Murder charges to be laid over death of 7yo Sydney boyA woman and her de factor partner are being charged with the murder of her seven-year-old 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 will also charge a 29-year-old man 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.
The mother is being held in custody to face Fairfield Local Court today.
The man is expected to appear in the same court via video-link tomorrow.
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