00:02Police tape still draped across a motel doorway.
00:06The sign of what is now said to be a shocking crime,
00:10the allegedly neglectful death of a little boy.
00:13Super surprising, it's quite grim to hear some stuff like that.
00:19Police found the baby inside the ground floor room on Saturday morning
00:23when they were called to undertake a welfare check,
00:26initially reporting the death as unexplained.
00:29Today, they revealed a couple arrested at the scene.
00:3342-year-old woman Yu Ning Liu and 40-year-old man Benjamin Nicholas Horton
00:38had been detained under the Mental Health Act
00:41before being charged with criminal neglect and concealing human remains.
00:46The Premier questioned in Parliament about the alleged crime.
00:51Whenever there is a death of a child, it is tragic.
00:54When it's an infant, it is particularly heartbreaking.
00:57The police minister providing further detail.
01:00A post-mortem has revealed that the infant is about six to seven months old.
01:04Major crime investigation branch continue their investigations.
01:08The couple had come from interstate, police revealing they'd been staying at the motel since early in the year.
01:14Police say it was an operational decision by major crime detectives to not disclose news of the arrests until today,
01:22even though the pair was formally charged yesterday afternoon and appeared in court for a short bedside hearing from hospital.
01:29Police later confirming the pair had been remanded in custody to appear in court again in May.
01:36police sentenced to seven months old.
