State attorney general John Quigley says ‘I am truly sorry’ over murder of baby Charlie, who was killed after police left him at crime scene
Tamica Mullaley and her father, Ted Mullaley, were arrested and charged by police who were called to assist Tamica in an assault by her partner.Tamica Mullaley and her father, Ted Mullaley, were arrested and charged by police who were called to assist Tamica in an assault by her partner.
“If police had treated me like a human being that night, my baby Charlie would be alive today,” Tamica Mullaley said in a statement. Police were called, but by the time they arrived Bell had fled the scene. Police then arrested a bloody and injured Tamica Mullaley who they alleged was abusive towards them. When Ted Mullaley arrived to help his daughter, he was charged with obstructing arrest. Police agreed to take Tamica Mullaley to hospital rather than the station, but transported her handcuffed in the police van. It was later found she had suffered a ruptured kidney and lacerated spleen in the beating from Bell.
Bell had baby Charlie for about 15 hours before he turned up at the Fortescue Roadhouse in Karratha about 1,000km away. Charlie, who was pronounced dead a short time later, had injuries from his head to his feet, including broken bones, third-degree burns, internal bleeding and bruising. In 2014, Bell was found guilty of having murdered and sexually assaulted Charlie, in a crime the judge described as “evil”. Bell killed himself in prison in 2015.
The 2016 CCC review found that the police response to baby Charlie’s kidnapping was “delayed and ineffective”, but there was “no serious misconduct”.
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