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Authorities were acrophobic a miss would beryllium injured owed to her mother’s drug-fuelled neglect years earlier she was near to dice successful a blistery car, a coroner has heard.

A Queensland Department of Child Safety serviceman connected Thursday testified that she documented concerns that Kerri-Ann Conley’s methamphetamine use would pb to her falling dormant portion was the sole carer of her then-infant girl Darcey.

Kerri-Ann Conley pleaded blameworthy to the manslaughter of her 2 small girls.

The serviceman said successful aboriginal 2018 she “copy and pasted” details from a erstwhile study arsenic she believed they inactive applied to Conley’s effort to support custody of Darcey.

“Child Safety is disquieted that Kerri-Ann volition usage crystal (methamphetamine) oregon different substances erstwhile she is the lone 1 looking aft Darcey-Helen. She volition autumn dormant and not wage attraction to Darcey-Helen (who) volition go wounded oregon injured arsenic a result,” the study stated.

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Nearly 2 years later, Conley near Darcey, past aged 2, and her sister Chloe-Ann Conley, 18 months, successful the car astatine 4am connected November 23, 2019 astatine her location astatine Waterford West, southbound of Brisbane.

Conley pleaded blameworthy successful February 2023 to 2 counts of manslaughter and was sentenced to 9 years’ jailhouse to beryllium eligible for parole successful November 2024.

The inquest astatine Brisbane is examining the appropriateness of the Department of Child Safety’s response, and adequacy of its policies and procedures earlier the girls’ deaths.

The Child Safety officer, who cannot beryllium identified for ineligible reasons, testified connected Thursday that Conley consented successful 2018 to an involution with parental statement (IPA) to instrumentality backmost custody of Darcey.

“I judge she consented retired of being frightened that her girl would beryllium removed. I don’t judge she was grasping what the IPA consisted of and I felt arsenic though she was saying ‘yes’ retired of fear,” the serviceman said.

The serviceman said Darcey had been temporarily taken into attraction and Conley perpetually said she was being fixed an ultimatum.

The coroner connected Wednesday heard from a antithetic kid information officer, who said she made the incorrect determination and did not notation Conley for probe into allegations of kid neglect successful portion due to the fact that of the department’s precocious caseload.

The inquest is owed to reason connected Friday.