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The Independent
2 hours ago
- The Independent
Father of 17-year-old girl arrested after her newborn is found dead inside Walmart trash can
The father of a 17-year-old girl was arrested Monday after an infant was found in a restroom trash can at a Walmart. Jerry Lee Martinez, 45, was arrested and charged with abandoning/endangering a child with criminal negligence after his daughter allegedly left a newborn in the restroom at the Walmart in in Kingsville, Texas, shortly before 10:30 p.m. Employees found the newborn girl and called 911. They tried to give her CPR before emergency crews arrived, but the infant was pronounced dead at Christus Spohn Hospital–Kleberg. Surveillance footage, reviewed by police, showed the teenager entering the store and staying in the restroom for about 40 minutes. The baby was found 30 minutes after she left. A Kleberg County Sheriff's Deputy found the teen in her car in the store's parking lot later that night, and she was taken to hospital for medical treatment. Martinez was arrested at the scene and is being held at the Kleberg County Jail. The teenager remained hospitalized Tuesday, KRIS 6 News reported. Police plan to interview her upon her release.
The Sun
11 hours ago
- The Sun
Haunting words of boy, 6, who killed newborn after being left to roam hospital maternity unit – as grieving dad speaks
A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy accused of killing a newborn baby after being left unsupervised at a maternity ward has told horrified witnesses she was "my doll". The shocking incident unfolded at the Jeanne-de-Flandre Children's Hospital in Lille, France, where baby Zayneb-Cassandra had been recovering after a premature birth. 5 5 5 Despite being born six weeks early, the infant had been doing well - until last Friday when she was found lying unresponsive on the floor beside her crib, with a serious brain injury. A six-year-old boy was discovered beside her, standing on a chair. He is believed to have plucked her from her crib and accidentally dropped her. Zayneb was resuscitated twice and placed on life support over the weekend, but she tragically died on Tuesday. Witnesses claimed the boy had been wandering the halls alone for days, with one woman saying he had already tried to touch another baby. The child was reportedly unsupervised as his mother was also recovering from giving birth. Delphine, a young woman who had recently given birth herself, was the first to discover the scene after hearing a 'loud bang'. 'He was running around everywhere and had already touched a baby in a stroller,' she told Le Parisien. The 20-year-old added that she found him beside Zayneb, referring to her as 'my doll'. The baby's grieving father, Mohamed-Hamza, 23, spoke of his devastation but said he doesn't hold the boy personally responsible. 'Every six-year-old is a little disruptive. I don't blame the mother; she had just given birth… But the child should have been supervised,' he told Le Parisien. He and his partner Sephora are now demanding answers from hospital authorities, accusing them of failing to protect their daughter. Zayneb's grandmother Fatma claimed the boy had entered the neonatal room before and had shown a disturbing interest in the baby. 'He said she looked like a doll, and my husband, who was there, took him out,' she told La Voix du Nord. 'It seems he tried to grab her by her nappy, and she fell on her head.' The family claim Zayneb had already shown signs of being mishandled in the hours before her fatal fall. Karima, a cousin, alleged that the day before the incident, the baby had been found 'without a diaper or electrodes, wet and suffering from hypothermia'. She also claimed the boy had been left at the hospital daily from 7am to 8pm by his father, running unchecked through the corridors. 'All the mothers were complaining,' Fatma said. 'A nurse even warned the child's mother that there was a problem. He was entering the other rooms.' A criminal investigation has now been launched by the juvenile unit of the Lille Judicial Police Service, working with local prosecutors. 5 5 The hospital has also opened an internal investigation and released a statement describing the tragedy as a 'particularly serious and upsetting exceptional event, unrelated to care'. But the family has dismissed the hospital's remarks. 'It won't bring my daughter back… But we're waiting for answers,' said Mohamed-Hamza. 'There was a breach, and I'm going to fight to identify those responsible. Justice will do its job.' Zayneb's mother, Sephora, is said to be inconsolable. The family claimed they had to push hospital staff to provide psychological support following the baby's death. 'My family is destroyed,' said Fatma. 'My daughter is devastated. Coming home without her baby is inconceivable.'
