Mother charged with murdering her three-year-old daughter in Moore Park Beach

A woman has appeared in a Queensland court charged over the murder of her three-year-old child.

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00:00Police are investigating the alleged murder of a three-year-old girl at Moorpark Beach north of

00:08Bundaberg. Officers were called to the address just before five o'clock yesterday afternoon

00:13and found the child unresponsive on the front lawn of the house. Police arrested the mother

00:19at the scene. 32-year-old Lauren Ingrid Flanagan. Female at that address at the time who we now

00:25know to believe to be the mother of that child. She was taken into custody yesterday afternoon,

00:31interviewed at the Bundaberg police station and later charged with the murder of that child

00:36and attended court this morning. The incident has left neighbours in shock in the normally quiet

00:41beachside community that's home to many families and retirees. Today the house remains a crime scene

00:48and under police guard as investigations continue. Ms Flanagan appeared in the Bundaberg magistrate's

00:55court today and was remanded in custody.