Baby burnt by coffee ‘deserves justice' mum says amid extradition doubts

Sydney Morning Herald

3 hours ago

The baby boy attacked with hot coffee in a Brisbane park is doing well but 'deserves justice' almost a year after the assault, his mother said.
The comments came as a former Australian Federal Police officer revealed he believed it might now be impossible to bring the alleged offender back to Australia to face trial.
Nine-month-old Luka was with his mother and a friend at Hanlon Park in Stones Corner on August 27 last year when a 33-year-old allegedly snuck up and poured hot coffee over the baby's body before running away.
The man – believed to be a Chinese national – ran about half a kilometre to the Apostolic Church of Queensland in Annerley, where he changed his clothes and caught a rideshare car to the CBD.
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He fled the country four days later via Sydney, hours before police confirmed his identity.
'I don't think it's acceptable that a person … gets away with it,' the boy's mother told this masthead on Tuesday.
'Luka deserves justice.'
No motive has emerged for the assault, and police have provided very little information on their efforts to make an arrest.