South Australian police are investigating whether six children living at a home in Adelaide's north have been criminally neglected, following the death of a six-year-old girl.
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The six-year-old was taken by paramedics to the Lyell McEwin Hospital during the early hours of Friday morning after being found unresponsive at her Munno Para home. She died soon after arrival.
Detectives from the Major Crime Investigation Branch have been investigating the circumstances of her death, and have now formed Taskforce Prime.
The girl's death is being treated as a case of criminal neglect causing death, a crime which carries a potential life sentence.
Her five siblings, aged between seven and 16 years, have been removed from the home. Police say they are investigating criminal neglect charges relating to the children.
Police say the investigation is in its infancy, and more information will be provided in coming days.
House of horrors in SA's history
A woman was jailed for 10 years for starving and beating five children in an Adelaide northern suburbs house — the neglect only uncovered when a child was taken to hospital unconscious in 2008.
In 2009, a couple was charged with failing to provide necessary accommodation to five children as police found their house was in an appalling, unhygienic state.
These criminal neglect cases led to multiple changes in child protection by the former SA Labor government.
