Parents charged after boy dies at police station

The parents of a three-year-old boy who died at a police station after a horrific accident have been charged with manslaughter.

The boy died from critical head injuries when the family’s white Mazda left the road and crashed into bushland north of the Gold Coast on October 25.

A witness saw the car swerve and took the mother and injured child to Beenleigh Police Station.

Police said officers at the station tried to perform CPR, but the child could not be saved.

The father, who fled the scene of the accident, was later found at a nearby address with his one-year-old child, who was uninjured in the accident.

Police will claim that the child’s mother was driving the vehicle at the time of the incident.

Both parents are charged with manslaughter and drug trafficking and are expected to face each other in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday.

Police previously claimed the mother and children had traveled from the Gold Coast to pick up the father from an address in Beenleigh before the crash.

The father was indicted separately on domestic violence charges after his emotional family claimed he would never harm their child.

“We’re sick of fucking lies,” the boy’s grandfather shouted at the media after the father appeared at Southport Magistrates’ Court in October.

“He loved his children… he was trying to protect them. He would never hurt them.”

The temporary protection order has been in effect since June 2024 and the couple has separated, police said.