ABC Police Superintendent Mick Willing speaks about murder charges against two people over the death of a 7yo boy in Oatley in May this year.A pregnant woman has been refused bail after being charged with the murder of her seven-year-old son.
The woman and her de facto partner were charged with the murder of her son in Sydney's south earlier this year.
Paramedics were called to the boy's Oatley house early on May 21, where they found him dead with serious head injuries.
The ambulance officers were told the boy had hit his head the day before while playing on a pogo stick.
Homicide detectives were called in at the time and formed Strike Force Miretta to investigate the boy's death.
Just before 7am (AEDT) today they arrested the 25-year-old woman at a home at Woodpark in Sydney's west.
She has been charged with numerous offences, including murder and producing child abuse material.
Police say they have also charged her 29-year-old partner with the boy's murder.
He is already facing 25 separate charges of child abuse relating to the boy, laid by police in September.
Court documents lodged with those charges allege the boy was forced to sit outside alone in his underwear as punishment for soiling his pants, repeatedly assaulted with a spatula, thrown across the inside of a tent and forced to run along a beach until he fell over with exhaustion.
Superintendent Mick Willing says the case has been a distressing one for the officers involved.
"Detectives will allege that the injuries suffered by the child were not accidental and not the result from falling from a pogo stick," he said.
"While I am very limited in what I can says given that these matters will be before the court shortly, I will say that the allegations against the man and the woman involved some of the most distressing circumstances that detectives working on the case have ever seen."
Fairfield Local Court today heard that the woman did not wish to appear and was not required to.
She and her partner are expected to appear in Parramatta Local Court via video-link tomorrow.
He remains in custody at Silverwater prison.
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