Coroner’s conundrums: born alive or still-birth, and mother’s anonymity – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted May 8th, 2017 in anonymity, birth, coroners, judicial review, jurisdiction, news by sally

‘A 19-year old mother went into hospital, with a shoebox. In the shoebox was the 6-days dead body of her daughter. She told the hospital and the police that she had been raped, hence the shame about reporting the death. She had given birth in her bedroom at home, and she said that the baby had been cold when born.’

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UK Human Rights Blog, 6th May 2017

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