The Economic Times

Adelaide mother jailed for nearly two decades for callous disregard as she admits to criminal neglect of her daughter

A mother in Adelaide has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for the criminal neglect of her six-year-old daughter, Charlie, who died from severe malnutrition. The child, weighing just 18 kilograms and infested with lice, lived in squalor. The mother showed callous disregard for her daughter's deteriorating health. Separately, search efforts for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont have been suspended.