The former boss of a childcare centre has broken down in court in the case of a toddler who was left to die in sweltering heat in a daycare minibus two years ago.
A hearing into the death of a toddler who was left to die in sweltering heat in a daycare minibus two years ago has revealed how a combination of errors and poor management may have led to the incident.
Childcare giant Goodstart Early Learning has been fined $71,000 after a three-year-old boy was left to die in blazing temperatures inside a minibus in Edmonton, far-north Queensland.
New charges over childâs bus death Goodstart Early Learning Centre faces thousands of dollars in fines over three-year-oldâs death in Cairns last year. Picture: ABC NEWS
Crime by Emily Cosenza 21st Apr 2021 6:37 PM The childcare operator at the centre of the tragic death of a three-year-old boy who was left in a hot bus is facing thousands of dollars in fines after Education Queensland filed court action. Maliq Nicholas Floyd Namok-Malamoo was left on the Edmonton Goodstart Early Learning minibus for almost six hours on a 34C day on February 18 last year. His body was later found in the parked vehicle outside Hambledon State School in Cairns.