William Tyrrell’s foster parents allegedly charged with assault of a child — that isn’t William
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Following one of our stories earlier this week, the case surrounding William Tyrrell and his foster parents has developed.
On Sydney’s Upper North Shore, the foster mother and father of missing boy William Tyrrell have been charged with the alleged assault of another child.
“As part of ongoing investigations under Strike Force Rosann, detectives from the Homicide Squad received information relating to the suspected assault of a child at a home on Sydney’s Upper North Shore,” a spokesperson for NSW Police said on Wednesday afternoon.
NSW Police disclosed that the couple was charged with common assault of a child who cannot be named for legal reasons.
“Following inquiries, Strike Force Rosann detectives served Court Attendance Notices on legal representatives of a 56-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man earlier today.”
The charges do not relate to William.
The pair are due to appear at Hornsby Local Court on Tuesday, November 23. Photos from Daily Mail Australia.
Earlier this week, detectives reported that they were focusing their investigation on the missing child’s foster mother.
The 56-year-old woman, who had been caring for William and his sister since March 2012, is now a police suspect, although there is no confirmation of guilt yet.
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said, “there is one person, in particular, we are looking closely at”.
The suspicions came as police seized a silver Mazda hatchback car that once belonged to William Tyrrell’s foster grandmother from a home in Gymea in the Sutherland Shire.
The vehicle is being held in a secure facility for several weeks while undergoing forensic examinations and analysis.
At the time the child went missing, the car belonged to William’s 88-year-old foster grandmother, who died in March.
The woman who owned the car when it was seized is not believed to be related to the disappearance of the three-year-old in 2014. She did not know William’s foster family and declined to comment further about how she came into possession of the car.
NSW Police are investigating whether the vehicle was an accessory to the ‘crime’; if it was used to move William’s body after his death.
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