Family hand raise joey after they find it sticking out of its dead mother's pouch

A woman has been hand raising an orphaned baby kangaroo after rescuing her from the pouch of her dead mother.

Tiffany Banton, 33, found the mother kangaroo lying on the side of a road after being hit by a car in December 2023, with the joey sticking out of the pouch.

Tiffany and her daughter Maggie, seven, have been caring for the kangaroo ever since.

Tiffany, a mother-of-three from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, said “We named her Star after the road where we found her.

“She was just nine months old at the time and now she’s 18 months and growing strong.”