A grieving mother demands answers about why personal possessions handed to investigators when her toddler died were later destroyed by police.
Almost one year after Khristine Jessop's 18-month-old daughter Matilda died without warning, the Brisbane mother was dealt another devastating blow when police revealed her toddler's"precious" personal items had been destroyed.Her mother Khristine Jessop says the immunisation book was irreplaceableMs Jessop is now questioning the entire investigation process, after the Queensland Police Service revealed the incident was being reviewed by its Ethical Standards Command.
Her daughter, described as"the sunshine to everyone's day", was found unresponsive in her bed last April and it was later determined she had suffered from sudden unexplained death of a child , which is similar to SIDS. Last month, the pain and grief of losing her child was reignited when the Brisbane mother was informed that evidence taken by police, including her daughter's health record book, had been destroyed months earlier."It was one of very few things that we had that actually connected us to Matilda."
Ms Jessop said the book was more than just an immunisation tracker — it contained"priceless" memories. "It's a record of their little life … little quirks that they had, when they were talking, walking and their early development," she said.Ms Jessop said the book was voluntarily handed over to police shortly after her daughter died to assist the coroner's investigation, and she had assumed it would be returned.
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