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Inside the house of horror where a nine-month-old baby was found dead – with piles of dirty nappies, beer bottles, starved dogs… and a putrid smell
- Police removed body of a nine-month-old baby found dead in a home at Doonside in Sydney’s west
- The house is strewn with rubbish – with dirty nappies and overflowing garbage bags on the front lawn
- The infant’s parents have been taken to Blacktown police station for questioning. No charges have been laid
- Neighbours said they heard arguing from the house. One called the RSPCA to remove two emancipated dogs
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A foul smell wafts from bags of dirty nappies and piles of rubbish at a house where a nine-month-old baby was found dead.
Police found the ‘unresponsive’ infant inside the home at Doonside in Sydney’s west on Monday at about 10am after responding to a concern for welfare call. The child couldn’t be revived.
Officers cordoned off the area as detectives spoke with the baby’s parents.
On Tuesday Daily Mail Australia was met with a horrendous odour wafting from the home, with nappies on the footpath and overflowing bins dumped on top of a shopping trolley.
The yard is strewn with beer bottles, rubbish and broken toys.
Garbage spills out the front door on to the verandah of the house, from where the baby was carried out by paramedics the previous day.
Rubbish and bags of dirty nappies spill out of the squalid house where a nine-month-old baby was found dead on Monday
A dirty nappy sits atop a shopping trolley stuffed with bags of rubbish and a child’s scooter outside the Doonside home
Neighbours said they believed the dead child was a baby boy.
The couple, believed to be in their late 20s or early 30s, were taken to Blacktown police station for questioning.
Neighbours said they had frequently heard loud arguments coming from two adults in the house, but the family of four children ‘has not been out for the last week or two’.
Jessica, who lives behind the squalid residence, said she had reported two emaciated pet dogs she had seen in the back yard to the RSPCA, which had then removed the animals.
An orange bag seen at the suburban house appears to be stuffed full of soiled nappies
‘I saw the dogs, but I barely saw the children. I feel so terrible I didn’t notice anything,’ she told Daily Mail Australia.
‘I heard them (the parents of the children) shouting at each other… fighting. I never saw the baby.’
Another neighbour, Karen, said she had seen ‘all the kids out on the back patio laughing and playing’ but that had been a few weeks ago, and the family had not been outside recently.
‘The parents, I think they had some issues,’ Karen said. ‘It’s just a tragedy. I don’t know whether it was an accident or a natural death.
‘I was devastated actually that someone so young won’t continue on with their life.
Flowers left outside the house where neighbours said they heard loud arguments and one said they called the RSPCA to report two emaciated dogs which were later removed
Police outside the squalid house on Tuesday after detectives took away the parents of the dead child for questioning
‘I have lived in this community for 33 years and you get the odd incident, but a year ago Jason was killed. It’s heartbreaking that so many young lives are lost.’
Ms Nicholas was referring to 16-year-old Jason Galleghan who was found on August 4 last year with injuries to his head and chest at a house on Perigee Close, nearby the house where the nine-month-old was found dead.
Jason was found unresponsive and taken to Westmead Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Bags of rubbish are seen dumped in a shopping trolley in the front yard of the western Sydney home on Tuesday
A soiled nappy lies next to a garbage bin stuffed with dirty nappies outside the house where the baby was found dead on Monday
Five teenagers, including 19-year-old Kayla Dawson, have since been charged with Jason’s alleged murder.
Another neighbour of the filthy house where the baby allegedly died, Carol-Ann, said on several occasions, particularly in the evening, she had heard the sound of arguing.
‘I have heard yelling from inside when I was walking past,’ she said.
No charges have been laid and forensic police are working to determine the baby’s cause of death.