’Killer mum’ allowed to see child
Posted by Jordanna Schriever on March 9th, 2010 | Category: mother murdered child
A MAGISTRATE has granted a mother accused of murdering her four-year-old son and attempting to murder his nine-year-old brother access to the surviving child.
Police have previously alleged the woman, whose identity is suppressed, drugged herself and two sons at the family's eastern suburbs home. Her four-year-old son later died in hospital, while the nine-year-old recovered.
At the time of the incident, police said her husband found all three unconscious. Magistrate Maria Panagiotidis, who last month granted the woman home detention bail with a condition barring her from contacting her son, today relaxed that condition.
The woman will now be allowed contact with her son - in the presence of her treating psychiatrist and the boy's father or uncle. Magistrate Panagiotidis granted "therapeutic contact" as recommended by her psychiatrist.
The case will return to court in April.
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