Overview
- Police discovered the boy’s body after a 32‑year‑old woman attended Wyong Police Station, and detectives charged her with murder following a welfare check at their Byron Street unit.
- Investigators described the scene as extremely confronting and said the child had significant injuries to his arm.
- Authorities obtained court approval to take buccal swabs, blood, nail clippings and to examine internal mouth contents as part of a line of inquiry into possible cannibalism.
- The NSW Department of Communities and Justice confirmed it had previous contact with the family and the NSW Families Minister has ordered an independent review of how agencies handled earlier concerns.
- The accused remains in custody with a next court listing on September 1, forensic analysis and a coroner’s post‑mortem are pending, and police say their homicide inquiry is ongoing and methodical.