Coroner’s pledge on William Tyrrell

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Category: Missing from NSW

Created: Monday, 16 January 2017 21:03

Written by Dan Box - The Australian

The NSW Coroner will hold an inquest into the suspected death of missing three-year-old William Tyrrell, who disappeared from his grandmother’s home on the state’s mid-north coast in September 2014.

An exchange of correspond­ence, seen by The Australian, confirms that “an inquest will proceed in William’s case” after it was referred to Coroner Michael Barnes for consideration in Jan­uary 2015.

How innocent Bailey Contable was betrayed by DOCS

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Category: Children disappearing in fostercare

Created: Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:32

Written by Simon Black - The Daily Telegraph

HE carried four-year-old Bailey's coffin, every bit the grieving step-father. But last week in the Supreme Court, Nathan William Forrest, 22, was all smiles - flashing his family a wink and a thumbs-up after Justice Elizabeth Fullerton jailed him for a minimum of just six years for Bailey's manslaughter.

It was a nightmare end to a family's struggle with the Department of Community Services during Bailey's sad, final months.

His mother Jessica Constable wept during the hearing and maternal grandmother Karen Chapman collapsed in her husband Jeff's arms and was taken to hospital by ambulance.

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Infant’s death on reality TV probed in Bridgeport

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Category: Children disappearing in fostercare

Created: Friday, 30 December 2016 23:01

Written by Brian Lockhart - New Canaan News

Live PD films with the Bridgeport Police Department during an evening shift in Bridgeport, Conn. on Nov. 3, 2016. Photo: Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media / Connecticut

BRIDGEPORT — TV viewers nationwide mourned 13-month-old Michael Citron’s death, broadcast on a reality show featuring local cops and law enforcement from five other cities.