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Police allege Yue Ning Lieu, 42, also known as Linda Lieu, and Benjamin Nicholas Houghton, 40, have been charged with criminal neglect and concealing human remains after the infant was found deceased at the Tollgate Motel at Glen Osmond on Saturday, 10 October 2026. Police said the baby had been deceased "for a period of time," and a post-mortem revealed the infant was aged six to seven months.
Investigations indicate the pair had been residing at the motel since arriving in South Australia from interstate at the beginning of the year and had not had contact with state authorities during that time.
In 2021, New South Wales Police appealed for public assistance to locate then-36-year-old Linda Lieu and her two-year-old daughter, reported missing from Sydney's south. Police held grave concerns for their welfare after they were last seen at a family member's house on Truman Avenue in Riverwood. It was believed Lieu also frequented other areas around Sydney and the Bairnsdale region of Victoria.
Lieu and Houghton faced a bedside court hearing on Monday and have been remanded in custody until May next year.
In a blog, Ms Lieu describes herself as a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner living and working in Sydney.
NSW Police and Victoria Police have declined to comment today. Consumer and Business Services, which oversees SA's Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, has also declined to comment.
The police investigation continues.