A mother charged with criminal neglect after police allegedly found her 18-month-old daughter sitting in an overflowing nappy with live maggots has been granted bail.
Officers arrested the 24-year-old on July 21 after attending a home on Eyre Peninsula.
The child in her care was taken to hospital for treatment with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
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Police allege that when the 18-month-old’s nappy was removed, her skin had infected wounds from where the velcro had been.
Bilney will appear before the Port Augusta Magistrates Court in December.
