Horrific details of freak fatal accident after mum left child by road revealed

Harrowing court documents have revealed a mother placed her critically injured eight-year-old son in the boot of her car before leaving the scene of a freak accident which later resulted in his death. Warning: Disturbing content

Renay Paiym Condoleon in court for driving without due care leading to death.

Harrowing court documents have revealed a mother placed her critically injured son in the boot of her car before leaving the scene of a freak accident which later resulted in his death.

Renay Paiym Condoleon, 33, who now goes by her married name Nielsen, pleaded guilty to one count of driving without due care and attention or driving without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road, causing death or grievous bodily harm.

Bundaberg Magistrates Court heard her children had been misbehaving in the back seat of her Audi Q7 station wagon on the morning of November 13, 2022.

Nielsen pulled over and asked her son, 8, to step out of the car, warning him she might leave him behind if he did not behave, the court heard.

In a bluff to reinforce the threat, the court heard Condoleon began to drive away, unaware her son had reached out to grab the back of the car, stepped on to a damaged side rail, slipped and run over.

Court documents obtained by the NewsMail have revealed her eight-year-old son did not die at the scene, and was not the only child made to step out of the car.

In an agreed statement of facts submitted to the court by the police, it was also revealed Nielsen also did not wait at the scene of the accident for emergency services instead travelling home where police found her son in the boot of her car.

In a statement given to police following their arrival at her home, Neilsen said her children had been misbehaving since breakfast time so she had decided to take them to the beach before going to her mother in law’s to use her pool.

When her three children continued to bicker, she made the choice to instead drive down a secluded dirt road she knew and “told the children she was going to leave them in the woods for another family in order, to try and scare them.”

Renay Paiym Condoleon appeared in court for driving without due care leading to death.

According to the documents, when first interviewed by Acting Sergeant Melinda Bardini, Nielson got the two older children from the car and sat them outside.

“She then drove off and that (son) must have grabbed onto the car as she saw him in the side mirror,” the statement of facts said.

“She started to stop, heard a bump and then saw (her son) lying on the ground.”

“She did not realise that (he) had grabbed onto the car until she saw him in the mirror.”

The statement also revealed the most harrowing fact of all; when Neilsen saw her son had been injured she placed him in the boot area of her car, before leaving the scene calling emergency services on her phone as she did so.

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‘BLEEDING FROM HEAD INJURIES’

“A short time later uniformed officers arrived at the defendant’s residence and saw that the injured child was lying in the rear boot area of the defendants Audi Q7 station wagon,” the court document said.

“He was bleeding from head injuries.”

Ambulance personnel attended the scene and took the boy to the Bundaberg Hospital where he later died.

Following her plea of guilty in the Bundaberg courts, Nielsen was sentenced to 15 months probation, with her licence disqualified for six months and no convictions were recorded.

Magistrate John McInnes was sympathetic to the unusual set of circumstances which surrounded the accident.

“I doubt there would be many children in Australia who haven’t been at least threatened they would be kicked out to walk home while driving in the car at some stage,” he said.

Originally published as Horrific details of freak fatal accident after mum left child by road revealed