A four-year-old girl who suffered from terrible neglect was so severely malnourished an expert found she stopped growing eight months before her death, a court has heard.
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Willow s father Mark Dunn and stepmother Shannon White will face trial for murder after the four-year-old s body was found by police in extremely confronting conditions in their Brisbane home.
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Premium Content From fatal assaults and neglect to drownings and suicide - Queensland children who are known to the Department of Child Safety are four times more likely to die than those who aren t. Statistics released via the Queensland Family and Child Commission s annual report into child deaths show 53 children died in the 2019/20 financial year who had had some contact with the department in the 12 months prior. Of those, 14 died from causes that are yet to be determined, 11 from natural causes, nine from assault or neglect, eight from suicide, five from crashes, three drowned, two died from unintentional injuries and one from SIDS or an undetermined cause.