1. Girl, 13, dies in rodent-infested home after begging to be taken to hospital.
A young girl who died from an asthma attack in her “putrid” home in Illawarra, NSW, begged to be taken to hospital but was ignored, according to The Daily Telegraph.
A coronial inquest uncovered the events leading up to the 13-year-old’s death on April 26 in 2014, which included her calling for authorities to clean her rodent-infested home, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Her parents said they came home from the pub to find their daughter, who cannot be named for legal reasons, “yelling and crying” for her asthma puffer.
The “morbidly obese” girl reportedly asked her parents to take her to the hospital, but her dad “went back to his garage bed and removed his hearing aids”.
It is understood her mother did not help either and at 7am the next day the young girl was found “slumped over … and not breathing”.
The coronial inquest found that the teenager would have lived if she’d been taken to the hospital and also that Family and Community Services failed to have her rescued from her abusive home.
The Daily Telegraph also reports the disgusting state of her NSW Housing home was overridden by mice, covered in mould and had waist-high lawns.
Family and Community Services made 19 reports of abuse during the girl’s life, five of which were closed due to “competing priorities”.
One made in June 2013 said the girl had “very poor hygiene”.
“Wearing the same clothes for months on end, smells terribly, menstruating through clothes,” it read.
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