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Former Cairns childcare director tearfully tells family he is ‘very sorry’ for toddler’s death on bus
A childcare centre director who has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after leaving a three-year-old boy to die on a daycare centre bus has made a tearful apology to the child’s family in a Far North Queensland court.
WARNING: This story contains images of Indigenous people who have died.
Key points:
- Three-year-old Maliq Namok-Malamoo was found dead on a childcare centre minibus in February 2020
- Lewis faced the boy’s family from the dock and said: “Poor family, I’m so sorry”
- In a victim impact statement read in court, the boy’s mother Muriel Namok said she had lost “her only boy”
It has been a year since the body of Maliq Nicholas Lloyd Namok-Malamoo, known to his family as “Meeky”, was found dead on the Goodstart Early Learning Centre minibus…
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