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A man has been charged with murdering his three-year-old son after his wife rang police with concerns about their welfare. | |
The 36-year-old man was charged late on Tuesday at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, before being taken into surgery for a self-inflicted neck wound, superintendent Graeme Adock said. | |
The mother rang police about 8.15am saying her husband had gone missing from their Stepney home with their son and she had concerns about their welfare. | |
About 9am, a police patrol was attending an unrelated crash scene at Athelstone when a man in a black Volkswagen Amarok stopped and told police his son was injured. | |
“The police officers went to the vehicle and found a small three-year-old child very badly injured,” Superintendent Adock said. | |
“The ambulances were already at the scene, so the child was immediately attended to by the paramedics.” | |
He was taken to Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital, where he died. | |
Police believe the boy received the fatal injuries in the family car. | |
The man, who had non-life threatening injuries to his neck, was taken to hospital. | |
Adock said it was too early to say whether mental health issues were involved in the tragedy. | |
A postmortem will be conducted on Wednesday. | |
“He had injuries consistent with being stabbed, but whether he was stabbed or not we do not know,” said Adock. | |
“As you can imagine, the mother of the child is very distressed. | |
“Police are providing her with all the support we can, so it is difficult to get the information we need from husband and wife for various reasons.” | |
He understood the family was not known to police and was not aware of any intervention orders. | |
“Everyone who is involved in this, the mother and very close relatives and friends, are extremely distraught. | |
“I just visited the police officers involved. They are very upset. The ambulance officers, they are very upset.” |