Independent review announced as NSW police probe if cannibalism involved in four-year-old’s alleged murder

Police charge woman with murder after the body of a preschooler was found in a Central Coast home on Saturday

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The New South Wales government will commission an independent review after it was confirmed the family of a four-year-old who was allegedly murdered was known to the department in charge of child protection.

A woman has been remanded in custody and was on Sunday charged with murder after police found the body of a preschooler at a home on the NSW Central Coast.