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The children playing on scooters outside the unit before emergency services arrived on scene. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c52aad550bfa0b0b862411cf094c08e53e66dd99.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The children playing on scooters outside the unit before emergency services arrived on scene. Credit: Facebook<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s my name?\u201d he asked the older child four times. \u201cKumar,\u201d the child replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dGood, good, good,\u201d said Kumar.<\/p>\n<p>In the third Facebook video, emergency services can be heard in the background as Kumar films the children, now changed from their pyjamas into traditional Indian clothing, outside the unit. \u201cDo you want to come sit in the car?\u201d an emergency worker can be heard saying off camera.<\/p>\n<p>But Kumar tells the children to recite after him. \u201cSay \u2018glory be to Brahma, glory be to almighty Allah, glory be to paradise, heaven, Australia\u2019,\u201d Kumar says in the video.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police at the Cobram home on Tuesday. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dc163c100ebcb6884ff3ff1ae400150952b5d215.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Police at the Cobram home on Tuesday. Credit: Nine News<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are the king of Saudi Arabia. Be like a king.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, the homicide squad\u2019s Detective Inspector Dean Thomas said Kumar was known to the allegedly murdered woman and added that \u201cpeople should be safe in their relationships\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne woman killed in a situation like this is too many, and we can\u2019t stand for it,\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>One Cobram local said she saw a man matching Kumar\u2019s description and wearing the same clothes from the Facebook videos doing push-ups on the footpath outside the unit on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was &#8230; removed from the premises and walked into the police station,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was all quite strange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Moira Shire council administrator Susan Benedyka said: \u201cDays like today remind us that we still have a long way to go in addressing gender-based violence, both nationally and closer to home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kumar is due to appear in a Shepparton court on December 10 for a committal mention. No application for bail was made.<\/p>\n<p>With Erin Pearson<\/p>\n<p>Start the day with a summary of the day\u2019s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p57ogt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBye, see you in Dandenong,\u201d Kumar says at the end of the two-minute video. \u201cSay \u2018see you in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-83948","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\/83948","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=83948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}