An Australian couple charged with starving their seven-year-old daughter to death were today committed to stand trial for murder.
The girl weighed just nine kgs (20 pounds) when her body was found last November in a room littered with faeces at the family's home, north of the coal port of Newcastle on Australia's east coast, the prosecutor told the Newcastle Local Court.
Magistrate Michael Morahan committed the 46-year-old man and his 37-year-old wife, who cannot be named, to stand trial via a videolink to their jail.
The trial is set for November 7th in the Sydney Supreme Court.
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Reuters