The death of a two-month-old girl and the permanent disability of her twin sister would never have happened if nurses had picked up on unexplained bruising on both babies, a coroner has ruled. The children were being physically abused by their mother, who repeatedly shook and squeezed them as she tried to settle them in their beds. The mother later pleaded guilty to infanticide, claiming she suffered from post-natal depression. In sentencing the mother, the trial judge found her moral culpability was negligible, and no court could punish her more than she had been punished by the tragedy herself. In a finding delivered on Tuesday coroner Ian Gray found there were...
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