{"id":250864,"date":"2025-10-30T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250864\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:20:08","slug":"woman-in-hospital-after-baby-found-dead-at-perth-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250864\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman in hospital after baby found dead at Perth house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating the death of a baby in Perth\u2019s southern suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-month-old was discovered dead at the house on Winpara Way in Baldivis just after 10am on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called to the house along with St John Ambulance, but the baby had already died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInquiries into the circumstances surrounding the child\u2019s death are being undertaken. The death is being treated as suspicious,\u201d a WA police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police at the scene.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.263%2C$multiply_0.5855%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_71\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/a1c4ed909d94d449980c437eda0b450da5e27e9b9dcfbf5368cffb8355b8ff98\" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Police at the scene.Credit: Holly Edwards-Smith<\/p>\n<p>A woman in her twenties, believed to be the baby\u2019s mother, was taken to Rockingham Hospital for treatment from the scene. She has since been transferred to Fiona Stanley Hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The street was cordoned off by detectives, who spent the day investigating the home.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours told 9 News Perth they heard screaming moments before paramedics arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said a woman was helping police with inquiries and that there was no ongoing threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p>No charges have been laid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating the death of a baby in Perth\u2019s southern suburbs. The eight-month-old was discovered dead at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-250864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}