A man and woman from Boorowa have been charged with child neglect offences after a seven-year-old boy was rescued by police from a locked vehicle in Byron Bay.
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Police were called to Fingal Street at Brunswick Heads on Wednesday, December 27, where they found a distressed seven-year-old boy allegedly locked in a parked vehicle.
Officers from Tweed/Byron Local Area Command attended and removed the child from the car before taking him to hospital where he is continuing to receive treatment.
An investigation was launched and police were told by witnesses they saw the child allegedly being physically assaulted by a man a short time earlier.
Police will also allege the boy was also physically assaulted by the man at a beach on Boxing Day.
The man and 45-year-old woman, also from Boorowa, were arrested after returning to the vehicle and taken to Byron Bay Police Station.
The man was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, leave child/young person in motor vehicle causing emotional distress, common assault, stalk/intimidate intend fear physical harm and leave young person in motor vehicle thus impairing health.
He appeared before Tweed Heads Local Court on Thursday, December 28.
The woman was charged with leave child/young person in vehicle causing emotional distress and leave child/young person in vehicle thus impairing health and was given bail to appear at Byron Bay Local Court on January 11, 2018.
Arrangements are being made for the child’s ongoing care.