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Isnt this just unbelievable?

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Tuesday June 17, 02:01 PM

Twin toddlers dead for a week, court told

A court has been told twin 18-month-old toddlers were dead for a week before authorities found their bodies in a Brisbane house last night.

A 30-year-old woman has appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court charged over the death of her 18-month-old son and daughter.

She has been accused of not providing the necessities of life but police say more charges are pending.

A 28-year-old man was also arrested and will face court later today.

The court heard the mother found the children in the front room of her Sunnybank home on June 8 or 9.

Prosecutors said the bodies were decomposed and appeared malnourished.

One weighed 3.6 kilograms, the other 4 kilograms.

The court heard the mother found the children's bodies in the front room of her Sunnybank home on June 8 or 9.

She also told the court she had been suffering from a cold and rarely fed or changed them.

When asked by police how they died, the mother allegedly said, "I don't think I fed them enough".

The court was told the couple's other four children said they had rarely seen the twins, who had been kept in the front room of the house for most of their lives.

The court was told the bodies were found by an 11-year-old sibling of the twins who smelt something unusual in their house.

The prosecutor says the child said to the mother, "I know why you've been crying now".

The court heard the parents were undergoing "significant relationship problems" and the man failed to support the children.

The Magistrate wants to find out more about the welfare of the woman's four other children.

A bail hearing for the mother has been adjourned until tomorrow and she will undergo psychiatric assessment.

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  1. It is an absolute disgrace. Tears are falling for those little babies. My babies were born 4kg. There are no excuses.

    My brother is a youth worker in Brisbane/Gold Coast he only works with kids that are that damaged that they are unable to fit into a family atmosphere (fostering), and there are 10 000 such children in Queensland alone.

    As a society we all feel the pain, but do any of us help our neighbours or our communities enough.

    My heart is so so sad, for all the children that are not loved.


  2. thats discusting

  3. that is so horrible, those parents need serious help

  4. Oh my God, thats simply tragic.

    I don't understand how someone could possibly do that to other human beings.

  5. that's awful.  the couple should be locked up and starved like they did to their kids.  for an 11 year old to find her brother and sister dead is just sick.  some people......

  6. I'm just curious, why is it that only earthmother spoke of love for children.

    Every other answer spoke of tears and sadness, but only one person understood that LOVE is what would have prevented this tragic story from ever happening.

    I am so full of sorrow when I read and hear stories like this, and even more sorrow filled when we as people can't express the emotion toward each other that prevents inhumanity toward each other.

    The parents are without a doubt very sick people, and they surely have no idea what love is or it never would have happened to begin with.

    I think that children are the most precious gift that we can recieve in life, and the one thing that they can never get enough of is LOVE from the parents!

  7. I really wish I hadn't of read that.

    Excuse me why I go and hug my son's, and give thanks, because even when I have a cold, I am still Mother to them.

  8. Yeah its absolutley pathetic.........

    On the channel 7 news before they had interviewed the neighbours who have said the kids barley ever went to school and had also been seen playing outside on the street/road NAKED...........

    All neighbours now feel horrible for not contacting DHS.....

    The family was well known to DHS but had been left in the parents care.........What a mistake by our australian childrens protective services.............

    Arent they meant to protect children in danger.......

    Mum will get what she deserves when she arrives at maximum security womens prison.......

    These sort of people are the reason why Australia needs to bring back the death penalty.......

  9. wow. oh man. that is unbelievable.

    i hope i dont wake up depressed over this.

    this just breaks my heart.

    i wish i could save those kids and feed them lots and give them a warm bed and hold them close so they could hear my heartbeat and everything.

    i love kids!

    wow....

  10. I would tie her tubes and throw her in jail.

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