The first photo has emerged of little Charlie, 6, who died as an alleged victim of criminal neglect. The six-year-old girl was found unresponsive at her Munno Para home north of Adelaide on Friday.
Charlie was raced to Lyell McEwin Hospital in the early hours of Friday morning after she was found unresponsive in her family home in Munno Para, north of Adelaide.
Court documents have revealed authorities allowed the Adelaide youngster to remain with her parents, despite being exposed to drug abuse and domestic violence in recent years.
A young girl has died from suspected malnutrition and her siblings have been removed from her Adelaide house of horrors as detectives investigate whether her death was caused by criminal neglect.
Hundred of thousands of children have been left in the unofficial care of relatives, many of whom are suffering severe financial stress with no support – and in some cases outright intimidation – from child protection authorities.