Girl, 6, Found Dead in Brisbane Home

Police are searching for the father of a six-year-old girl who was found dead in the bedroom of a inner north Brisbane home this
morning.

Officers are treating the death as suspicious after they were called to a house in Sturt Street, Kedron just after 8am, where a crime scene has now been set up.

The young child is thought to have been dead for some time before the body was discovered this morning, but police say a post-mortem is yet to be performed to determine an approximate time and cause of death.

As reported in the Brisbane Times, Acting Detective Superintendent Geoff Sheldon said the girl’s father left the home he shares with his wife and two daughters at 5am this morning. He stressed while the girl’s father is wanted for questioning, he was not yet a suspect in his daughter’s death, saying the cause of death may be a number of things, including a medical condition.

“We’re very keen to talk to him but we believe we will be able to locate him in the near future and he should also be able to assist us with our inquiries as to how such a tragic incident has occurred today,” Sheldon said.

“There’s no immediate cause of death. We’re treating the whole death as very, very serious, as you would with the death of a child of such tender years.”

“It’s not a clear-cut case by any stretch of the imagination.”

The girl’s father is said to drive a silver Mercedes. Police have been door-knocking the area in pursuit of information.

The family’s neighbour Katrina Marlow told ABC News there were no signs of trouble last night surrounding the home which backs onto Kedron Brook parkland.

“When I came home at midnight it was lovely, quiet, peaceful, like it is every night,” she said.

“At about eight o’clock this morning I heard my neighbour say something happened and I heard police sirens and noise and everything.

“It will hit people, the people who know them better, very very hard.”

The girl’s mother and eight-year-old sister have been taken to a police station.

If you or anyone you know has information relating to this incident, please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.