ABC News
12 hours ago
- Health
- ABC News
Coroner finds 'lost opportunities' prior to death of eight-month old infant
Queensland's deputy coroner has found a series of "lost opportunities" surrounding the death of an eight-month-old boy at his north Queensland home. Daniel Thomas Wright was born in the Townsville University Hospital at 24 weeks' gestation in July 2018 and remained there until he was discharged to the Mackay Base Hospital (MBH) on February 6, 2019. The following two months included some time at home along with multiple presentations to the Mackay and Bowen hospitals. He died on March 30, 2019 — 11 days after being discharged from MBH for a second time. Deputy Coroner Stephanie Gallagher has this week handed down her findings after hearings in 2024 examined whether it was appropriate to send Daniel home into the care of his parents, who were reported in the findings as having intellectual impairments. The inquest also examined the sharing of information between the Townsville and Mackay hospitals, health services and the Department of Child Safety. The inquest heard that an autopsy found the baby died due to prematurity-associated lung and bowel disease and had a series of hospital admissions for weight loss. Hospital workers in Townsville and Mackay gave evidence about the difficulties Daniel's parents, Zara Williams and Benjamin Wright, had in understanding his needs and their ability to comply with his feeding. A social worker at the Townsville University Hospital, where the baby stayed for his first seven months, told the inquest she had concerns about Daniel's parents' capacity to care for themselves and raise him. She said she did not contact the Department of Child Safety because the baby was not ready for discharge at that time. Daniel was first brought to the department's attention in February 2019, after he was moved from Townsville to MBH. Two days after he was discharged in Mackay, Daniel was taken to Bowen Hospital and transferred the following day back to MBH. His case was then referred to the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) team, but Daniel's recovery saw him discharged from MBH for a second time on March 19, the inquest heard. He died on March 30. In her findings, Ms Gallagher described the decision to discharge Daniel from Townsville to Mackay on February 6, 2019, to be closer to the family's home in Bowen, as "appropriate". She said the decision to discharge the baby from MBH the first time was "finely balanced" and while medically sound, "perhaps placed an over-reliance on Daniel's parents' ability to care for him". However, Ms Gallagher said that the decision to discharge the baby for a second time from MBH was not appropriate, based on his "ongoing failure to gain weight". The deputy coroner said it was possible that alerting child safety earlier would have allowed time for an assessment of his parents' capacity to care for him and to engage in an intervention program to support his care. Ms Gallagher said Daniel's parents' ability to care for him should have been considered more carefully by his treating practitioners and by child safety. The deputy coroner noted medical records which showed both parents struggled to understand their responsibilities, and "needed constant prompting and correction". The records also observed Mr Wright was "often aggressive, abusive, resistant to medical advice and dismissive of Daniel's needs". She noted that child safety had determined an Intervention with Parental Agreement (IPA) as the most appropriate care plan, based on its judgement that the parents were willing to work with the department and keep the child's home safe. The Mackay Hospital and Health Service (MHHS) submitted that doctors needed to "work within" the IPA unless Daniel's condition deteriorated so that his death was imminent. In her findings, the deputy coroner said there was no single failing that would have changed the outcome for Daniel. "Rather, there were a series of lost opportunities to share information about his case between the QH [Queensland Health] and Child Safety, combined with what was perhaps a global under-appreciation of Daniel's vulnerability and fragility," she said. In submissions, the Townsville and Mackay Hospital and Health Services (MHHS) argued if there was no medical reason to keep the infant as an inpatient, and his parents wished to discharge him, there was no option to "compel a stay in hospital". While the coroner described MHHS' home support for Daniel's parents as extensive, it was ultimately "inadequate". Ms Gallagher also criticised child safety's response and said risk assessments did not adequately consider the risk of future harm to Daniel. The inquest heard the hospital and health services, and child safety had since made changes in regard to information sharing across all government agencies. "There are no practical recommendations which I could now make to prevent similar deaths in the future," she said.
