{"id":17856,"date":"2026-07-06T14:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17856"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:57:03","slug":"police-to-investigate-whether-cannibalism-was-involved-in-4yos-death-on-australias-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17856","title":{"rendered":"Police to investigate whether cannibalism was involved in 4yo’s death on Australia’s Central Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Australian Police sources have confirmed to the ABC that cannibalism will form part of an investigation into the death of a four-year-old boy on the New South Wales Central Coast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A woman walked into the Wyong Police Station about 4.40pm on Saturday, triggering a welfare check.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Officers searched a unit on Byron St at Wyong where they found the body of a four-year-old child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 32-year-old woman was charged with domestic violence murder and refused bail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The NSW Department of Communities and Justice said it had previously had contact with the family and would examine all relevant information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At a press conference on Sunday, Superintendent Chad Gillies from the Tuggerah Lakes District said police were calling for information about the woman and child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It was an extremely confronting scene. It’s been confirmed the child had injuries. I am not going to speculate further on what those injuries are,” Gillies said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The woman is not able to be identified, but police confirmed she is known to them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Police also confirmed the woman and child lived together at the property.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“There is a domestic relationship to the child \u2026 the 32-year-old female and the four-year-old child lived at the unit together, and as I understand it, nobody else lived at that unit,” Gillies said.<\/p>\n

Source: ABC & RNZ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian Police sources have confirmed to the ABC that cannibalism will form part of an investigation into the death of a four-year-old boy on the New South Wales Central Coast. A woman walked into the Wyong Police Station about 4.40pm on Saturday, triggering a welfare check. Officers searched a unit on Byron St at Wyong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17858,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856\/revisions\/17858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}