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Mum sues childcare centre after toddler's bus death

Four years after a toddler was left on bus outside a childcare centre and died of heat stress, his mother is suing the far north Queensland facility.

AAP · Jul 9, 2024

Dionne Batrice Grills manslaughter trial hears ex-director asked her to get toddler off minibus

Jailed childcare centre director Michael Glenn Lewis tells the Supreme Court in Cairns that he asked Dionne Batrice Grills to help Maliq "Meeky" Nicholas Floyd Namok-Malamoo, three, off the bus where he died.

ABC News · Apr 14, 2022

Dead toddler's mum tells Dionne Batrice Grills trial about the moments he was put on childcare bus

Maliq "Meeky" Namok-Malamoo's mother testifies in the manslaughter trial of Dionne Batrice Grills about how the boy was picked up later than normal and that she was rushed to put her son into the minibus on which he later died.

ABC News · Apr 13, 2022