CBS News
2 days ago
- CBS News
Philadelphia woman charged in connection with 4-month old's death in Camden, prosecutor says
A Philadelphia woman was charged in connection with the death of a 4-month-old boy in Camden, New Jersey, who was found in a trash bag within a bassinet, Camden County Prosecutor Grace MacAulay and Camden County Police Chief Gabriel Rodriguez announced on Tuesday. Ebony Gee, 43, was charged with desecration of human remains and witness tampering, the prosecutor said. Camden County police officers and EMS personnel responded to a home on the 1200 block of Lakeshore Drive for a baby who was unconscious on May 19. The prosecutor said first responders found a baby boy in a trash bag within a bassinet. Detectives found during the investigation that Gee was caring for a friend's baby. She spent her time with the baby in a second-story bedroom at the home in Camden starting in mid-April, according to a news release about the investigation. A witness told detectives that Gee wouldn't let them see the baby and never saw the baby in the home. Eventually, the witness was able to get into the bedroom and found the baby and notified authorities on May 19. The prosecutor said detectives determined that Gee sent threatening text messages to the witness on the day the baby was found. The Gloucester-Camden-Salem County Medical Examiner's Office had a post-mortem examination of the baby, but the cause of death can't be determined at this time because of the condition of the body, the news release said. The New Jersey State Police Laboratory confirmed the identity of the baby, who was from Philadelphia, on July 10. The biological parents talked to detectives and confirmed that Gee was caring for the baby for them. Gee was taken into custody on Monday in West Philly and brought to Riverside Correctional Facility pending extradition to New Jersey. Detectives urge anyone with information about the infant's death to contact them immediately. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Matthew Kreidler of the Camden County Prosecutor's Office Homicide Unit at (856) 930-5355 and Detective Brandon Bolger of the Camden County Police Department at (609) 519-3981. Tips can also be sent to
BBC News
2 days ago
- Health
- BBC News
Baby dead for '30 mins before murder-accused parents raised alarm'
A premature baby found with injuries to his head and neck would have been dead for at least 30 minutes before his parents raised the alarm, a consultant neonatologist told a Staddon, who was born at 33 weeks, suffered multiple fractures while in Somerset's Yeovil District Hospital's special care baby unit in March 2024 at just two weeks Gunter and the baby's mother, Sophie Staddon, 23, both of no fixed address, deny charges of murder and causing or allowing the child's David Sweet, who reviewed baby Brendon's death, said that it usually takes 30 minutes for a newborn's heart to stop completely after being deprived of oxygen. A post-mortem concluded Brendon died of a "blunt force impact(s) head injury," with multiple "non-accidental injuries", the court was was later found to have, amongst other injuries, a broken neck, a broken jaw, broken legs, broken ankles and broken staff discovered his injuries when Ms Staddon asked them to check on him because "he was cold" at 4:00 GMT on 5 March, the jury was Sweet, who has 24 years' experience within the NHS, said that a baby can usually be resuscitated if they are discovered within five or 10 minutes after they stop breathing. "I would say (Brendan's) heart was completely stopped when nursing staff discovered him at 4am and I would suggest that it would have been a minimum of 25 to 30 minutes after the injuries occurred," he being seven weeks premature, Brendan was doing well and would have been expected to go on to have a normal life, Dr Sweet court previously heard that while in hospital, Mr Gunter repeatedly ignored the advice of nurses and removed him from his incubator. He also allegedly overstimulated him to the point of causing him distress and removed his nasal gastric tube, and reportedly shouted at him and became frustrated with him when changing his nappy."The usual desire when babies are born prematurely is to let them rest and disturb them as little as possible, usually the lights are kept low and the noise level is kept down and too much stimulation can be distressing," Dr Sweet said the nature of Brendon's limb fractures were consistent with "excessive pulling and twisting beyond what would be considered acceptable handling of an infant".The trial continues.
