15/05/2014

Mother Arrested Over Death Of Newborn Baby

A 38-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of overlaying -a term which is used when a child suffocates after a person lies on them in bed- for the death of her newborn baby girl in Chesham, Buckinghamshire.

Paramedics went to the property after a call over a "medical emergency" and took the newborn to the Stoke Mandeville Hospital where the baby died.

A spokeswoman of the South Central Ambulance Service said: "We sent a rapid response vehicle, ambulance crew, ambulance officer and the Thames Valley and Children Air Ambulance. The baby was taken to hospital in a very life threatening condition."

No other adults are believed to have been in the property at the time.

Thames Valley Police confirmed that they are investigating the "exact circumstances surrounding the baby's death".

(CVS/CD)

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