Deceased
Brodie Moran
Demographics
8y, male
Date of death
2018-03-08
Finding date
2021-05-20
Cause of death
Suffocation
AI-generated summary
Brodie Moran, an 8-year-old boy, died by suffocation at the hands of his mother, Ms Finch, on 8 March 2018. Ms Finch had a history of depression and anxiety, experiencing significant deterioration in mental health following her grandmother's death in July 2017. In the weeks before the death, she displayed obvious distress at work and to friends, but did not fully disclose her struggles to her GP or mental health services. Her GP provided appropriate treatment with antidepressants and referrals to mental health services, but Ms Finch had poor engagement with counselling and did not meet criteria for involuntary treatment. The coroner found no clinical prevention opportunities in the healthcare services provided. The tragedy highlights the challenge of identifying risk of filicide in community settings and the importance of integrated information-sharing between multiple contacts in a person's life.
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