A support person who sat in on a police interview in 2021 said the child sobbed during a break and disclosed the foster father had anger management issues, a court heard.
A child who was allegedly assaulted and intimidated by the foster parents of William Tyrrell sobbed during a break in a police interview and told a support person the foster father had “put his hands around my neck”, a court has heard.
A woman, who cannot be named, told the court on Thursday that she was present during a police interview of the child on December 22, 2021 to give the child support. She said police took a break at about 11am and the child was “quite upset” and “sobbing”. The woman said two detectives came back into the room a short time later, and she didn’t say anything right away because she didn’t want to breach the child’s trust. Instead, she told the officer in charge, Detective Senior Constable Sean Ogilvy, when the interview was over.
She said the foster mother disclosed that the child had been putting their leg out, which she believed to be a deliberate attempt to trip another young person over, “so in response I just lost it with [the child] and kicked [the child] on the leg”.When White remarked that the foster mother wasn’t coping well, she said the woman responded that she had asked for additional support but her request was refused.
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