1. Mother-of-five charged after her nine-month-old baby drowned in a bathtub.
Qld loses another precious baby to neglect https://t.co/QqzGfAqjDA @violencehurts @LennaLeprena
— Act For Mason (@act_mason) March 29, 2017
28-year-old Kandita Kattenber, a mother of five, has been charged over the death of her nine-month-old son after he died in their Townsville home in November last year, the Townsville Bulletin reports.
Baby Carlyle was allegedly left in the bath alone while his mother “socialised with her family”.
Hi two older brothers – aged seven and 10 – rushed to his aid and tried to revive him, but he could not be saved.
“This case is based upon, what we will allege, is the gross neglect on the part of the mother, regarding a child being left unsupervised in a bath for an extended period of time,” Townsville Child Protection Investigation Unit officer-in-charge detective Senior Sergeant Dave Miles said.