Renay scolded her misbehaving son and threatened to drive away from him on the side of the road. Moments later she was stuffing him in the boot of her car
A fed-up mother threatened to abandon her children in a forest before accidentally running over her son as he chained himself to the car as she drove away.
Renay Paiym Condoleon, 33, who now goes by her married name Nielsen, felt a thud as she drove away from her eight-year-old son after he tried to grab her car on November 13, 2022.
Court documents show Nielsen saw the seriously injured boy in the rearview mirror before pulling over and placing him in the trunk of her Audi Q7 station wagon. On the way home she then called triple 0.
Police found the boy alive in the trunk, with blood on his head. Paramedics rushed him to Bundaberg Hospital but he died shortly afterwards.
Nielsen pleaded guilty to one count of driving without due care and attention or driving without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road, causing death or grievous bodily harm at the Bundaberg Magistrates Court, the Bundaberg District Court was told. NewsMail.
Renay Paiym Condoleon, 33, who now goes by her married name Nielsen (left), accidentally ran over her misbehaving eight-year-old son after threatening to leave him in the woods
Acting Sergeant Melinda Bardini first interviewed Nielsen after the incident, who said the children were misbehaving and she wanted to scare them.
“(Nielsen) told the children that she was going to leave them in the woods for another family in an attempt to scare them,” according to a statement of facts obtained by NewsMail said.
'She then drove away and that (son) must have grabbed onto the car when she saw him in the side mirror. She started to stop, heard a thump and then saw (her son) on the ground.”
The court heard Nielsen did not realize her son had tried to grab onto the car. He had slipped from the damaged side rail of the car before falling on the quiet dirt road.
The boy was not the only child who had to get out of the car, but was the only one injured during the incident.
Nielsen was sentenced to fifteen months' probation, with her driver's license suspended for six months. No convictions have been recorded.