Mum found to be 'risk of injury' prior to child deaths Protective services worried that a woman might be unable to keep her child safe two years before their almost exact fears came to pass with fatal results. AAP · May 2, 2024
Child safety 'pressure' not to act before girls died A child safety officer has told an inquest she was getting "pushback" against ordering too many investigations into allegations of neglect. AAP · May 1, 2024
Mum of girls who died in hot car often left them before The deaths of two toddlers after their drug addicted mother left them for nine hours in a hot car will be the subject of an inquest hearing starting in April. AAP · Dec 18, 2023
Father pursuing legal action against child safety department after mother left daughters Chloe and Darcey Conley to die in hot car Peter Jackson is pursuing legal action, seeking damages for personal injuries he says stem from the deaths of his daughters. ABC News · Apr 19, 2023
Mum left kids, 1 and 2, to bake to death in 60C car after trying to swap one for iPhone Two 'defenceless' children died tragically in a hot car left in direct sunlight while their mum slept inside the family home, just days after she was deemed a suitable parent by authorities Daily Mirror · Mar 18, 2023
Death of sisters Darcey and Chloe Conley in hot car was 'avoidable' tragedy, government review finds The report found the child safety department did not put enough safeguards in place, overlooked "clear red flags" before their deaths, and there was a lack of information-sharing across agencies. ABC News · Mar 17, 2023
Calls for Queensland government to release full child safety investigation after toddlers left to die in hot car Queensland's opposition demands the state government release the full investigation report examining its handling of the child safety case involving two toddlers who died in a hot car. ABC News · Mar 16, 2023
Former child safety officer believes she could have saved Darcey and Chloe if not for a high caseload A former caseworker says that systemic problems within Queensland's Child Safety unit may have prevented her from saving Darcey and Chloe. ABC News · Feb 22, 2023
Dad of Logan toddlers Darcey and Chloe-Ann Conley killed in hot car questions downgraded charges Kerri-Ann Conley became the first person in Queensland to be charged with murder under an expanded definition. Then her charges were downgraded. ABC News · Feb 21, 2023
Dad unhappy with sentence for kids' deaths in hot car Kerri-Ann Conley has been jailed for nine years after her "inexcusable" decision that left her two toddlers to die in a hot car after a night spent socialising. AAP · Feb 16, 2023
Kerri-Ann Conley sentenced to nine years' jail for manslaughter after toddler daughters died in car that reached 61C Two-and-a-half-year-old Darcey and her 13-month-old sister Chloe-Ann died after being left inside their mother's car at their Waterford West home in November 2019. ABC News · Feb 16, 2023
How Queensland's child protection system failed Darcey and Chloe Conley Before Darcey and Chloe Conley died inside a hot car, authorities prematurely closed their file on the children and failed to heed later warnings that the toddlers were at risk, an ABC investigation reveals. ABC News · Feb 14, 2023
'Delinquent' mum slept as kids died in hot car Queensland woman Kerri-Ann Conley has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her two young daughters by leaving them in a hot car for nine hours in 2019. AAP · Feb 14, 2023