A man pointed to his wife and said "it was her, all her fault'' after being arrested over the starvation death of their daughter, a jury has been told.
The seven-year-old girl was found dead in the family's Hawks Nest home, north of Newcastle, on November 3, 2007.
Her parents, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, were arrested a fortnight later on the NSW south coast after warrants were issued for their capture.
Sergeant Michael Moulds, then a senior constable, told a NSW Supreme Court jury on Wednesday he arrested the couple at Albion Park railway station on November 17.
He said he had police printouts of the couple relating to their outstanding warrants and also recognised them from media coverage of the girl's death.
They were taken to Port Kembla police station, where Constable Paul Hewitson said the father blamed his wife for their predicament.
Crown prosecutor Peter Barnett SC asked him what was said.
'''It was her, all her fault'. And he pointed back to the dock area where the female accused was,'' Const Hewitson told the court.
He said a search of two bags found with the parents found items including three mobile phones, four Centrelink health cards, four Centrelink pensioner concession cards, 14 prescriptions in the names of the parents, a large quantity of prescription and non-prescription drugs, new clothes, toiletries and the couple's framed wedding certificate.
Earlier on Wednesday, a paediatrician who had treated the girl told the jury the state of the child's body after her death was so extreme she could not describe it.
Dr Dimitri Tzioumi treated the girl at Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick in 2002 and said the girl had periods of significant growth during her early years, coinciding with visits to paediatricians.
If the girl had continued growing in line with the growth percentile scale she would have weighed 26 kilograms in November 2007, she said.
The court has previously heard the girl weighed only nine kilograms when she died.
Dr Tzioumi said she had seen a video of the girl taken at the morgue in Newcastle after her death.
"She was severely wasted, or emaciated,'' she said.
''(There was) no likeness of the child I knew.
"This was extreme, so extreme I can't describe it.''
The trial before Justice Robert Allan Hulme, sitting in East Maitland, continues.