Umina Beach mum enters plea in court to charges of allegedly poisoning her daughter using insulin
A Umina Beach mum has entered pleas over allegations she poisoned her daughter with insulin.
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A Central Coast woman has entered pleas to allegedly poisoning her daughter.
The Umina Beach woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before Gosford Local Court on Friday where she entered pleas before Magistrate Jennifer Price.
The 29-year-old sat quietly as her defence lawyer entered pleas of not guilty to using poison to endanger life and wound person intending to cause grievous bodily harm (domestic violence related).
Charge sheets tendered to the court allege that on August 12 2020 the woman gave her daughter “a poison namely insulin”.
Magistrate Price committed the woman’s matter for trial in the Gosford District Court and she will be arraigned on July 28.
Her bail was continued and her apprehended violence order (AVO) matter relating to her daughter adjourned until February 2023.
In September 2020, detectives from the State Crime Command’s Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad established Strike Force Flide after being notified a two-year-old girl had been hospitalised.
Police were told the child was admitted to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead on two separate occasions in August and September in 2020, after suspected poisoning. The girl was treated and has since recovered.
Detectives arrested the woman, confirmed to be the girl’s mother, at a home at Umina Beach on July 28 2021.
In November 2021, the woman requested her bail conditions be changed so she could continue working at a Central Coast bakery. Her conditions state that she is not allowed in the company of anyone under 16.
Magistrate Price denied the request saying she needed to consider protection of the community.
“I do have concerns about the nature of the allegations that have been made and the need for bail conditions to be imposed,” she said.
“It’s not a condition that could be allowed to be varied. The court’s greater concern is the protection of the community.”
The court heard the matter is likely to take a number of years before an outcome is reached.
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