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Post by nicol on Jan 6, 2009 14:14:35 GMT
PARENTS of a 10-week-old girl whose heart stopped after she was allegedly given the illegal drug ecstasy have walked free after appearing in court today. The father, 24, and mother, 22, faced Cairns Magistrate's Court today charged with grievous bodily harm and possession of a dangerous drug. Their two-month-old baby remains in a serious but stable condition in Cairns Base Hospital, after going into cardiac arrest and being placed in an induced coma on Sunday. Police allege she ingested half an ecstasy pill, a street drug that can produce serious symptoms. Her condition has since improved and she has been transferred from the intensive care unit to the paediatrics ward. Paramedics rushed to a unit at Behan St, Manunda, about 10.30am on Sunday, about 90 minutes after the baby suffered a seizure. Detectives from the Child Protection and Investigation Unit and Cairns CIB searched the unit and questioned the father and mother for several hours on Sunday. The couple has been released on watch-house bail and are believed to be keeping a bedside vigil at the hospital as their daughter recovers. She is expected to make a full recovery. The baby remains in their care but the Department of Child Safety is investigating the matter. Police are not alleging the couple deliberately administered the drug to the toddler. Police said the couple and their daughter were holidaying in Cairns over the Christmas and New Year period. However a resident at the unit complex said they had moved to the city and the father had recently taken up a job. www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,27574,24878132-3102,00.html
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Post by nicol on Jan 6, 2009 14:15:14 GMT
I heard on the news tonight that they have got custody of their child back.
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 6, 2009 15:16:11 GMT
That's unbelievable, Nikki. What the hell is wrong with the authorities if they can't even see something as obvious as THIS?
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Post by cammie on Jan 7, 2009 3:12:13 GMT
I would like to now exactly HOW the 10 month old ingested an illegal drug. Where did the drug come from? How stupid!
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 8, 2009 14:00:16 GMT
I would like to now exactly HOW the 10 month old ingested an illegal drug. Where did the drug come from? How stupid! really. the parents didn't intentionally drug the kid?? can we say "keystone cops"?
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Post by drewsmom595 on Jan 9, 2009 0:01:55 GMT
The article stated that the baby was only 10 weeks old, not 10 months. I don't know about your babies, but mine didn't have the ability to maneuver his fingers in a pincher grasp until much older...at least 8 - 9 months (about when we started feeding him Cheerios).
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Post by nicol on Jan 9, 2009 10:50:44 GMT
The article stated that the baby was only 10 weeks old, not 10 months. I don't know about your babies, but mine didn't have the ability to maneuver his fingers in a pincher grasp until much older...at least 8 - 9 months (about when we started feeding him Cheerios). Exactly. And at 10 weeks old, any medication prescribed to the baby will be in liquid form anyway, so I think its safe to say that these parents did it on purpose
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