Police probe continues into Nambour alleged attack on pregnant woman

As a police investigation continues, a Sunshine Coast woman has shared harrowing details from an alleged attack she endured while pregnant. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

A Sunshine Coast woman who was allegedly attacked during her pregnancy, and feared losing her child, has spoken of the ongoing police investigation and the scars the incident has left.

Chloe Heath, 24, was in what she considered a safe place when she was allegedly attacked on June 19 last year.

A man who she described as twice her size and 10 years older than her, who she knew, allegedly attacked her in the Nambour Police Station following an earlier verbal exchange among a group.

“He punched me in the head when I was 15 weeks pregnant,” the mum-of-three said.

In audio recorded during the incident, Ms Heath’s partner can be heard yelling “she’s pregnant” before it escalates to Ms Heath’s partner yelling “get off her” and Ms Heath yelling “I’m pregnant”.

Sunshine Coast woman Chloe Heath’s facial injuries following an alleged attack outside the Nambour Police Station in June last year.

Ms Heath said the police intervened.

Following the incident, the mum said she was three centimetres dilated and had to take medication to prevent labour.

She also suffered hypoglycaemia.

Chloe Heath claims she was punched in the head when 15 weeks pregnant and afterwards suffered complications that meant she had to have her third child, Rhyder Tylor, at 36 weeks.

She was induced at 36 weeks.

“I wasn’t closing up so I had the earliest possible induction,” Ms Heath said.

Her son, Rhyder Tylor, was born on December 14 last year and spent 10 days in the Sunshine Coast University Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.

Rhyder is now almost one.

Rhyder Tylor was born on December 14 last year and spent 10 days in the Sunshine Coast University Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit following a June alleged attack on his mum, Chloe Heath.

His mum said he was “thriving”.

Ms Heath said photos were taken of her injuries at the Kawana Police Station and she made a statement to police in the Maroochydore station in the days following the incident.

Austen and Rhyder Tylor with mum Chloe Heath.

The 24-year-old said since the incident she does not trust anyone.

“I was afraid my child would not have a life,” she said.

A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said an investigation into the matter continued and no charges had been laid.

According to a 2019 Trauma in pregnancy report by Queensland Health, physical trauma affects up to eight per cent of all pregnancies and is the leading cause of non-obstetric death during pregnancy.

The report also stated the “predominant causes of trauma in pregnancy are motor vehicle collision and domestic or family violence”.