Tamie Leanne Apps inflicted serious head and stomach injuries on her two-year-old son, which led to his death last year, because she believed the toddler was hindering her relationship with her boyfriend, Wollongong Local Court heard today.
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Apps, who has been charged with the murder of her son, Zoran Ivanovski, on August 3, 2012, was formally denied bail today when she appeared before Magistrate Michael Stoddart via video link.
In a facts sheet, tendered to the court, police allege that the 32-year-old woman assaulted her son over a three-day period, leaving him with blunt force head and stomach injuries, multiple skeletal injuries which included three fractured ribs, a fractured left collarbone and fractured right shoulder blade. There were also numerous non-accidental bruises.
Police allege that Apps, of Middlesex St, Berkeley, was obsessed with her de-facto partner Paul Karedis and believed Zoran was getting in the way of her relationship with Karedis.
‘‘...all she wanted was a relationship with Paul Karedis without her [child],’’ the facts sheet said.
Apps further attempted to blame the death of her son on a stomach bug, meningitis and a host of other illnesses, in order to take attention away from herself, police said.
Police will allege that Zoran was consistently neglected by Apps and that she failed to provide adequate nutrition, clothing, motherly attention, supervision and medical care.
‘‘A number of witnesses have described that the accused was not attached to the victim, paid him little maternal affection and would refer to him as a haemorrhoid,’’ the facts sheet said.
‘‘The accused had also been heard to say that she wished ‘that he had never been born’.’’