William Tyrrell’s foster parents: Moment foster mother can be heard whacking an 11-year-old girl with a wooden spoon – as the woman breaks down in court
William Tyrrell’s foster mother has filed for bankruptcy in court while playing back a recording of her beating an 11-year-old girl with a wooden spoon.
On the disturbing audio tape, the foster mother, known only as SD, tells the girl to go get the wooden spoon, followed by a bang as the girl is hit.
After that, the couple can be heard in another phone conversation, with the foster mother telling the foster father that they had a problem because the abuse had “left a mark.
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The audio was played in Parramatta local court on Tuesday afternoon.
Tyrrell’s foster mother can be heard beating the girl, before the girl then yells an anguished sequence of “help me.”
SD then tells the girl to ‘shut up’.
The foster mother cried and hugged the foster father during playback of the 30-minute recording, which emerged from a nighttime confrontation between the girl and the foster parents after some of the child’s clothing and toys were taken away.
William Tyrrell’s foster mother (centre) – who cannot be identified for legal reasons – stood in court on Tuesday alongside the missing boy’s foster father
The assault, to which the foster mother pleaded guilty, took place on January 26, 2021.
The recording was made after the SD complained that the girl had “lost $120 worth of clothes” and that she owned “over a thousand dollars worth of toys.”
SD later told a friend that she had “cleaned out” the girl’s room, “thrown her toys” and reduced her to a few pairs of clothes, telling the friend, “I feel awful…but I have to do it, I have to break her.’
On the tape, seeing the room cleared, the girl cries and yells at the couple first, “You ruined everything.” You took everything and I don’t know where it is.’
Then she says, “Please help, I need help. I need some help. Hello, I need help. Please, I need help.’
Then she begins to sob loudly, anguished, and screams, “Please help me.” You can’t do that to me. I need help. I need help. I need help. I need help. I just need help. I just need some help. I just need some help.’
On the tape recording, the girl can be heard moving and says, “I have the iPad upstairs. I’m calling’.
Movement can be heard, then the anguished screams and sobs of the girl and the foster mother who says, “Get up, get up, away from the screen,” and tells her to move her hands before being smacked with the wooden spoon. beaten.
The girl then bursts into a series of nine long, drawn-out utterances of “Noooo.”
At this point while listening in court, the foster mother burst into tears and cried, and her attorney asked for a brief intermission, which Magistrate McIntyre granted.
In a subsequent audio recording, the foster mother tells the girl that if she hears another sound coming from her that night, SD will go to the girl’s room and take her meal away.
“You seem to think you have me under control, that you have the situation under control. You can’t, you never will,” says SD.
In a subsequent call, SD tells the foster father that after the wooden spoon incident, where an edge was left behind, the girl locked her out.
JS replies, “We’ve got a problem, a big problem,” to which SD replies, “We’ve got a huge problem.”
In a later recording, SD also tells the girl that just because “you can’t stand up for yourself at school” doesn’t mean the 11-year-old can push SD.
Several disturbing recordings have been played in court of the 11-year-old girl screaming and sobbing inconsolably as William Tyrrell’s foster parents yell and abuse her.
Sydney’s Parramatta local court on Tuesday played 15 recordings in cars and homes showing the foster parents of the missing boy having a heated argument with the schoolgirl to whom the foster mother pleaded guilty to assault.
In one audio recording, an apparently enraged foster father yells at the girl in a car as ABC Radio’s morning news plays in the background. It begins, ‘Every damn day!
‘Close the front door. Move, damn move! We are done with this game. I’m over it. Out. It’s fucking ridiculous. I’m fucking over it. It’s bloody stupid.’
As the child’s sobbing continues, the foster father says, “I’m done. You don’t understand, you do this every day. Every day!’
“Don’t lose your dick now,” he says as louder sobs can be heard.
In a recorded conversation with the girl, the foster mother tells her: ‘Look at me. Next time you talk to me, this is about your butt.”
A loud thumping sound is then heard, even though it is not a clap.
In another shot, during an argument over the girl’s clothing, the foster mother yells, “Go on, keep going, I’ll last longer than you, you won’t beat me at this.”
“Look at me, I’m stronger. I will outlive you. Keep going, I’m going higher, I’m going harder. Your choise.’
The foster mother cried and hugged the foster father (the couple pictured above) as a poignant noise played in the courtroom of her beating the 11-year-old girl with a wooden spoon and then telling her to shut up while the child sobbed and begged for staff
While a recording played of the girl sobbing and wailing loudly, the foster mother smiled at the foster father in court and then dabbed a rolled handkerchief into the corner of each eye.
The recordings that are being played date from November 2020 and January 2021.
In one of the recordings, the foster mother says to the 11-year-old in a loud and shrill voice, “Listen to me. Do what I say, not what you want. Not your position. My position.
“You’ll do it MY WAY.”
On January 26, 2021, during an argument about the girl having too many clothes, with a radio playing in the background, SD said to the girl, “Be quiet, you won’t get to talk, you have absolutely nothing to say.” Zero.’
When the girl responds and says “I hate you” in a whimper, SD responds. ‘You do what we tell you to do. No means no.’
Both foster parents also appear to be taunting or berating the girl for allegedly telling a friend at school what was going on at home.
The foster mom tells the girl that if what she told (her school friend) and that friend “tell her mom, her mom will have to report it… (that) another girl at school has been harassed by her parents, blah blah bla. bla bla’.
She says to the girl, “You’ve never been in a position where you couldn’t tell me… you’ve always been able to tell me.”
“You have to keep telling me. And it doesn’t matter if you get into trouble. If anyone gets in trouble, tell me.
“Did you tell anyone else?”
Agent takes the stand
The footage plays after the officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Senior Agent Sean Ogilvy, takes the stand Monday morning.
Police planned to play recordings of up to four hours of evidence recorded in homes and vehicles related to allegations of assault, stalking and harassment against the missing toddler’s foster parents.
William Tyrrell’s foster mother faces the second day of her trial with the foster father on charges of stalking and assault after pleading guilty to two counts of punching and kicking an 11-year-old girl.
The 58-year-old entered the plea at the start of a five-day court hearing over allegations of violence against the young girl.
The facts are that the foster mother kicked and hit the girl with a wooden spoon during confrontations with the then primary school girl over a mobile phone and after the child told the foster parents, “I hate you.”
The foster parents of missing toddler William Tyrrell (above) are accused of assaulting, stalking and harassing a 2021 primary school-aged schoolgirl in a series of incidents between January and August
The officer in charge of the case – Detective Senior Constable Sean Ogilvy – has taken his stand because disturbing recordings were played in court
After the two guilty verdicts, the foster mother failed in her lawyer’s attempt to keep the five-day trial secret and closed to the public and media.
The foster parents, referred to in court as SD (the foster mother) and JS (the foster father), are charged with multiple assaults against a child and stalking, harassing and causing fear of physical or mental harm to a child between Australia Day. 2021 and August 30, 2021.
The offenses allegedly occurred at two different residences in Sydney’s North Shore.
The foster mother continued to maintain that she was not guilty of two separate charges of stalking and harassing the young girl.
William disappeared in September 2014 aged three in the NSW Mid North Coast town of Kendall and no trace of the toddler has ever been found.
No one has ever been charged with his disappearance.
In late 2021, another search was conducted in bushland within 700 meters of the Kendall home where William was last seen, but no items of significance have been identified.