Monday, March 19, 2012

Mother hysterical after inquest findings

The mother of a preschooler who died in a Sydney hospital became hysterical after a coroner found no one was to blame for the four-year-old's death.

"I lost my daughter, I lost my home, I lost my marriage, I lost everything," Angela Costa screamed through her tears outside Glebe Coroner's Court on Monday.

Her ex-husband, Stephen Costa, warned the "parents of Australia" to take their sick youngsters to a children's hospital rather than to other emergency departments.

"Save yourself six or seven hours of politics," he said.

"For no reason ... our daughter may still be here today had we taken that decision."Read More