Paradise Point Amber Alert: Three missing children Paradise Point found after night alone in car

The biological father of three missing children who spent the night alone in a car after allegedly being taken has been remanded in custody facing serious charges.

The young children were taken away from the 7-Eleven in a family car about 8:40am.

The biological father of three missing children who spent the night alone in a car after allegedly being taken has been remanded in custody facing serious charges.

Queensland Police this morning located three young children, who they had warned “may be at significant risk” after they went missing at Paradise Point on Sunday afternoon.

The missing children sparked a major amber alert by police.

Authorities said the children were with a man known to them earlier in the day when they left in a car around 4.30pm.

Detective Acting Superintendent Mark White said police believe the children remained in a vehicle by themselves overnight before being found at a service station on Monday morning.

The car was found 30m to 40m from a 7-Eleven on Rochester Dr at Mount Warren Park.

Supt White said the children went to the service station, where they were found about 7am.

“The information we have is that they were in the vehicle and they have walked to the 7-Eleven which is nearby and obviously the employee there has contacted police,” he said.

“We have our CPIU (Child Protection and Investigation Unit) investigators there with the children. The process that follows now is that they will be medically assessed.

“Because the information we have is that they were in the vehicle overnight, by themselves.”

The young children, who were wrapped in small blue blankets, were taken away from the 7/11 in a family car about 8:40am. The family declined to comment.

The young children were taken away from the 7-Eleven in a family car about 8:40am.

Supt White said a man arrested by police was the biological father of the children and had been arrested on other unrelated charges.

The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the alleged victims, faced Beenleigh Magistrates Court on July 8.

He faced one charge of contravention of a domestic violence order and one charge of using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.

Police prosecution told the court a number of other charges were likely to be laid against the man, following the investigation into the girl and two boys that went missing.

Magistrate Patrina Clohessy adjourned the matter to July 9.

The man was on Monday afternoon charged with three counts each of cruelty to children under 16 years and leaving a child under 12 unattended.

“Police will allege the man failed to provide reasonable provision for the supervision and care for three children known to him, who were subject to an earlier Amber Alert,” police said in a statement.

He is due before Beenleigh Magistrates Court again on Tuesday.

Supt White said police would conduct a further criminal investigation as to why the children were left in a car by themselves overnight.

He said the children were lawfully in the man’s custody or care.

“Subsequently from that disturbance at Slacks Creek, the responding police made a great job in making inquiries,” Supt White said.

“The issue of contacting the biological mother, other family, friends, making other inquiries and we got to the point where we felt it necessitated an amber alert.”

Supt White said the initial observations of the children were that they “seemed OK”.

He said detectives from Logan’s child protection investigation unit were conducting an investigation.