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Police will allege William Tyrrell's foster parents assaulted a girl by grabbing her around the neck, kicking her and hitting her with a wooden spoon.
The allegations have emerged after a court lifted a suppression order in connection with the criminal case.
In November 2021, a police task force charged the foster parents of William, who vanished from Kendall on the NSW Mid North Coast in 2014, with assault and stalking in relation to an alleged attack on a girl.
Police claim the couple was attempting to intervene in the child's "problematic behaviour".
The allegations include that she was placed in a time-out period for 44 minutes, that the girl was grabbed about the neck, kicked and hit with a wooden spoon, causing her pain.
It is also alleged William's foster mother suggested if the girl defecated on the floor, she would rub the child's face in it.
Details of the police allegations were revealed after several media organisations successfully mounted a challenge in the Supreme Court to lift the suppression order.
The couple has denied all the charges.
William's foster mother is due to face Parramatta Court at the end of the month.
Source: 9News
