Brad William Mitchell, 45, faced the Gympie Magistrates Court on Thursday morning charged with failing to comply with a reporting obligation in accordance with the Child Protection Act between November 1 and November 30 last year. Mitchell had failed to make his quarterly report to the Child Offending and Protection Registry after being sentenced in the District Court for two counts of indecently dealing with a child under 16, among other offences last September. In December 2018, the then 42-year-old Mitchell was watching a 15-year-old girl and her older brother while their parents and sister were out. Mitchell had been asked to look in on the teenagers while they were home alone, but instead gave them alcohol and drank with them before assaulting the girl in her own bed.
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Two men have been arrested by police for two separate incidents involving children.
A 30-year-old Toogoolawah man was arrested by the Child Protection Investigation Unit in relation to numerous offences of failing to report obligations under the child protection act.
In a separate incident, a 25-year-old man from Toogoolawah was arrested for allegedly possessing child exploitation material.
The man’s charges were escalated after Toogoolawah police and the Ipswich Child Protection Detectives executed a search warrant.
Motorists flaunting the road rules have also been targeted by police.
A 50-year-old Toogoolawah man will appear in court after he was busted drug driving on the Brisbane Valley Highway.
Crime by Elise Williams
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Subscriber only The mother who police have listed as the main person of interest in relation to a suspicious child death can be revealed as a decorated medical researcher working for one of Queensland s most prestigious research institutes.
The Courier-Mail can reveal Sabita Neupane, 32, remains the focal point of a police investigation into the death of her five-month-old baby girl, who died under suspicious circumstances in the family s Annerley home last month. It can also be revealed the couple told police the baby s father, Sunil Srivastav, found the infant deceased in her cot on the morning of November 16, after Ms Neupane is said to have put the baby to bed on the evening of November 15.