❤️HER NAME IS CHARLIE NOWLAND❤️
There’s so many moments in her far-too short life that should break everyone’s heart.
A little girl who deserved to grow strong and proud reduced to skin and bones, covered in lice and grime, neglected to death while her mother used drugs, mocking her own daughter as she lived her final days in a state of abject torture and pain.
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Her name is Charlie Nowland. Charlie died as a result of extreme neglect including starvation after she became critically unwell at her home in Munno Para, South Australia. Charlie was only six years old.
Charlie’s mother Crystal Leanne Hanley, 49, was charged with manslaughter but pleaded guilty to multiple counts of criminal neglect causing death and has just been sentenced to 17 years with parole after serving 12 years behind bars.
She was also convicted and sentenced for neglecting two of Charlie’s siblings.
In a phone call recorded by police, Charlie could be heard crying out ‘my legs are killing me’ in the background before Hanley yelled at her ‘shut up’.
Hanley also joked in a call that Charlie had ‘cankles’ while saying ‘she’s a dickhead and she won’t walk’.
Charlie was never taken to a doctor and she never saw the inside of a school or a child care centre. The first time she was treated by doctors was on the day of her death.
Detective Haydn Evans said entering Charlie’s home was one of the worst moments in his life.
“I can still smell the house and the appalling state it was in,” he said.
“I’ll never forget that night, no child should ever have to suffer the way Charlie did.
“I can still vividly see Charlie’s lifeless body on the hospital bed.”
Angela Dente is one of the nurses who treated Charlie as she was dying – she has since changed jobs because of the impact of treating the youngster.
“I kept looking at her little sweet face,” she said.
“I was shocked to be told that what I thought was dried up vomit strewn through her hair … was in fact a head full of lice eggs.
“The vision of zipping up that (body) bag was gut wrenching and still plays in my mind.
“Rest peacefully with the angels, little sweet Charlie.”
Charlie’s siblings gave statements to the court, with one telling their mother: “I had to be a parent to Charlie because you weren’t.
“You were selfish. All you cared about was drugs when you should have cared about us.”
CHARLIE NOWLAND MATTERS! ❤️
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