AM Edition: Advocates ‘sickened and a ppalled’ by treatment of kids in Cairns wat ch-house

Email Amid intense scrutiny by child advocate groups the internal Qld police watch dog has launched an investigation into claims the arm of an intellectually impaired child was broken while locked down in an isolation cell at the Cairns watch-house.

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