GP’s urgent warnings ‘ignored’ before toddler’s death

The child was drowned by her mother who was experiencing an acute psychotic episode

A mental health emergency team failed to act on a GP’s urgent warning about his patient’s acute psychotic relapse just days before she killed her two-year-old child, a coronial inquest has found.

The GP based in Liverpool in NSW had first consulted with the mother in July 2015 for her routine care.