A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a woman involved in Adelaide's "house of horrors" child abuse case.
Trudy Quinlivan, now 35, was found unfit to stand trial due to mental incompetence in 2011, but a judge found her serious abuse of the five children had been established.
She was released into the community on a nine-year supervision order, but the Supreme Court was told on Friday that she had breached some of its conditions and was missing.
Lucy Boord, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, said Quinlivan had failed to obey the directions of her corrections officer, had twice tested positive to drug tests and was not at the address where she was required to live.
In fact, her mental health team could not locate her.
Justice Ann Vanstone agreed to issue the warrant, requiring her to be brought before the court for a review of her release licence.
Quinlivan was one of six people charged over the abuse of the children, aged between four and seven, who were starved and forced to stand in a line for days on end.
The five siblings were among 21 children living in a house in Adelaide's northern suburbs in 2008.
They were fed only scraps of food over a four-month period.
The children were underweight, with open sores on their legs and ulcers on their feet, and were infected with scabies.
They had been forced to stand in line with their hands on their heads and were fed enough to keep them alive, risking being slapped and choked if they tried to move.
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