EXCLUSIVE Capalaba baby death: Harrowing new details of the heartbreaking death of nine-week old baby boy are revealed as tragic tot is identified and his family break their silence Baby River was found dead on 11 August His mother has shared a heartbreaking tribute By Tita Smith For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:08, 19 August 2024 | Updated: 05:27, 19 August 2024 e-mail View comments The devastated mother of a nine-week-old baby boy who died suddenly in mysterious circumstances has penned a heartbreaking tribute to her son as new details of the tragedy emerge. Kiarnie Rodgers, 20, has shared a harrowing photo of a memorial set up at home to honour her son and a poem to him as she prepares to lay her little boy to rest. Baby River was found dead at a property on Larbonya Crescent at Capalaba, in Brisbane 's southeast, on Sunday, August 11.
It is understood that emergency services had attended the same address in the past and River had previously been treated at hospital for skull fractures. Queensland Police have now launched an investigation and are understood to be treating the 'sudden death' as suspicious. River's maternal grandfather Cameron Faulkner has now spoken out to slam trolls who had passed judgement about his grandson's death.
He said his grandson had been staying with his father at the time of the tragedy and had previously suffered a fractured skull after being pulled out of his dad's arms by his older sibling. 'My daughter is a great mother and I'm hurt t.