Australian mother charged with toddler daughter's murder dies
- Last week, a 32-year-old mother from Moore Park Beach was formally accused of murdering her three-year-old daughter, Sophia Rose, whom she allegedly stabbed outside their home.
- The stabbing occurred on May 26 after neighbors made several emergency calls about the incident at the family house near Bundaberg.
- Emergency services found Sophia Rose unresponsive with multiple stab wounds and pronounced her dead after attempts to revive her failed.
- On May 30, Flanigan was discovered unconscious inside her cell at Brisbane Women's Correctional Centre; officers promptly provided aid before paramedics took her to the hospital.
- Flanigan died in hospital on June 1, prompting an ongoing investigation by Queensland Correctional Services and police into her death and the fatal stabbing.
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Lauren Ingrid Flanigan, 32, was found unresponsive on May 30 and died at a local hospital two days laterLauren Flanigan/Instagram Lauren Ingrid FlaniganNEED TO KNOWLauren Ingrid Flanigan, the Australian woman accused of fatally stabbing her 3-year-old daughter on May 26, has diedThe 32-year-old was found unresponsive in her jail cell on Friday, May 30, and died in a local hospital on Sunday, June 1An investigation into the incident is currently …
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